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!EW PLAYS OF THE WEEK
alx PRODUCTIONS TO HAVE A
METROP HEARING.
EtheI Barrymore. Charlotte walker.
Frank keenan,. John Mason and
MAX ROgers-saVaEe's Company In
"NladanIe N.''-Ncw Vaudeville Acts.

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Charles Frohman will make his six
Fteenth stage production this season in
presenting Ethel Barrymore in Sir Arthur
Wing Pinero's "Mid-Channel" at the
Empire Theatre tomorrow night. The
play is in four acts and it is the first serious
work OF Pinero's 20 find production in
America since His House in Order"
Midway between Folkestone and Bou-
logne in the English Channel there is
reef over which the sea however smooth
elsewhere is always troubled. At that
\ spot. however agreeable one may be be-
fore or after. one is uncomfortable and
Grpmpy. So il is explained in the typical
e3pository speech in Pinero's new play
there is a mid channel phase in every
Marriage The BivndeIls-- Theodore and
h zoe-have reached the "mid-channel."
They have got on each others nerves.
| zoe is harassed by Theo's bad temper
xnd tendency to bully Theo is harassed
n f5y zoe's vixenish temper and by her
ttcop Of boys" To patch things up he
Eohers her a fortnight in Paris. but he
chooses a hotel not entirely TO her ex-
travagant taste. Theo flares up and there
is the usual scene customary with them.
4 Zoe r,ishes out of the room screaming
4 V her husband that he can go to the
devil: whereupon he packs up his bag
and leaves the house. This is the way the
piece opens. The people Of the play are
sAid 10 be typical Pinero typee, strongly
dfawb and finely schiselled Charles
Dalton has the part of the husband
4 others in the cast are H. Reeves Smith.
Eric Maturin. Phcebe Coyne. louise Rutter.
Nina 6eyering and Marianne Thurber.
VI J4if4
Frank keenan, comes forward as a star
Elm The Heights" a play of contem-
poraneous life by William Anthony Nc
9uire. at the Savoy tomorrow evening.
n The story of the play concerns Il girl who
m spite Of all the temptations of life
clings TO her ideals through everything
\ believing there are good men in the world
W spite Of the fact that every one she
meets proves bad. Finally through two
fnen OF opposite types she discovers that
she has been expecting too much OF the
World. The, part Of Joe HoredU. played
BY Mr.. Keenan,. illustrates the man pos
. aeeMing al the primitive passions and inn
pnises of humanity. Moredu has been
(. corrupted by his associations. He has
had one pure love affair in his life with an
unworthy woman and his faith in man
+ Npd and woman is lost. Through the
iaealism and purity of woman who wins
against temptation be is brought to the
rpalieation that he had condemned the
world because Of his own weakness and
CURSED society because he had fallen.
\ Niilette Kershaw. Frank Mills. J. Harry
Henrimo. Mrs. Charles G. Craig and
Hilda keenan, are in the company.
Klaw a Erlanger will present the new
nhusical play The Young Turk at the
n View York Theatre tomorrow evening.
with Max Rogers and Maude Raymond
st the head of the company. The book
'cf The Young Turk" 10 by Aaron Hoff-
rbann. the music by Max Hoffman and
fhe lyrics are by Harry Williams. The
Young Turk IN said to be attractive not
only from the viewpoint OF scenery and
costumes but in the matters Of book,
music and lyrics. A story of interest
and a consistent plot are promised. Mr..
Rogers is said TO have a most congenial
role and he and Maude Raymond have
several musical numbers. In the cast
are Charles j. Slime. Frederick V. Bowers,
Joseph Carey. Walter Paschal. Harry
Kiincman. William Edmunds. John Duns-
1nure. Harry Cowan. J. r. Lemery. w. II.
Bentley. Violet Mcmillan and Doris Good
win. and the chorus in Oriental costumes
V declared to be an attractive feature.
-Just Wife" Eugene Walters latest
h play. which David Belasco will present
n st the Belasco Theatre on Tuesday
evening. is said to be not less sensational
than Mr. Walters previous drama, "The
Easiest Way As the story of -The
Fastest Way" deals with a young girl
gone wrong so Just Wife has for its
central idea the even more frequent
episode Of the woman pitted against her
husbands mistress. In other words, Mr..
Walters newest play is a ringing upon
the -eternal triangle" The mistress, the
hnsband and the wife and all their friends
and people close TO them find themselves
placed in fsl:e positions. Mr.. Walter,
with daring that has characterized all
his plays and the frankness that arises
above the slightest subterfuge, swings
his six characters through four acts and
brings about the solution Of the problem
without either happy or an unhappy
ending. The play will be the vehicle for
the first stellar appearance OF Charlotte
Walker. who will create the character of
the Southernborn wife. The role of -the
I other woman" will be- played by Miss
Amelia Gardner and the four mems parts
\ will be interpreted by Edmund Breese,
Ernest Glendinning, Frederick Burton and
Bobby North.
Wednesday evening will bring at the
New Amsterdam Theatre the long ex-
pected metropolitan premiere OF Alex
andre Bisson's emotional drama Madame
K which attracted so much attention
10 Paris last season. Henry W. Savage's
production is a translation rather than
an adaptation and the settings are dupli-
cates OF those used originally in Paris
The company includes Dorothy Donnelly,
in the name part; Robert Drouet, William
Elliott. Malcolm Williams. Charles G.
Brandt. r. Patton Gibbs, W. H. Denny.
Harry c. Bradley. G. II. Timmons. c. Il.
\ Werner. l.. Rogers Lytton. John Mckee,
3. g. Higgins. Frank Wright. F. X. Brown.
Christine Blessing, Cecil Kern and Deirdre
Doyle. Madame X" is the first serious
kley by NJ. Bissou.. 1t has mother love
"a ita main thernp the crucial situatiop