Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-26
SEASONS PLANS
 IF HE STARS
Theatrical Season About 10 Open Finds the Players and Supports Busy
 in Preparation
LONG LIST OF THE PLAYS
NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-beTbs tbo,,.

O'H LlO UT IF1E FlAIS , NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-heThe theat- rieal season Of I911-12 as about to open and the big producing managers or this city the star players their supports and all the rest of the thou- sands connected with the task of pre. pairing things for the opening of inc theatrical season are as busy as heas In a clover field. The last weeks nro- ceding the seasons opening are indeed tul of the most strenuous activity Tor all concerned and the genera i public has but a faint idea of the si- gantie task of planning and preparinc the seasons work in the theatrical profession.
 The producing managers have been extremely active during the summer months, and after a careful survey of the available new plays produced since the beginning of last season. have made their selections of such plays as, in their opinion, would best ht the peculiar tastes and talents Of their star players, masculine as well as feminine. A big crop of new plays has been gathered and practi- cally every one of the prominent stars Will be provided with some new me dium. in addition 10 plays aiready known, in which the stars have won successes in former seasons.
 John Drew will open his season at the Empire Theater, New York. on Labor Day, with The Single Man, ,'' and If the play makes a hit. will pH)b- ably continue in it for the rest of the season.
 Ethel Barrymore will follow John Drew at the Enpire Theatre. playing The Witness for the Defense" Her leading man will be A. E. Anson.
 Mrs. Fiske has prepared two new plays for the coming season and will open toward the end of September with The New Marriage" a comedy by Langdon Mitchell.
 Ala Nazimova, Who is now under Charles Frohman's management, will appear in a new play adapted from the French, the name of which has not yet been given.
 James K. Hackett will have two new plays during the coming season, one by the author Of The World and His Wife" the other by James Pagan.
 Robert Edeson will begin his season in Providence about the middle of the month, in ''The Cave Man" a com. edy by Gillette Burgess. Grace Ellis :ts;s:: Esiil a5s s5s his leading; i9ds; za,alaan
 Margaret Ellington has a new play called "kindling,' from the pen of Charles Kenyon. She vii tour the west during the first part Of the sea son.
 Helen Ware will begin her season in Boston in The Price" and will not reach New York until later in the season
 Elsie Ferguson will not begin her season until some time in October. when she will appear in Dolly Mod ison,s a play by Charles Nirdlinger.
 George Arliss will open his season at Wallack's Theatre, New York, in Louis N. Parke-'s new play "Disraeli, '' founded upon episodes in the life of the great statesman.
 Margaret Anglin will present two new plays this coming season. She will open the season in Green Stockings" and later will try Israel Zangwill's play, The New Religion. q
 Frank Mcintyre will begin his star season in "Snobs." comedy by George Bronson Howard and will have the support of a strong company.
 The Arab" play of the Orient by Edgar Selwyn has been selected as the medium for the author of the play who will play the title roie.
 Some time next month F. ]. Dodson will open his season in Gauntlet Pride" a new comedy. by Hartley Manners and later he will take the play on a tour.
 Elsie Jenis has decided to continue in The Slim Princess" during the early part of the season, with the pro. pect or appearing in new play later on.
 Helen Lowell will star during the coming season early in September.
 Cyril Scott will appear in a new play entitled "A Modern Marriage. " which has been adapted from the Ger man by Harrison Rhodes.
 George NJ. Conan has been per. suaded to return to the stage and supported by his parents will appear in his own play, The Little Million aire.'
 Henrietta Crosman will start her season in Catherine Chisholm Cuch- ins's comedy, The Real Thing" but may make a change later.
 Fritzi Scheff is to appear in 'sThe Duchess" by Joseph Herbert and Har- ry B. Smith. with music by Victor Herbert.