The Washington herald., 1907-02-10

being engaged in writing new play that
is a thrilling, pUlsating melodrama.
There is to be another revival of that
good old standby of managers who
don't just know where they are at,
'Charley's Aunt
Reports from New York indicate that
Ellen Terry has taken the city by
storm" She has been the subject of no
less than FIVE interesting interviews and
receptions by society folk.
Appleton's Magazine is advertising as
the leading feature of their MaTch issue
an article by John COlvin dramatic critic
Of the New York sun. who proposes
Richard Mansfield as the greatest
English-speakiEg actor"
Nat Goodwin is soon to be seen in a
dramatization Of Dickens Little Dorrit"
The drama was written by German
author. and viii be translated and
adapted specially for Goodwins use. He
viii play the part OF old Dorrit.
Tights viii soon become as extinct as
dinosauu in Wisconsin if a bill intro
dUced iu the legislature becomes a law.
It provides that no actress shall appear
on the stage in skirts that extend less
than four and a half inches below her
knee.
Owing 70 the success Of Jeanne dare. ."
AIr. Z. II. Sothern ard Miss Marlowe have
been compelled 10 change the programme
of their long New York eBga cement. The
production Of d'Anuuazios Daughter Of
J0riO' has been postponed 20 the seventh
week OF their stay in the metropolis
out in Galesburg. ILL.,. recently Amelia
Bingham walked right out before the
curtain uf the thcater she was playing 1T
and scathiasly denounced q foul-mouthe,i
evangelist FOR the language he had
used az one of his '-Tcsirals" concerning
the women of the stage. Good for
Amelia.
ON the first of March Chicago's first en-
doved theater viii cease TO be- That
date VIII mark the completion of sea
son of twenty weeks az the New Theater,
a term which IS regarded by the trustees
as "a sufficient test IF the enterprise
which they regard as having fallen short
of success.
A party Of New York theatrical persons
who started out the other day 90 witness
the premiere Of Richard Harding Davis
new musical comedy, a Yankee Tour
list. fetched n.y. at Elyria, KaEs. The
place they really wanted TO go 10 was
Elyria. Ohio. for there the performance
they were bent on Witnessing took place.
Louis Mann has followed tie example
OF Raymond Hitchcock and some other
recent acquisitions TO straight comedy
s0-caIled. ard gone back 10 the musical
variety. lie appeared in a new piece with
MARBLE trimming at New Haven the other
night 1t is called The Girl from
Vienna" and was written 10y L. c. Pen
field and Paul West
a New York theatrical paper that is
noted Tor its friendship for the syndicate
points TO the prosperity Of Che present
theatrical season as proof that the syndi-
cate idea is economically sound and gen
orally a good thing for the stage. the
box Office. and art. Who can doubt John
d. Rockefeller is profoundly convinced
that the classification of the oil business
Of the country was "a good thing7
4 lawyer whose single hangs out in
GIens Falls. y. Y. wrote the origin =
Hbretto Of the new musical thing Frank
Daniels tries on Baltimore this week.
Harry 3. Smith was the second author Of
the Hbreuo. 1T IS possible" says q New
York gossiper, that the Glens Falls at
torney wiz be permitted to read the crit
icisms of the Baltimore reviewers. To
date he has not been invited to attend
a rehearsal. and in d letter received from
him yesterday he asked most solicitously
if he might buy seats for the New York
premiere at the box Office or If he would
be compelled to resort to spectators"
David Warield as Shylock in Shake
speare's Merchant Of Venice" is the drs-
matte sensation David Belasco promises
the public for next season. It will be an
alluring prospect TO the many thousands
of ardent Warfeldites in the country.
The plan is to open Belasco's new house.
the Stuyvesant, with Warfeld in the
Shakespearean role. instead Of providing
him with a fresh play by Belasco or
some one else II can hardly be doubted
that the artist who elaborated 20 such a
point Of delightful perfection the charac-
ter Of Won BaTwig viii evolve a most
carefully finished and distinctive Shy
lock But viii It be a Shylock of Shake
spearean depth In intelligence and feeling
That's the question which Will not be an
swered 10 the satisfaction of some warm
friends Of the creator of Won Barwig
until the Belasco production of The Mer-
chant of Venice" shall be presented.