New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-19
THREE NEW PLAYS.
PInas Being Made for Start of the
SunDq7aer Theatrical Season.

SOVNCNtSf L IRCsI tItIl OClLSOU.
With the rise Of the curtain tomorrow night
on three new pieces a supplementary season will
have begun at some playhouses, and at others
the regular season OF summer theatrtcals In a
few weeks all the roof gardens. with new at
fractions, and the shows at the different the
stres VIII be in full blast, completing the long
list of summer amusenents. The three new
pieces are Fascinating Flora" a musical COM
edy, which takes the place of THE White Hen
at the Casino; Uncle Toms Cabin" new YER
storl at the Majestic, and THE Builders" a new
play which succeeds Before and After" at the
Astur. Fascinating Flora" is by r. II. Burnside
Joseph w. Herbert and Gustaye Kerker Mr..
Herbert and Mr. Kerker were the authors Of
The Social Whir1,' which had seven months
run at the Casino. MI. Herbert is the Hbrettist
or '1Ihe Orchfds IN which Eddie Foy Is anus
ing big audiences at Lew Fields's Herald Square
Theatre MIR. Burnside has staged the new
piece. Many Of the principals in THE Social
mentioned Miss Adele Richie Miss Ada Lewis.
Miss Ella Snyder. Frederic Bond. Louis Harri-
son and James Z. Sullivan. Miss Richie is re-
Numbered for her work in other Casino musical
comedies chiefly THE Chinese Honeymoon" and
~Fforodora" The story Of the piece is told in
two acts. The first IS laid in a conservatory of
music In Paris; the second has two scenes the
first being In a New York brokerage Office, the
second at Manhattan Beach. AS usual there
VIII be a beauty chorus
THE Builders" which takes the place of Be
fore and After at the Astor. is by Miss Marion
Fairfax It is Western piece. with new turn
TO it. 1t viii be presented by the Tully Marshall
company OF players. among whom are Miss Mar
garet Ellsworth. William Ingersol, Miss Marion
Fairfax, Tully Marshall, William McVay, Charles
Dow Clark John S. Collins Theodore NJ. Norris
John Fenton, Richard Lyle Miss Amelia Gard
ner, Albert Meyer and Harry Mainhall.
AS already told in these columns. Uncle
Toms Cabin" which short eea son ar
the Majestic tomorrow night, is not the DID,
well remembered play The management an
nounces that It is built about the real MARIA
tive. James W. Harl1ins and Edwin Barbour are
the authors of the new version and j. H. ].
Ronner, former county official. is the man
ager. While some OF the old scenes have been
eliminated, it is announced that the piece pre-
serves intact the charms of the Southland In
the cast are Miss Mary Hampton. Herbert Bost-
wick. John Sutherland. Lucille La Verne. Gretchen
Hartman Viola La Bretta- Elwood f. Bostwick,
Ethel HodgSon, Logan Paul, Frank Opperman,
Amy La Bretta, Marguerite Starr Ricca Allen.
Frank e. Jarntson and William Hazeltine.
The Van, den Berg Opera Company begins its
third kzat the West End Theatre tomorrow
night with Carmen" Miss Bertha Shalek will
appear Carmen The cast has been strength
ened for this week and will include Mile. Helene
Motley, Mae Cressy, Marie Laverne, Jenette
Douglass, Mae Calder. Harry Dodd, w. J. Welsh
and George w. MetzeA
Kellars the magician. who comes to Blaney' 8
Lincoln Square Theatre this week, will offer
ss special feature his new magic playlet, 1.-The
Witch. the Sailor and the Enchanted Monkey"
Several other tricks in modern magic and illu-
eious VIII be shown, and hour will be devoted
70 the smaller mysteries and pure sleight-of-
hand. In the latter MIR. Kellar has an assistant.
paul Taladon, the English trickster.
&c tha of
EAth e ProctuFs Fifth Avenue company,
which, already announced, is the Spooner
Etoclr company, from Brooklyn. There will be
some vaudeville performances between the
acts. At the Union Square Theatre Mason
the 125th street and the 23d street houses there
ere the usual big vaudeville bills The 18th
street house is called the East Side Hippo
SroIne." McMahon's Watermelon Girls are
among the attractions at this place. At the
Harlem Opera House the permanent stock COM
pany Will revive 'The Mills Of the Gods"
Mrs. warren's Profession" with Miss Mary
Shaw essay1ng the principal character, is the
attraction this week at the Grand Opera House
There have been several changes in the cast
since the piece appeared Broadway Fred
w. Sidney, James Applebee Walter Horton
Walter Thomas and Virginia Kline are in Miss
Shaw's company.
At the Percy Williams houses there are the
usual big vaudeville bills. Miss vesta Victoria
VIII play her farewell New York enRagement
at the Colonial. She Will sing some of the old
fa-orites. well a number Of new songs
Phyllis Rankin and Harry Davenport the must
cal comedy stars will make their vaudeville
debut in q playlet called THE Goddess" and
Ernest Hogan, said to be the 'cleverest Of ali
colored comedians" Will be seen in a new
specially
At the Alhambra Theatre the headliner will he
''rhe Futur1ty Winner thrilling racing sketch
In which there Is "a real race scene with real
1--we horses" VIII H Murphy and Blanche
Nichols In their laughable trayesty "F>rou,
Zaza to Uncle Tom: Pat Rooney and Marion
Bent and others the bill
Ii is announced that Miss Margaret Wycherlv
may be seen at a Broadway house next season
in "The Primrose PATH" in which she closed a.
two weeks run at the Majestic last night There
are TO be some changes made in this piece Mr.
veH1er, nhe author. is preparing q new play
for her. F'
NextSTnesdaysnight there will be a benaat for
Arden Foster at Lew Fiefdss Herald SQUARE
Theatre. The benefit is under the direction of
Mrs. Irene Ackerman and Eden E GreyfIle
There Will be selections from several Of the
broadway promotions Miss George will appear
In a. ecene from "Dfvorcons"
AeRhe CTnnd Opera House tonight there Will
be benefit for Joseph Bonnell George M
Cohan, Emma Carus James j. Corbett George
Fuller Golden, George Evans, Joseph MAXWELL
and company, John Ford, Three Connolly Girls
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