Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
The Foreign Stage

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| LONDON. November 4.-Fannie Ward
who is playing in Fanny and the Servant
| Problem" Jerome's comedy. at the AID
wych, has added to her bill the one act
play. THE Flag Station by Eugene;
Walter. 1t has pleased the playgoers
and added to her strong attraction It's
chief importance lies in the fact that lit
provides Miss Ward with an opportunity
of demonstrating a quite unexpected
amount of versatility, calling as it does
for strong emotional acting far removed
from the light comedy of the part She
portrays in Fanny and the Servant Prob
| lem"
Although Christmas is still some dis
| lance away. London managers care busy
so large part in the theatrical world
on this side of the Atlantic. Within a
| few weeks official announcements will be-
| gin TO appear and advertising will be
| spread broadcast over the country. AT
| Drury Lane the subject will be Dick
Wilmington" and the cast already in
cludes Marie George. who is a yearly fix
ture, and Truly. Shattuck. an American
new to London pantomime, but who made
a very favorable impression at her two
appearances in vaudeville in London
earlier In the year. At the Adelphi
Robert Courtneidge will produce "Cinder-
ella" with such established favorites as
Carrie Moore. Phyllis Dare and Dan
Rolyat, and at the Lyceum Little Red
| Riding Hood" will make her bow.
London is asking itself if the quite
| extraordinary success of II. B. Irving's
production of 1.-THE Lyons MALI portends
popular revival of melodrama. The con-
| sensus of opinion appears to be that it
| does. According to some we'll informed
theatrical managers, Londoners are sick of
1
and are ''clamoring for sanguinary SEN
sation and are ravenous for the raw beef
OF shocks" All this the son of Sir Henry
Irving gives them in the undying romance
| which he Is now producing at the Shaftes-
bury. Youny Irwin himself. in speaking
| of the production. says:
| Il consider 1t a splendid example of
that healthy, old-fashioned type of melo-
drama. appealing at once to the magma
ton and the heart-a type which very
much needs recalling in these days. Peo-
pie may call these stirring scenes merely
sensational but they are human and to
my mind a very true and right art
| When 1.-The Lyons Mall has worn ont
its welcome Irving will produce Caesar
Borgia' and, subsequently, Hamlet
Henri Bernstein, author of "The Thief"
Will shortly, II present signs hold good
become an English rage. 1.-The Thief
mas just been played in the provinces
with unprecedented success by George
alexander and his ST. James Theater
Company. His Israel which has lust
been produced in France by Nine. Reiane
| WILL ere long be produced in London and
Arthur Bourchier Is prepared to present
his strong and emotional drama Sam
son. on his return to the Garrick The
ater shortly after Christmas. Bernstein
has almost completed a new play in Eng
llsh which will be produced by George
Alexander at the st. James Theater
aubrey Smith. who is now appearing in
| Cyril Maude's production of 1.-THE Flag
Lieutenant at the Playhouse. has ac-
CURED several new plays, and If his pres
ent plans hold good he will enter the
managerial ranks early next year One
Of his plays is by Cosmo Hamilton and
Is called The Master Key
incidentally Cosmo Hamilton is in de-
Hldho ooth as writer of original plays
ana as an arapter of foreign pieces
another actor shortly to enter the lists
as manager is Allan Aynesworth now
| appearing in Idols Evelyn MiIlard' s
production of the dramatization of w. j.
| Lockes book of the same name George
! Graves. who has been described as the
Sam Bernard of England and who ap-
peared with Joseph Coyne i'm the London
! production of The Merry Widow" also
! looks forward to the time when he can
hand himself his own salary every Sat
/ urday night. and Kenneth Douglas who
is playing the part of Freddy Perkins to
| Marie Tempest's Mrs Dot" has admit
I ted that he and his wife will go into
management when he has secured the
/ proper plays.
! Forbes Robertson. who transfers Je-
i romes Passing of the Third Floor Back
! from ST James to Terrys Theater No
vember 0. will be seen in Augustus
! Thomas The Witching Hour when it
| is produced in London. His other plans
| include the revival of certain of Shake
speare's plays. and it is interesting to note
| that they include The Merchant of Ven
| ice
! When the London public has grown
| tired of THE Merry Widow George Ed
wardes will produce Leo Falls and A. VI.
! Willners The Dollar Princess Berlin
| is already enjoying this play and it comes
to both England and the United States.
| where il will he produced later. with con-
| siderable prestige.
/ Although old Drury has just declared
| a dividend of 10 per cent. there has been a
protest by some of the stockholders against
the salary of $4,000 a year which Arthur
Collins, the managing director. receives
Such salary, one need hardly point out
Is large one for London and the pro-
posal of those who objected to il was
that Mr. Collins should take half in sal