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has written il i'm collaboration with Lus-
combe Searele. The play is based on the
scriptural story of Esther and Is in blank
verse.
Otis Skinner Guy Standing Eben Plymp-
ton and Fay Davis are to be in the cast Of
The Duel" when that play is produced
under the management of Charles froh-
man
Richard Mansfield has been playing 1.-THE
Scarlet Letter. during his engagement In
hearty In their commentator of his por-
trayal of the character OF Dimmesdale.
Miss Rockwell was the Hester. IL is to be
hoped we may have one or two perform
ances of the play during the actors en-
gagement at the Grand In May.
Joseph Cawthorn will be the star OF. the
new opera, THE Free Lance" by John
Philip sousa, with book and lyrics by
Harry 3 Smith, which Klaw & EIlanger
will rst tI be- seem i7 IN the Chestnut Street
opera house, Philadelphia and will be
taken to New York on Easter Monday.
BY arrangements recently, completed be
Mrs leslie Carter will secure the American
rights to Joan DATE" the play based
was made for Mrs. Trees use by Louis n
Parker, the well-known English dramatist
The new. play will most likely be Mrs, Car
ter's mainstay for next season.
chance in England. The birth Of the RE- r.
toire Theater association was annou ed
ter at Canterbury, and there the ambitious
dramatst may test by practical expert
ment the ACTUAL value of unappreciated
works, The first experiment is to be made
with a piece which Arthur Law has written
for Weldon Grossmith.
Helen GRAVITY is coming into her own.
Unless something unforeseen occurs she
Madison Square theater, New, York, In
THE Lucky Miss Dean" In the company
leigh, who was with Virginia Harmed
earlier in the season, and Ferdinand Colts
c chalk The premier WAS wa; to have been
account of Mr.. Courtegh's Illness.
stanislaus STANCE, the librettist who has
taken up the posthumous work of The
Student King" by Frederic Ranken in col
liberation with Reginald de Koven, to be
produced by Henry w Savage Easter week,
received by the Cor9nia' from Herr Rado-
scroll signed by the king, with the royal
arms attached, authorizing the establish
ment of the University of Budapest, near
which the scenes of this opera are laid
Justice Davis In the New York supreme
court last week denied the writ OF Meyer
Livingston, the confidential bookkeeper of
further prosecution of the Joe Doe pro-
ceedings brought against the Klaw & Err
Jerome Jerome Of New York Livingston ist h had se
cured temporary writ of prohibition, The
final decision of Justice Davis makes 1t
ton into the private affairs of the syndi
cate.
Maude Fealy has been engaged as lead
ing woman for William Collier. She will
Join the company this week, assuming the
part of Agnes in Augustus Thomas COM
edy, ION the Quiet" Later on she will ap-
to produce In the spring in New York and
in whatever new play Mr., Collier will pro-
G Go1,, in London, The engagement with Miss
ing with him i'm London, where she met
with success during Mr. Gillette's season
az the Lyceum theater and during Sir
Henry lrNinRS season at the DrurV Lane
theater.
1t has been announced that Mr.. Sothern
and Miss MaTlowe will leave the manage
with the 'Shuberts." The time of the
change is not stated, but will not be until
engagements were made two Years ago for
ss6 atSeLyn JOINT starring engagement Of
remains of the Frohman arrangement
which will not naturally expire until June
to continue these stars in Shakespearean
productions.
VIII Richard Mansfield do It? He is
booked for week of one-nght stands
among other places, will visit Wilkesbarre.
The local manager there has announced
t that Mr. MANSFIELD will play any piece the
any piece in the Mansfield repertoire of
this season. One sturdy adniirer, how
ever writes in requesting that as he heard
Mansfield was a pretty good actor he would
like to see him put on "A Servant Girls
wrongs Mr.. Mansfield has not been heard
from on this particular request up to the
time of going to press.
Chicago will be the scene Monday of the
premier at the beautiful Colonial theater of
klaw a Erlangers production of General
Lew Wallace's The Prince of India" a
romance trimming with great dramatic
and picturesque material and strength. The
work of rehearsals has been conducted in
cessantly with such talented people as j.
~ Dodson, William Farnum, Gerald Law
renee, William Beach, Sydney Herbert
Sarah Truax. Julie Herne and number OF
other players in cast OF exceptional
strength and prominence. The auxiliary
FORCES embrace several hundred trained
soldiers, chorus and representatives of the
people of the Greek, Turkish and Roman
empires of the fifteenth century. 1t is an
nounced that II will be given every even
Ing except Sunday, with a matinee each
curtain will rise promptly at s O'Clock
evenings ana at o'clock at matinees
An English writer says: m. Sardou has
Just completed a new playa comedy
which is as yet only in manuscript, but
and later In an English dress, with NJ
Sardou hopes, Miss Ellis Jeffreys in the
character of the heroine. The new work
is reversal of the idea of the same au-
which he wrote forty years ago Once
again there Is IL missing scrap but this
time the heroine in search of 1t seeks 1t in
order to prove herself guilty long ago of a
love affair. She wishes to prove the exist
ence of this that she may demonstrate the
loyalty of a later love. The world thinks
her innocent-every circumstance attests II.
But she is determined to prove her guilt.
woven his maze Of threads that we become
quite dramatically concerned lest the poor
heroine should eventually be incapable Of
establishing the indiscretion of her youth"