New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-07
STAGE NOTES
Concerning Plays and PLAYERS
Here and There.

not Dldy WIFI U't hhio tii+N'
Two London theatres simultaneously
present AS You Like It,, ana two
others "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
R,t nobody over there thinks the man
ayers mad or particularly daring
Mr.. WaIkley likes Knoblauch's new
play ''Kismet'; says it is good story
and "a still better vehicle for Oriental
! sulendor in the mounting" and that
Oscar Asche's acting is delightful. "Kis-
met" was rejected by several managers
who are now wishing they had Asche's
luck"
| THE Pail Mall Gazette" is enthusiast
tic over Bernard ShaT's new p'ay-
gentlemen" II c-ies, off with your
hats a great thing has happened. In
three delightful hours the Court Theatre
o; f9C4-'O7 has come back TO US, with
all the laughter and magic Of the Old
days. Regrets have been poured forth
in bucketf'.,s over tho collapse OF that
memorable enterprise. Well, here II 's
again. with many Of the familiar races,
all the former finished art, and the
master sririt Of the movement. Mr.. Ber-
nard Shaw. with one Of the most anus
irs plays he has eyer written. one Of the
vittiest ard most sUdacious Of All his
attacks on the moan things which men
have to do to keep up their respecta Dill
ity.' The piece is called 'Fanny's FIRST
PLAY. the scene of it's prod uction yester-
fav afternoon 0as the Little Theatre II
WAS received 18th the heartiest laughter
and applause so far heard beneath the
roof Of the John street playhouse and
the curtain finally fell amid a storm of
delightful cheering
Ellen Terry is in England repeating
the discourses with which she so nap
pily entertained American audiences last
winter
F. &. Willard will emerge from his re-
trement-now of eight years duration
10 appear as Brutus. in the forum scene
from Julius Caesar" at the gala per-
Torrance in His Majesty's Theatre on
June %.
Carados. in THE Referee" Gondon)
writes of the great Success made by
George Arliss In the New York produc-
ton of Louis n. Parker's play Dis
raeIi." The success is unquestioned; the
scene of it. however was not New York.
but that active suburb which is reached
by the eighteen hour trains.
"Pomander Walk will begin its sec
ond American season In Boston next
September.
The returns of the takings in Paris
theatres and music halls for 1910 have
lust been published. These statistics are
incontrovertibe, for they are drawn up
by the poor law authorities. l. O.. the
Assistance Publique. whose inspectors
every night visit every Paris theatre and
music hall and audit the accounts Ten
per cent OF the gross total of the takings
is by law appropriated by the Assist
ance Publique
The returns in question show. accord
ing to a statement I'm THE London Daily
Telegraph" that during 1910 Paris thea
tres and music halls. in spite OF the
floods which forced several Of them 10
close their doors, took Sl,200.OoO more
than i'm 1909. or a gross total Of SILL
100000. OF this large amount nearly
two thirds went To the legitimate
drama" The four state subventioned
theatres-the Opera. Theatre Francais.
Opera Comiaue and Odeon-took among
them about a quarter Of the total sum.
viz: Opera. S6ls.J00; Francais. $3.50
coo: Opera Comique. S535o00: odeon.
S194.O
Three of these four state theatres took
more last year than in 1909, the excep-
ton being the Opera.
Among the other theatres. the Porte
Saint Martin heads the list with a total
Of over S65OOeO a large proportion Of
which must have been brought in by
"Chantecler." This amount shows an
increase on 1909 OF actually 100000.
Next come the Chatelet. $4,000; the
Varieties, S320oO0: the Renaissance.
S2s0,00o; the Gymnase. nearly the same
total. and the Vaudeville. $500 600
The cafe concert properly so called. is
supposed to be diving out. Yet places OF
the kind still took Sl.S0O,000 last year.
Music halls. as distinguished from the
old cafe concerts. reached total OF
81. 10000.
The only places Of entertainment here
which showed a falling OFF during l3io
were the classical concert halls. The
figures are: Colonne concerts Sfo.6Oo;
LamoureuN concerts, $4,000; Conserva-
! toire concerts. S2S,S,lo.
Roller skating Kinks of which three or
four are popular, took nearly S-ooWo
The total receipts for the classical con-
certs were not much more than half
that sum-viz.. SlO2.2oO.
| London to- Paris interview Charles
statement begins rs nothing. II is passed
MY next piece will deal with a libel
shit What will ii be called? The Scan
dalmongers | fancy. Why? Well. the
libel suit Is just the apex of the little
mountain of falsehood. You know
statement begins as nothing. Ii is passed
from mouth To mouth until il becomes a
lie. In my play the libel is traced 10 the
wife of the plaintiff. That is how | see
the play at present. but il has not Yet
taken definite shape in my mind
BRIGHTON THEATRE OPENS MAY IS
Permitting the audience 10 select its own
vaudeville show each week by voting Is the
novel plan decided upon by Manager David
Robinson for the conduc, this season OF
/ IA Rrich,ou rhaa,ra BRIGHTON