The sun., 1909-12-26
EEY PLAYS HERE THIS WEEK
SEVEN THAT RANGE FROM
MELODHAMA TO COMEDY.

Ehey Include Works ef Charles Klein,
Conan Doyle. Theodore Burt sayre
and Francis wilson, VINO Appears
On q Comedy oG Hls Own Making.
The last week OF the year brings many
nav plays for tho consideration OF New
York theatregoers. The list includes
drknna. melodrama and comedy. Mon
day brings& new Charles Klein play. The
Next Of Kim at the Hudson; the reap
pearAnoe of Arnold DAILY in q new play.
-Know Thyseh.- at the Berkeley; the
mslodrAma. The Commanding Oficer.'
at the Savoy; "A Little Brother OF the
Rich at Wallack's. and Francis Wilson
In comedy OF which he is the author
~ tho Criterion. On Tuesday the Conan
Doyle melodrama -The Fires OF Fate
he's ita opening at the Liberty. Thursday
brings another production. Don at the
New Theatre, and a special matinee
psrformance OF -Ingomar' by Mabel
Taliaferro at the Liberty. Miss Cheat
ham gives her holiday matinee at tho
Lyceum tomorrow.
On Monday evening Henry B. Harris
Win present at the Hudson Theatre Charles
Klsin's new three act play The Next Of
xtn-' Tho play 10 written around the
trials OF Paula Marsh. whose uncle makes
IN endeavor to secure her fortune. left
70 her BY her father. He employs an un-
ecrupulous lawyer. an ex-Judge OF the
supreme Court with a political pull. who
employs every scheme that trickery and
n89pey caA make possible. He wins. and
the uncle 10 appointed guardian for the
airl. To strengthen their hold on the estate
The uncle and his lawyer enlist the aid Of
. physician OF uncertain reputation to
4 koyo o .oommission appointed to inquire
inub herMnity OF the niece. She is tenn
porarily incaroerated in a sanitarium.
but one Of the physicians on the commits
stbn enjoys a worldwide reputation for
honesty and ability. He refuses to be
made . party to the scheme and declares
thsre b nothing more serious with her
than an attack of nervousness and as a
consequence she In released. Among
tho most prominent OF the players are
Hcdwig Reicher. Wallace Eddinger. Frank
Sheridan. Frederick Perry, Harry Daven-
port. Joseph Adelman. Grant Mitchell,
Maggie Fielding. f. W. Morrison. Anita
Iothe. -Minna Adelman and Austin
et<ong. -.
The savoy Theatre will have a new
attraction tomorrow night. when Daniel
Frohmara's company will appear in the
new American military melodrama The
Commanding ofscer.' by Theodore Burt
6ayrs. Isabel Irving is the leading
woman, and Charles Millward. Robert T.
Hnines and Edward Martindel are the
three leading men. Others in the cast
are Gertrude Dallas. Rosa Rand, Charles
Lane. Frederick Watson. George c. Staley,
George RiddeIl, Phyllis Sherwood. John
Junior. Edna Bern. The intrigue. petty
gnssip and romance of life at Western
army post furnish the material for the
STORY OF the play. The Colonel Of the
pest has a young wife something OF a
coquette. who prefers the gayeties Of social
life. They quarrel. and the Colonel goes
On Q hunting trip, leaving her exposed to
tho attentions OF a mine ownerA who had
bean her preferred admirer before the
Colonel came into her life. She is placed
in compromising position. and her
efforts TO extricate herself from this situa-
tion result in entangling her dearest
friend. an innocent young woman. in a
mesh OF suspicion and lead to the arrest
OF the latter's fiance. a young lieutenant.
ON the charge OF murder.
Francis Wilson has not only forsaken
musioal comedy but has written and
staged q comedy Of his own. in which he
win appear at the Criterion Theatre to-
nAorrow night. It is called The Bache-
lor's Baby and associated with him in the
play viii be Edna Bruins. Baby Davis.
May Davis. Lillian Lawrence. Clarence
Handyside. Robert CONFESS. FrankIyn
Roberta and z. Soldene Powell. Mr..
Wilson has assigned to himself the part
Of bachelor who has arrived at the con-
olrsion that a child in the house is a great
natural conspiracy against the happiness
Of man. These unusual views OF life
keep him from marrying. In the midst
Of his perplexities and through ship
wreck he finds himself the sole guardian
OF his niece. a little girl OF S. who mistakes
him for her father. his twin brother His
feelings are outraged. He does not pro-
pose 30, be reformed by any such emo
tional moonshine. After their first meet
ING he has run away from the child, but
he IN tricked into meeting the little girl
md q scene OF some tenderness somewhat
changes his view OF children but not his
dissemination TO refuse the guardianship.
A litsIe monetary embarrassment further
strsngthens this determination. and IL Ia
mot until actually threatened with being
superseded quite Unexpectedly as the
girls guardian that the true state OF his
feeling for tho child flashes upon him and he
rsabss up his mind to fght to retain her.
"A Lttle Brother OF the Rioh,. a satiri-
oal plsy BY Joseph Medill Patterson and
Harriet Ford, who also wrote The Fourth
E~tnts,' will come into wallack's to-
morrow. II 10 not dramatisation Of the
novel which brought the rich Mr.. Patter-
son Into the iimelight OF publicity when
ft appeared between covers, but In a new
play, independent Of the book, though
the main suggestion comes from the first
instance. Tho play begins with a tri-
singular arrangement In which the points
srs Richard Epers. income 800 900 a
year: his wife, Htriei Epsrs, pleased by
au husbands but her own, and Paul
/. Potter, a handsome college graduate
still trailing odors OF athletic glories
PoL has just become engaged TO Sylvia