The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-20
Gossin of the stage.

Manager Stewart announces the follow
ing as a partial list of the performers
who will appear during the week Of July
% at Proctor's Theatre: Edwin Micander
& Co. in a sketch entitled "She Loves
Me. She Loves Me Not" the four casting
Dunbars. in an aerial act; Marion Carson,
violinist: Ziska and King, comedy ma
glcian; the Astrellas. Partisan dancers;
Italian opera trio. in operate selections;
John F. Clark, monologist; the Kratons,
hoop rollers.
Pizet's famous grand opera, Carmen"
with Miss Maud Leekley In the title role,
will be the offering at Olympic Park dur
ing the week beginning July 20.
w. E. White. the ventriloquist, Of
this city. has made a hit in England In his
Roosevelt act. He was booked for four
weeks at the Alhambra. London. Recent
ly he was at the Empire, Cardiff. Wales,
playing also at Glasgow and Manchester.
He will be at the Alhambra, London. July
%. to August 10. leaving then for home
and opening September 2 at Tony Pastors,
New York.
1t has been decided to name the play in
which Chauncey olcott will appear next
season ''O'Neill of Derry
The success of THE Man of the Hour
has had the result of swapping the au-
thor, George Broadhurst, with orders for
new plays. Apart from pieces he has csm-
pleted for Blanche Walsh. Lillian Rus
sell. Robert Edeson. Tom Wise. and. in
collaboration with c. T. Darcy. Charles
Frohnlan, he is under contract to write
one for William A. Brady for Grace
Georges use. and another for Mr.. Brady
and Joseph R. Grlsmer, producers of THE
Man OF the Hour" Still another order
is for a play for N. c. Goodwin.
Two daring Spanish dancers, Ii Petite
and La Feriej were added last week to
the company of entertainers appearing in
THE Maid and the Millionaire on the
Madison Square Garden Roof. These for
eign terpsichorean artists presented a sen
~sational rovelty called Ia Danse du Ser
pent Boa" in which they initiated the
writhing, coiling and uncoiling of a boa
constructor. The ilanse has n combination
of Oriental and Partisan features In It
that is sure to make 1t as pronounced a
hit in Mortimer M. THESES summer show
under the famous garden tower. The
comedy boxing act introduced in the first
act, in which four of the pony ballet and
two of the comedians take part, has also
established itself as one Of the funniest
scenes OF the piece.
L -
Joseph R. Grismer and Phoebe Davies
MRS. Grismer) have made a four-act
dramatization OF Bret Harte's Two Men
of Sandy Bar" A play based on the
same story and bearing its title was acted
many years ago by William H. Crane and
the late Stuart Robson. without sue
cess.
"Mulvaney and U.s. a four-act play
| hoead hv CIiftan Gro x1yfnr.1 IN Tim ipcidant,
and characters in Kipling's Soldiers
Three" has been accepted by William A
Brady. The Counting of Dinah Shadd' is
the basic theme of Mr.. Crawford's intrigue
He wrote the play with Wilton Lackaye In
mind for Mulvaney; now the special con-
dition is that he himself shall play Stanley
Ortheris. Mr.. Crawford's fame to date
rests on his having written and composed
the well-remembered song Of Nancy
Brown" with which Marie Cahill sang
herself in starship.
There is In hand for Wilton Lackaye's
use an adaptation of Eugene Brieux's play
of The Red Robe" which Is familiar
throughout Europe, but is known in the
United States only through sone German
performances in New York city. where
Somewhat. Bonn and Helene Odillon acted
in II together.
Inc ldteSt nfln OI" VauueNiile producers II
that of Samuel II. Wallach & Company
with headquarters In the Knickerbocke
Theatre building, New York. Mr.. Wallacf
has been associa ted with Harry b. Harris
With him are associated Byron Ongley, co
author with Winchel Smith OF Brewster
Millions and Samuel Tauber, late OF
Lasky & Rolfe Company, who have charge
of the musical department. The first vau'
deville offering of the new firm was tried
out recently at Keith & Proctor's Fifty
eighth Street Theatre. 1t was entitled
"She Loves Me; She Loves Me Not" fea'
turing Edwin Nicander. The reward cam
quickly, as the little farce-comedy wa:
headlined at Keith & Proctor's Jersey City
house last week and will play Proctor's
this city, next week.
But a far more p~retentious production Is
now presented in the musical fantasia. ar
the ar of Bohemia" by Samuel Tauber
This act will head the bill at Proctor's here
next week. The scene is laid in the loung'
ing room of a beaux art club and the cas-
includes a sextet of male voices and
ennranO