New-York tribune., 1907-08-11
GRAVER AT THEATRES.
Summer Musical Plays GiOe Way
TO More Serious Productions.

fo More Serious Productions.
The transisory stage OF the theatrical season Is
now at hand The froth of the summer inusicai
PLAYS has nearly blown away, and two theatres
open tomorrow night with musical productions OF
a slightly more serious character at the Astor
Theatre Raymond Hitchcock will appear In me
Yankee Tourist end at the hnickerbocher Ahe
alaskans" VIII be produced. The first really seri-
Gus play Is a.Divorccfis' which comes 10 the Ly-
cs1na on Thursday night with Miss George Inc
end OF several OF the plays or reviews put on iOI
the summer is announced and everywhere there Is
preparation tho real beginning OF the season OF
le1-'oS Rehearsals take up ell the time OF every
theatre and hall OF any size in town
Raymond Hitchcock opens the second season Of
the Astor Theatre tomorrow night in The YANKEE
Tourist" e new musical comedy. with a book oy
Richard Harding Davis. lyrics by Wallace Irwin
and music by Alfred c. Robyn- Mr. Hifchcock ap-
peared last yesr in The Galloper. which has sup
Piled the foundation for this musical play Inc
present production Is entirely different however
and gives TIE comedian new vehicle Ihe cast m
Guides Miss Flora zabslie. Miss Helen Hale. MISS
Mabel Breen. Miss Eva Eallon wallace beefE' f1e'-
bert Cawthorn and Harry West
Jahn cort takes over the Knickerboeker Theatre
-o--oo-row and produces there The AlaskeIs.
which aims according to the announcement 10 re
fer. ,he light and pleasant life alleged 10 nave Oesi
-rs r,le ia the resEhborhood Of Nome in the early
Gays os the Kiondlke rush One scene Is .elo IA q,
mining camp in the summer, the oinsF N NOie ~
the winter. Both author and composer iNeo IA oe
scenes that inspired the play. ana seNeiai % -.
,-ernhe-s OF the company also come from the
Northwest The posters for the play. "nich are
novel designed by member OF the cast MISE
E-losse Reed. OF Seattle
-The Ham Tree" is not a new play, but its re-
-,rn 10 the Academy Of Music IN search OF the per
-,5a1 ,1onularitv of Mcintyre and Heath shows
that the summer is ending The engagement IS Lo'
three weeks. and il is announced thAt MAJ, 'Ie - -
after a tour around the world "ill settle GOWN ioi
long rest
---Tns LADY from Lanes" 3 musical comedy by
r.o--e F2roail,urst and Gustave Kerker. will be
,resen1ed for the first time tomorrow night al AT
II 1anric CITY and will come 70 the Lyric Iheaue d
v-aelZ larer On che same day the Madison square
.ra+-e 1s51l he reoper1ed with The Other House.
lz Harry and Edward Paulton- in which the prln-
cpal parts viii be taken by Aiss h@'I4e'4i'e S
ence and Richard Golden
a, .ne Savoy Theatre The Man Of the Hour
co-ti.ues 70 live up his title George Broad
-- ,,1s,, = me only serious Effort that survived
the heat cf summer
~ tba Criterion Miss Hattie Williams still sings
s+,o,,- her experience and leads the cast OF Inc
Ti1rle (Fer1.b- Miss Mabel Holiins is one OF the
original cast who is back fer The present snort Fun
s..o-re n Conan has only two more weeks LEFT
oT rhe sumner season OF The honeErnooherS On
rbe New Amsterdam roof The play Is sun AZ, az
-oc+i-e large audiences and VIII go on tour when
-i,e season here ends. while Cohan VIII go aorOau-
,>.stn, Fascinating Flora which was
,,,,5 ~, 70 run all may still be seen II
= ~ he taken on the road soon. with new songs
and some changes IN the INES
The Foliies OF 1877 are foolish ever At
the gardin de Paris. which is On top OF the New
york and Criterion theatres and lot OF persons
Ga 70 see Dazle dance and the rest OF the cast 90
a,.yrhng at ali AS a new feature TINS week ses-
60, members of the chorus and Miss Annabell7
whitford viii try look Ike Gibson bathing girls
Ean,nerstein's Paradise Gardens continue to af-
F~r A
rsstfu tired spirits, and an excellent vanoeFle
hir The antics Of the dogs and monkeys seem
10 give especial pleasure
The Time the Place and the Girl" shipped
from Chicago, hoIss the stage and favor at Wal
lacks.
The heat and the coming OF more plays have had
no e-ec, on The Orchid which continues 10
give many persons nightly chance 10 see Eddie
Foy
A. the Madison Square Roof Garden The Maid
and the Millionaire is the entertainment.
AT the Bijou Cole and johnson present The
shoc Fly Regiment" negro musical play
AZ Blaney's Lincoln Square Theatre the Russell
brothers. in THE Hired Girls Millions are the
attraction for the week
The s,harns-a Theatre and rooc garden has the
usual good vaudeville ban The Empire City
Quartet is the chief feature and there other
sets. with new vitagraph views.
Summer makes difference Tony Pastor,
ara his theatre viii be filed this week see Her
bert Lloyd s.le comedy suggier the Thompson
fers the Moores, Russell and Davis and other
vaudeville iayorites.
Miss Edna May Spooner and the rest OF the
stock company Keith & Proctor's Fifth Avenue
Theatre will be this week In BoucicauIt's
The r.it" Augustus Phillips viii appear In the
authors old part Of Myles oHara. and the other
familiar members CT the company viii n the
cast
Harlem viii see Civil War play at the Harlem
ofera House this week. when Miss Henriefte
Brown and the members OF the Harlem stock
company Will present THE Belle OF Richmond"
For the the tina5, the press agent wants
IL 10 be known that the firing OF guns and noisy
features generally have been eliminated much
possible
At Keith & Proctor's Twenty-th:rd Street Theatre
the Pian0ptiends may be and heard. The
Battle Of San Dago." . military burlesQue. Is on
the bill and Miss Charlotte Parry a pro-
actrsss: H!se Villa Hope Wakefield
exol otkesA
A. the Keith 4 Proctor Union Square Theatre
Ii 0a1k1of0 AegoeAts are expected attract the
0o8o 0A0gO Of the attention audiences
-eHo - - Gou0aeoA Jano eAamA. oontogtanist