The Washington herald., 1911-07-30

Now Is the time Of dreams, OF fore
casts of the future. Of promises OF what
i am going to do next season" snd OF
veiled hints Of great treats in store Tor
the public when the curtain rings up on
the season Of 1sl1-12.
The season just passed was not SO very
prosperous that any manager can anord
to put a large number Of eggs into any
one basket The public might take It
into It's fickIe head to step on that par
ticular basket and demolish the con-
tents. From nearly every managerial
sanctum, however, are issuing promises
Of magnificent spectacles, grand all
STAR (or near starr casts, sumptuous
which ARE due to surpass anything hitn-
erto attempted on the stage" It's just
the same thing over and over again. We
have had the same promises every sum
mer, and approximately the same iack
Of fulfllment every winter, but 1t Is
worth while to glance over few OF the
managerial assurances IL only to get an
idea of what they are hoping to give US
next season, no matter whether these
hopes are ever realized or not.
Henry B. Harris, in the spare moments
when he Is not bothering about the
Folies Bergere, has decided TO star
Robert Edeson in dramatizatlon OF
dramatization to be made under the title
Of THE Cave Man"
From all hints the piece is to be some
thing on the order Of the THE Faun =
primitive man suddenly put down IN the
midst of high-brow society, and all that.
In addition to Edeson, Mr.. Harris Will
feature Rose Stahl in Maggie Pepper
Helen Ware in The Price, Frank Me-
Intyre in "Snobs," Edgar Selwyn in The
Drasoman," and Elsie Ferguson in Dolly
Madison" The latter piece. 1t will be
remembered, was seen here last winter
and failed to make much of an impress
sion, other than that of very pretty
series of historical tableaux.
One of the Belasco headIiners. The
Woman" has also been seen here. 1t
VIII serve to open the Republic Theater,
in New York early in September.
THE Return OF Peter Grimm" with
David warfield in the dual role of Man
and Ghost will also form a part of the
Belasco forces. Those who witnessed
Seven Days and laughed at the dilem-
mas of the quarantined party will have
another chance to enjoy themselves at
another Wagenhals & Kemper produc-
ton What the Doctor Ordered This
is said to be even funnier than seven
Days and is guaranteed to appeal to
every one. particularly those husbands
and wives who have begun to tire of each
other. George Cohan. the versatile actor
or-Comedian-manager and many
other hyphens. announces that there are
a number of ideas seethins in the back
oi his head. Among those which may
spring out and grow into publicity are
"Ballyhoo Bill" a dramatiZation of George
Randolph Chester's tale of the soft
hearted sideShow man; Ready Money,
which certainly has the advantage of a
good title: Jimmy, Jr.." and Gauntletts
Pride j. f Dodson, of THE House
Next Door fame. is to be featured in
the latter.
No one but the most confirmed gam
bier would dare to take a chance on
what Charles Frohman is going TO do.
He has announced some plans, but~it Is
not far from a safe bet that they will
he changed before September. His pub
licity bureau says that Billie Burke is
10 he starred in Natalie by the au-
thor of "A Woman's Way" that Hattie
Williams will have new straight COM
edy: that William Crane will discard
Il s. Minister Bedloe'' for better
vehicle: that Donald Brian will cavort
gayly IN THE Sren,' and that a number
o. foreign plays. among them. one by
Parrie. will be produced, Frohman ale
ways was strong for foreign plays. and
those to be produced next season (sup-
posedlyD include translations of the
French pieces, La Canine" and lie
Million.
The Schuberts, in their speciality en-
titled ''bucking the trust" will employ
Marie Tempest in Lily the Bill Top
per- and they promise that their other.
and as yet unannounced. attractions
will more than sustain the Schubert
reputation of other seasons" Another
addition to the good plays about bad
people is promised in An Enemy to
Society" which sounds melodramatic
enough to suit any one, while Tom Wise
and Jack-pardon, John-Barrymore are
to be co-workers in Uncle SAM" unless
Barrymore decides to strike out for him
self in The Life of the Party"
4. II. Woods, who claims that he will
never produce another naughty show.
Vas in preparation The Greyhound" a
transatlantic card-sharp story by Paul
Armstrong and Wilson Miner. and three