The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-13

Laurette Taylor, Oza Waldop, Marion
Ballou, Frederick Burton, William
Resell and Willis Martin.
On the 10th comes "A Broken Idol"
to the Herald Square. 1t is musical
farcicality.'' of which lavish promises
of surprise and scenic oleverness are
spread abroad. The New York theater
opens on the same might with the CO.
han & Harris Minstrels, Honey Boy"
Evans at their head.
Harry Lander is coming back to
America, under William Norris direc
ton. When the Scotch comedian
sailed for home last spring after hav-
ing concluded a tour of the principal
cities east of the Mississippi, there
seemed to be little hope of his ever
returning here, as his future contracts
had at least five years of full time to
run. and the penalties exacted by some
of his foreign managers made prohib-
tive any agreement with a manage
ment But William Morris. while abroad
recently, in consideration OF other
business Affiliations, having to do with
his project to circle the globe with in
dependent vaudeville theaters, was
enabled to arrange agreeable terms by
which it is now assured that Harry
Lauder will return early in October for
an engagement that win last between
80 and 40 weeks. About $4,000 will
be paid to the management of the
Edinburgh pantomine for his release
of their time. and $4,000 to the own
ers of the Tivoli, London. for a similar
concession.
George G. Tyler managing director
of Liebler & Co. has returned from
a 200, 900 mile automobile tour In E,u
rope
Our two most important early fall
productions in New York" says Mr..
Tyler. will be the appearance of
Viola Allen in F. Marion CraWford's
1.-The White Sister and Walker White
side in Zangwill's THE Melting Pot"
c. M. S. MsLean, author of Leah kles-
ohna,' has delivered the manuscript of
a play called Judith Zaraine which
deals with competition of commerce
Israel Zangwill is at work on play on
the subject of universal peace. Booth
Harrington and Harry Leon Wilson
have written a comedy, Foreign En-
change which considers the impossi-
bility of reconciling the European and
American ideas of love and marriage
We shall produce this play in Septem-
Der at the Grand Opera house in
Chicago
Another play of this Chicago series
is The Little Brother of the Rich" a
dramatization of Joseph Medill Patter-
sons novel by the author and Har
riett Ford. In Edwin Milton Royles
new play. a sequel to THE Squaw
Man." H. B. Warner will be star.
We shall also produce a comedy by
Harrington and Wilson called IF
Had Money Madge Carr Cook will
be the star.
Henry w. Savage. who has been
nicknamed Henry Widow Savage. be-
cause of the number of successful
plays he has launched with widows as
the principal parsonage in the cast, has
engaged people and begun rehearsals
for another Merry Widow" company.
The merry editor of Puck says, "a
statistician estimates that 250O00O
Americans have seen The Merry Wild
ow' at an outlay of $2.694,000. Sub
scribers with a taste for these things
will be interested in learning further
that 1852 hurdy -gurdys playing the
Merry Widow waltz have caused 532.-
673 plain and 4,S96,577 fancy curses:
that 66327 literary persons have writ
ten 1,437.650 Merry Widow para
graphs, and that 1O,7S3.962 men have
had their noses skinned by Merry
Widow hats. This is positively final"