The sun., 1910-01-02
SKINNER TN ROMANTIC PLAY
LAURENCE IRVING BRINGS THE
AFFINITY FOR SNORT STAY.


Another romantic comedy drama is
promised tomorrow night when Otis
skinner will appear at the Garrick in
-Your Humble Servant" play of stage
life by Booth Harrington and Harry Lion
Wilson. The play opens in little West
ern village called Weedsport in the midst
OF performance at the rural opera house
BY a company OF which Lafayette Totcers
IL the head. The leading woman is Mar
garet DrHce. who has been Totoerss ward
aimee childhood. Dick PreRtice. q stage
struck youth. has followed her there,
having left a home of wealth to crafty
his ambition and become an actor. He
u also a member of the company and the
two young people believe themselves in
love. At this iuncture the boys father
appears at the little theatre and insists
that his son return with him. The young
man refuses. A series of catastrophes
then falls upon the unfortunate company,
and TO cap the climax the manager alb
seconds with the receipts. leaving them
stranded. In the second act TotneTs and
his ward are in a cheerless New York
boarding house, vainly seeking a metro
poiitan engagement. The girl has dis
covered that Dick does not care enough
for her to endure the privations OF their
Bohemian life. and she persuades him
TO return to his fathers home. All this
time TosDers has been in love with the girl.
hut has been too manly and dnselfish
TO declare himself. In the last act her
latent genius shows itself and she meets
with a great metropolitan success, but
T0,cers. who has coached her, finds a
solace in her triumph and prepares to
return 70 the old nomadic life on the
road. Among those who will appear
with Mr., Skinner are Charles B. Welles,
All Hudson. Jr.: A. @. Andrews. Russell
Crawford and the Misses Izetta Jewell
Isabel Richards and Jessie Cromette.
laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney
will begin n two weeks enga agement at
the Comedy Theatre tomorrow evening.
presenting The Affinity It is the same
play which Mr.. Irving and Miss Hackney
1resented at the Hackett Theatre for one
matinee last spring. Offering it then under
the title OF The Incubus The comedy is
IN three acts and is a TRANSLATION by Mr..
Irving from the original French play
Les Hannetons," by Eugene Brieux.
Tho story points the moral that a man
may he no less absolutely bound to a
woman with whom he lives in illicit union
than TO a legitimate wife. In addition to
Mr.. Irving and Miss Hackney the cast
includes Orlando DAILY. Charles 4. Butler.
Alfred Cahill. Isabelle Lee, Pauline Whit
son and Margaret Weston.
Lew Fields's new spectacular musical
production. THE Jolly Bachelors" will
open, at the Broadway Theatre on Thurs
day evening The piece is by Glen Mac
Donough and Raymond Hubbell and has
a big cast. headed by Nora Bayes. The
Jolly Bachelors is said to have a con-
nected and entirely consistent plot. The
story concerns three young bachelors
who have fallen in love with the same
young woman. She is an heress who has
disguised herself and accepted employ
ment in drug store. By mistake she
gives a bottle containing poison intended
to kill an elephant at the zoo TO a young
man who has left prescription for
morning after feeling How the three
bachelors endeavor to find the young man.
recover the poison and prevent their
heroine from unintentionally committing
murder is all explained. In addition to
Nora Bayes the cast includes Stella
IT.
Topsy Siegrist. Nellie Lynch Gertrude
Vanderbilt. Jack Norworth, Al Leech.
Walter Percival, Lionel Walsh. Robert L.
Daley. Nat Fields. Billie Taylor. Harry
lehman and Lew Fullerton.
At the Hackett Theatre on Friday
aftsrn DON Rudolf Besier's three act play
coli We Iatimer's Husband will be seen
for the first time in America. The story
Of the play concerns a young woman
who is forced into a marriage and later
falls in love with another man. Among
the players are Sheldon Lewis. Grant
Stew art, Amelia Mayborn. Mary Lawton.
katherine Kippell. Werner Charges and
Basil West.
The Christmas Play Association. which
plans TO give Nativity play each
year at this season, will give performances
al "Bethlehem." by Laurence Houstran,
at Carnegie Hall on Friday afternoon
and Saturday evening. The produc-
ton will be unuer the management
Of 81. 'George's Church. viii be musical
director.
The weeks repertoire at the New
Theatre follows; Monday and Thursday
evenings and Saturday matinee. Don
together with the one act play Liz the |
Mother; Tuesday. Wednesday and |
evenings and Wednesday matt |
nee, "Ths Nigger"; Thursday matinee, |
2 aPagliacci' (opera) and "Histoire dun |
Pierrot' (pantomime); Friday evening,
: Don Pasquale" (opera). and "Histoire |
dun Pierrot" (pantomime)
The name OF A. Conan Doyle in the |
OF any written work at |
once arouses interest. II Is small wonder.
then, that his new play, THE Fires Of Fate"
the drst he has ever written independ- |
emily Of one Of his novels, should draw
public attention. ~The Fires of Fate" il a |
stirring melodrama. Melodrama we'll acted |
will therefore be the bill at the Liberty /
Theatre for an indefinite period.
Maude Adams at the Empire in the |
delightful Barrie comedy What Every |
Woman Knows" has played nine of her |
twenty-five special performances and
begins the last two woeks. The strength |
of the Barrie play is again demonstrated |
by the crowds that are attending the |
theatre and by the number OF those |
Ia the audience who have seen the plav