New Britain herald., 1916-02-25
JULIE HERNE WEEK
 TO BE GALA EVENT

Next week will be Julie Herne
 week at the Lyceum theater where i theatergoers will have the strange op- portunity of seeing a leading lady star in her own play. Miss Herne has 1 written four act comedy drama, "An Outsider" Special scenery has been painted by Maurice Futile and the play will be directed by Kendall : Weston, who has been so successful
 in producing all previous plays for the
 Alfred Cross players.
 Enthusiasm is running high over the
 prospects of seeing Miss Herne in her
 own play and already a big demand has been made upon the box office TOT tickets to the opening which prom iscs to be a gala society event. Crow ells drug store where the seat sale has been opened reports a rush on business. Society women of the city are planning huge reception for Miss Herne in her own play, Miss Herne's mother will arrive here from New York Sunday to be present at the opening performance Monday night and will remain a few days. Miss Gladys Herne, a sister of the popular leading lady at the Lyceun. will come up from her theatrical duties in the metropolitan city to witness her sis ter's efforts. Friends of Miss Herne from many parts of New England are planning to be here. Because of the fame of her distinguished father. James A. Herne, who wrote "Sh ore Acres' theatrical, people are evinc- ing a great interest in the work Of Miss Herne. If this play is as suc- cessful as many predict it will be, it From su accounts the play is made up of we'll balanced situations and clever Nnes The members of the stock com panv who are to take part in the pro- duction and who are busily engaged in rehea sing every morning are enthus- astic over it's possibilities. That New Britain people are fortunate ill getting a chance to see the play even before New Workers is manifested by the an- nouncement that a coterie of theatr1- cal managers and producers have ar
 ranged to be present on Monday night
 when the curtain goes up.
 The characters of the play as they will first appear have been appor-
 toned by MT. Weston as follows: Mrs.
 Cortlandt Crandall, Adelaide Hubbard;
 James. Girard Patterson; Henry Gdl-
 sev. T. Irving White; Edith Gilsey,
 Dora, BOOLn, IINluS bdTlOW, d pHSSl~
 elan, player to be announced later;
 Peter Cortlandt Crandall, Alfred
 Cross; Katie Murphy, Julie Herne;
 Adachi, Philip Sheffield.
 Miss Herne helped in the selection
 of the principles and is of the firm be-
 lief that the play will not suffer from
 being 1nis-cast. She believes one could
 go a long way and still not get better
 material with which to enact the char
 acters in her play than those who will
 make heir debut in these parts. Mrs.
 Hubbard has an exceptionally strong
 part and one in which she has many
 good opportunities to show her versa
 tilitv and charm in character acting. J.
 Irving White has also a great chance
 and as he has not yet falle ndoWn 'n
 anything he has undertaken it may be
 expected that he will prove up to the
 standard Aside from the parts to be
 played by Miss Herne and Alfred Cross
 the aforem entoned are two of the principle characters. The part as
 signed to Philip Sheffield while not
 one of the principle parts will still
 give him an opportunity to display that rare l1istrionic ability which IS fast making him popular stock actor Dora Booth will also have part well adapted to her particular style of act
 ing Because of the prOba ability that
 some of the actors and actresses who
 create the parts in Miss Hernes play may be taken along with it for it's New York production, they are all working