The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-01
GEORGE MOORE TO
TOUR U. S. IN 1917
irish Novelist Will Deliver
Series of Lectures on His
First Visit.
STAGE NOTES AND GOSSIP

George Moore, the noted Irish novel;
4. p',ywfight and cssayist. Is to make
ms first visit TO this country next sea-
son. He will come here TO deliver a
series uf lectures under the manage
rent of the Pond Lyceum Bureau. MIR.
Moore will be- the mos, distinguished au.
thor writing In the English language to
.,ua to this country In a long time
us tour will begin in January and con-
,..uc until the spring.
NJ Moore st!ll lives in Dublin. al
though much of his time has been spent
IN London. lie Is now SO years old
and attracted attention last through n
rew version OF his revised Memories Of
Ms Dead Life" He has published re-
y,sed versions of more thar one OF his
hooks. although Mike Fletcher has
never been issued in any form.
The novelist is best known here for
the powerful and painful story The
Nunmcr's Wife, which represented his
writing when he was most under the
Influence Of Emile lola. lie followed
this with Esther Waters" Then came
Evelyn lnnoss," in which the heroine
was an English singer who created a
sensation with an Isolde which must
have been a combination of Ellen Terry
and SIMS Reeves singing Come Into
the Garden. Maud" In his efforts as
a playwright he has not been so fortu-
nate The Irish Literary Theatre. for
which he wrote The Strike at Airing
ford" and 'The Bending of the Bough."
presented both dramas without great
success. Then r. II. Benson acted
arother play by Moore.
T. took Frank Wils,ach to discover
ira, William Wordsworth expressed his
opinion OF the movies long before they
became as prevalent as they are to-day.
At all events the late poet wrote AS
long ago as 1850:
A backward movement surely have we
From manhood-back to childhood for
Back tnvlrd caverncd Mes nr., rude
iyauut his yile abuse Of pictured page,
NJ eys' he all in all, the tongue and
Nothms Heaven keep US from a lower
When Sir Herbert Tree returns 70
New YORK after a second visit to the
West to act before the camera he will
revive The Ncwcomes.' which he
''ayei no London r. :, willard acted
this Thackcray play IN Canada. hut not
here Then Sir Herbert will he seen IL
Two Of the roles of David Copperfcld'
W IL WAS acted at Wallack's Theatre
uul, the name Of The Highway OF
Life
Waiter Jones and Carrie Reynolds vii
have their Original roles when Richard
Lambert sends The Blu Envelope" OF
tn road next September.
Euge.Aert Humperdinck was the FRS
nus ciam 10 write Il score Tor = cinema
He accepted the invitation of Max Rein
h4:!: 20 make the music for d spectacle
ami later he adapted this music to SUI
the pictures which were made from tn
play. Then Victor Herbert agreed I
supply Thomas Dixon with a Symptom
score for his approaching cinema. "Th
Fal' Of a Nation"
Bat there are other great composer
sHl 10 be heard nom. It took Williar
Fox To persuade Robert Hood Bower
20 write the music for q movie in Whic
Annette kellormiuu = 10 be seen. A
the picture Is u be shown in A for,nigf
Tho composer is uow hard al work I
fir IN IT in tiine
Nine. Marcclla Sembrich and ICnac
Padcrewski. surrounded by other az
hiring Poles. were in a box at the Wiz
Ter Garden last night to listen to !
Jo.son.
Florence Tempest and Marion SUI
sh'Ue, known as Tempest and Sunshii
SISTER act, will return to vaudeville
the colonial Theatre next week. The
promise all new material.