The Washington herald., 1907-10-31

''the road Miss Williams and The Lit
tie Chefub" made the sensational musical
comedy success of last season at the Cri-
terlon Theater, New York, and this sue
I cess comes here only after opening a sec
ond season there, so great was its popu-
larity. OF The Little Cherub" il can only
be said. in the language of a Boston critic
that before the engagement is out the
public will have Little Cherubitis' very
bad and will be glad of it," This musical
comedy by owen Han and Ivan Caryll
/ is three hours OF fun and fTolic
/ Washington theater patrons look for
ward with pleasurable expectancy TO Hen
Try ". Savages offerings, and especial in
terest is shown in the presentation at the
Columbia next week of his new English
comic opera, Tom Jones' tom Jones"
| is enc of two musical pieces which Mr..
/ Savage chose abroad for production i'm
| this country. The other was The Merry
/ Widow. which has had a famous success.
( Ii Is predicted by knowing ones that Tom
l Jones viii strike a ike degree of pOpu-
( larity Tom Jones' is distinctive and
unique as compared with the recent run
of musical offerings MUsiCally ii is of
a high order The work OF the celebrated
composer Edward German. Il skilfully
/ Ireproduces that old style Of English music
which delights in glees. madrigals. and
chOruses, with dainty part songs and
merry dances. The fame of the Tom
Jones music Will attract musicians as
Well as the public generally. The comic
opera book is based on certain incidents
Z la L
has been said that the libretto is suffi-
cienuy powered 20 stand as a play apart
from the music The comedy is clever,
and Mir. Savage has engaged cast. at
the head OF which are Louise Cunning,
William Norris, Van Rensselaer, Wheeler,
Gertrude Quinlan. Others in the cast are
John Bunny, Henry Norman. Louise But
Ter. The seats are on sale to-day
Notwithstanding the fact that the
scenes Of THE Road to Yesterday" are
laid in England, the play, playwrights.
and players are distinctly American. Miss
BeuIah NJ. Dix and Mrs. Evelyn G.
Sutherland tell the story of Elspcth Ty-
Tell. a young American girl. who is visit
ing her married sister in London The
Road to Yesterday is a fantastic COM
edy, involving in EIspeths dream some Of
/ life's greatest problems. those of the
osophy and reincaTnduOn. Yet the au-
thors OF this comedy evade philosophy,
character analysis, and sex problems. as
according 90 their ideas these are ingre-
dients of foreign plays, and are not in
the destiny of the modern American play
wrigh. Sam = and Lee ShUbeTt an
nOunCe that THE Road 10 Yesterday.
with Minnie DupTee and the entire OTigi-
nal New York company, viii be presented
/ here. at the BelasCO Thcater. next week
commencing Monday night. November T.
/ The Road 20 Yesterday had "a record
/ breaking run in New York. AT the Herald
/ Square and Lyric theaters The Shu-
/ bertS have provided the play with the
/ most elaborate production seen IN recent
+ years. 4 quick dark change at the end
/ OF the third act of the play is a master
+ piece Of stage mechanism. The company
supporting Miss Minnie Dupree includes
such notable players as Eleanor Moretti
/ White Whittlesey, Robert Denpster
Charles Clary Esther Lyon. Julia Blanc
Josephine +. SHEPPARD Agnes Everett
4 +. owen Baxter Willis Martin. Charles
I f. West, William Beery, Selmar Ro-
maine. &c
Chase's next week viii give "a pro-
gramme composed OF The Futurity Win
ner." with Kingsley Benedict; Hal Steph-
/ ems and company, Foster and Foster,
/ Louise Henry, the Tennis THO. Mason
and Shannon, Max Duffek, and the fine
motion pictures of Scenes and Types in
Ireland The FUturity Winner" IS a
meiodrama of the turgid, sensational
/ English sort Kingsley Benedict. the
Washington leading man. heads the cast
Hal Stephens and his company viii fiji
the place of supplementary leading at
traction, and this vaudeville star will
play the transformation comedy novelty
entitled "Silas SiawsoB's Dream" Foster
and Foster, in The Volunteer Pianist %
viii be another offering. The use made
OF the orchestra in this act completely
/ Upsets oid-established notions regarding
this institution Of the theater. The other
numbers all give evidence Of having been
gathered to form a brilliant programme
Another play dealing with an interest
ing story of the love of a lowIv born
country girl for wealthy Englishman
viii be offered in Hazel Kirkc," at the
Majestic Theater, next week. Miss
kathryn Purnel viii assume the title
role. Hazel Kirke. who is the millers S
daughter. She falls in love with Sir Ar
thur Carringford. and the marriage Of
/ the young people followed with subSe-
quent unhappiness. resulting from the
scheming of an INSCRIPTIONS woman,
/ furnishes the plot around which the story
revOlves. Special scenic effects viii add
10 the success of the performance.
sfvf in
has attracted as widespread attention as
that Of the famous character, Sherlock
Holmes the detective. His keen powers
/ Of deduction and his acute reasoning
| faculties have made him known the world
over, and now comes "A playwright who
/ recognizes the possibilities Of pitting the
famous man-taker against the most fas-
/ cinating rObber character since the days
I of Claude DuvaL Ned Danvers, the
| burglar gentleman. and not content with
arraylng these opp0sites against one an
/ other, he. it is said. has woven pretty
/ love story. and we are TO see the debon-
/ air DdnvcTs in the hands of Cupid, While
/ he eXerts himself to elude the pitfalls
set by his willy adversary. The play in
/ question is a product of the pen Of Lang
( don Mccormick, and is called The
| Burglar and the Lady" 1t comes TO the
/ New Academy next Monday night for an
/ engagement of one week, with Mr.. James
J. Corbett playing the leading role.
At the Gayety next week the Greater
/ New York Stars will be the attraction.
/ This show is out of the ordinary in that
| il is scenic and costume production
| In addition 10 this show. brilliantly at
/ tractive as its programme is, is a special
added feature, the original Algero dance,
/ the act which created such a favorable