The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-14
NEWS AND NOTES OF
THE AMUSEMENT WORLD.

One of the dramatic novelties which
Walter N. Lawrence expects to present
this year Is a little one-act play by
Carlotta Nilsson. Though an actress of
wide experience. this will be Miss Mill
sons debut as a playwright. She adj
mits one or two amateur attempts some
years ago, but declares that this play
must go on record as her initial pro-
fessional e%ndeavor. Miss Nilsson pre-
fers not to appear in her own play.
The first production will be made by
the Madison Square Company, with
which Miss Nilsson Is starring in THE
Three of Us" The scene of the play Is
Paris at the present time, and the story
concerns a poor American girl who has
been studying music al the French cap
ital and has made failure Of it.
Reports from Boston are to the effect
that David Kessler has scored a hit in
THE Spell" Ida Conquest is featured
In the cast. The play moves to the
Majestic Theatre, New York, on Mon
day.
All the various artists engaged for the
second cross-continent tour of Henry w.
Savage's production of Puccini's Ma
dam Butterfly" have arrived from abroad,
and rehearsals of the fascinating work
are being conducted under Walter Roth
well. the Viennese conductor. who, with
Cornelis Dopper, Of Amsterdam, and Guy
Ambrose. of Hamburg, will direct the or
chestra. Mr.. Savage has planned for this
season a tour more extensive than that
of last year the itinerary scheduling per-
formances of Madam Butterfly" in 100
| Of the leading cities in the United States
and Canada. The tour will begin in New
ark the week of September 30. After
Newark the opera will be given in several
OF the larger cities in New Jersey and
New York State, following which begins a
second engagement at the Garden Theatre
in New York.
James O'Neill will begirP a brief engage
ment at the Lyric Theatre. New York, on
Monday of next week, Offering Virginius
and other classical pieces of his repertory.
In his company will be his son. James
O'Nei.l. ir.. Charles Dalton. Norman
Haekett. Charles d. Herman. Joseph
FSfayton. Wadsworth Harris, Warren Con-
Ian. the Misses Franklin-Lynch Josephine
Morse and Kate Fletcher. Virginius has
not been seen on a Broadway stage In
twenty years. 1.-THE Lady from Lanes"
now Mt the Lyric. will be transferred to
the Casino. opening there the same night.
The company engaged by Klaw and Err
hanger to present Henry Arthur Jones's
new play. 'The Galilean's Victory" which
will receive its premiere at the Lyceum
Theatre IN Rochester September %. has
begun rehearsals. TIL principal male role
will be played by Howard Kyle. The
leading woman will be Miss Dorothy
Thomas. an English actress brought to
America especially to play the role of
Christabel.
The premiere Of Anna Karenina," the
dramatization of Tolstoi's novel of the
same name, at the Herald Square Thea
49, o roc tho Ornafnof
triumph in the career of Miss Virginia
Harmed, who will tour under shubert man
agement in the new production Immediate
ly following a short New York engage
ment. In the dramatization the play
wright has not undertaken the task Of
leading the auditor through the maze
of Tolstol's psychology, but has taken the
telling scenes from the book-the cruelty
of Karenin, the love story of Vronsky,
the abandonment by Anna Karenina of her
husband, the fight with Vronsky, her
visit TO her husbands home, the denun-
citation and finally the suicide of Anna,
who throws herself under an express train.
Miss Harmed is supported by a cast, in
GLIDING John Mason. Robert Warwick,
Albert Gran, Ann Warrington and little
Foster Williams, the child actor.
Robert Edeson is likely to find Glass
mates" his new play by William G. De
Mile and Margaret Turnbull as great a
popular success as "Strongheart." The
play is an odd mixture Of infantile comedy
! of the "Brown of Harvard order, with
unreal melodrama and real drama. One
scene in which conventlonality is set aside
is laid in a South American jungle, where
two men in extremis bare their souls and
their hate to each other. Mr.. Blossoms
manly acting is responsible for much OF
the plays success.
One Of the new plays in New York that
has made a well deserved hit is 1.-THE Man
on the Case" by Grace Livingston Fur
Mss. at the Madison Square Theatre. This
is a farce Of very amusing if artificial stu
atoms and sparkling dialogue. It brings
back to the stage Miss Elsie Leslie, of
little Lord Famtleroy'' fame.
Theatregoers are not to see either Forbes
Robertson or his wife, Gertrude Elliott.
this season. The tour of the English stars
has been cancelled owing TO the ill-health
Of Mr.. Robertson.
"comtesse Coouette,' which Madame
Nazimova is playing at the Bijon in New
York. will be succeeded in three weeks by
THE Master Builder"
Frederic De Belleville, formerly with
. Mrs. Fiske. will have an important part in
1.-The Step-sister,'' the latest Charles Klein
play.
Some idea-of the magnitude of the pro-
duction Of 1.-THE Christian Pilgrim" in
which Henry B. Harris will present Hen
rietta Crosman in association with Maurice
Campbell, may be gained from the fact
that the stages of several theatres are re-
quired for the rehearsals of the play. Miss
Crosman and her company are rehearsine
on the stages Of the Hudson theatre; the
chorus, under the direction of William
Furst, who has written the music for the
. play are at the Hackett Theatre, and the
ballet and super are being put through
|. their PAGES at the Murray Hill Lyeeum.
9TH Movers" the new play by Martha
7 Morton, which Henry b.. Harris presents
at the Hackett Theatre, scored one Of the
: genuine hits of the present season. The
novelty alone of the play would carry il
into popularity, photographing as it does 3
, phase of life that is common to society
5 today in any American city and Illustrate:
4, the mad desire to shine In the world OF
! social .insincerity, regardless of its drair
upon purse, body and mind
Rehearsals of the new Booth Tarking-
5 ton-Harry Leon Wilson play, The Mar
r tFrom Home In which Liebler & Co. arr
: to star VIII T. Hodge, have begun and tbs
| onenino date has been set for Huntsville