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England without New York's having
had an opportunity to sec her; Ethel
Barrymore and her associate players
in THE Shadow" IN which instance.
through the courtesy OF Charles
Frohman, not only tho services Of
the actors Were donated. but also the
entire production, and the Irish
Theatre OF America, with whitford
Kane az Its leading player, In a triple
bill consisting OF tho Lancashire
comedy "Lonesomelike." by Harold
B~righouse, and W Irish plays, Red
Turf" by Rutherford Mayne. and
Tho Double Courtship," by seumas
OConnell.
The Frank Lea Short Players pre-
scented a bill OF three one act plays,
among them Louis Joseph Vance's
version OF "Red Night" the Grand
GuiEuol thriller" lbsen's Ghosts
was given by a company headed by
Robert Whittier and Alberta Gallatin.
4 group OF young players under the
direction OF Jacob Ben Ami presented
In Yiddish three one act plays by
Peretz, and an evening OF Jewish music
was given by the Yiddish Folk Song
Singers under tho direction OF Henry
l.. Gideon of Boston, For the chill
dren tho young people OF tina Bronx
House Settlement performed the fairy
play OF "Snow white"
Two birthday celebrations were fea-
lures OF this first season, on Shake
~speare's birthday, April 23. Ellen
Terry gave her readings ana interprs-
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. INA CLAIRE IT.
FL O EE L = Fo l. E~S
ID pT VA - HtAIS aTS0'o

up for the admission TO the night per-
formance.
Il al remember rs a ch!ld in a
small town having seen long lines Of
wouli-be ticket buyers when some
great actor was to pay an !%nfrequcnt
visit. | have seen In New York
on any occasion anything resembling
the queues wN!eh form outside a half
dozen LONDON theatres for hours be-
fore each performance. Holidays find
these queues a block long al II o'clock
in the morning. Ordinarily they begin
10 form about I'VE hours before the
performance. There they are, whole
families, with their camp stools, books,
news papers. luuChcoUs-a solid col
unn, four abreast, their patience eX-
ceeded only by their amazing silence.
"Tho uu.vcrsal:ty Of these queues IS
responsible for a branch Of the enter
taiumcnt business unknown at home,
the street entertainers. As | have
said. there are always a half dozen
theatres whore long queues are always
10 he found. Each Of these theatres
has its own crowd OF queue entertain
ers. BY some sort OF tac!t agreement
THESE entertainers never eNCrOa'n on
one another's territory. Their job Is
to amuse or thrill the waiting lines
and they do II wonderfully well.
Sometimes Il IL a team OF acroha,s.
sometimes a quartet OF instrument
talists or singers. In any case their
act continues just as long as the line
lasts. Each band has It's collector who
manages 10 get a contribution from
every queue-ito before his work Is
done.
"One feature Of the custom which
seems TO ms unfair II that on holidays
II IL inevitable that n large proper
ton OF the men and women IN these
queues find & impossible to get into the
theatre after all their wait OF hours
Tho management knows almost 10 n
loot how long each line a 10 before
il exceeds the capacity of the theatre
but II allows these lines to s,r!rg out
hundreds OF feet beyond this limit and
does nothing TO Inform tho crowds tina,
their chances OF admission are nil
OF course II is good advertising. but II
il rather rough on the poor people who
have waited. The We'll informed Lon
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.nd.rs. VIVA. is most singular tn. importan. parts In .n... piece.

tho important parts IN these pieces.
sometimes they add to the texts Of the
gifted authors much OF the wit OF the
lines. At others they speak only what
has been written for their use on the
variety stage. 30 there may be said TO
be only what they themselves supply.
Then come changes IN tho casts.
Out go the actors who created the
roles. Out go the high priced players
OF the metropolitan run TO make way
for less costly substitutes. Then
arises the question of ownership In
the text. Does It go out with the
actors? Or Toes II remain behind with
the play for the use OF the other ac-
tors? That Is one Of the little vexa-
tons Of tho managers Of the reviews
nowadayA
OF course. the actors claim that II
belongs 10 them. On tho other hand
tho managers think that they have ac-
quired BY the payment OF such high
salaries . night to us the material
brought 20 their entertainments BY the
original playerl- There has 70 far
been no rule fxed. Every case has
been settled In It's individual way. 10
this trouble Of tho managers has not
yet beer finally adjudicated.
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The New Amsterdam Theatre will
be opened tomorrow night with Flor
ence Ziegfeld's annual review. The
Follies,' which aims to show the frivo-
lous things hat have happened during
the past year. II Ia said that the
success OF tho offering at Atlantic
City was complete.
Concerning the syndicate that IL re-
sponsible for the preparation of this
piece the following facts are pro-
vided:
The current. years Follles. which
Is to be given In two acts and thirteen
scenes. has been staged by Messrs,
Julian Mitchell and Leon Enrol. under
the personal supervision OF Mr.. Zieg-
fed. Claiming Pollock, Rennold Wolf
and Gene Buck supplied the book and
| lyrics. The music is by Louis Hirsch
and Dave Stampcr. Joseph Urban
generally acclaimed TO be the worlds
greatest scenic artist. executed the
scenery"
The actors are numerous and bril-
liant. according to the announce
ment. which describes them as fol
lows:
The company this season is even
more numerous and more distinguished
than in preceding Follies. In thi:
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MISS TAYLOR ON LONDON

Laurette Taylor has just celebrated
her 250th performance at the Globe
Theatre In London in peg o. My
Heart" Later in tho summer she
will return to her native country un-
der tho management of Klaw 4 Err
LANCER and George c. Tyler. She is
to begin her our in Chicago in Hap
piness." a new play written by her
husband. ]. Hartley Manners. In Lon
don Miss Taylor has been a success
quite out OF the ordinary. Not only
has her PEG been an artistic achieve
ment. as II was In this country, but
the play has been enormously profit
able financially.
Miss Taylor has Just ent to this
country some impressions of London
which give an interesting view of the
way In which some Of the aspects OF
Its theatrical life impress an actress.
In her letter to q friend here she
wrote:
perhaps transatlantic travel has
fallen of In the pleasure seeking tour
LIST branch. 1t must have. Yet there
are W classes of Ar5ericans In Lon
don to-day In greater numbers than
ever before-factory representatives
iooking for Government contracts and
magazine writer's looking for copy. And
Of these two the writer's are by far
the moro numerous.
For a nero actress to enter tho
lists. then, and attempt to add any
thing TO the miles of columns which
have already been published must
seem at first blush tho limit Of fool
ishness. As a matter Of fact. how
ever, there Is subject which al.
writer's have to a degree overlooked,
the theatre In London; and to mo Il
seems distinctly worth considering IN
10 far 40 II tends to show the mental
attitude OF English men ana women
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doner 70 whom the queue IL a familiar
institution V makes this mistake.
II he cann-t get into the line within
! certain distance from the entrance
doors he hurrles of 10 some other
queue. But on holidays the usual in
iiuy OF country folk serves 20 leng,hen
the queues untll sometimes they num-
her enough people to AL the theatre
twice over.
The very quality Of mind which
characterize the folk who form these
queues tends 10 make play producing
in England very much less n gamble
than II Is anywhere else in the world.
Men and women who sit or stand for
hours in the rain before they enter a
theatre must have minds firmly fixed
on being entertained and definitely
determined 10 be entertained or to
make some one pay II they are not.
These queues are never longer nor
more silently ominous than on the oc-
casion Of a premiere. In New York
producers sometimes force a play
which has been badly received into a
money making success. ! am very
sure IL CoulI never be done in London.
More than half OF a London theatre
IS patronizrd by qucue-!tes. II the
play does no. appeal TO pit and gallery
II cannot succeed in London. So II
follows that success or failure hero Ia
v a question OF doubt after the
first performance. There II no neces-
sity OF throwing good money after
had because Of a hope that newspaper
advertising and discreet use Of paper
Will overcome u~nfavorable newspaper
criticism. barrie and George Oohan,
shaw and Bernstein-the best and
least known authors--are AL one &C
Far as tho q~ueue-ites ara concerned
Md II they are not satisfied with what
!s offered they voice their d.ssatisfac-
ion in n ann which the least
understanding OF ambitious producers
must understand. II is most discon-
Certlng for tho who guesses
wrong. II Is definite assurance of a
fortune II he suesses right. Every
individual hand clap from pit or gal.
iery Is worth a Ave pound Bank OF
England note. Where can be- found a
counterpart OF this In the United
S;ates?"
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MR.. BARKER is n

"As directors OF the academy and n
its behalf We desire to record our APP
probation OF this achievement and 10
send you our cordial CONGRATULATIONS
The letter was signed by William
Dean Ifowells, William MILK un
sloane, Robert Underwood johnson.
Edwin Rowland Blashno,d. william
Crazy Brownell. Thomas Hastings aDd
William Rutherford Mead.
Mr.. Barker sent the follow.n,
answer:
my Dear Mr.. Robert Underwood
Johnson:
Il am most touched and gra''0ni rs
the Letter with which. on hch..C Cd:
the academy, you honor me-. !: was
worth coming three thousand m...s
for. But. indeed. of the many k,..-
n-sses and great hospitality tina, alv,
been shown to my wife AMI wy :
during our visit here, the greatest
and trucst has seemed 70 ns 'h.ss
opportunities TO do the work ,ha. we
love and bel!s We IN.
"Fnith'u'lv Yours.
EVANSVILLE BNrvrr"
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at a time when the fate Of their en-
p!re Is IN the balance.
From a box Office standpoint-and
what other standpoint really matters
to most Of you who read thisp-con-
d!ions In the theatrical business In
London to-day are as good as II not
better than they were q year ago to-
day.
III tho American invasion Of the
London theatres continues to Increase
NJ the same rate AS II has been IN
~creaslng In the past two years a word
as to conditions existing here may not
be amiss That a subject about which
It should be so simple to ind out
everything should be SO little under
stood at home 10 simply another proof
that what everybody knows nobody
knows. .,t
The way London goes to tho thea
tire reminds me very much of what
I've been told about the way New
York went to the theatre nifty years
ago. Mccullough and Booth at the
heydny OF their popularity never re-
ceived more unreasoning hero worship
than do present day London favorites,
Even the American actors playing IN
Londo now are recipients Of an i'm
personal adulation from these 'unemo-
tionar English such as American thea
tire goers have not shown since the
days when they fought in tha streets
over their favorite stars In the middle
Of the last century.
For example, every theatre In Lon
don gave an extra matinee on a bank
holiday. And every theatre In London
played to absolute capacity at tina,
matinee. Tho overflow packed the
moving picture houses. But that IL
only half tho story. When the matinee
was finished at every theatre IN Lon
DON the outgoing crowd found IL
! way blocked by another crowd fined
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tations Of the heroines Of Shake
speare. and on May s Robert Brown
ing's birthday was observed by an eve
ming Of readings from his poems and
dramas by Sarah Colwell LeMoyne.
Besides the plays, which as a rule
have been presented only on Satur-
day and Sunday evenin gs. programmes
Of moving pictures and special fea-
lures. such as folk and classical dane
ing, music, magicians and short
playlet, have been offered on four @
nings OF each week. Similar enter
tainments especially adapted to chill
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NOW FOR THE FOLLIES

years cast, for instance, are I'm Cara,
Mae Murray. Anna Pennington. ia.
ellie Cavanaugh, Helen Rock, Justine
tombstone, Stella Chatclaine, the OHk-
land Sisters. Kay LAUREL. olive
Thomas, Gladys Feldman, Leon Fro.
Bernard Granville, w. c. Fields, I'd
wynn, Will West, George White. Carl
Randall. Melville Stewart. Ph.l.p
Dwyer and also Bert Williams"
Then there Is the important chorus,
which is not to he overlooked. rs
attractiveness Is thus indicated:
Then. of course, there Is ono ~.
those wonderful Zicgfc.d beauty
choruses. Mr.. Zlegteld's name :
synonymous with the radiant chorus
girl. The chorus this year Will. as usual.
be %arraycd in startling and hcW..I,-.
ing costumes. Many have attempted
TO copy Mr.. Zlogfcld's style OF enter.
tainment. but non has succeeded
because Mr.. Ziegfeld IL master y
the presentation Of feminine beauty
which appeals to the world In a way
that no one can resist. Mr.. X.ogfc.ds
motto Is beauty rules the world
with Mr.. Ziegfeld's theory that
beauty rules the world fresh In mind
we !mpatiently await the opening Of
the Follies of tho present year.
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u-..s 10. oI,,al,. one, ava
"Y'
new plays tor pro"u0''o" ''o NO'"''N
season. They are Common Gay
The New ShyIock.' Cousin Lucy"
sec NV LAWYER" and "A new Potash
and ~Pcrlmutter play TO be called pot
ash and Perlmutter In Society,"
"Common CLAY" is the Harvard pri7e
NAV hy Cleyes Kinkead that recently
| CONNECTED n twenty weeks engagement
AZ the Castle Square Theatre IN Bos-
ton. where it was produced by John
Craig. The success of tho piece in
BOSTON attracted the attention Of sew
eral New York managers. ard Mr..
! Woods was only one Of he mauy New
York producers who made energetic
efforts 20 secure the rights Of the play.
John Mason and Jane Cowl VII play
the principal roles and the following
company will appear IN their support;
Or,ne Caldara. Russ W-hyta!, pulley
Hawley, Gus Cohau, Harry Iilforj, Ida
Darling. Margaret Riley and Mabel
| Colcord. common Clay" will be
acted in Atlantic CITY on August .,
and will be given in New York on
August l6.
Inc New snylCCk, u lCuV net
drama by Herman S%chefYauer, has been
PLAYING for some time IN England with
Louis Calvert IN the leading role and
has received the most favorable COM
men. IN the English press. Tho piece
Will have its first American pro-
duction in Atlantic City on Scptrm-
Der 6. and will come TO New York
one week later with the following
players in supper OF Mr.. Calvert:
Dorothy Donnel.y. Forrest W4nant.
Josephine Victor. Eugene O'Br!en and
John Flood.
cousin Lucy" nv Charles Klein.
4, the new Eltinpe NAV and Mr..
Klein'. las, contribution To the Amer
lean stage. The manuscript was
handed 10 Mr.. Woods on tho eve ~
Mr.. Kle,n.s III rated tourney. Tho FOL
lowing ac,ors will he Mr. E,,irye's
sunnort. Marie smith, I. y. W-chher.
ia Rrr,or Marie chamber DIVA Toll
lana OaLer and Mrs s,uor, pohson
$50 Nv I,wycr" a rou. tho. ac.
,oros hy Nax Naro,n uiu ora, n,
,,,o,,,o r,ty u,,h N w. u,r,os &C
Tho laad,np n,aver wItb NJ Rorrls
viii hs ossociatcd VA, Rnss,l Sydr.y
noo,h Rober, Ncwndo Wa',ar Hor-
,on T-,,L Norroa r7rarccs soyara
ona Ir,aa rarrar "caa A. Iourar"
viii hs nresented IN New York ON
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A. H. WOODS'S PLANS

q the company. "He Comes Up SnH.
.Hs' VIII open IN Chicago Au-Hst :.
with Bernard Granville IN n ir.
pal role. In addition Mr.. Woods &c.,
S nj on tour four Potash and D.
mV,'er" companies and four X
In" .mpan.cs, with Richard He.ua.
featured IN tho principal yompaa,
one company VII pr sent "rrhe Ye.
.ow Ticket" Mr.. Woods has also
number Of other plays tina, W.. o.
produced later In the fan. =
Auction Block" a drama,l2a,,on
Rex Beach's famous novel. ~.
Gu!!ty Man TN" psac ok Lady." .
new play by Thompson buchanan a.
n BY George Scarhoro.
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dren have been given every Saturday
afternoon.
Early In June the roof OF tho Neigh.
borhood Playhouse was opened with
two afternoons of competitive Greek
dances and games. with the N.yq
and girls clad in Greek costumes
Throughout the summer the roof ,vi.l
be open on Friday and Saturday oyo.
nings for social dancing, for which an
admission fee OF ten cents Will ho
charged. During tho day the root
will be used as a playground for chill.
dren.
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There are signs OF a new phase Of
activity in the stock theatres. what
5ver may be said TO the contrary,
there Is always artistic announcement
in any institution which offers the act
or an education in his art. II is not
In the least certain that service in the
stock companies which gives w per-
formances of a play every day with
= weekly change OF bill Is in reality
valuable to an actor. After he has
learned self-possession and the ability
to take advantage OF what talents he
may possess apprenticeship In such
an organization may well come to an
end. Ther~ Is no chance In the hurry
and scurry of such organization of the
opportunity to develop the finer quail
ties OF acting,
II is the popularity OF tho stock
company in the cities outside New
York which makes II impossible for
the so-ealled AL star" casts to act
there. These plays are well known.
IIoca favorites appear in "Trilhy" or
"a Celebrated Case" or The Two Or
pnans' and they satisfy the demand Of
inc loyal public. So Il Ia not found
profitable TO carry these organizations
from one OF the cities to another. Az
a matter OF fact there Is rarely any,
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outlanders. What IL most singular
about such a success Is that It dies on
the hands OF the managers without a
chance OF existence. One does not say
Il at such plays fail because they are
rot unders:anded OF the people and
that the idiom in which the characters
Is most highly appreciated
on Manhattan Island. That is OF course
IA good excuse for the failure Of such
successful plays on the road"
But II is in reality no explanation,
They are dismissed without a hearing.
" tho theatregoers in small towns
were curious about the quality OF a
great New York success they would
naturally so to see Il. Then II would
be possible TO say whether they like It
Or not or whether they understand It.
This curiosity would make tho sue
cess Of . play in the small towns. But
there was no curiosity. BY tho singu-
lar telepathy that floats in the ether
they learn 70 keep away wen II New
York did orywd the theatre for months.
Tho constant demand for players in
the reviews and other musical shows
has Of course made a great drain on
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THE Eden Musee has after all
managed to sustain existence
for a longer time than most
persons realize. For longer than
thirty years 1t has stood on the
same spot and not a single place OF
amusement in the n~eighborhood when
It was opened Is to be found there
now. Proctor's Twenty-thlrd Street
Theatre. which under the egis OF the
months OF artistic distinction, is now
only a small time moving picture the
atre. But there william de Mile pro-
duced Ludwig Fulda's paradise Lost"
with Maude Adams in the leading role
and said the translation was founded
on an episode In the German play:
there Elsie de Wolfe made her profess
sional debut, and there Miss Adams
acted in Men and Women" which
had been evolved by David Belasco
and William de Mile. But its career
as a theatre of artistic impor-
lance was comparatively brief. This
was thought to be due TO its presence
on the block west Of Sixth avenu
Tho Eden Musee. true to the taste
Of its loyal bucol!c admirers. had
rather a quiet existence. 1t Is true
that the fiery Otero came there from
the Iberian peninsula before she had
c~aptivated Paris. Her Andalusian
beauty was then IN its bud and she
possessed as little temperament as
she revealed later. 1t as a diversion
Musee to hear the first OF the noted
Hungarian bands which Interested
New York. Later these organizations
were recruited largely from the East
Side, when sw~arthiness rather than
talent or training was the principal
requirement OF those who were n oe-
mand to supply n large number of
these players needed. So popular were
these emotional and ad libitum play
ers on the cymbalon and other instru-
ments thai II was difficult to get
enough of them. The Magnatenkapel-
len were not numerous, enough to sup
ply them. But they re forgotten
now.
Then the eight Tennese fencers
came and ono can hear in memory the
shrin treble Of the amazon who called
out "touche, rouche- in . childish tone
that c~ontrasted - with her bulk q
10 nov tho spectators to laughter.
Later she married a costumer here
and after ne had earned a fortune at
the Metropolitan Opera House they re-
turned to his native Switzerland. II
was at the Eden Musee, too, that
the cinema had almost its first exhibit
ton here. II was n modest form OF
the present craze and when a religious
flm two thousand feet long was shown
the amazement OF tho public knew nc
bounds. Could such things be? Blu,
this was before the day Of The Birth
Of a Nation"
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Another change in the stock thea
tres promises TO be the revival of the
stock star. The increased price of
railway travel has scared some Of the
players not provided with strong
plays. So there has already begun
In the West a way of presenting the
stars without the necessity Of having
them travel with . company from
town to town. They will arrive sim
ely and act with the resident stock
company. They will select the role In
which they are most popular and the
players associated with them will pre-
pare for their appearance before the
big guns arrive.
This will be a revival Of the palmy
days with a vengeance. This will re-
store to actual theatrical conditions
the form Of company which existed
until Dion Boucicault, by sending gu,
his company TO act in Tho Shaugh-
raun" and The Colleen Bawn." en-
tered the wedge which finally ended
In the combination system In which
one company acts the same play from
New York to California This was
the way in which the great actors
OF the past travelled from one city TO
another, finding the actors awaiting
them when they arrived in this place
or that. In those days the task was
easier for the supporting company. as
there a a classic repertoire. includ-
ing the dramas OF Shakespeare and
a dozen other mid-Victorian classics
which were used to reveal the skill
Of the great players. Tho result OF
the new scheme. II It restores to the
stage some Of the great players Of
the past, will not have been revived
in vain.
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TR0TTING WITH THE FOXES

Ana watkins also With tho PIT
cons Together.
The Castles are not there, arnour
tho castle n. On the root Of q
Forty-fourth Street Theatre Is a nen
entertainment headed by Chap,ne W.
Louis Holtz Bahet,e, Juno E.v,'ga
George Brooks, tho Clifton Sister. and
others TO help her in tho dancing A..
fun
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thing In the list Of names which
should make any irresistible appeal to
tho public. Apart from wrestling most
of the players from the theatres Of tho
L. Il. o. there Is nothing so dazzling
about these plays that one needs the
use of binders in contemplating them.
They are no strain on the naked eye.
At all events they are not in demand
In the cities that have their own popu-
lar companies.
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The Midnight F-olic Ia ~ 30 -
discontinued on account % -" rr"s-
ent summers "Fol,!es" Downstairs
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Nessfe Clayton Is Sun a frtFNNe y
the fine bill that William Ntu~r.s Nfa
arranged for the root az ;Ns New
York Theatre. which is called the
lard!n de Danse.