Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-16

ARRISOR GRAY FISkB has an
nounced the plans for Mrs
Fiske's activities during the
present dramatic season Hel
EiHkA9t tour which began in Boston
4nfSallW on April % last after leav,
ing the Lyceum theater, New York City
has been continuous since that date. She
has visited the Pacific coast and the north
west and recently began a months en-
gagement at the Grand Opera house in
Chicago. During this extensive tour she
has presented Becky Sharp and Ibsen S
pillars Of Society,""
Becky Sharp" was the bill of Mrs.
Fishes opening week in Chicago. Last
week was devoted to pillars of Society, F"
and on Monday, October H. she will APP
pear for the first time in comedy en-
titled Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh," by Harry
James Smith, the novelist. This play will
be given for a week and half only. II
represents Mr.. Smiths first work as a
dramatist although he is well known
among the younger literary men for his
short stories I'm the magazines. and es-
pecially for his recent novel, Enchanted
Ground" The comedy follows new lines
and Mrs. Fiske's character is one Of an
original and amusing nature In connec-
ton with Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh" there
will be presented an one-act play by ]. M
Synge, entitled THE Shadow Of the Glen. -
This is a poetic Irish drama that was one
of the contributions to the Irish national
theater movement conducted In Dublin a
few years ago by w 3. Yeats, Lady
Gregory and several others. The last hall
Of the last week in Chicago will be given
to Hauptmann's "Hannele," in which she
was seen in New York last spring.
Mrs. Fiske's Chicago engagement, which
will end on October 90 will mark the con-
clusion of her summer and autumn tour
but on the following Monday. October 81
at Buffalo, the regular tour for this season
will open. During its progress Becky
sharp solely will be given, the remarkable
demand for this comedy having induced
Mrs. Fiske TO present 1t exclusively until
February, She Will visit the south with IT
for the first time and will also present It
in several of the eastern cities.
In March Mrs. FIske will open her
annual engagement in New York City
with a new production and will
remain in that city until the close
Of the dramatic season. Besides Mrs.
Bumpstead-Lelgh" Mrs. Fiske has sew
eral plays from which to select for her
metropolitan season. Included among them
Is bfiliant comedy entitled The New
Marriage" by Langdon Mitchell, author of
Becky Sharp" and OF "The New York
Idea" the scenes Of which, as in the case
Of the latter play. are laid in New York.
Gertrude Anterior has also completed her
play for Mrs. Fiske It is entitled Julia
France" Mrs Atherton says that her OBJ
ject in writing this play is TO make It a
sort Of dramatic pioneer as "A Dolls
House was in its day. THE rapidly de-
veloping woman" she writes to Mrs.
Ffske, has not been formulated before,
but no doubt this is what she is coming TO-
Thhs will be plenty Of the others leftP
Mrs Fiske is equipped with still third
new play OF German origin, that will be
Americanized by a well-known adapter.
The period that Mrs. Fiske has been ap-
pearing Is somewhat remarkable. Since she
produced salvation Nell two years ago,
with the exception OF a brief summer holt
day last year and cessation OF four weeks
for rehearsals last spring, she has acted
continuously. In other words when her
autumn tour concludes at Chicago out OF a
term Of 100 weeks she viii have played
eiRhty-giX weeks.