Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
Stuart will cover the Pacific coast terri

Stuart will cover the Pacific coast terri
tory.
Members Of the Olga Nethersole COM
pany who are now rehearsing In London
will sail from England on the American
line steamship st. Paul August 81. They
will travel direct to Kansas City, where
they open a western tour September IL,
afterward proceeding to Los Angeles.
Miss Nethersole announces that she has
two or three novelties in which she pro-
poses to appear next season, elaborate
productions of which are now being pre-
pared.
Charles Klein, author of "The Lion and
the Mouse" and other successful plays,
has been elected commodore of the Ro-
wayton Yacht club of Rowayton, Conn,
where Mr.. Klein has HIS country home,
Shirley Manor, and which by the way was
named for Shirley Rossmore, the chief
female character ins"The Lion and the
Mouse" The playwright has just pur-
chased d fast yachting cruiser. Z
Felix Bloch Erben, who represents the
German dramatists Ludwig Fulda. Felix
Phillippi and Gerhart Hauptmann, is
through his American representative.
Alice Kauser, arranging with James
Forbes for the production in Berlin and
Vienna of "The Chorus Lady," which,
after a years run in New York and Chi
cago, will be presented by Rose Stahl
and company in the principal cities of
America next season.
1.-THE Honeymooners,' which is being
presented by George M. Cohan and his
company at the Amsterdam theater roof,
New York, where it will run till Septem-
Der l. has been disposed of by Cohan &.
Harris to Francis x. Hope. manager of
Adelaide Thurston. and Jack Welch, gen.
| eral representative for Cohan &c Harris.
This new firm will organize a special
company and send 1t on tour as soon as
the New York engagement terminates.
"Brewster's Millions, the touring rights
| to which have been secured by Cohan &
| Harris, will open its road season Septem-
ber Q. An exact duplicate of the New
| York and Chicago productions will; be
! carried, including the marvellous yacht
| scene. The cast as now completed in
I cludes Robert Ober, Jane Mathis, Louis
Names, VIM. Clifton, Brins.ey Shaw, Net
| tie Black, Wellington Cross, Edward Nor
timer Francis8GaiIlard, Edith Meyer, Ed
ward Maynard, Ida Lee CASTOR, Richard
e. Webster and Miss Haines. "Brewsters
Millions" will be played by two companies
] in America, two in England and one on
| the continent 1t has proved the most sue
cessful comedy that has been presented
in recent years.
The nrSt new prOduct1On tnat f1aTrlSoH
Grey Fiske will make this season will be
''Sappho and Phaon," Percy MacKayes
poetic drama, In which Madame Bertha
Kalich will appear. The action of the
| tragedy passes in a. single scene that
shows temple and olive grove overlook
ing the Aegean sea. With the progress OF
the vivid, passionate drama of the love OF
the poetess and her slave, this setting is
seen by day, by moonlight and at dawn
The setting will be, it is promised, one
of the most beautiful that has been dis
played on the American stage. 1t is the
work of Gates and Morange, from whose
studio have come practically all of Mr..
Fiske's productions. From Percy Ander-
| son of London Mr.. Fiske has received the
designs for the costumes that Madame
KaIich and her company will wear. Mr..
Anderson stands first among artists who
have made costumes their speciality. His
commission from Mr.. Fiske was par
ticularly grateful one to him, for he is
an enthusiastic Hellenist. When design
ing the costumes for Beerbohm Trees
| Ulysses a few years ago he visited the
islands of the Aegean sea, including Nifty.
lene, the ancient Lesbos, and obtained
many sketches that were of value in pre-
pairing the "sappho and Phaon" designs