The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16
Notes of the 1'heater
At Home and Abroad


Emelie Melville is playing a char
acter role IN Lord Chesterfield"
Brother omcers'' will follow Hearts
ease" at the Alcazar fheater, with
White Whittlesey in the. principal role.
Felix Isman threatens to produce
George Bernard Shaw's conversational
play, Getting Married" in this coun-
try. lie has secured the American
Henry Miller has decided upon The
Great Divide as the play in which he
will make his London appearance next
season.
Manager Abe Cohn expects to keep
The Love Tales of Hoffman," on at
the American theater FOR at least five
weeks. He reports wide inquiry Tor
seats.
Thomas H. Persse, tenor. and Edith
Mason, prima donna. will be in the
company which is to present The Love
theater.
The Girl Question" and The Time,
the Place and the Girl" two prominent
will receive productions In this city
soon.
Cecil Raleigh's "The Sins of Society"
which had an extended run in London,
will be produced in this country and
toured west if it goes" well in New
York.
Henry w. Savage has paid $4,000
in royalties for the first nine months
production of Lehar's THE Merry
Widow" in America. Why should any
one write grand opera?
Willis P. sweatnam, the veteran actor
of negro roles, will appear in George
AIDES new play, The city Chap, in
which Jack Norworth will be featured
Jules Murray's production of Marry
ing May" with Florence Gear in the
role which Marie Cahill created, will be
house in New Haven Conn
still another tn ',yGungest leading ts Ia LADY y
honors are claimed by Doris Mitchell.
who has been engaged to support Nor
man Hackett in Classmates" next sea-
son.
Ibsen, the poet, and Grieg. the COM
poser, are to be represented next sea-
son by a company OF instrumentlsts
and players, headed by Louis James. in
an elaborate production of Peer Gynt."
The propomders of The Girl Cues
tion," Adams, Hough and Howard. have
their
million dollars, which was the result of
the first 339 performances OF the piece.
Wilton Lackaye has signed with Will
liam A. Brady for a five years engage
ment. He will probably appear in
Jules Eckert Goodnan's The Right to
Live which had a successful premier
in Richmond, Va, recently
The cast which will support Cyril
Scott in 1.-The Man of the Hour which
will be seen at the Van Ness theater,
Stockwell. Ethel Brandon, Evelyn
Moore, Felix Haney and Louis Hend-
ricks.
Not to be outdone by Patti the di-
vine Sarah contemplates another tour
of America. She said in recent in
terview In Paris that She would come
nor, her manager and adviser, said the
word.
May Boley and William Burress close
night. They go to Chicago. Burress
plans revival of The Song Birds,
which was a big success in eastern
vaudeville a season or two ago.
The regular season at the American
theater will open in September with
Hip, Hip, Hoorah, successful mu-
steal comedy Most of the bookings at
fall and winter are musical comedies or
light operas. Some of the biggest east
ern successes will receive early presen-
tation at the american.
New York reviewers are taking heart
at the contemplation of the fact that
the only real successes, aside from a
few musical comedy pieces, were scored
last season by serious dramas. The
Witching Hour" by Thomas. Paid in
Full' by Walter, Bernstein's "The
Thief and Kennedy's THE Servant in
the House." Additional significance is
found in these plays successes because
none of them is, strictly speaking. a
star vehicle. All depend for their proper
performance upon a finished cast 1t
is agreed that in point of attention and
attendance Kennedy's play is the
strongest of the four.
An eastern statistician has been busy
figuring the fortunes of stage stars
with this result: Sir Henry Irving died
possessed of fortune worth s71 900
while Richard Mansfield left s250.O00.
Reginald de Koven owns 100000 of
New York realty; William Gillette.
William Fl. s. Crane, Frank Daniels,
Henry Miller. Lew Fields and Joe
Weber have not less than S250 900 each
invested in Harlem alone Maxine Ell
lott and Meude Adams are possessed
Of not less than 100000 to draw upon
If they get out of a Job. and May Irwin
chuckleS over q million dollar Ha ,, L