Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

DAVID BelaSCO VIII present MISS Bates III
The Fighting Hope" again next season..
beginning her tour early in August.
Eddie Foy is the latest vaudeville re-
crutt and he insists on taking Hamlet
along with him as his accomplish. Ham
let by Freight" is the title of the act
which he will present, and we presume II
Broadway" in which he has been touring
this season.
Gerald Lawrence and his American wife,
Fay Davis, entered upon a six weeks
Shakespearean season at the London Court
theater, last Monday. Six matinees and one
Saturday evening performance will be given
each week and the plays selected for pres
c%ntation are As You Like 1t" Romeo
and Juliet The Merchant of Venice"
Twelfth Wight Hamlet and Much
Ado About Nothing" These are to be given
without scenery, the stage being draped
will be watched with no little curiosity.
Genuine lovers of the bard of Avon may
be counted upon to respond to the appeal
If the interpretations are adequate, but
otherwise the venture is bound To spell
failure,
THE Midnight Sons is the successor to
The Girl Behind the Counter chosen by
Lew Fields. Glen Marlborough has written
the book and Raymond Hubbell the music,
and it is expected that the piece Will be
ir shape for production at the Broadway
theater, New York, about June l. Lolita
Faust, Marion Stanley, Denman Maley, Ed
hauCllIl, george MONROE, fTllL Wlllldiilo
and George C. Boniface are among the
members of the cast already selected.
Frank Worthing will be starred by Will
liam A. Brady next season in a play called
'"The Doctor" One of the scenes into which
the action is divided will represent a
prison hospital.
The fever for dramatizihg Balzac is
now confined TO this side of the Atlantic.
Miss Constance Fletcher is the latest in
trepid adventurer and the particular work
to which her attention has been directed
is LA Duchesse de Langeals.' A prior
right existing TO- the title None But the
Brave" the piece will be called The
Double Conquest" Rehearsals of the play
are in progress and with Lewis Waller and
our own Maxine Elliott in the leading roles.
The production will take place at the Lyric
within the week.
Miss Grace George is to appear as Lady
Teazle in a series of matinee perform
ances of 1.-THE School for Scandal" to be
given at the Hacket theater ia May. Frank
Worthing, who has been Miss Georges
leading man for several seasons, Will be
cast as Charles Surface, and Cyril Scott
will be the Joseph. The other roles will
be filled by players recruited from the ar
Mann, Harry HARDWOOD, Jane Corcoran
and Robert Fisher.
''When l went on the stage" said Lulu
CHASER II promised my father that 1
wouldn't play on Sundays and l never
nave, dllnOuBh lAlO SluSd " Wv oO mus
meant the loss of at least $4,000 to my
managers and myself
E. H.. sothern and Miss Marlowe are to
Join forces for a brief season at the
Academy of Music, New York, beginning
Nav 81, and following the present engage
ment of Robert Mantell The latter actors
series of classic revivals at the New Am
sterdam met with such popular approval
that the supplementary season at the Acad
envy was arranged for and entered upon
last Monday night.
Wright Lorimer plans to produce a play1
next season in which Daniel will be the
central figure. Mr.. Lorimer will play Dan
iel himself and in one scene, OF which
of real lions. 1t is to be hoped that his
costume will not be so scanty as that worn
by David In The Shepherd King The
handsome young actors pink plumpness
would be a temptation that the most tenn
perate lion would find it hard to resist
TT Brass Bowl" a dramatization of
the novel of the same name, was pro-
duced in Springfield, Mass, last Monday
the millionaire and the amateur cracks
man. THE first night audience gave the
play a favorable reception.
John Galsworthy's strife" will be among
the first offerings of New Yorks New the
alter. 1t has been one OF the most sue
cessful Frohman productions given in
London this season and it comes rather as
a surprise that the American manager
SnOulu SlIItiutl Ills ANtW IOlh ilSAtSs I
Perhaps the Indifference with which that
other London success, AN E~nglishman's
Home" was received on this side, may
have had something to do with the change
of plans. Strife" has for its theme the
struggle between capital and labor, and
when il is seen in New York II will bring
theateT a vivid picture of the misery en-
dured by the poor around them.
Miss Clara Morris was the recipient of
a benefit performance at the New York
theater, New York. Nearly all the players
appearing in Broadway theaters lent their
time, their money and their art. The pro-
gram included an act of "Divorcons,' given
by Miss Grace George and Frank Worth
mere's Fan" in which Virginia Harmed
Francis Starr, Elsie Janis, Dorothy Ten
nant, e; NJ; Holland, Edwin Arden; Robert
Warwick, Lawrence D'Orsay and Edgar
Norton appeared. Edmund Breese offered
a playlet called His own" David Bisp-
ham sang and Wilton Lackaye talked. Miss
Morris herself appeared in a brief scene
from Macbeth" II was in all probability
the last public appearance Of one of the
greatest emotional actresses in the history
of the American stage.
John Drew, now on a tour in Jack
Straw is. like most actors. something OF
a night owl. II suppose you never get TO
bed much before Il O'clock remarked
some one who had Just met the actor and
replied Mr.. Drew, but, on the other hand,
l don't get up much before half past g."
Actors, as is well known, are the most
superstitious class of persons in the world,
with the exception of base ball players,
bankers and brokers, sailors and soldiers, |
doctors, lawyers, merchants and police /
men-and of all the actors now appearing
in New York. the members Of THE Battle"
company at the Savoy theater, supporting
Wilton Lackoye. are easily the most super
%stitious.
For example. Mr.. Lackaye himself con
siders II bad luck Ia be caught In "A top
less motor car I'm the middle of a rain
storm.
Nothing can shake Henry h. Warmers
belief that II the horse he has put SlOO on
comes in last, Il is an III omen.
! II a stage hand at rehearsal drops a |
heavy scene on GeTaH GTiffin's foot. Mr..
Griffin is convinced he is going 10 suffer
an unpleasant half hout. This goes for
the stage hand. too.
Charles Able believes that III he holds a
king-full against a set of fours. II Is a sign
OF something calamitOus.
| f. NJ. Holland thinks Il bad luck 20 be
knocked down by a red automobile, and
che1shes the same odd superstition con-
corning a taNicab.
| Edgar l. Davenport <ho Is supporting |