Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-16
LATE GOSSIP FROM sTAGELAND
Some Intimate Chat About Actors,
Authors and Drama.

Some Intimate Chat About Actors,
Authors and Drama.
Peter Donald, the jovlal young Scotch
man who was at the Orpheum with his
wife during the last week in March and
pheum at San Francisco, had to 60 to a
hospital out there to be operated on for
a Mp1sa IS is A lot Of friends he made
the doctor to "cut 1t oot."
Lloyd Ingraham and wife will leave
Omaha immediately on the closing of the
where Mr.. Ingraham will be stage d.
rector for a summer stock company and
MIS- lngraham Will play ingenue roles.
The working force of the orpheum will
start Monday for a ten-day camping trip
near Plattsmouth. In the bunch win be
MManager ByEne. Stage Director, Charley
schneiderwind, H. Rowland, A. Allen, Art
Weatherbee, q. Smith, NJ. Ryan, c. Clary,
n walker :: g. Stubs, William Kilgore,
who Will cook; This is an annual func,
ton with the orpheum folks.
Maclyn Arbuckle, whose tour in 'The
Round Up" Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph
Brooks big play of the Arizona desert,
ends shortly, is delighted with his new
play, The Circus Man. by Eugene Pres
brey: The playwright read the play to him
" y that W.. FTeSDTGY.
In dramatizing Holman Days book,
Squire Phin," has given him the best OBJ
p~ortunity Of his life for the creation of a
stage character Of importance Fighting
Hlme Look Is a New Highlander" says
Mr.. Presbrey. "As a hoy he was the vii
lage scapegoat, and was finally kicked
cut Into the world In disgrace. Twenty
years later he returns, after having been
the proprietor of a circus In Texas. He
GENES back with 10000, the remnants Of
his menagerie and a determination 10 con-
quer the village. The town is still an
tagonistic, II resents his return. The
warmth or his welcome Is shown by the
village constable, still in office, Who holds
q warrant for the arrest of Look, issued
twenty years before. This warrant is
promptly served, as a means of showing
now the community feels toward the black
sheep. During the year Fighting Hime'
speI DIS in the town he bends every effort
toward subduing the community. II has
peen MS custom to rule his beasts
end Of the year he not only conquers the
village, but himself as we'll. His character
undergocs psychological transformation.
and from the bully he is changed into a
big loYahle chap, to whom II is a pleasure
to surrender. The character. as drawn by
Mr.. Day, will give Mr.. Arbuckle an on
portunity Fer a creation OF e big American
type of human interests that will be loved
by everybody"
Bert Walker OF Williams and Walker. Is
10 go into vaudeville May 10 under the
management Of William Morris. This will
be the first appearance alone Of this clever
colored comedian.
Charles Frohman now has In his poses
sion new plays for American production
next season written by the following play
wrights, a group that. taken all In all, hail
from almost the four corners Of the world
Henry Arthur Jones. Henry Bernstein.
Henry Battaille. w. Somerset Vaughan
lauthor OF Jack Straw" and OF LADY
Frederick, y, Alfred SutrO (author Of The
Builder OF Bridges."O John GalsWorthy
(who wrote THE Silver Box and
"strfe'), De Cailloyet and De Flers
(authors OF Love Watches and "Buri-
dams Donkeys'), and. in America. Angus
tus Thomas, Clyde Fitch. George Hobart
not 10 forget the newest conner in the ranks
OF play wrights, William Collier.
Messrs. Raw a ErlanEer and Joseph
Brooks have accepted Eugene w Pres
brey's dramatization OF Rex Beach's latest
novel. The Barrier" The play will be
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