The Washington times., 1907-04-14

the theaters has bookings that are di
The National announces after THE
Hypocrites." Miss Olga NethersOie. in
a repertoire which, with "Sapho" as
its piece de resistance. is 70 include
Camille. THE Second Mrs. Tanque-
ray" and "Adrienne Lecouvreur." One
cannot help wishing that II would in
-clude at least one performance Of THE
Awakening" The public is perfectly IA
miliar with Miss Nethersoie's "SaphO"
ana Camille" Her "Sapho" is un-
doubtedly popular. and "Camille'-al-
most anyone's "Camilie'-will always
draw. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray''
Is a masterpiece and Miss Nethersole
can be relied upon to do it acceptably.
''Adrienne Leconvreur" is famous. but
not very familiar TO American audi
ences. But Paul Hervieu's The Awak-
ening' is brand-new, Miss Nethersole
gave it for the first time last week
in Chicago. It was hailed abroad as
enc OF the greatest Of recent French
dramas, and I fer one am more than
sorry 1t is TO be left out of her Wash
fngton repertoire. However. TO con-
tinue, the National is to have for the
week OF April %. an as yet unproduced
lQuElfdl
Harry. BuIger. as it's star. II is TO have
fits first performance on April p IN
Baltimore; and great things are prom
ised for it. In the week Of May {,
comes Thomas Jefferson IN a revival
OF his fathers famous Rip Van Wrinkle.
During the first three days Of the week
following is, May 70, IA. l5-Miss
Cora B. Shreve's pupils will give a big
Juvenile performance Of THE Little
Princess and In the Realms Of Fairy
land" in which a large contingent OF
grown-ups viii be interested for the
children's sakes. After that nothing IS
booked until May p, a week later than
had been announced the summer season
of light opera opens.
The BeIasco gives its last legitimate
dramatic production this week, when
Madame Kalich plays 1.-THE Kruetzer
Sonata" After that comes a week OF
scattered amateur performances, bene-
fits for one thing or another. more in
terestlng socially than dramatically
perhaps. though the performances Of
the Princeton Triangle Club, and of the
Pennsylvania Mask and Wig, have been
found by dramatic critics to be really
worth serious critical attention. But
the Belasco is to end its season frivo-
lousy. For the week OF April ., it
announces a return Of DeWolf Hopper
with the perenniaIly popular Wang"
and for the week of May 6. the Joe
Weber company in Dream City" one
of the phenomenal successes OF the New
York winter season. The company IS
really one of the most remarkable mu-
steal comedy organizations In existence,
and includes Lillian Blauvelt. Otis
Harlan, Madeline Marshall. Cecilia Loft
tus. Maurice Farkoa, William Hodge.
and Joe Weber. 1t IS to be hoped that
they viii all really get here. The fol-
lowing week will witness the COM
mencement OF the summer season. with
the Edwin Arden Stock Company.
The Columbia evidently believes in
variety. Between two Shaw plays It
sandwiches Ezra Kendall in Swell
Elegant Jones" Next week comes
Man and Superman. with Lorraine at
the head OF the company, good COM
pany in a brilliant and interesting satire.
Then Kendall, as already noted in
play built to exploit the Kendall brand
OF humOr And finally 10 close the sea-
son, Mary Shaw in the much discussed
Mrs. Warren's Profession" Person
ally, 1 am sorry for the last. Mrs.
Shaw is an artist to her fingers tips
1t is a pleasure TO see her IN almost
anything. yet ] doubt whether 1 shall
find 1t a pleasure to see her in Mrs.
NYarren's Profession" cannot see any
sufficient excuse for presenting the play
The fact that the New York police
it after one performance
about year and a half ago seems to
have appealed to the producers as a
good reason for trying il on again when
the courts decided that police interfer-
ence was unwarrantabIe. They evident
ly counted on the advertising resulting
from that suppression 10 Ill their
house. But they counted without their
hostile host of New York theatergoers
who refused to be interested. 1t was
Withdrawn after a brief inslorious run.
OF course, L may take all this back
three weeks hence. but from a thorough
familiarity with the play, and with the
history Of the production. j honestly
wish they wouldn't. though they may
possibly MI the house.
Just a final word about The Lion
and the Mouse lit has certainly been a
treat 1t was so goOd.that one could not
help wishing that it were better Wash
ington has seen two Klein plays this
season. The Music Master and The
Lion and the Mouse" OF the two. it
seems TO me that "The Lion and the
Mouse" is the better play. while The
Music Master was infinitely the better
PLAYED. The success Of The Music
Master" is Mr.. Warfields. The success I
Of The Lion and the Mouse is Mr..
Klein's.
In yet another OF Klein's plays,