The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-02
Gotham's Biggest Playhouse
Delights Nearly Too Millions
In Course of Single Season
Charlotte Cushman Barely
Misses Place in the
Hall of Fame.

When one playhouse in New York has
a record Of 100000 paid admissions in
a single season. some idea OF the vast
ness OF the business OF amusing New
York may be gained. This IS the record
OF the HippOdrome, which has Just
ended the season. The average daily
attendance has been about the com
bined seating capacity OF Weber-s.
Days. the Bijou. the Princess, the
Herald Square, the KnIckerbocker. the
Casino. the Empire. the Broadway, the
New York. the Astor. and the Criterion
Theaters.
The biggest days business was on
Washington's birthday. when the re-
ceipts were more than $4,000; the big
gest weeks receipts footed up $4,000 ard
a little more
During the whole season Of thirty
eight weeks there has been no serious
m'shap 70 any Of the 100 performers or
employees. there never has been the
slightest delay in any performance; no
one OF the 10000 persons who have
afforded the performances has BEEN In
jnred or been taken seriously 81 in the
building. II has not had a strike,
scandal. or slump in the business.
While. of course. no other theater can
come anywhere near these figures. there
are many OF them which. according TO
capacity. will compare most favorably
with them
"Peter Pan" as Grand 0pera2
Impresario Oscar Hammerstein IS al
ways wide awake. Even an automobile
smash-up has not the power to dis
arrange his thinking apparatus. His
latest idea IS 20 set Peter Pan to music,
and TO make grand opera OF Barrie's
charming play Mr. Hammerstein ex-
poets TO conclude negotiations whereby
he viii be enabled 20 use the story OF
J. NJ Barrie's play. Tie new work
probably will have It's first American
production in the Manhattan before he
close Of next season. The composer. no
doubt. viii be Victor Herbert Miss
Mary Garden. who comes 70 the Man
haitian next season TO make her Ameri-
can debut after attaining success in the
Opera Comique in Paris. is being con
sidered. among others, for the title role.
one OF MI. Hammersteln's chief reasons
for going abroad a few weeks ago was
10 confer with Charles Frohmau. who
produces Peter Pan in America, and
with Mr.. Barrie about his plans for
making an opera from the delightful
fantasy.
Charlotte Cushman Almost Famous.
While the name OF no actor OF actress
was among those on the scroll OF fame
at the New York University Thursday.
the name Of Charlotte Cushncan lacked
only five votes Of achieving the honor.
II takes forty-four votes 70 place a
woman's name in the Hail Of Fame,
and thirty-nine votes were recorded for
Miss Cushman. There is a strong proba-
bility that in 1910. the time OF the next
vote. her name win receive the requisite
number The vote for Miss Cushman
was as follows: Ten oct Of twenty
three college presidents. eleven out Of
/ twenty-seven professors and scientists,
/ eleven out Of twenty-five Publicists,
editors and authors, and seven out OF
( twenty-three jurists.
! According to localities, Miss Cush-
mans fame was strongest in the Middle
\ States, where she got fifteen out Of
! tvyenty-three votes. New England also
gave her a majority-eleven out OF
| twenty-one- In the South she received
/ five out OF eighteen: in the Middle West
! four out of nineteen, and in the far
West four out Of fourteen.
Sothern and Marlowe Sail
/ Miss Julia Marlowe and E H SOthern
! finished their London engagement to-
night and will sail on the Umbria to-
morrow. On their return they will play
together for two weeks at the Academy
OF Music in Romeo and Juliet and
Twelfth Night" plays in which they
] scored their greatest successes in Lon
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| terminate. and under the management
Of Lee Shubert they viii tour the United
! States with separate companies. going
in different directions.
! II seems a trifle absurd to talk of roof
! gardens with the thermometer persist
emily lowering about freezing point, but
the calendar says it's roof garden time
and what the calendar says goes and
the roof garden season opened this
week. II is the New York roof that is
| first in the field this year Florenz
/ Zielfeld. jr.. is the manager and he has
i given the roof the summer name Of
Jardin de Paris. A little bit OF Paris
transported TO Broadway. an effort TO
! reproduce the principal features OF a
well-known resort Of the French capital
( is what Mr. Ziegfeld says he has at
tempted. Vaudeville and musical
revue will be the hot weather attrac-
lions on the roof.
/ Grace George closed her present
successful season OF Divorcons in
] Wallack's Theater Thursday even
{ ing. The SardOu comedy has proved
to be one of the hits Of the season, and
would have continued the entire sum-
I mer IN Wallack's had not the oppor-
tunity Of London opening presented
itself. Miss George sails tomorrow to
open in the Duke Of York, one Of
| Charles Frohman's theaters, on Mon
| day, June 10.
Nine. Nazimova begins her ninth week
/ as the COmtesse Coquette in the BijOu
/ Theater tomorrow night. This seasons
engagement of the beautiful Russian
actress in the brilliant Bracco comedy
! will ,1OOtiurra a least until Tune X clos