The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-14
|ELSIE FERGUSON Is
TO ACT WITH TREE
She Will Play Lady Tcazlc to
the English Actors
Sir Peter.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP
Now 1t is Elsie Ferguson WHO is TO
be the neat Lazy Tcd=Ic. 1'ut that VIII
not happen ~ the immediite future,
since sha will continue to play tho
pseudo spy in Margaret Schiller" for
some time. Sir Herbert Bccrbohm Tree
has brought from England plans OF the
beautiful production Of Shcridans play
which he gave several years ago at His
Majcsty's Theatre. Tho English actor
has expressed his Willingness to bring
the scenery and properties here on con-
di,ion that klaw 4 E~rlanger allow Miss
TO play the heroine with him.
lie will bc Sir PETER. Hut tho willing
ness of her managers to allow Miss
Ferguson to act here was not all that
Sir Herbert required.
He wanted the guarantee That Miss
Ferguson, after she had played Lazy
Tcd-ic here. shWild GO to London and
act in his theatre there. So after Miss
Ferguson and Sir Herbert have finished
the engagement at the Ncw Amsterdam
Theatre the entire revival will be trans
ferred to London. II 81 also settled that
the association OF Miss Ferguson and
the English actor shall not end here.
After THE School for scandal has
exhausted its popularity two more I'M
r.o,anso,, ,rd Str tiorher, iu tho leading
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dance with the cor,n,ry a, the Metro
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ri. J,,r.r. ~, ,,o "a. Di,rhcIcfr com.
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summer and uo>i season tho two or.
rsniz..tnrs veil he united for a tour ~
the country. Mime pavlow.s opera
! conpany. which seems to have had its
| most, .rytrr vn,bs "a, IN, ou,se, Of tho
season * now nrnsnerous since tho mid
dIe Wes, bos r,,a,ycd m. orpauizstion
mos, cordially Hut i, is no, probahle
tina, Mine p,ylow, will again TAX. this
rre.t r.snnrsrhII.y on r,r shoulders
! Tn. ofr., made 10 her for vaudeville has
recently b..u increased When rhe
,p.r,s wanted her nrs, only enoo
weekly va IN, oTer. Ru' tina, has
now been increased 70 $500 50 the
country to accept one offer or another.
l. - to the adVtrttg" Of In" organiza-
t!on that shc viii most probably b.
ri the head ~ IN" Ballet Russc
The Now York theatres are at this
pcriod ,niovinE - term Of unusual rros-
peri'y Their, are Few entertainments
SO una,tractIyc as 20 fail TO draw audi
ences Jus, now Managers are more or
less a, a loss 20 explain this sudden
| Increase IN their business. hut, are ac-
ccp,ing u gratefully. mo questions
asked" OF course The prevalence Of the
~, rate tickets has succeeded IN filing
many places which would otherwise not
be- taken. but thcrc i also 4 healthy do
maud FOR the high priced seats whore
the performance docs uo, happen 10
have been any unusual success
Even during 'hls period of grra, pros-
peri,y th.r. are strang. contrasts IN
the theatres. The murr desirable seats
are sold al prices which ar" sometimes
more than double what tho bon office
demands. 50 great Is tho desire to see
the rear seats are sold at the agencies
for prices much below the regular rate.
This Is ore Of the unusual things tina
tho present popularity Of the theatre has
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