The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-06
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Notes of the Summer Show.
Manager Stewart. of Proctor's Theatre
announces the following as a partial list
OF performers TO appear at the popular
Park place playhouse during the week of
July 10: Pillar NORM and Tamonto and
company in the Children of Japan Nc
Kenzie and Shannon, in a playlet; Ray Cox.
the Southern coincidence; Rolan Carter
and company, In an Irish dialect skit;
Herbert Cyril, the giant opera singer; the
Farrow Trio. bicyclists; Patsy Doyle,
monologuist; Joe Cook and brother, comedy
jugglers, and new animated pictures.
Mortimer M. THESES new piece, THE
Maid and the Millionaire" has proved to
be the most popular and successful enter
tainment that has ever been given on the
famous old Madison Square Roof Garden.
The houses have been crowded ever since
the opening. Among those who have con-
tributed most to the success of the piece
are: Toma Hanlon, Lila Brennan, Maude
Alice Kelley and the comedians Charles
Burke, Fred Wyckoff and John c.. Hart.
The Broadway Quartet has already estab-
lished itself MS one Of the favorites.
A marked difference will be noticed at
the performances next week of "Sheri-
dams Ride at Manhattan Beach. Mr..
Pain has been able to give the production
more attention now the big rush of the
Fourth Is over. The ride of the great
cavalry leader has become more promi-
nent, allowing the spectators to see 1t
almost from start to finish. New songs
of the negroes or the plantation have
been introduced, ending with a cakewalk
by the whole company.
Friar Night will be one of the big
events Mt luna Park in the near future.
The Friars is the New York Press Agents
Club, of which Frederick Thompson Is an
honorary member. and he has invited the
publicity promoters to hold their next
meeting in the skeleton chamber of the
might and Morning. show.
Mary Mannering, who did not play in
New York at all last season, Will be seen
IN her husbands theatre, the Hackett,
early In the autumn, in the romantic
comedy. GLORIOUS Betsy as this play,
by Rid Johnson Young, author OF
Brown. of Harvard" has served her pur-
pose well on the read.
Rida johnson Young has signed a con
tract with the Shuberts to write a mu-
steal comedy for them. The piece Is not
yet named. The music is to be writer
by Melville Ellis. Mrs. Young is also col
laborating with Henry Miller on a play
and has signed a contract for a new play
which Daniel Frohman Is to present a
the Lyceum next spring.
Henry Blossom has just completed q
new comedy Miss Philura." The play
which deals with New England life, may
be used as a starring vehicle by Elsi'
Janis.
Mary Shaw is negotiating with Bernard
Shaw for another play forbidden in Lon
don, like Mrs. Warren's Profession" l
is translated by the wife of Bernard Shav
from the French of M. Brieux. This pla.
deals with the problem of maternity iron
the point of view that 1t Is invariabl.
sacred. The author maintains that ii l
for a woman to decide whether she vii
have children, and that she should not b
subjected in that matter to the Will o
the husband.
The Madison Square Theatre will opel
on August u. Lee Shubert will presen
Richard Golden in Edward Paulton'
comedy, Poor Jonn.'' This piece will
first have a production in Chicago.
The Belle of Hong Kong" by Harry 3
Smith and Alfred e. Aarons. will be pro
duced at the Walnut Street Theatre, Phil
adelphia, in October. Madge Leasing an
Frank Lawton have been engaged for tn
leading roles, and a new English pom,
ballet will be a feature.
The Teddy Bear is at last to make hi
stage debut. A production to be calle
Little Johnny and His Teddy Bears wi
be given, II is said, at the Grand Oper
House, Chicago, in December. AS II thi
was not enough TO infict upon a long
suffering public, Il is announced also tina
THE Newlyweds and Their Baby mad
famous in George McManus's sketches
are to be put on the stage some time mex
season. The latter will be a musics
comedy. with book and lyrics by Par
West.
The Rev. Henry Van Dyke. professor G
English literature at Princeton, has jus
completed a play. The drama, it is SAID
is a romantic love story. This Is DIR. Va
Dykes first attempt at playwriting.
One of the latest plays that James Il
Haekett has secured is a dramatizatio
of Meredith Nicholson's novel The Hous
of a THOUSAND Candles" 1t is Nj
Hackett's intention to produce this pla
early in September.
1.-THE Man of the Hour" is the basis {
a fresh exposition that our copyright Law
as 1t applies to plays, is a joke. VIII
the play was written. about a year ag'
George Broadhurst, the author, prompt
went through the process Of copyrightin
1t. The theory Is that nobody else ma
employ the title; the fact Is that a mi
lion other plays OF similar title may b
i, copyrighted in the time it takes to writ
out the form and the receipt for the dola
fee. In the course Of time, Messrs. Brad