New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
THE TRIBUNE'S FOREIGN NEWS.
THEATRE SEASON OPENS
Fezc Promising Plays-Disco0ery OF
s125 900 Frans Halls Group.
Especial by French Gable TO The tribune

rCopyrisht 1905. by The Tribune Association
London. aug. 29-The partridge season opens
next week with forebodings from gamekeepers
and experts in bird life. The grouse sport mas
been bad and the partridge bags may be worse
The birds are unusually scarce and wild this
wear. and sportsnnen are inclined to save their
powder for pheasants, which are not affected
by adverse weather conditions Social enter
tanning on the Northern moors has unrnistak-
ably fallen off. Few shootings have been taken
by Americans Henry White is shooting IN
Scotland, while his wife and daughter are pay
ing visits at English country houses ogden
Reid has returned from hunting in Ireland ana
is sailing o-day for America.
Grant Smith. who has been promoted from
the American Embassy to be secretary of the
legation at Santiago. will start for Washing
ton early next week James A. Smith, re-
Gently American Consul at Bona, is going 10
his new post at Genoa after a short halt III
London The American artist, F. d. Mfllet, IS
deserving Broadway. Worcestershire. for voy-
age to japan. where he expects to find fresh
inspiration for work Congressman HUH mas
started for America. and Mrs. Belmont, the
Duchess OF Narlborough's mother. will sail on
Wednesday John W Gates is staying at the
SAVOY Scores of American manufacturers and
merchants have been drawn into London by the
necessity for making new business arrange
p1ents in consequence of the patents act Among
the special manufacturing interests affected are
shoe machinery wire roofing. typewriters. tele-
phones and safety razors. More German than
American capital is coming into the kingdom
in consequence of the law
The theatrical season opened tonight with
Pete" at the Lyceum. This is new version
of Hall Gaines novel, arranged by himself and
Louis Parker. This will be followed by a dozen
new plays in rapid succession. It is the usual
tumble of farce melodrama, musical comedy
and spectacle, with few really promising pieces.
Evelyn Millard. envious of the success of Lena
AshweT is undertaking theatrical management
at the Garrick appearing next week in Idols.
! by Roy Hornimann. wyndham and Mary Moore
will be seen in new plays by Hornimann and
Hubert Henry Davies. Dramas by Barrie and
Jerome K Jerome are the best things in sight,
and Tree expects to surpass all records of stage
management in Faust" Marriages in May
fair" will be Drury Lane theme. and there
will be an American piece. Paid in Full" at
Aldwych Buttery.
An honest picture cleaner promises TO make
the fortunes of private collectors and exhaust
the resources Of the National Gallery, even with
the Treasury behind it. The neglected, black
ened canvas discovered at Malahide near Dub
lin. might have been bought for a song. but
when IL was ldentl1eG as a portrait group OF
ten figures by Frans Halls It commanded $685.
600 While smaller than the group exhibited by
Colonel Warde two years ago, it is a better
example of the Dutch masters art. 1t has a
scheme of grays, blacks and whites. with rus
sets and naroons In women's dresses. The bet
ter of the two Halls portraits now in the Rem
brandt room bought for $500. The di-
rector of the gallery has mortgaged his claims
on the Treasury for three years to keep this new
treasure out of the hands of American and Ger
mn, collectors J. y. F.