The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-30
NEW PLAYS OF THE WEEK
GILLETTE AND kLEIN AITHORS
OF TWO or THEN.

"EleetrieiIJ" Win Marie DOTO. and ''Th'
Gamblers," DealIng With Crooked
BROKERS Ellen TerFyS DiseOurse'
The Cub' and The other Fellow
William Gillette'snewestp play. Electric
ity." In which Marie Doro has the princi-
pal part. will have its first performance "a
this city At the I.yceum Theatre tomorrow
n ght. Humanity. whimsical fancy and
. considerable range Of humor are
promised in Mr. Gilletts's newest work
as a playwright In its serious moments
the author endeavors 70 drive home q
little homely American philosophy and
insinuates rather than eXpo,mds the
distinct idea thar IL behind the play.
The cast for ELECTRICITY includes Oliver
d. Byron. Shelley Hull. Edwin Nicander.
Mrs. Thomas whinen and Francis ID.
McGinn. The story Of the play centres
around Em1iiRe TVimbly, . handsome.
vivAcious young woman. who declares
thar she IL the most unfortunate girl in
the world merely because her father.
Duncan TWimbIv. Is an enormously rich
capitalist MISS TTmb!y has recently
taken an interest in socialism and has come
/ W NNlAtN" AAAAA = pDA'Aioh -
/ hopelessly corrupt. She announces her
intention Of marrying 4 man who works
for living and 20 meet this requirement
a sutton whom she has never seen changes
places with an electrician at work IN her
/ fathers home.
Charles Klein'S latest play. The
/ Gamblers the first production Of the
recently formed Authors Producing Com
pany. will begin an engagement at Maxine
Elliott's Theatre on Monday night The
author ~ The Music Master The
Lion and the Mouse and The Third
Degree has taken Wall Street for his
locale and has supplied n plot for The
Gamblers that deals with the banker who
CANDLES with his customers money
| The story involves a dehonair young free
booter who has come into the management
81 his staid old father = banks and who IN
his efforts 20 expand the business reeOrts
90 various dubious practices. Principal
characters IN the play are interpret q ny
George Nash William u Mack DE Witt
G Jennin @. Cecil Kngstone and George
Back us directors of the Emerson Banking
System who gamble fret for wealth and
then for freedom: Charles Stevenson.
prosecutor for the Federal Government.
who gamble- for honor and position
Jane Cowl. wife OF the prosecutor. who
Rambles for love: Edith Barker. Julia
Hay. William Postance. Charles Burbidge.
George Wright. Jr and others.
Douglas Fairbanks will appear In a
new comedy called The Cub at the
, & omedy Theatre tomorrow night and IL
the play succeeds II will be transferred
to another theatre after an engagement
Of two weeks The play IL by Thompson
Buchanan. and IN IL Mr. Fairbanks will
he sean again a. reporter. but dlf-
ferent kind % reporter than the wise
one h. played in a Gentleman from Nis-
sissippi This time he IL a cub reporter.
and his first important assignment l. 10
cover a Kentucky feud He IL entirely
too Verdant and unpOphisticated to real
ire the danger and he reckles-ly invades
the loCality Of the moonshines and an
deavorz with oil the enthusiasm OF youth
10 carry out HE mission The humorous
advent Tres IN which he becomes in
voved constitute a great deal 81 the play.
and AZ the ~ me- time the element OF farce
and trave-ty IL much IN evidence The
cast includes. IN addition 20 Mr. Far
banks. Charles Stanley, Elmer Booth,
Joseph Greene James 4 Marcus. Charles
Macdonald. MilliCent Evans. Blanche
Tatelle and Louise Rial
Thomas Jefferson will make hia first
appearance IN the title role ~ The other
Fellow at the BiJou Theatre to-mor-
row night The play j. a farce In three
acts by George Tottan Smith and will be
produced Nv Walter y Lawrence Ac-
COrdinR To some Of the out Of town re-
viewers IL might be- called soul garage
There are always nice middle aged pe"pls'
who serve as foils for the mysticism of
the Hindu. and Thomas Jefferson has
selected a play in which he IL the butt
and victim 81 This belief The farce IL
based on a thNosophcal belief Jefferson
appear a. Wilton Srif. an absent minded
man lie has listened To the Hindu who
yretendz 10 have power 90 send the soul
Car-enIng through the air mp To Venus
or any other planet He tries u on Sirif
and his doctor Theodore Button. and
their souls 20 soaring But unfortunately
the power 81 the Hindu dsaerts him when
he would return the souls to their owners
and SVi's soul gets lost The doctor
soul. responding dutifully. Gomez back
and lodges without murnur in SVir's
hodv Then 10 add 20 his misery tho |
police break into the room and find the |
Unconscious doctor. and II looks like !
murder The farce - IN three acts. and BY
the time 'h"y have all been DEVELOPED the /
curtain ds-CendS on happy finale |
josephine Victor has the Leading feminine (
role Others in the company are Jean /
ns'te FerTall. Marguerite SNOW. Eva Con- /
don Russell Bass.tt. Fred " Peters, !
Gerald HarcoIrt. Samuel klawans and /
Walter 8 Howard
Kyrla Below will reapUear In 'Rahies'
AZ the Garrick on Tuesday MIR Bellows |
Rd6i.s IL a. widely and a. favorably known .
a. William Gillettc's sherlock Hoinos
The figure stepped out ~ Hornungz
stories and upon the stag" some yea ~
ago and NJ once established itself a. the .
prototvpa ~ a suavs, highly polished
charTninglv hammered and even lovabls
burglar The company will include Ernest
Stallard. Ffolhott PaRat. Bernard Fair
fax Jan" MAY. GLADYS Hanson and Frank
WesteTfOn
Ellen Terry will make ia" frS' appear
ance 81 her ninth American tour AT the
Hudson Theatre on 1hur=day afternoon
In her Shakc-paarian discouraa- with
illustrative acting This " form Of
entertainment which Miss Terry had IN
mind for years but only last summer found
time TO prepare. The di-Cour-e- are three
ia number and will y" given on consactI-
tive Thursday afternoons The first
topic. The Heroine- 81 Shakespeare
Miss Terry found ~ fruitful that -hs
diyided ~ into two disCOurzs.s The