Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-30
FROHMAN SHOWS
SEASONS HAND
NEW CHAIN OF REPERTOIRE
THEATERS is PLANNED
PLAYS BY DOYLE, J. M. BARRIE,
SHAW AND RosTAND BOOKED
Maude Adams to Star In twelfth
Night" and Ethel Barrymore to
Appear In "Mid-ChanneI,"
by Pinero
Especial to The Herald. ]

of his plans for next season, issued 10
the press of America today, Charles
Frohman, who recently returned from
Europe, outlines a series Of the most
ambitious enterprises on record during
the last decade of the American stage,
Among the arrangements for his more
important stars Mr.. Frohman will pre-
sent Maude Adams in Twelfth Night
Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore in
repertoire, Ethel Barrymore in Pinero's
Mid Channel" all at the Empire, New
York Marie Tempest will appear in
Penelope" at the Lyceum. AT the
Hudson, Conan Doyle'S Fires of rate
which has been tremendously success
full in London, will be produced.
New plays for Hattie Williams, Fran
els Wilson, Kyrle Bellew, Marie Doro
and ]. x. Hackett are announced.
Among the playwrights on the Froh-
man contract book for next season are
w. Somerset Vaughan, Alfred Sutro'
Henry Arthur Jones, John GalsWorthy,
Bernard Shaw, J. NJ Barrie Haddon
Chambers, Henry Bernstein, Alexander
Bisson, H V. Esmond, Henri LaYedan
and Edmond Rostand, a translation OF
the latter's "Chanticleer' being booked
for an elaborate production.
Mr.. Frohman's statement of plans
follows:
Il have been abroad for seven
months. and l am leaving again in
November to look after productions l
shall make in London, Paris, Vienna
and Berlin. We will start work in New
York next Monday with great num-
ber of productions which will be first
given in this city, Chicago, Boston and
Philadelphia.
Home Plays Favored
"The American plays that l have Sc
cured are by Augustus Thomas, Tark-
ington and Wilson, Paul Armstrong.
George Ade, William Gillette, Wincheu
Smith. Paul M. Potter, Ramsay MOTIFS
Rida Johnson Young, Thomas Buchan-
an. William Collier and George Hobart.
1.-THE Empire theater will open Sep
tember 6 with John Drew in Jack
Straw for two weeks; after that Mr.
Drew will appear in new play, when
will be decided upon in a few days.
Then comes Maude Adams IN WhaI
Every Woman Knows and special per
formances of Twelfth Night with
Miss Adams as Viola. Following Miss
Adams there will be a brief engage
ment of Sir Charles Wyndham and
Mary Moore, who in turn will give way
to Miss Ethel Barrymore in the new
play by Arthur Wing Pinero, entitled
Mid Channel This piece receives its /
first production at the St. James thea
ter. London, in September. Miss Bar
rvnore will leave for England about
September / to meet Mr.. Pinero, ana
will not begin her season until De-
cember.
"At the Lyceum theater I shall begin
August 26 with 'Arsene Lupin' De
tective-thief play, which ran at the
Athenee theater in Paris for seven
months and again has been revived for
q run through the summer. I shall pro-
duce this play in London the same
night 1 bring it out in New York, ana
I hope also to make special produc-
tion of the play in Chicago.
Burke to Play in French
"I shall follow the season Of 'Arsene !
Lupin' at the Lyceum theater with
brief engagement of Marie Tempest IN
Penelope Miss Tempest will play
short engagements in the principal cit
les before returning to London, where
she will again appear under my man
agement. After Miss Tempcsts en-
eagement comes Miss Billie Burke IN
new play, Miss Burke will remain at
the I,yceum until she leaves for ParlS'
where she is TO play in French with
French company. The play that she Is
TO appear in will be written by MessrS.
Caillavet and De Flers, and it is by
their invitation that she is to appear
in Paris.
"At the Criterion theater I shall be-
Gin August 30 with The Flag Lieuten-
ant and if this play meets with the
success that greeted it in London l shau
have a special company oISalllzeu IoI
a Chicago production. ..
"At the Garrick theater Miss Hattie
Williams will begin the season August
% in a new play called 'DetecllNe
Sparks by Michael Morton who is
the co-author of My Wife and VINO
adapted into English RESURRECTION
MIR Morton, though an American, has
been living abroad for some years. lie
will arrive here next week to superln-
tend the production of his play During
the season at the Gawick theater
Francis Wilson win be seen in a play
which he has written, called The Bach-
elors Baby William Collier Will APP
pear at the same theater in his new
nlav. After Mr. Collier finishes his
next New York season he and his com
pany will leave at once for London
where I shall present him i'm his sue
Cesses.
Doyle Drama Coming
During the season shall produce
at the Hudson theater Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's drama, The Fires Of
Fate which has Just made great sue
cess at the Lyric theater in London.
Sir Conan Doyle comes to America Tor
the production. At the Gaiety theater,
New York, ] shall produce Henry Bern
STEMS play Israel with a cast that
will include Constance Collier Holbrook
Rlinn and Edwin Arden. I shall follow
Miss Anglin's season at the Savoy
+heater with a new pay by Pierre
Wolfe, the French author. At the
Knickerbocker theater early in Septem-
Der / shall produce the musical play
'The Dollar Princess which will requs7z
more than 100 persons and which is now
being played in every continental city
and viii be produced at Days theater,
London, the same night I produce it
here. ,,.
Princess | shall produce the musical
play which has scored so great sue
cess at the Shaftsbury theater in Lon
don, called The Arcadians.' | also have
the present London Gaiety success,
our Miss Gibbs which I shall produce
at one of my theaters here very late in
the season, as hope to get Miss Gertie
Millar to come over for her original
part of Miss Gibbs.
"October I shall present Kyrle Bel
lew in Alfred Sutro's play, The Builder
of Bridges, which was produced in
London at the st. James theater Mr..
Bellew will play the part acted by
George Alexander October 8 I shall
present Otis Skinner in a new play in
four acts called Your Humble Servant
Miss Marie DOro is to have a new
comedy by the authors of Love
Watches which will not be ready until
the end of November. Miss Doro has
been playing a very long season and is
still playing in The Morals of Marcus
] hope to have her give few per-
formances OF that play here III August