Evening star., 1909-06-06
The Foreign Stage
lence Of The Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Star.
! LONDON, May %. 1909
p HAVE just returned from an inter
esting chat with Adeline Genee, who
arrived in London only a short while
III ago. Her second visit to America
| certainly has not dsenchanted her
with its delights. for she has nothing but
/ pleasant things to say of her stay there.
| 1t Is the first time she has toured the
states. and she said: Touring was made
| so easy for me that IL 1t has any hard
ships 1 know nothing of them. l had
merely to sit down and be whisked from
place to place-everything was done for
me- / was especially charmed with the
southern states. and in particular with
! Louisville On the other hand, I loved
Washington Cleveland found charming,
| and Detroit delightful. But as health
restorer give me st. Paul. l went there
| suffering from ptomaine poisoning. ana
| before l had been an hour In the place !
had nearly got my old strength back"
Genee makes her only London appear
| ance this season at His Ma1esty's. where
| early in June six performances OF Tine
| Dryad' are to be given under the aus
pces of the Afternoon Theater. She re-
| turns to New York about the end or Au-
gust, reappearing at the New Amsterdam
| Theater under Klaw & Erlangers man
agement in a new piece, the exact cnar-
acter of which is to be kept an absolute
secret for the time being. 1t is hoped that
this will keep her busy until the close OF
the season in the following April AFTER
that Klaw & Erlanger have arranged that
she shall make short tour through some
of the principal cities Of the continent.
According to her contract with that nrm
there will be one further season In Amer
lea after the coming one. and then.Well,
then, who knows what may happen? one
thing is tolerably certain, at any rate,
that when that is ended, Genee will enter
the matrimonial state. 1 put the direct
question to her whether the step would
mean retirement from the stage. BY way
of answer she laughed and shook her
head, saying IT don't know. It's diH-
cult to see the end of It One becomes SO
, passionately attached to ones art, and yet
somehow 1 don't think dancing is a pro.
fession quite suited to a married woman.
otherwise and not improbably Genee will
In the long run come to regard the queS-
tion from their standpoint.
Within the next few days contracts will
be signed determining the future Of the
Savoy Theater. All conditions have been
agreed to and 1t only remains for the par
ties concerned to put their signatures to
the various documents The new tenant
| of the Savoy is to be c. H Workman.
| who has secured a twenty-year lease OF
the house. During the last year at or twe n'
Mrs D'Oyly CaEte's London company.
has established himself as a first-class IA
vorite with the public, and II he proves to
/ be as good Judge OF what that public
dancer his fortune is assured. He starts
with two new musical pieces In his KNAPP
| sack. and he also has from Sir Wlnarn
| Gilbert the offer of his latest opera Tor
| which Edward German has composed the
music. He has further secured from that
witty librettist and from the executors OF
| the late Sir Arthur Sullivans estate the
right to revive some of the old Savoy sue
| cesses.
Charles Frohman must be feeling
rather q severe draught at present. 'The
Dashing Little Duke" at the Hicks Thea
ter, although 1t had the invaluable help
of Ellaline Terriss In the principal part.
never quite caught the fancy of play
goers, and during the past few weeks
business has fallen to a pretty low ebD.
The piece Is to run for only another
week and unless something suitable can
| be found to take its place-rather an un-
| likely event-the theater will be closed
until the autumn season starts In Sep
| tember. Love Watches" has proved an
absolute failure at the Haymarket and Is
| to be withdrawn after career OF some
| thing less than a fortnight. Then, again.
| Penelope at the Comedy has pretty
nearly exhausted its popularity, so that
were it not for What Every Woman
Knows at the Duke of York's Froh-
man would not have much on which to
| congratulate himself at present. He
| takes his reverses very cheerfully, how
| ever. AS he has said to me over and over
| again 1T is from my failures that l
| learn most" On the other hand, there is
= steadily growing feeling that If he
| displays no better Judgment In the choice
of plays for his proposed repertory thea
| ter that project can only result In dls-
/ aster.
| Meanwhile Billy Burke Is off In a
| couple of days time. to Paris. where she
| is to remain for a couple Of months with
the view of studying French. Frohman
has commissioned de Flers and Cailla-
| vet, the French authors of Love
| Watches" to write a new play specially
| for her, to be produced In Paris next
| March In 1t she will appear is an Eng
lish girl speaking French. Later, the
| novelty, If successful, is to be given In
| London and America, and when that is
| done the position of affairs will be re-
| versed. Miss Burke playing the part or
| q French girl speaking EnSlsn lHeIe
can be no doubt that the fiat failure on
| this side of Love Watches" and of
| Billie Burke herself as comedenne has
| been a bitter disappointment both for her
| and for F'rohman But out of evil some
| times comes good and the lesson, how
| ever hard. may yet prove useful. I very
much fear, too. that Rose Stahl Is doing
| very little good in The Chorus Lady" at
| the Vaudeville, although every one who
| has seen her performance acknowledges
| the amazing ceverness and talent Of the
| actress.
After a career Of nearly 400 representa-
tions Cyril Maude's big success, "The
Flag Lieutenant" Is to be withdrawn al
the Playhouse at the end Of May. 1t is to
| be followed June by a three-act six
teenth century Florentine farce entitled
| "The Miracle" by James Bernard Fagan
author of the Earth" which, by the bye