The Washington herald., 1910-10-09
MRS. FISKE's PLANS.
Mrs. BunipStead-Leigh" and Other
New Plays tO lie Used.


New Plays to he Used.
Harrison Grey Fiske yssterday IN
nounced the plans for Mrs Fishes nCttvi-
ties during the present dramatic season.
Her tour, which began in Boston on
April % last. after leaving the Lyceum
Theater. New York. has been continuous
since that date. She has visited The
Pacific Coast and the Northwest. and on
Monday night began a months engage
ment at the Grand opera House in Chi
cago. During this extensive tour she has
presented Becky Sharp" and Ibsen's
pillars OF Society"
Becky Sharp" Is the bill Of Mrs
Fiske's opening week in Chicago. This
week viii be devoted TO Pillars OF So
ciety." and on Monday. October II. she
win appear for the frs. time in a comedy
entitled Mrs Bumpstead-Leigh. by
Harry James Smith, the novelist. This
play viii be given for a week and half
only. II represents Mr.. Smiths first
work as a dramatist. although he is we'll
known among the younger literary men
FOR his short stories in the maga zines,
and especially for his recent novel. En-
chanted Ground" The comedy follows
new lines and Mrs Fiske's character is
one of an original and amusing nature
In connection with Mrs. Bumpstead-
Leigh" there Will be presented one-act
play by J. n. Synge. entitled The
Shadow Of the Glen" This Is a poetic
Irish drama that was one OF the contri-
buttons TO the Irish national theater
movement conducted in Dublin few
years ago by ". 3. Yeats, Lady, Gregory,
and several others. The last half OF the
last week in Chicago will be given TO
Hauptman's "Hannele," in which she
was seen in New York last spring.
Mrs. Fishes Chicago engagement, which
VIII end October %, viii mark the concur
sion Of her summer and autumn tour.
but on the following Monday. October 81,
at Buffalo, the regular tour for this sea
son opens. During its progress Becky.
Sharp solely will be given. the remark
able demand for this comedy having In
duced Mrs. Fiske 10 present it exclusively
until February. She will visit the South
with II for the first time, and will also
present ii in several of the Eastern cities
nual engagement IN New York with a
new production and will remain in that
city until the close of the dramatic sea-
son. Besides Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh. -
Mrs. Fiske has several plays from which
10 select for her metropolitan season.
Included among them Is a brilliant COM
edy 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. 1t is entitled
Julia France" Mrs. Atherton says that
her object in writing this play IS to make
it sort OF draoatic pioneer as a Dolls
House" was in its day. The rapidly de-
yelOping woman" she writes 10 Mrs
Fiske. has not been formulated before.
but no doubt this is what she is coming
10. There viii be plenty of the others
left"' 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
appearing is somewhat remarkable. Since
she produced Salvation Nell" two years
ago. with the exception of a brief sum-
mer holiday last year and a cessation of
four weeks for rehearsal last spring, she
has acted continuously. In other words,
when her autumn tour concludes at Chi
cago, out Of a term of 102 weeks. she
viii have played eighty-six weeks.