Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-13
Dramatic Notes

| May Irwin has been playing George
AIDES one-act comedy, MRS. Smiths
Carouse," and she has won additiona
renown for her exceedingly clever act
ling in the transition from temperance
advocate to condition Of inexperienced
inebriation.
John Cort has secured the American
rights to John Valentines play, "The
Stronger Sex" which Is now being pre-
sented at the Apollo theater in London.
Maude Fealy will probably be starred In
the play next fall.
Jane Kelton, who is a favorite with
Los Angeles audiences, has gone to AUS
tralia with the Andrew Mack company.
Maxine Elliott is to play months
engagement in New York in Her
Great Match"
It is rumored in England that Pauline
Chase, the original pink Pajama Girl. 3"
Ia to appear in a new comedy by j. M.
Barrie next fall.
In her new play, "The Silver Box"
Ethel Barrymore is showing her devo-
ton to art by Disgusting 4.er youth and
beauty in the faded appearance and
ragged dress of an ordinary charwo-
man.
Katherine Grey, who is now playing
at the Berkeley Lyceum theater, New
York, in Arthur Schnitzler's "The
Reckoning" will tour the country next
season with that play, and as the star
of another play now being written by
an American dramatist.
Eugene Presbrey has completed the
stage version of Sir Gilbert Parker's
novel, 1.-THE Right of Way" The play
will be one of next seasons offerings.
When Cecilia LOTUS stars. under the
direction of Henry Miller her vehicle
will be q comedy drama, in which she
will introduce her limitations, and in
which other specialties by members Of
the company will have chance, thus
uniting straight drama with vaudeville.
Bart Whitney has commissioned
Richard Henry Little, a Chicago news
paper man, to write the book for a
musical play that is to be brought out
later in the season, Raymond Hubbell,
the composer of "Mexicana," Fan
tana" and "A Knight for a Day." will
supply the musical setting of the play.
Little was a correspondent in the Rus
so-Japanese war and has been lectur-
ing since then.
Details regarding Miss Maude Adams
first appearance on the London stage
have been made known by her man
ager, Charles Frohman. The present
tour in "Peter Pan" will engage the
actress until May 80, when the San
Francisco engagement will be COM
pleted. The company will then return
to New York without stops and play
farewell week. During this week the
cast, which has already been chosen
for Miss Adams support in London, will
be assembled for first rehearsals. The
entire company and production will sail
on June IA, and IN July Miss Adams
will made her debut before an English
audience at the duke of York's theater
In a new play by ]. M. Barrie, the
creator of her greatest successes.
Nine. Modjeska is writing her mem
oirs and is transcribing her recollections
of her stage career in the language of
her native land-Poland. Her intention
was to write them in English. but the
ideas had tendency to slip away from
her until she adopted the plan of writ
ing them in her native tongue, she told
a reporter in a recent interview. The
memoirs are to be translated into Eng
lish.
A million dollar theater lease was
when w. A. Brady, man
ager of the Savoy and Manhattan thea
ters, New York, signed papers which
will give him the Chicago Auditorium
theater for ten years at an annual
rental of 100000. The signing Of the
agreement with the Auditorium asso-
citation involves cn immediate payment
of $4,000. Alterations in the house will
be those of a nature to fit it for the
of big spectacles. The
house proper will be arranged to accom-
modate 1000 persons.
When Toby Claude makes her ap-
in vaudeville she will present