The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-17


 l call old Scotland home have had a treat in the past fortnight, thanks to Harry Lauder and William Morris, through whose agency Mir. Lauder toured the Continental circuit. Reports from Cin- cinnati Denver, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles are loud in the acclaim to Lau- der. The cup of happiness of the canny Scots comedian was filled to the brim to think that he headed company of his own upon the tour. It was a very good company, too, including Julian Eltinge, who created such furore in Salt Lake City that a new act had to be substl- tuted for his female Representations. We are to have new theatre in New York. The theatre district of the me- tropolis seems crowded now, but appa- rently there will always be room for one more. With the coming of the new the atre and the erection of a new Conan house it was thought that the end of new playhouses was in sight, but not so. Plans for new Times square theatre to cost half a million dollars have been filed and it is expected that the playhouse will be ready for opening by next No vember. The theatre will be located west of the rear of the Lyric theatre, in West Forty-third street. The nature of the pTOpO5eu QIdIla tO p6 eAtcHueu HI ttiS new house has not been diyulged.
 In a very short time now Miss Amelia Bingham will have her own theatre in London. Miss Bingham and MT Guy Standing have been successfully enter taining London in the music halls for some time. MT. Cyril Maude has also achieved the Loindon music hall habit. The English press seems fully as much alarmed over the invasion of American actors and actresses into the realm of the music hall as they were short time ago over German airships.
 There is still a simmer to the reports of amalgamation of the Metropolitan and Manhattan Opera companes. At first 1t was rumored that the negotiations of the Hammersteins with the Metropolitan management merely meant a working agreement, but it was soon seen that an out-and-out merger was meant Now 1t seems strange. that the Manhattan man. agemsnt should be the aggressor in the amalgamation plans, for the directors of the Metropolitan are financial men of the Wall street district, who earn their cham pagne and troufnes by merging corpora tions. MT. Hammerstein speaks the truth when he says that a merger of the com panies would result in an institution which would control the grand opera of the world
 Miss Henrietta Crosman's illness alarm ed her friends in New York, and many of her admirers were considerably wrought up over adverse reports from her bed side. For many years Miss Crosman has been a favorite with the American thea tre audiences of every section of the United States
 Since Miss Maude Adams has been made an honorary member of the Yale Dramatic association, active members who take part in theatrical entertain ments have hopes that she can be in- duced to tutor the players at future functions. I fancy that Miss Adams will not have time to devote great deal of attention to the Yale boys, although she is evincing considerable interest in their productions Incidentally Yale may turn out some footlisht stars now as well as gridiron satellites.
 Unspeakable affairs of the heart have taken hold in Broadway this season. The latest is called '"The Affinity and as the name has been made famous by MT Fer dinand Pinney Earle. 1t is scarcely neces- sary to waste time oR elucidation. Suf- ficisnt it is to say that Lawrence Irving has been thrilling audiences In the role of Piere. Pierre is a bookwormish hermit and he falls in love with Charlotte, whose other name Is Mabel Hackney Perhaps l might do well to add that the play was written by Eugene Brioux, who has made a study of the affinity question and, be- ing Frenchmaa, has given us some clever lines. It H Charlottss purpose to show Pierre that he is caught in the trap which he had laid for her. He cannot get rid of her, albeit he isn't married to her He throws her out of the house and she bobs up all serene with a demand for a