New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
A BRISK OPENING.
SeCen Ne1u Productions to Start
Busy Season in Earnest.

Few mldwfnter weeks will be busy and i'm
rorant to the playgoer as this week. which brings
five dramatic novelues-"The Flag Lieutenant
The Sins Of Society" such Little Queen" The
Fortune Hunter and The Bridge'-and two new
musical pieces. The Love Cure and Mcintyre
and Heath in HaytL"
The first and second plays named are hne mouth
fuls Of melodrama, British style. Such is the as
surance OF the advance notices. and such is evt-
dent from the plots. The Flag Lieutenant will
be disclosed at the Criterion Theatre tomorrow
night with Bruce McRae, Isabel Irving. Francis
Carlyle. Lumsden Hare, Vera McCord. Rosa Rand
and c Leslie Allen in some of the principal parts
The hero. Flag Lieutenant Lascelles. IS the OF
fellow who would rather give the credit OF per
forming brave act TO a friend than claim the
reward Of his deserts. In thus efIacing him
self for Major Thesiger, Lascelles comes pretty
near facing court martial but the luck of Kan
Aa blows his way-they had been on a Cretan ex-
pedition-and all ends happily. the authors
Major Drury and Leo Trevor. meant it should
The Flag Lieutenant shall turn out to be a
sort Of Brother Officers story. then surely 'Srhs
Sins OF Society" opening ct the New York Theatre
on Tuesday night will recall wildly memories Of
The Price OF Peace" The Great Ruby" and
Hearts Are Trumps" Brooks & Dngwau are
the managers with the pluck and resource to bring
over this recent DrUry Lane melodrama Cecil
Raleigh and Henry Hamilton play7vrights In cbier
10 Drury Lane have written the play around 4
woinans love Of play for high stakes first AZ
orioge then at the races. Finally she descends to
~-NNN'J 0iAu Utmost 10 murder in irving tn
herself The big scene viii show the wrecl, OF a
British transport at sea Prominent IN The c,st n,
20 persons will be Laura Nelson Han To,tse
1iosSer HaIe' Louise Rutter Lucy Siblev T-Ioranca
49,, 1soSane De VauX. Grace Thorne w L.
.loolllsdon. conway Tearle Leslie KENYON Do1so,
AItcheL' Charles Rowan. Reginald RarIou- Cbs-1a
others ''u nipple and
Ia, ,lian.'ns FoLoek's new play such 1tt,1o
Tues5,v e,,er 4lsO oe seen for the first time on
11s1'S evening but at the Hackett 7,boa,a
among the players OF note in II araIE-s, I,
Sol' FRANK Gimour. Ralph Stuart Frsrcls ~
--'g1Hor lawson and George Rarnun 7r- %
-, .o1e' loea IN this piece is that OF p ri,uaurs
e-fl queen who forsakes her tro,,rlo. eI.
herzegovina 10 try her fortunes a. "a
W isely Mr. Pollock leaves the fun d,sc1os,. :.
me plot until Tuesday night. but II e - -,
- 80 fNihs o. Bosnia and an American btsr-esg
-'a. are ue Queens rival suitors and tr.+ 49,,
contrast between medlpvalisrn and der,o--, 80 -
furnishes most Of the comedy. '''
= p bodson and The House Mart r,o,-,. -,
- Tue SaIety Theatre until next SATURDAY.,
""eh a new comedy called The Fortuna I5,,-,a ..
moves IN, with John BARRYMORE an, ~ -
!" inc leading characters. helped by F,~-e,, ~
lnson, Hamilton Hale. Sydney AiusW.orff Iy,.t
i'' man ana several other players. The MOT q,
-, '..- IL ADVANCE. but the chief scenes are IN
.,7" i"H ana IN a small Pennsylvania town
showing some OF the varied types OF cI,v 80
country NE and character. The title OF the NAV
suthcienty indicates its theme '0'
- nc same night az the Majestic Theatre
i ne Bridge" by Rupert Hughes. win 49, -.
MS. production here. This Is the story OF a Young
civil engineer. handicapped socially ana go
ulalIy who is building a great cantUe,.r go
N pace not FAR from New York The unanisbc5
n,Iss Ilse1 IS to lie shown in the principal scene
win the work In actual construction hy scores -,
busy mechanics. Guy Bates Post win be rre..-,As
IN me character OF the bridge builder Katherina
EiIl'e' VIII play the chiet feminine part There
are many persons in the cast
&
season is styled Mcintyre and Heafb :, ~ -
Ihey who 80 TO the Circle Theatre Tomorrow nigh,
VII! see the Georgia MINISTRIES" as tho raf- Ia.
IonB oeen known, exploiting the resources Of the
'E0pio Isle where coffee trust and a chicken t-s.
are among the enterprises organized bv n s,rs,,4
American. Mcintyre and Heath are csoso,, -,
ueht ahd treasurer OF the island but they d M,
retain their fat Jobs long. John J. McNaiiv ~.
'lo nonsense and Jerome and Schwartz COMPOSED
the Jngly music OF the piece. Julian Rose a. =
comic hebrew character and Adele Rowland az .
theatrical performer. are consplclous Il, H. =.
The Love Cure" beginning at the New ar,q.c-
'a'i ii'dte on Wednesday evening. IS described
ss a musical romance Of stageland by Oliver Her
FORD. The book is based on "KunstierbI,,t,, ,..rl
npfit OF Artp, an operetta written bv Steir ana
liudau and composed by Edmund F,.sIor 49,,
mas toHnd much favor In European playho,lseS Tn.
piece is not translation. but an adant.,,,, ,h
scenes being laid in New York. \ prima donna I'm
Broadway production tries to yyor, t, L.
cure on TWO gilded youths who seek her hand u
the process she herself is stricken with tho rl,5
nc company includes Charles J. Ross I5Irfs
Bowen, Fred Frear. Eva Fallon Alice Hosrer
Arda La CroiX' Joseph Allen. Thomas II. Walsh
Harry Hdye, Blanche Rice and Milton poIroci-
Henry w. Savage. who is 70 produce 'sIhs Love
cure Is doing we'll with HIS two other current o.
ferings the farce called THE Florist sbon ~ H.
Liberty Theatre, with Lionel Walsh and Marion
LONE prominent in the cast, and the Vionposa or.r
eta The Cav Hussars," at tho KnIcl-orr.,-i.
M ,, 'hlis's tho talents Of Bobby North. Anna
buSserI Florence Reid and Harry Farleieb
The Third Degree" Charles TlIein.s r,.,. 49,.
ting forth picture. said 10 he veracious ~ w