Evening star., 1911-06-04

cess in Chicago, is to be one Of the open
ing attractions Of the coming season in
New York.
Edgar Selwyn's new play. THE Arab,
which has proved a success as produced
by a stock company in Los Angeles, may
have q regular production the coming
season by Henry B. Harris.
A bill has passed the Albany legislature
requiring moving picture operators to be
licensed. Applicants for this license
must be of full age, serve an apprentice.
ship of six months and pass a practica
examination before the license can be Sc
cured.
Cohan & Harris first production mex,
season will be made I'm Boston early in
September, where Raymond Hitchcock
will be presented in The Red Widow.
a new musical play. with book and ly1cs
by Charming Pollock and Rennold Wolf
and music by Charles ]. Gebest.
Henry w. Savage has given out as a
souvenir of the one hundredth perform
ance in New York of "Everywoman." a
fine paper and embellished with photo
graphic Illustrations Of it's scenes and
characters. The book Is bound in flexi-
BILE. soft, gray leather with gilt lettering
Lillian Russell is to return to her first
love, comic opera, and next season will
appear In a Viennese opera under the
direction of Werba & Luescher. witt
whom she has signed q contract for five
years. George Marion. the noted stage
director. will be starred by the same firm
in 1.-The jolly Peasants"
An oriental pantomime by a French
author which caused a sensation in Ber-
lin and London, is to be produced here
the coming season. It is called ''Sumur-
un," and is said to be lavish in its picture
Of oriental life. Plays of the east. from
the announcements. are evidently to be
among the features OF next season.
Denman Thompson's family will keep
the rights to his famous play. The Oic
Homestead" which coined him a fortune
and which is still valuable asset
1t is said Queen Mary Of England is in
clined to grand opera in English. The fact
of royal approval will probably do much
to make English grand opera popular. de-
spite the claims Of some that the music
will lose much In the loss or the SOFT
Italian vowel sounds.
The late Count Tolstoi left two dramas.
one called "A Learned Woman" and the
other bearing the grewsonne title OF "A
Living Corpse The latter Is to be pro-
duced in Moscow and other European
cities next winter.
THE Glass House." by Louis X. An
spacher, was produced in Rochester last
week by the Hampden company, with
Walter Hampden and Kathryn Kidder
in the leading roles. The play turns on
social conditions and love as affected by
them. 1t was very well received.
Marian Fairfax has written q play
called 1.-The Talker." which her husband.
Tully Marshall, and his co-star in a stock
company in Cleveland, Ida Conquest, will
produce. II the play is successful the two
will probably take It on tour during the
regular season.
Willis p. Sweatnam, the famous min
strel, is considering q play based on the
character Of Uncle Remus. showing the
spirit of the south before and after the
war. allegorical In character and intro
ducing Br'er Fox, Br'er Rabbit and the
Tar Baby. The play is being arranged
by the son of the author OF the stories,
Joel Chandler Harris.
donna role in Puccinrs la Boheme,"
at the New National this week. was
one of the principal sopranos OF the Bos-
ton Opera Company last winter. Il II
said she has one OF the largest private
collections Of autograph music In the
country.
Eugene Battain. the tenor Of the
Aborn Opera Company. who made his
man" at the New National is spoken Of
In the profession as "the tenor with q
human voice"
As mark Of esteem Robert Ddeson
has sent A. II. VanBuren. the leading
man Of the Columbia Players, the original
manuscript from which he studied thu
part Of "stronsheart" and1 which has