Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28

| still in Europe. Mr.. Sothern Is to re-
vive 'Dundreary" and produce some
new plays
One of the new musical comedies
scheduled for production in the early fall
is called 1.-THE Motor Girl" From the
titles, it begins to look as though the
ater goers were to be afflicted with an
other 'girly" season.
The one-act play, "Marse Covington,'
written by George Ade, which has beer
a successful vaudeville offering for Ed
| ward ]. Connolly is being elaborated
into a three-act comedy drama, in
which form it will be seen next year.
Lewis Waller is to produce E. M.
Royle's drama, 1.-THE Squaw Man. in
London, changing the title, however, to
that of 1.-THE English Cowboy" People
in London do not know what kind of a
thing a squaw man is, so 1t was thnpgat.
better to drop the unintelligible title. Mr..
Waller will play the leading role.
William A. Brady announces that AL
Leach will have a new musical comedy
| this season under his sole management.
1t will open early in September at At
lantic City, prior to its New York en-
gagement. AS yet no title has been de-
cided upon, several being under consid-
Grafton.
Rehearsals of "The Stronger Sex"
the London success, in which Maude
Fealy will appear next season, have
been called for August 26. The first
performance of the play in this coun-
try will be given at Columbus, Ohio. on
September 23. After brief tour it is
scheduled for an indefinite engagement
in New York.
Marie Cahill will again use Marrying
Mary" as her starring vehicle the COM
ing season. The play will open at the
Broadway theater, Brooklyn, August 81,
and after tour of Canada will repeat
two weeks at the Illinois theater, Chi
cago. After that she will go to the
northwestern cities and thence to the Pa
cific coast. including Los Angeles.
The title MAN of the Hour has been
copyrighted thirty-seven times, as Brady
& Grismer have found in a research at
Washington. They were in the lot four
teen one-act plays, three light operas
and tragedy in verse, and the pieces
counted among their heroes as ''the man
of the hour from real life William Jen-
nings Bryan, Eugene Debs, Admiral
Dewey, Johann Most and Lord Roberts.
"Shore Acres will be revived the COM
ing season by the Shuberts. To this end
they have entered into a contract with
Digby Bell, by the terms of which he
will assume the role of Nathaniel Berry,
which James A. Herne played for so
many years. Bell thus transfers his ale-
glance from Daniel V. Arthur to the
Shuberts. Under the formers manage
ment he has been starring for two sea-
sons in "The Education of Mr.. Pipp."
The Spanish dancers of 'The Rose of
the Rancho" ere making final prepara-
tions for a voyage back to sunny Spain,
where they will rest in places so similar
to the Belasco play that one wo-ders
why they do not select places altogether
different in atmosphere. They have had
brave struggle with English during the
past season and no doubt will be glad to
reach haven where they need give no
thought to this and other difficulties
of our versatile language.
Several important changes have taken
place in the Kneisel quartet. Franz Knei-
sci, now in Germany, has engaged for
second violin Anton Roentgen, at present
concert master of the opera at Dusseldorf.
Mr.. Kneisel has found a successor to Alvin
Schroeder, the 'cellist, in William VIII
leke, also cellist of the Vienna OPERA
Herr WillelSe was born in Holland. He
has been heard of in Leipsic as the solo
cellist of the Philharmonic orchestra and
was with Hans Richter with the grand
opera in London.
Klaw & Erlanger's plans for the dra-
matte season have been completed They
will present in the earlier part five new
plays and four old pieces which have
proved successes. The new plays are for
Lulu Glaser and Lillian Russell, dra-
matte version by Engene Presbrey of Sir
Gilbert Parker's 1.-THE Right of Way"
Henry Arthur Jones 1.-THE Galilean's
Victory and Edmund Days drama, 'aThe
Round Up" which was recently seen in
Chicago and made a sensational hit at
McVicker's theater The old successes to
be continued are "Ben-Hur," which will
begin it's ninth season in Syracuse:
"Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
which will open in New Rochelle; McIn-
txyr.a and IIanth In 4eTha Ham Trna xuho
begin their third season at Atlantic City,
and Pixley and Luders' THE Grand Mo-
gul." with Frank Moulan in the princi-
pal role which opens In New York. In
addition to these plays Klaw q Erlanger
have several other new productions which
they win put on later In the season and
after the beginning of the new year.