The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-08

THE STAGE WILL TURN OUT no
AID HER on THURSDAY.

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NEWELL WIN Play 'Nero' Monday a. the
Only Novelty % tho ~weedk-Lssslna
GENES 60 tho Front MT tho germun
T~hcAtre-The Christmas Luir Descondu.
The week will be a light ono ON Broadway.
a. the Christmas lull has begun. Perhaps
as interesting a performance an any will be
That AZ tho Broadway Theatre on Thursday
afternoon. whon q benefit will DO given 20
Mrs. Mckee Rankin kitty BlanchArd). who
mas had a long and honorable career on tho
American stage, but 10 nOw IN and in need
] OF funds. The benefit has been arranged
by a group OF actresses, who ave mad up
the following programme: Henry w. Saw
ages The Merry widow company. in
Guiding Miss Ethel jackson and Donald
Brian; Kyrle Bellew. who will deliver an
address; Low Fields and his company In
The Girl Behind the Counter; Miss Elsie
Janis and Joseph Cawthorne will appear
together; Signor NOvelli. Miss Viola Allen.
Miss Cecilia LOTUS. Edwin Arden. Edmund
Broese and Forrest Robinson In the trial
scene from The Merchant OF VOnioe"; Miss
May Irwin, who will sing and give imita-
tons; Mime. N@Elmova and her company
In the third act Of "A Dolls House: JeGYer-
o Do Angels. Miss Blanche Ring and
Alexander Carr in a few minutes from the
Gay White Way: Miss Rose Stahl and her
company in tho second act OF the Chorus
Lady; George M. Cohan. md Victor Her-
bert and orchestra.
or course there will be- the usual lobby
ale OF flowers and programmes. The
stage has always rallied to the support OF
Ito needy brothers or sisters, and this ooca-
Mfnn pRrnnfaaa 40 ~ M a-~.v4goR
Az the result Of q voting contest among
their patrons. tho Msssrs. Aborn will this
week present their opera company in Fra
Diavolo, following hat work Of Auber with
"The Chimes Of Normandy" during the
week OF December 10. with Milton Aborn
himself az Gasrard. This will be Mr.
AbOrn's first appearance on the stage In
many years. In tho finale of the second
act OF FRA DiavOlo.' the famous sextet
from Lucia win bs rendered at each per-
Torrance.
Tho first production on the American stage
OF Pietro Cosaa's Nero will b made by
Emete Novelli aE the Lyric Theatre Mon
day evening. Nero is represented In his
aspect Of an art lover. ambitious 20 cover
himself with glory in every possible art
and to ~mouopoli9e the fame OF every kin
OF achievement. The darker. criminal side
OF his nature. his profigacy and inhuman
cruelty are only glimpsed. and the figures
OF his many victims. ARrippina, Britannicus.
PoppRa. the Pisos and Seneca, do not cross
the ~footlights. Instead we see the rose
crowned enthusiast. surrounded by glad
and b~utHoons. as we'll as poets, sculptors and
painters. This Nero thinks less OF tho inn
perial robes Of purple than OF his fame as an
artist. The scenes take place in the Golden
hall and finally in the squalid hut Of the
freed slave Faonte. whore the miserable
Nero commits his final act Of cowardly
suicide, Another novelty OF his second
week OF ,Novelh's engagement at h Lyric
-Macbeth'SSaturday evening n~ext-which
will be the sixth of his peculiarly
Italian Interpretations OF Shakesperian
roles. The rest Of the weeks repertoire
.sLi be- Igss& T, Our sSSy:I; v weGhn sSy
romantic -Kean': Friday. a repetition
OF MacOmett's popular drama The Out
aw' ola Moroe Cvile") n for the Satur-
day nnalnee "A Night on" the famous
DAILY comedy success.
Sudermann's n play Honor which
is seldom seen in English. will be presented
by the Harlem Opera House Stock Com
pany this week. This play has a peculiar
faculty Of getting over the footli gifts even
at the hands OF inexperienced players. un-
pleasant though Il 10. It should prove an
interesting novelty to the Harlem theatre
goers.
The final performance Of -Hipi Hipi
Hooray" and the burlesque or -The Thief"
were given at Weber's Music Hall yesterday.
During the next two weeks the theatre will
remain dark in order TO complete the re-
hearsals for an elaborate burlesque on The
Merry widow" which will have its first
presentation during Christmas week. A
number Of new players will be added to
the company 90 complete the cast OF this
will be the work Of Edgar Smith. Maurice
Levi. VINO has supplied many popular and
whistling tunes. for the Weber players in
days gone by. has supplied music for this
new Offering. Added interest will be found
in this burlesque because 10 will introduce
for the FIRST time Lulu 0laser asa member. Of
Joe Weber's company. Miss Chaser will
be assigned the role Of the widow. Other
features will be an orchestra OF ~thirty-hve
men. and Julian Mitchell. who 10 staging
the production. promises something start
ling In the way Of Partisan novelties.
There will be two weeks more Of John
Drew and the comedy MY Wife" at the
Empire Theatre. He makes o. for Miss
Maude Adams. who begins her annual
engagement at the Empire Theatre on
December 70. Miss Adams will appear
first in Peter Pan" in which she will CON
tinue for two weeks only. On January q
and for the balance Of that week she will be
seen in the Barrie comedy Quality Street"
On January 10 she will appear in q new play
entitled the testers"
The Toymaker Of Nuremberg begins
it's last week at the Garrick Theatre. Il
deserves a pretty little tombstone. The
Garrick will remain closed during the week
Of December 10 snd on Monday. December
2S. Miss Maxine Elliott viii begin an engage
ment there. appearing in q new play en-
titled Under the Greenwood Tree"
THE Morals OF Marcus" goes on at the
Criterion. and OF course the Thief" con-
tinues at the Lyceum. where IL has got to
be O habit.
Miss Stahl has two more weeks at the
Hudson in The Chorus Lady" A week