The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
NOTE AND COMMENT
OF PLAYS AND PLAYERs.

NOTE AND COMMENT
OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Miss Maude Adams will revive Barrie
Quality Street" at the Eihpile Mon,
New york. for one week beginning Mon-
dav. The following week she VIII lhtro-
duce her new play, 'The TESTERS
An admirable actor. e. M. Holland,
makes his New York appearance at
Daiy's Monday as the star of a drama
! t~ization of Meredith Nicholson's mover,
.arhe House of a Thousand Candies.
The play follows John Glayde's Honor,
tbe career of which Sutro play was snort
| and, If the critics may be oeleVeo' nol
sweet, falling quite to redeem the pronlise
of some of the earlier work of the young
English dramatist.
The cast of ''Funibashi," the musical
| biece, which is to follow The Gay White
Way at the New York Casino on MON
day, will include Alice Fischer vera
Michelena, William Rock, Joseph {.
Miron, Maud Fulton and Walter Percival.
On January 20, at the Savoy Theatre,
Mr.. Frohman will produce a three-aet
| farce entitled Twenty Days in the
Shade" which is now running at the
| Vaudeville Theatre in Paris. The cast
| will include Jeffreys Lewis, Richard Ben
nett, Dallas Wexford (of "Mr. Hopkin-
SON. fame). Miss Pauline Frederick,
| Charles Dickson, Frank Burbeck and
others. The farce is in three acts.
"Tom JONES' the finest comic opera,
! considered from a musical standpoint
solely, that New York has heard in a dec
ade, leaves that city for the road next
week. Just why 1t is taken off at the
height of its success is one of the mys-
| teries of theatrical management which
the lay mind is perhaps not supposed to
trouble with. Beside "shows" Xix THE
Girl Behind the Counter" the most popu-
lar musical comedy in New York and
whose run is likely to outlast many
months, tom Jones" shines like a dia-
mond alongside a piece of colored glass.
! Perhaps it will come to Newark some
day. If so, Newark may congratulate it
self.
Miss Edith Wynne Matthison, who ap-
peared in 'Everyman," is to be seen UNI
der the direction of Henry Miller in two
plays by her husband, C. Ram Ken
nedy. 1.-THE Servant in the House" and
THE Winterfeast" are the titles.
Miss Charlotte Walker is the ideal
Southern girl in the new Belasco produce
ton, 1.-THE Warrens of Virginia." with
an individuality that goes over the foot
lights and a store of charms that usually
goes straight to the heart. She portrays
the pecuiiarities of the Southern girl In
the lighter scenes so ~cleverly that she
is responsible for all the laughs that
Frank KEENAN,, as Gen. Warren, does not
create by his remarkable Interpretation of
the kind-hearted but splenetic Southern
commander. The big climax of the play
Is in Miss Walkers hands, and in that
she shows her capacity for making a big
dramatic moment.
"a question tina is more often asked me
than any other,'' said David Warfeld be-
hind the scenes of the Stuyvesant Thea
tire the other evening, in the course of a
conversation, lis which character l would
rather play, Herr Won Barwig in The
Music Master or Wes' Bigelow, in "A
Grand Army Man. and 1 unhesitatingly
reply, Bigelow.
For one thing continued the actor,
''Bigelow is later than Won Barwig, and
he would naturally appeal to me on the
ground Of novelty. Anything that requires
ones careful study and analysis is likely
to absorb ones interest, especially in the
case of an actor who has to translate
into a living figure for the stage the bare
outlines of a character in an inert manu-
script.
But over and above this, I think that
Yves Bigelow, in an artistic sense, is a
bigger, more rational and more difficult
part than the characters in my previous
plays. He may lack some of the pic
t~uresque attributes. more or less due to
dialect, but he is to me more real, more
human and more intimate, and 1 think
that "A Grand Army Man is a bigger
play than my previous plays, and gives
me more opportunities for acting"
Beginning , next Monday the bill at
the Hippodrome will open with a war
.u-4z.I .art.o Dattfa a( DOrf Artb,,- -
written by Owen Davis and staged by Ed
ward p. Temple, the general stage direc-
tor of the HIppodrome. The spectacle is
in two scenes, and in these one thousand
people and fifty horses will appear. The
naval action before the famous fortress
will also be depicted. Every equipment
and bit of space of the Hippodrome's
monster stage will be utilized to make
this o realistic representation.
The first scene shows a public square
In the b~eleaguered city. The streets are
thronged with people, begging for bread.
The prisons are crowded with Japanese.
The ground is covered with snow and it
is still falling. Cossacks dash to and fro,
and there is all the action and anxiety
of a city before the enemy's blow is
struck. The commanding officer comes oil
in his sledge and distributes food. A Jap
aneso spy is arrested and meets within
the prison mis- weetheart, the daughter
of his general. A skirmish takes place
in the distance. The Russians send out
scouting parties. The battle begins. Troops
rush in and out and Cossack cavalry
dash across the square. The din Of the
conflict increases. C~annonading is heard.
Japanese rush on and release the prison
ers. Ambulance corps bring on the Rus
sian wounded. The scene changes to the
rocky tiee of Notifications which lead TO
the fortress overlooking the harbor. 1t is
the battle of 2S Hill. The conflict
wageo in this historical struggle took
place in a heavy rain storm, and this will
be shown by n downpour of real water.
Over eight hundred men are seen in actual
battle, every branch of the fighting power
of nations being depicted by artillery, in
fantry and navy. The Cossack riders are
genuine Russians and their -horsemanship
will add to the realism of the scene.
Admirers Of Arnold DAILY will be much
interested in hearing that it is his inten-
tlon to appear as the hero Of Owen Kill
dare's dramatic version Of My Mamie
Rose"