Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-13
New Theater Company.

The first definite statement regarding
the Washington engagement OF the New
Theater Company from the endowed the
alter of New York was made yesterday
by Mr.. L. s. Taylor. manager of the Be
lasco Theater, where the organization
will appear. 1t was the original plan to
present plays May 10 to 81, inclusive, but
in order to extend the tour to ten weeks
the company will appear at the Belasco
May IL to IA, inclusive. Three, and pos
sibly four, performances will be given.
The New York season in the playhouse
on Central Park west will close Saturday
night, April 9, and the following morning
the company will begin what in many re-
spects will be the most stupendous under
taking Of It's kind ever ATTEMPTED by
American theatrical managers. Tho COM
pany will travel on a special train dur
ing its entire tour, which will take the
organization as far south and west as st.
Louis and Kansas City. as far east as
Boston and as far north as Buffalo. The
be necessary to transport, besides the
fifty members of the company and the
operating and executive STATS, the seem
cry, costumes and properties OF at least
eight plays. Every table, chair and other
article of furniture. together with rugs,
bric-aLbrac, candeiabra and the like, used
during the season in the New York play
house will be taken on the road. Only
where "mObs" are used will the cities en-
route be called upon to supply super
numeraries. In these instances stage di-
rectors will be sent ahead. The roper
toire comprises three classic and five mod
ern plays. The former are Shakespeare
Twelfth Night and a Winters Tale,
the latter to be played on the Shakespear-
can stage, and Sheridan's THE School
for Scandal The modern plays are
John Galsworthy's Strife" Edward Shell
don's THE Niger Edward Knoblauch' S
1.-THE Cottage In the Air." Rudolf Besier' S
"Don," and Maurice Maeterlincks sis
ter Beatrice" which will be given In con-
nection with Act Nv Of Ibsen's Brandt :"
The engagement will undoubtedly open
with classic, after which standard and
modern dramas will alternate. II Twelfth
Night" serves to inaugurate the series. 1t
will be followed by such a drama as
Strife" or Don" This In turn will be
followed by another classic. such as 1.-The
School for Scandal Strife tells the
story OF a struggle between capital and
labor, The Niger" develops problem
the Air. tells a fanciful story of English
life. Don" is a comedy with scenes laid
in England, and SISTER Beatrice" a mod
ern miracle play, semf-religious in theme.
Ibsen's Brandt" which is to have Its
first American presentation when SISTER
Beatrice is produced March IA, Is well
known in book form. 1t will he done In
blank verse. The New Theater Company
comprises men and women OF interna-
tional reputation. or the fifty to be
taken on tour. thirty-two are regular
members Of the company, and eighteen
subordinate members. Among the best
known Of the former is Miss Annie Rus
sell, who has starred under Charles Froh-
man and other managers; Miss Rose
Coghlan, a woman of worldwide reptl-
tation Miss Edith Wynne Matthison. an
English actress famous for her imperson-
alton In .sEveryman"; Guy Bates Post, a
leading man for scores OF prominent act
resses; E. M. Holland. a veteran actor;
Ferdinand Gottschalk. said by many to
DO the most finished character imperson-
ator In this country; Albert Bruning,
who found fame as the old music teacher
In The CHmax"; William McVay, A. E.
Arson. Charles Balsar. Lee Baker Os-
wald Yorke. Miss Jessie Busley, the
coincidence: Miss That's Lawton: Mrs
Sol Smith. the oldest actress on the Amer
lean stage; Miss Olive Wyndham, one of
the most beautiful of American players:
Louis Calvert. the English stage man
ager and actor: Pedro de Cordoba; Henry
Stanford and Ben Johnson who need no
Introduction to the American public; Will
frid North. Cecil Yapp, Miss Leah Bate
man-Hunter. the English ingenue; Miss
Elsie kearns. formerly member of the
faculty OF Smith College: Jacob Wendell,
jr., and Master John Tansey. age eight.