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Maude Adams will play the OOth per-
Torrance of Peter Pan at the Empire
theater, New York. On April 20.
Ellen Terry, the great English actress,
has under consideration an offer to make
a tour Of the United states next season
and may accept 1t.
William Collier, who is now playing his
second engagement in Boston this season,
will sail for Australia at the end Of the
month to play there.
Joseph Wheelock is rounding out a
play Just Out of College" This is Mr.
Wheelocks first starring season and he
has met with great success.
William II. Crane comes into New York
on April IL for a run at the Hudson
theater. He will be seen in the farcical
comedy The American Lord" by George
H. Broadhurst and c. t. Darcy.
Henry W. Savage, during his recent trip
TO Europe, secured the American rights
for Puccinis opera, Madame Butterfly"
and Lehar's DIE Lestige Witwe," which is
creating sensation in Vienna.
The very many friends and admirers of
Miss Ada Rehan were pleased to know
that she is able to be out once more.
When she appeared at the New Amster-
dam week ago to see Richard Mansfield
in Don Carlos" she was most cordially
greeted by many who knew her.
The reigning successes in London at
present are Marie Tempest in "All of a
Sudden Peggy at the Duke of Yorks
Terriss in THE Beauty of Bath" at the
Aldwych. Both productions were made by
Charles Frohman.
In a recent address before the Society of
Ethical Culture of New York, Otis Skinner
advocated the establishment of a chair in
Columbia or some other large university
for the teaching of dramatic art. His sug
gestion was enthusiastically commended by
DR.. Felix Adler.
Sousas new comic opera, "The Free
Lance" at present running in Philadel-
the fasteners who have seen it. Joseph
Cawthorne is the star of the cast, with
Nella Bergen and Jeannette Lowrie look
ing after the principal feminine parts.
Sam Bernard returns TO New York on
Easter Monday in The ROllcking Girl
with Hattie Williams and all the other fun
makers. 1t was in this merry musical
melange that Mr.. Bernard held undisputed
sway at the Herald Square theater all last
spring and all through hot last summer.
oscar Hammerstetn has secured another
great star for his Manhattan Opera COM
pany in Melba, who was signed by the
American impressario in Paris last week
1t must have been mighty hattering offer
to win Melba over to the new operate
organization
John c. Fisher and his all-blonde com
pany sailed for Havana last week, where
they will open soon in a revival of Flora
dora" which has never been given in the
Cuban capital. After a short stay =, there
walk"
Francis Wilson has scored an enormous
hit in New York in the farce The Noun
tain Climber which was written by the
authors Of Are You a Mason, 1t gives
Mr. Wilson the best laugh making Op-
pOttunities he has ever had and he is
erowding the Criterion at every per-
Torrance.
Manager Henry b. Harris evidently be-
heyes in showing a good thing along when
he has Il. The producer of Charles Klein S
latest play, The Lion and the Mouse, "
Is arranging tours for four companies in
that play next season He has two COM
panies in II now and will add the other two
In the fall. The territory will be so di-
NlQeu that none will gCOnflpT with the h
ers.
John Drew, who is to star next season
IN Pinero's play, His House in order. "
will close his present season April Is and
shortly after sail for London TO meet
Charles Frohman there. Mr.. Drew
fifteenth starring season under Mr. Froh-
next at the Empire theater, New YORK
with every prospect of Mr.. Drew having
the best opportunity he has yet had.
Miss Margaret Anglin, whose achieve,
ment in ERA has put her in the front
rank OF living emotional actresses, has
just secured a comedy of New York society
entitled THE Golden Butterfly. which sh,
Will produce next season. The author is
Miss Edith Macvane, a daughter Of the
name. The success Of the "ZValls ot
Jericho" and the Lion and the Mouse
wiz probably make our modern plutocracy
lists Miss Macvane's chosen title seems Il
indicate that she Is one Of the earlies
George Grosmith jr., the leading come
dian at the London Gaiety, and Mr.. j
Kern, a young American composer ar,
now at work on a tWO-act musical comedy
with an Anglo-American situation as tn
basis. One act will be laid In London an,
! the other In New York II Is probable tina
! the piece will be finished In time for III
production this fall in New York. Mr.
Kern, who is just 20, has already made hi
mark in England. He has written the In
} cidental music for Charles Frohman's pro
/ duction Of The Beauty Of Bath" ais
several new pieces for The SpTini
E Chicken" al the Gaiety, and many OF hi
songs are popular hits at the music halls