The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-21

A NNIE RUSSELL. William Collier
IL and Henry r. Dixey will be seer
\ = In new plays next week. and IT.
addition a distinct novelty is promised
by the Sicilian actors, who come from,
London under the guidance of Charlie
Frohman
Miss Russell will appear at Weber =
Theatre on Monday evening in "Th.
Stronger Sex" n comedy by John Val
CNtine She win have the role OF a.
American girl, the daughter OF a wealth
Texas ranchman. who goes to London
| . complete her education and falls ~
love with the younger son of an aristo-
cratic house. on the eve of their bridal
| tour the man tells her that he has mar
led her for he.' money. She takes her
revenge by paying a debt he contracted
after their engagement, thus making
MIN ridiculous in the eyes of everybody
But his dormant manhood is awakenar
in business. Finally. he falls in love
with his wife and she is made to un-
derstand the change she has wrought in
mis- heart. Miss Russells supporting
company includes Oswald Yorke, Robert
Drouet, Alma Kruger and Helen Tracy
The Patriot" is the name of the
farce that William Collier will offer at
the Garrick on Monday night 1t was
written by j. Hartley Manners and Mr..
Collier, The principal character, acted
by NJ Collier ie Sir Augustus plartppa-
net Armtage, who is roushing it in a
Western mining camp and doing his ut
most to appear emphaticaly American.
His mine fails TO pan out" and when
his money is gone everybody except n
little Western girl, who idolizes him.
gives him up as hopeless He is almost
in despair himself when he is called
back to London. He takes with him a
group of his Western friends, who find
themselves very uncomfortable in their
fashionable surroundings He doesn |
enjoy the visit himself, and so returns
TO Nevada, where he finally makes
good" with both the mine and the girl.
With Mr.. Collier will be his sister.
Helena Collier-Garrick, Helen Hale,
Annie Esmond, John Saville. Wallace
Worsley and others.
Henry E. Dixey viii bring Mary
i
Monday night. Edith Ellis is the author
Of the comedy. Pa" the part Mr.. DiXey
viii play, is good-for-n nothing literary
Teller" who gets tired of running d
newspaper in a little Western town, and
skips out, leaving his wife and two lit
tie daughters TO take care of them
selves. She turns editor herself ana
moves the paper TO another town, ~hei (
she becomes a political and social power
Pa penniless and hungry, finally drifts
back. Ma" refuses at nrst to Recognize
him as her husband. but oners to COM
promise oy -Givias h!n! the .'nirec gu!
be Marie Nordstrom, Anna Wynne.
Gretchen haltman, HaIdee hiih.a!.I,
Thomas J. McGtane and Harry Hiliiafd'
The Sicilians, numbering sixty players
and headed by Mimi Aguglia, will be-
gin an engagement at the Broadway
Theatre on MONDAY evening For their
first play they will give Malta,
ana. The play deals with ''witchcratt."
Tana, the daughter of Il peasant. can
not conceal her love for her sister
husband. who exerts spell over her.
of her infatuation, and finally Tana
pours out her soul to the man, Cola.
Tana's betrothed. the hitherto gentle
Cola's throat with razor.
The Wedding at Valeni'' will b.
played throughout the week at the new
German Theatre Madison avenue anu
Fifty-ninth street
CLYDE F'itch's comedy Girls" will be
the Offering at the West End Theatre.
The Round Up" will be the attraction
a; the Grand Opera House.
Mary Gibbs Spooner viii appear al
the Yorkville Theatre in Aunt Cynthy +
Homestead
"Graustark," the romantic play based
upon George Barr McCutcheon's novel
I Of the same name, will DE seen at the
/ Metropolis Theatre.
Al the Schwarzen Adler, in East
Eighty-siXth street, Adolf Philip will
on Tuesday evening revive New Yorker
BraueT."
Clark's Jersey Lilies will be seen al