Arizona republican., 1912-10-07
NEW YORK ORA MATIC LETTER
(New York Dramatic LetterD

(NeW York Dramatic Letter.)
 NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-The return of Sothern and Marlowe has been the biggest event of the week in the atredom. During the engagement of these noted artists at the Manhattan opera house, they will appear in eight Shakespearean plays and give forty performances, divided as fol lows: Seven of Much Ado About Nothing" six each of The Tanning of the Shrew" and Hamlet" five each of Romeo and Juliet" The Merchant ot Venice" and Twelfth Night" and three each of As You Like It. and Macbeth"
 "Oh. Oh! Delphine" is another sue cess which KlaW and Erlanger brought to Broadway opening at the knickerbocker theatre Monday night No musical comedy in recent years made such an instant and satiSfac- tory hit as did the new Ivan Caryll- C. M. $. Mcclellan offering at the Forrest theatre in Philadelphia. It has plot wit, situations and melody The book is founded on the French farce, Villa Primrose" by Georges
 
 the story of an artist in search of model for d left shoulder for his Salon masterpiece For a scapegoat he uses d fat man, played by Frank Mcintyre, with a flirtatious wife. Scott Welsh plays the role of the artist who makes the fat, jealous husband just walk into trouble un- til he himself is involved as deeply. Grace Edmond and Stella Hoban play the wives. The company numbers about hundred It is lavishly staged and mounted MT. Caryll has written lively and melodious music for the score.
 In Broadway Jones" at the George M. Conan theatre, the actor of the same name, who is the author also, has achieved great success. The hero is young man from a small New England town who discovers Broad way. He enjoys it for a while, but it does not get" him, so he returns home and his real character develops. In addition to George there are oth- CT distinguished COhans in the cast of the new play, and after the sec ond act Son George has the Oppor- tunity to thank the audience for him. self, father and his mother. Broad way has given the COhans a great welcome on their return.
 Little Miss Brown" is not to be a mere transient in the hotel scenes in which the piece is set upon the Forty eighth Street theatre stage, but evidently has moved in to stay. The l audiences al this establishment are 1 large of numbers and vociferous in l their expressions of mirthful appro- i val It is no unduly optimistic fore case to express the convictions that MT. Bartholomae's newest farical 1 comedy will enjoy a career quite as long and profitable as that of his l previous work, over Night"
 Hoot Mon! On with your Scotch Leap and your highland plaidie ant hie yourself to Weber's if you would ] see a real Scotch play. Admirably acted and much closer to a truthful portrayal of Scotch nature on the hoof and in the rough, as it were than any other play which Graham | Moffat has yet shown.
 | Where Bunty was a farce "A | Scrape O the Ten IS d iuuCI HUT sane and truthful picture of dis 1 tinctly dramatic value and the fina scene by all means the best and mos interesting in the play. There is { plot, of course. which concerns { Scotch marriage but as is alWay: the ease in a Moffat play, the inter | est of the characters is far greater 1 than in the story itself A very quain | and appealing play is the same "A 1 Scrape O Pen," and it ought un | doubtedly win the favor of everN l man or woman in whose veins run' l either a drop of Scotch blood o Scotch whskey.
 An East Side block not far iron Rutgers street, an exterior view or l Fifth avenue the Board walk at At lantic City in midsummer and { l clairvoyant's room are some of the | scenes in The Charity Girl" acteo | at the Globe theatre. Edward Pepl' | wrote the text of this new musica | farce and Victor Hollaender supplied the music. Ralph Herz, Ray Cox | Blossom Seeley, Annabelle WhitforC and a number of comedians are in ! cluded in the company.
 Sol Solomon, who first came int | notice in the role of the Dude il Palmer Cox's The Brownies anC who has been playing in England fo
 several years, has been engaged b! |