Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-26

Knoblauch drew his ideas from the
Arabian Nights. The result is an in
teresting plot, which is developed
amid scenes of Oriental splendor with
glorious pageants marriage process
sions, dancing girls, glimpses of life
in the harem with a wealth of col
or and detail that holds the atten-
ton from the rise to the fall OF the
curtain.
Klaw & Erlanger will present Miss
Charlotte Walker early in October
in a dramatization of John Fox Jr.'s
popular novel, The Trail OF the
Lonesome Pine" by Eugene Walter.
| Miss Walker will play the role OF
June, the heroine of the tale OF the
Kentucky mountains, The play VIII
be in four acts, The first act takes
| place on the trail; the second in the
town which John Hale Is attempting
to develop; the third in June's home
in the mountains and the last is again
on the trail in the open. Mr.. Wal
ter has made an intensely interesting
play, which will lend itself to the
| big and artistic production that hIaW
| & Erlanger will give it.
Robert Hilliard under the direction
of Klaw & Erlanger begins his fourth
and final season in "A Fool There
Was"@a coast to coast tour-ln At
lantic City, Sept. 2Sth. Remarka-
BILE and in some respects u~npreceden-
ted. is MIR. billiards record OF
achievement In the episode play In
spired by Kipling's bitterly satlrlcal
DIay of the Vampire woman, VINO
stripped of hypnotic allurement, was
only a rag and a bone and a hank
of hair" He is acclaimed as n OF
the most distin guished of American
PLAYERS. He has filled a round doz-
en- of engagements in the theatres
of Greater New York and has reVlV-
ed the curiously fascinating drama
again and again before undimlnlsh-
ed audiences, in all the large cities
of the East and Middle West, Dur
ing the coming a he VIII pre-
sent it for the final times upon the
Pacific Coast. In the early spring
he will return to New YORK TOT lhe
production of a new modern pa!
supporting Mr.. Hilliard In "A fooi
There Was will be Alphonz Either.
George Clare, Reginald Barker.
Frank Russell, George Nichols, Har'
vey T. Clarke,-S. L. Richardson, I
W Haskins, Virginia Pearson. Stel'
Ia Archer, Edna Conroy, Ida Des,
mond. little Boots" Muster anc
some twenty others.
Henry Miller, who has been play
ing on the Pacific Coast under the
direction of Klam & Erlanger, mas
had a very successful season IN Inc
Havoc" by Edward Erlanger, MT
Miller returns to the East In NoVem
Der TO appear on Broadway in a ser
les of new and old plays. Mr., NIL
Ter is not only one OF the best play
ers on the American stage. but he Il
always seeking and striving for tne
best means to advance his calling
He is the nearest approach TO the
English actor-manager tina we nave
with one exception-that the plays
he produces are not one-part plays
intended only for his personal ad-
~vancement.
Klaw & Erlanger will make a pro
duction of The Count OF Luxem'
bourg" the new Franz Lehar opera
early in the new season. This op
era is the sensation of the curren'
London year. Its first performance
was attended by England's King an(
Queen. Enough seats have been sole
to guarantee a two years run. 81
much attention has been devoted t.
the waltz number with its staircas'
dance that the audiences are onll
beginnig to realize that two number
, in the first act are the best compost
lions Lehar N2s yer written. Tn