The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22
A HOLIDAY GRIST OF PLAYS
HACKETT IN q NEW DRAMA NY
ALFRED SUTRO.

Maxine RlIOtt. Miss Barrymore and Miss
TRlIaG errO lave New Plays NHlss
Adams Brings Back peter Pam
Miss G'heatham's Matinee Of songs.
This is the gladstone Yuletide, and ac-
cOrdingly come new plays In plenty and
hang up their stockings on the box Office
ledge. Four Of them come Monday. heSdes
minor changes in hill. Miss Adams returns
Tuesday. And Miss Barrymore is due on
Christmas Day.
In honor Of the season Miss Adams shall
have first cnll, for she brings back Peter
Pan Dear, dear Peter Wendy said,
and we all echo Wendy. little enough
is lone for the Riddles in our theatres
Christmas time. or at any other time, for
that matter. But they are to have their
Peter Pan" again, and probably they will
nave il every Yuletide as long ~ Miss
Adams and Mr.. FrOhman work together.
The adorable fantasy begins it's ngage-
ment on Tuesday evening, and there will
be fourteen performances, five OF them
matinees. The first matinee will be given
on Thursday instead Of on Christmas Day.
Ernest Iawford is still playing Hook. On
January q Miss Adams begins a week in
Quality Street." and following that she
will produce a new play, The Jester"
At Days Theatre tomorrow evening
Mr. Hackett will present a new play, John
Glayde's Honour" by Alfred Sutro. IL
was produced last year at the st. James's
Theatre, London. John CLAUDE is a great
American ~financier, who. tOiling at his
business. negIects his wife, Muriei, leaving
her to find her own interests. When the
drama begins the wife isin Paris. surrounded
by her friends, chief among whom is Trevor
LerOde, an artist, who is painting her por-
trait. II is soon disclosed that MuTieL,
living as she chooses in the French capital.
has formed a most dangerous friendship
with him. Hia mother, who has other
ambitions for her son, has cabled to John
GLOyde hat his presence 10 urgently re-
quired in Paris. In the middle Of a dinner,
which Muriel is giving to her friends,
John GIGyde is. suddenly announced. The
play then works itself out. Olive Oliver
and Ida Waterman are in Mr.. Hackstt's
supporting company.
Miss Maxine Elliott, who has not ap-
peared in New York since season before last,
will produce at the Garrick Theatre to-
morrow night her new play entitled Under
the Greenwood Tree by II. v. EsmOnd.
The play was originally produced by Miss
Elliott in London this fall. Mary Hamilton,
the character assumed by Miss Elliott. is
a strictly modern young woman who essays
to return to nature by living the simple
life after the gypsy fashion. h is an
orphan and the possessor Of SIS 900 900.
Pestered by offers OF marriage, worn out
by appeals from every kind of society and
institution, sick to death Of the social round,
she HES herself into the woods, where she
lives in a gypsy caravan. accompanied by
her secretary.
This whimsicality on the part Of Mary
Hamilton ultimately develops a romance in
her life and in the Squire on whose property
she has settled. she finds a new suitOr who
falls ~inAlove with her, believing her TO be a
gypsy OF rare beauty, proposes marriage
and is accepted. Charles Cherry will play
the lucky sutton.
Miss Ethel Barrymore's annual New York
engagement will begin on Christmas night
at the Hudson Theatre, where the star is
to remain for two months. Charles Froh-
has selected for Miss ~Barrymore's
first play a work by Clyde Fitch and COsmO
Gordon Lennon, entitled Her Sister"
CosmO Gordon LennOx is an English author
who will be remembered here for his clever
work in The Marriage OF Kitty" Miss
Barrymore's leading man this season is
Arthur Byron. The other members Of her
company are Fanny Addison Pitt, Louise
Drew, Lucille Watson, Desmond Kelly.
anita Rothe, Charles Hammond, Lumsden
Hare and ROckclife Fellows. The action
begins in a fat in Bond street. London,
where Isis. "the greatest Of all modern
prOphetesses,' IL peering into the future
for fashionable clients and revealing to them
what they a expect in the way OF heart
adventures, domestic joys, business troubles
and all that. Isis has many patrons and
seems TO enjoy her mysterious calling.
The name Isis il of course ssumed. The
handsome fortune teller is in reality Eleanor
Anderson, who is engaged to be married to
a wealthy young Englishman named Ernest
Buckley. whom she has met On a train. She
is earning her living by fortune telling.
The play, however, is not a brief for Golfers
Weekly.
polly OF the Circus a new play by
Margaret Mayo. produced by Frederic
Thompson. will be presented Monday at
the Liberty Theatre. As the name indi-
Gates, it is a story OF circus life. but il is
az a study Of circus character m not al q
presentation Of circus spectacle that the
play makes its appeal. The spectacular
elements. while incidental and necessary,
are centred in two tableaux. which con
clude the play. One shows a circus ring
in full tilt. with four specialties going on at
the same time. and the other gives a picture
Of the show leaving town in wagons in the
moonlight. Mr.. Thompson's reputation as
a Snowman might lead to an overemphasis
Of this part Of the entertainment. a con-
dition which he has tried earnestly TO avoid.
The scene is in a small town in the middle
West, where a circus il playing in a lot
adjoining the parsonage. Polly. the princi-
pal rider, has a mishap in the ring and as
there is no hospital In the town she is
taken to the clergyman's house for care.
IN to that time she has known nothing Of
any life except that under the rOundtop.
During her long Convalescence her very
artlessness makes "A tremendous appeal to
the clergyman. who il in love with her
before he knows it. The principal part
is taken by Miss Mabel Taliaferro. The
clergyman Is played by Malcolm Williams,
and Toby me CHOTn and Jim me Boss Can
rdsmdR fall to John Findlay and Joseph
Brennan.
Friday afternoon at the Berkeley Theatre