The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12

employment to the vaudeville actors nifty
two weeks IN the year
At Philadelphia last Monday evening, for
the hrst time on any stage. Henry 3
Harris and Maurice Campbell presented
fenrietta crosman in The Christian Pill
grim" The new vehicle is termed q music
play, and is "a dramatization If Rl,nvan's
Pilgrims Progress prepared for the stage
by James Macarthur. The production il
pretentious with a compan of one hun
dred, a chorus of fifty and an orchestra
OF forty persons The play will have its
nrst New York hearing about November 1.
Florence oberts on October 70 will close
ner New York season at the Hackett
Theatre IN THE Struggle Everlasting"
"hlch she will present on her forthcoming
annual tom on the Pacific coast. In April,
Henry B.. Harris, by arrangement with
John Cort, will present Miss Roberts, in
New York in a new American play of
modern life.
Nat Goodwin's repertoire this season will
consist of Ambition" sAn American
Citizen" When We Were Tventv-one.s
THE Gilded Fool,7 The Genius, .oTbe
Rivals IN Missouri and q new play bv
George Broadhurst. His season will begin
at Baltimore on November 4.
Madame Bertha Kalich's third season as
a star under Harrison Grey Fiske's man.
agemeft will begin at the Providence
Opera House, Providence, r. l., on Mon
day, October IA, when she will appear as
Sappho in Percy MacKaye's poetic tragedy,
"Sappho and Phaon," which then will have
its initial performance. The following
Monday Madame Kalich will open a New
York engagement at the Lyric Theatre.
her stay being limited to three weeks.
Thereafter she will make an extensive
tour Of the larger cities. Her company in
cludes Henry Kolker, Lucius Henderson.
Fred Eric, Adele Block, Jessie Glenden-
ming. Hazel MacKaye, Clare Krall. Gladys
Hulette aud r. M. Dolliver.
Charles Frohman's production of Henri
Bernstein's THE Thief" with Kyrle Bel
lew and Margaret Ellington, at the Empire
Theatre, New York, has made a strong
impression. 1.-The Thief" Is something OF
an arraignment of those husbands whose
attentions to their wives cease with the
cessation of the honeymoon 1t Is the
story, said to be tensely dramatic, OF a
woman who steals in order to buy clothes
to regain her husbands admiration.
Immediately following the Hunter. Brad
ford and Reid production of his dramati-
zation of ''"The Secret Orchard scheduled
for this month. Claiming Pollock will begin
work on a new play, to be called "Ihe
Right to Happiness"
Clyde Fitch. following the example Of
many other weil-known authors, has tried
his hand at writing a sketch for vaudeville.
The name of the playlet is Miss Cobb,
Manicurist."
Annie Russall's next appearance will he
made in a play called paid in Full"
The first road production of 1.-The Cutest
Girl in Town. the now play in which Jes-
sic Mae Hall is starring under the mail
agement of AL Trahern. was given i'll tie
opera house at New Brunswick recently.
Portions of four comedies by Menander
have been discovered at Ichagaou, in the
Said. a small Egyptian town. Two of then
have been identified as 'T5pitropontes"
("The torso of which 400 lines
have been restored. and "Perikeiremene'
(The Lady of the Shorn Locks), represented
by 200 lines. a clue to other portions Of
the comedies was discovered at the same
time, and a further search is being made.
James J. Corbett has blossoned out as
a full-fiedged author. having writtea a
book entitled "Jabs." which is now Ia
press, and in which is related the huntor
Gus experiences and incidents he met with
during his public career. Corbett no |
longer pays any attention TO pugilism and
verv seldom boxes even for exercise, al
of his interest being c~entered in his dra-
matte work ard in which he shows con-
slant Improvement. He expects to appear
In another play next season, an offer hay
ing been made TO give to him the part IN
which Henry r. Dixey starred in The
Man on the Box"
1sI,A n~to',,p IIa,.,artnal INV inn tia Com
pany will produce Hazel kirke' at the
New Auditorium on November j. The
production il under the personal direction
of John f.. McI&enna. Miss Grace Har-
ris. VINO is we'll known ia amateur circle.
will assume the leading part. Ge5rse G..
Kahn, formerly of the Glover Dramatic
Club, will also De prominent. The rest,
who have all had amateur experience. are
Clifford 7 Russ, julius Maudell, Philip
and Frank Craven, Carl Lyons, Harry
Carpenter and Misses Amy Skully, Anna
Manning and Adele Pierson.