The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-09

in various capitals. 1t deals with the
peasantry of Spain.
1.-The Comet" a modern tragedy, by Or
rim Johnson. will be Madame Nazimova's
next production, following a three weeks
revival of "a Dolls House, on November
IS. The scenes of the new play are laid
in the Pyrenees, and the characters, five
in all, are Spanish. The principal woman
Is an actress of renown The author Is
known as a novelist and story writer, his
books being 1.-THE Arrows of the AL
mighty In the Name of Liberty and
MAX Fergus 1.-The Comet" was writ
ten especially for Madame Nazimova.
E.. M. Holland has made a favorable i'm
preston in 1.-THE House Of a Thousand
Candles
Although George AIDES "Artie'' did not
achieve very great success two of his other
new plays have been doing very prosper
ously. Father and His Boys has just
been presented, with William H. Crane as
the star. and has "caught on" in fine
shape. Likewise Mr.. AIDES "The Land of
Dollars" which Ezra Kendall is present.
ing In the Middle West, is described as
in a class with ''The County Chairman
and 1.-THE College Widow"
Henry Miller and Margaret Angiin will
bring their run of 1.-THE Great Divide"
at Days Theatre. to an end on December
1. A new version of 1.-THE Lancers'' will
succeed 1t. This is a musical version and
is starred in by Lawrence D'Orsay and
Cecilia Lotus.
Miss Marie Doro opens In THE Morals
Of Marcus at the Hackett Theatre, New
York, on November IS. She has made a
great success of this play in Boston.
Every discriminating iheatregoer who
witnessed tha first American production Of
'Iohn Giayde's Honor as given at the
Davidson Theatre Monday evening by
james X. Hackett and his company will
unduestionahiy agree said the dramatic
critic Of the milwaukee, Wisconsin OF
Wednesday. that 10 is a marvellously pow
orful. intensely interesting and completely
convincing drama. The subject matter may
not appeal TO every one. In fact there Is
room for honest difference Of opinion as 10
whether a domestic tragedy such as is de-
lineated by Mr.. Sutro. offers desirable
theatrical material or not. But, even II
the play in itself does rot make its appeal
the nrt of the dramatist and the ability Of
the remarkably competent company which
Interpreted his work cannot be questioned "
The play Is by an Englishman. Allied
Sutro, author of 1.-The Walls of Jericho"
and the hero Is an American too busy
accommodating his millions to look after his
wife, whom. nevertheless he loves fcndly
Daniel Frohman will shortly give a spe-
cial matinee of Mr.. and Mrs. Gayer Nc
Rays play. "Dr. Wakes Patient" at the
Garrick Theatre, New York. Miss Doris
Keane will appear as the heroine and
Bruce McRae will appear as the herr.
Not of his own volition, but because of
the plottings of his playwrights, Charles
Frohman has almost added an animal king
dom to the resources of his enterprises.
BY some peculiar coincidence every play he
has accepted this season in some way or
another called for the appearance Of an
animal in the scenes. Stage Director Sey-
mour quickly found the truth Of this, for he
no sooner completed the engagement of a
cast than he had to begin on animals, and
Ben Teal had had a bit of it, too. First
came 1.-THE Dairymaids,' with a comedy
situation calling for a real duck. 1t was
produced and became a Huntley Wright ac-
cessory. This over, along came Francis
Wilson with when knights Were Bold"
and this called for a great dane; and then
John Drew started rehearsals of MY
Wife," and the first page Of the manu-
script called for a poodle dog. hin
looked comfortable for a while and then
Mr.. tFrohman began with THE Morals of
Marcus for Marie Doro, and in this the
author called for a black cat and a live
one. Otis Skinner got by without animals
and so did THE Thief" but for the AIDE
play, Father and the Boys" in which
William H. Crane IS appearing, there was
a call for q horse race. Further develop
ments, however, showed 1t only to be an
erect, But in the meantime Sam Bernard
had started out in "The Rich MI. Hoggen-I
heimer," and the stage department had to
supply a worn and dilapidated cab horse,
only to find out that Dustin Farnum had
to have a real mustang for The Ranger"
1t looked easy after that, but Paul Rubens
wrote a new song for 1.-THE Dairymaids'
called The Hay Ride and Mr.. Frohman
called for a pony and cart, and the animals
kingdom went on increasing. OF course,
there were the two Peter Pan" compa-
mics with dogs, crocodiles, ostriches, lions
and wolves, but on the pay-rolls. these are
m beings. Now Mr.. Frohman's prop
erty men are wondering if there is to be a
"Noah's Ark" in The Toymaker of Nur-
emberg,' If Hattie Williams is to make