New-York tribune., 1912-01-17
THEATRICAL NOTES.

/ The National Alliance for the Protection
/ Of Stage Children, of which Augustus
/ Thomas is president, will give testimonial
at the Century Theatre on the afternoon OF
I Friday, February ?, for the benefit of stage
children. The programme has not yet been
announced. but many singers and players
( Of prominence have already volunteered
their aid
! When ChaunceX Olcott presents Ma
cushla" ("Pulse of My Heart'). at the Grand
Opera House on February 8. Gail Kane VIII
be seen in the leading womans role. Rob
ert V. Ferguson. for several years in Mrs
/ Fiske's company, will also be in the cast
/ Charles Frohman announced last night
/ that he will produce in English. possibly
before the end Of the present season, the
/ latest comedy Of De Caillevet and De Flers'
( "Primerose." which is now in its fourth
month of unusual popularity at the Come
die Francase.
On Thursday night. al the Criterion Thea
tire. James X Hackett. now playing I'm The
/ Grain Of Dust" and L. NJ. Holland, Of his
supporting company. will play one-act
sketch called The Bishops Candlesticks,'
/ founded upon an episode in Les Misera-
| bles." Mr. HaCkett Will be seen I'm the role Of
| Jean Valjean. while Mr.. Holland Will play
\ the Bishop. "The Bishops Candlesticks'
/ will be put on Immediately following the
regular performance Of The Grain OF
( Dust" and the curtain will not rise until
nearly 1880 o'clock. The audience in the
/ theatre at the time will be invited to stay.
and in addition most of the theatrical peo-
/ pie now playing in the city will go from
| their own theatres to see the performance.
Nine Mathilde Cotrelly has been engaged
for a character role in Louis Mann $
| new play. "Elevating a Husband" in which
Mr. Mann will be seen at the Liberty
Theatre next Monday. The cast will also
include Conway Tearle. Leslie Kenyon,
Emily Ann Wellman. Jessie Carter, Charles
Halton. J. Homer Hunt Howard Scott and
Clara De Witt.
| Victor Herbert will give n Romance
matinee Of his comic opera, The Enchau-
I tress." at the New York Theatre next Sat
urday afternoon. He VIII himself conduct
the orchestra, and has written a new love
duet for Kitty Gordon and Harold Forde,
which they will sing then for the first time.
This will be the anal matinee OF THE En-
chantress."
! lila Rhodes. Of She Little Millionaire
company. announced last night that she
and Charles J. King, 81 vaudeville actor
/ had been married on January 9.
/ The matinee performance to-day OF Regi-
/ nald De Koveu's latest comic opera, The
Wedding Trip" at the Broadway Theatre,
will be a special benefit for the Babies Hos
pitaI on Lexington avenue and 18th street.
Arrangements are under way for spe-
cial lawyers night at the Thirty-ninth
street Theatre for Lewis Walters produc-
ton Of "A Butterfly on the Wheel" The
trial scene in this play is an exact repro
duction Of divorce court procedure I'm Eng
land. and is therefore of particular interest
TO members Of the legal profession here
Adolf Link, one Of the most famous OF
contemporary German comedians, arrived
in America Yesterday on board the steam
shin George Washington. Gustav Amberg
who is managing the German company at
the Irving Place Theatre, has engaged Herr
Link for a special limited engagement OF
two weeks only for a comedy entitled "One
of Us"
Nine Simone. who Is appearing at the
Hudson Theatre in The Return from Jeru-
salem" is 10 present one-act play al
the home of Mr. and Mrs. w. X. Wander
brt ir. next Sunday evening. She Will
p,av with Mr. Daily a translation OF Les
Coteaux du Medoc," by Tristan Bernard.