New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
THEATRICAL NOTES.

owing 10 the numerous first performances
TO take place on next Monday and Tuesday
evenings, Nine Smonc will he seen in The
Return from Jerusalem" for the first time
on Wednesday evening at the Hudson The
atre. instead of on Tuesday, as previously
announced Contrary TO the usual custom.
there will be no preliminary out-of-town
tour. as Nine. Simone prefers TO make her
first American appearance in this play in
New York.
Martin Beck left yesterday for san Fran
cisco to begin his annual tour Of inspection
of the Orpheum circuit. Since his last trip
to the Coast an additional theatre has been
added to the circuit, the Orpheum Theatre,
at Sacramento Cal In two weeks ne eX-
poets TO return TO New York Actual work
on the Palace Theatre, which Martin Beck
is TO erect at 47th street and Broadway.
will begin to-day.
Mr. Savage's reduction OF prices at the
Lyric Theatre has, he announces. succeed
ed so we'll that he has decided upon re-
duced scale OF prices at the Herald Square
beginning next Monday night. when the big
farcical success, The Million" will be trans
ferred from the Thirty ninth Street The
atre During the entire engagement OF
The Million" at the Herald Square the
price Of all seats in the orchestra for every
night and Saturday matnees will be 81 80.
The balcony will be divided into two prices
namely. 900 seats at 81 and 200 at 80
cents At the Wednesday matinees the en-
tire orchestra will be sold at 81 and the en-
tire balcony at 80 cents a seat The Mill
ion" will remain al the Herald Square for
now on sale for the Easter holidays.
The scenery, costumes and effects for
"Sumurun," the wordess play with music
which will be presented at the Casino
Theatre on January IS, arrived yesterday
on the steamship Barbarossa. IT required
over go crates 10 contain all the scenery
and effects for this Reinhardt production.
Fritz Dworsky, assistant to Richard
Ordynski, who Is personal stage director
for Professor Roinhardt, arrived yesterday
morning on the steamship SaXOnia to
superintendent the preliminary arrange
ments The Casino Theatre will be closed
next week on account of scene rehcarsals.
"Sumurun" being presented in eight tab
leaus The entire company from the
Deutsches Theatre. now crossing the At
Iantic on the Lusitania. will reach New
York late Thursday night or Friday morn
ing.
Nance O'Neil will probably become one OF
the Wilton Iackayc Players, recently or
ganized as a permanent dramatic company
and now appearing at the Bijou Theatre IN
"Tbe Stranger" Miss ONeil is at present
under contract with David Belasco' by
whom she must be released.
Kittv Gordon will close her New YORK
arrangement in ''Thc Enchantress. y the
New York Theatre, on January ~. during
tho remainder Of the season she VIII appear
I'm Philadelphia. Boston, Chicago and the
larger cities of the East Next summer
che will appear In Australia. under her
own management Next February MISS
Gordon will appear In a new play, written
for her by Henri Bataille the Partisan
playwright. II IL fashioned about an incl
dent In Miss Gordon's own life' wheh'
eleven years ago. as an obscure pianist she
eloped with Captain Bcresford. This Is inc
first time Miss Gordon has ever appeared III
other than musical play
Tho Friars have chosen Monday January
% az the evening on which they VIII at
tcnd Mr.. Hitchcock's performance OF "e
Pod Widow" at the Astor Theatre
sumner al the monastery Will follow the
performance.
Az uammerstein's Victoria Theatre next
,,eek u new melodramatic one-act playiet
obout opium-ridden Chinatown. entitled
"After park in Chinatown" will serve TO
,r,roduce for the first time on broadway
chuck Conners. who will be assisted by
80. reoI Cinnamon.