The Detroit times., 1910-08-26
THEATERG0ERS TO
HAVE GREAT FEAST
Seasons Bookings for the Detroit and
Garrick Include Every Well-Known
Star-Bernhardt Coming.

Detroit theatergoers are promised
an unusually attractive theatrical
menu for the season OF 1901. In the
list OF stars, new light operas. must
cal comedies and successful dramas
booked for the Detroit and Garrick
theaters. The best In the theatrical
land will be brought to this city. At
the opening OF the season, In New
York, when new plays are tried out,
there Is always a distressing number
OF funerals but those attractions
which survive the onslaught of the
metropolitan critics and public will
later find their way either to the De-
troit or Garrick stages. The former
house has all of the Frohman. Harris.
Klaw & Erlanger. Fiske and other
syndicate" output while the Garrick
gets the Shubert. Liebler. Arthur, Be-
lasco, Brady and the various other In
dependent" producing managers ma
terial. Between the two. Detroiters
will have the opportunity to see every
thing worth while on the American
stage.
Detroit will be "the dog" for Au-
gustus Thomas new play, The Mem
Der from Ozark" which will receive
It's first production on any stage In
the Detroit opera house at the Labor
day matinee, Sept. S. The following
week, Sept. IL. will come George
Evans and his Honey Boy minstrels;
Sept. 10. Montgomery G. Stone. in The
Old Town." will amuse state fair visi-
tors as we'll as the local playgocrs:
Sept. 26 Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske
will come with special review or
Becky Sharpe" and her new lbsen
drama, pillars Of Society,"" to be Sue
ceeded Thursday evening, Sept. %.
by Ethel Barrymore In Mid-Channel."
The Garrick will open It's regular
season. Labor DAY, with an all-star
production of Jim the Penman." i'll
Guiding some OF the best-known actors
and actresses on the stage; Sept IL.
the late Clyde Fitch's powerful drama,
THE City" which was the sensation
of last year. will be presented with
the original New YORK cast, including
Tully Marshall, whose Improvisation
of the leading character made Broad
way sit up and take notice as 1t had
not done In years; Sept. 10, DeWolf
Hopper in his new comedy. "A Matt
nee Idol" and Blanche Ring In the
snappy, mirthful Yankee Girl" Will
cavort for state fair visitors, too. Fol-
lowing In quick succession at the Gar
rick will come the following stars in
new productions: Nine. Nazimova,
Nine. Kalich. Nine. Oily, Julia Mar
lowe, Margaret Anglin, Maxine FL
lott, Mary Mannering. Bertha Gal
land, May Irwin. Grace George, Viola
Allen, Marguerite Clark, Mabel Bar
rison Mabel Hite, Madge Carr Cooke,
Blanche Bates, Mabel Hackney, Char
lotte Walker, Julia Opp, Amelia Bling
ham. Mrs. Leslie Carter, Virginia Har-
ned, Lulu CHASER, Louise Cunning,
Louise Dresser. Lucy Weston, Emma
Carus, Corinne, FRITZ Scheff, Nora
Bayes, Maude Lambert, Marie Dress
Ter, Gertrude Elliott. E. H. Sothern.
Wilton Lackaye, Dustin Farnum,
James X. Hackett, Walker Whiteside.
Arnold Daily, William Collier, Forbes
Robertson, John Mason, Walter Hamp-
den, Lawrence Irving, Cyril Scott,
Charles Cherry. Henry f. Dixey. Guy
Bates Post. George Fawcett, Harry
Conor. Louis Mann, Max Figman. VIII
liam Hodge. William Faversham, Fl.
B. Warner, Charles Richman, George
Arliss. Robert Mantell, Wright Lori
mer. Thomas Wise, Douglas Fair
banks. Otis Harlan, Lew Fields, An
drew Mack. Jefferson de Angels, Sam
Bernard, Frank Daniels. Eddie Foy,
James T. Powers, Lew Dockstader,
George Monroe, Harry Fisher, Jack
Norworth, Charles j. Ross. Albert
Chevalier. Robert Lorraine, Fred c.
Whitney's "A Chocolate Soldier" and
Bessie Abbott In the new Mascagni
opera .Ysobel." with Mascagni con-
Quoting the orchestra.
The Detroit bookings include all or
the prominent stars not mentioned III
the above list; also Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt, who comes to America this sea-
son with her famous repertoire OF Sar-
dou dramas for her very last farewell.
ut is against my policy to give out
an early season list unless l have the
actual signed contracts In my desk,
and these will not have complete un-
til the middle of September" said
Manager B. c. Whitney, of the De-
troit opera house. II know, however,
that we will play the best to be had
and will present many novelties from
abroad"
Fred C. Whitney, brother OF B. c.
Whitney. has sailed for England 10
personally superintend his production
in London. Sept 20. OF the phenome-
nally successful "A Chocolate Sol
der" Mr.. Whitney Will return 10
America early in October to produce
a new Viennese operetta called Baron
Trena.- In Philadelphia the latter part
NJ October