Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-25
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with which Robert Edeson will oper the Hudson theater next Thursday was held today. Unless all indiCa tions fail of fulfilImen-. the produc ton will be one of the hits os th5 coming season. The cast suppOrting Mr. Edeson is exceptionally strong and includes Marjorie Wood, Mau- Granger, Flora Bowley, Helen Dahl Millicent Mclaughlin, George N. Bar mum. Frank Mcintyre, sydney Aims worth. Thomas Lawrence, E. N. Ores ser, Francis Bonn and Clay Boyd Five ot thesa-Miss Wood and Massrs Mcintyre. Ainsworth. Bonn ani Bo.d were members of the original "Srronghearc9 company, and ara ta- vorablF remembered by New York playgoers for their work in tAae pc duction. Classmates is the work Q. William C. de Mile ami Margaret Turnbult
 Harrietta Brent, who Yas recently engaged by Keith X Proctor, has made decided hit at the Fifth Avenue the ater. where she appeared this week as Miss Blake in The Village Post master" Next week she will have ] prominent role in Hearts Ahame."
 Edna Wallace Hopper, who return ed this week from Europe, is now busily engaged in rehearsals for her part in George Cohan's comedy, Eff ty Miles From Boston, at the New Amsterdam theater Others in the cast include Fritz Williams, Emma Janvier, George Parsons, George Marlowe, James H. Bradbury and Russell Pincus. Fifty Miles From Boston" will open 100 miles from Boston-at Springfield, Mass, to be exact-on Labor Day.
 The "Checkers" company began it's tour of the West this week, opening it's fifth season in St. Paul. The com pany is booked through the North west, the middle West and the South; and will not return to New York before spring. Practically no changes have been made in the cast, except
 for the engagement of Stephanle Longfelow in the role of Pete Bar low. Miss Longfellow, by the way, is a grand niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which should help the press agent some.
 Because of several radical changes found necessary in the production o1 ''The Other House." the Shuberts anC Walter Lawrence have postponed in, definitely the date of it's opening al the Madison Square theater, original ly scheduled for this week.
 Truly, many are called but few are chosen. Out of the 300 winsome ap- plicants for places in the long skirt ed chorus in Marrying Mary" only sixteen were found acceptable in all respects by the very particular man agement. One of the requirements fol chorus girls in this production is thai they solemnly promise to refuse al invitations to supper after the show refrain from flirting with the John nies and baldheads and destroy Wi.il- out reading all mash notes.'
 It is definitely announced that Har- rison Gray Fiske and Mrs. Fiske will begin a tour of Dixie early in Octobe: It has been nearly a decade since the gifted actress has been "away down South in the land of cotton,' but il is said that she will atone for the negelct by making an extensive Jour that will include all the important cities south of Mason and Dixon's. Her repertoire will include "Hedda Ga5- Ter" "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and Leah Klesehna' She will return tC New York in December to take part in new play at the Lyric theater.
 "A Grand Army Man" is the title o the new play with which David War field will follow up his wonderful sue cess with "The Music Master The | and will formally open the new Stuy vesant theater, but the play will b' tried out on the road next month Mir. Warfield's recent success in "Th' Music Master which ran almos without cessation in New York fo two years, was the greatest dramatic success, both from artistic ad tinan cial standpoints, in late theatrical hls tory. Whether he can repeat that re cord with "A Grand Aarmy Man re mains to be seen. At any rate, l isn't likely that the play will ever b very popular in the South. Less thai decade ago. Warfield, now Belasco' most resplendent star, was playln in burlesque and vaudeville. His frs success was as Old Levi in "The Auc tioneer," and was followed by tn phenomenal hit as Von Barwlg I ''The Music Master" MT. Warfield l 1 Gou