New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-11
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Maude to Give Two Pieces
Under FrOhman Man
agement in Fall.

Cvril Maude reached an under
standing with the Charles Frohman
Company Yesterday whereby the Eng
lish actor will be seen in two plays al
the Empire Theatre next season. Al
though the plays have not been named
as vet, one is by c. Haddon Chambers
and the other the joint work Oh
Michael Morton ard Stephen Leacock,
the Canadian Mark Twain.
Mr. Naude will sail for England Sat
urday, accompanied by his daughter
Margery, who last season was leadlng
woman to George Arliss. Miss Maude
will return in the autumn TO appear IN
a new play under the management OF
Klaw & Erlanger and George Tyler.
Miss Maude and her father will arrive
in England in time for the marriage OF
her sister, Pamela, to Captain Will
lam La Touche Congreve, an officer IN
the British army, who was recently
decorated.
Arthur Hammerstein yesterday con-
tracted with Cosmo Hamilton TO pro-
duce his new three-act play, entitled
"The Mother-W oman" which will be
seen on Broadway early in August
Mr.. Hamilton's last play was The
Blindness of Virtue"
Arnold DAILY will continue his revi-
val of Beau Brummell" at the Thirty
ninth Street Theatre, starting next
Monday. As "A King of Nowhere"
closes Saturday night, that theatre will
be free. molly o." as previously an
nounced, will be the attraction at the
Cort, starting next Wednesday.
"Just Woman" will bring rs run
of 1875 performances at the Forty
eighth Street Theatre TO a close on
Saturday night.
A. II. Woods has placed Thirty
Days" new farce-comedy by Angus
tus Thomas and Clayton Hamilton. in
rehearsal at the Republic Theatre. The
cast includes Inez Buck. Julia Taylor.
Edwin Holt, James Rennie, Lucia
Moore. George Denny, Scott Cooper.
Robert Ames, Frances Goodrich, Ed
ward Donnelly, John de Briac. Thomas
Sven, Mildred Morris, William j.
Kane, F. B. Vroom. Mary Coates. f.
s. Lynds and VI. T. Webb.
Sir Herbert Tree will speak between
the acts at az | We're King" at the
Shubert Theatre next Monday night.
F. II. Sothern has donated the pro-
ceeds of the week TO the War Emer
gency Fund for English Actors. OF
which Sir Herbert is president. Since
Sir Herbert as Shylock does not ap
pear in the last scene of 1.-THE Merchant
Of Venice" in which he is appearing
at the New Amsterdam, he will have
ample opportunity TO reach the Shu-
bert in time.
Lucille Cavanaugh has been retained
for the new edition OF the Ziegfeld
"Follies."
Treasure Island" will close its pros
porous run al the Punch and Judy The
atre Saturday night, May 81. Edward
Emery, who has been playing the part
% Long John Silver, will terminate his
engagement on May 20.
Hedwig Reicher has been invited to
play Cleopatra in the Shakespearlan
masque "Csliban."
Florence Reed and Malcolm Williams
will apuear in the first production of a
new play, For Value Received" by
Ethel Clifton, at the Alcazar Theatre,
San Francisco. The play will be
brought to New York in the fall.
The Neighborhood Playhouse will
present Mary Lawton and Walter
Hampden in scenes from Macbeth on
Sunday evenings, May IL and 81, as its
share Of the Shakespearlan celebration.
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The auction sale Tor the seats to the
Friars' Frolic. which is scheduled for
tho New Amsterdam Theatre Sunday
evening May 2S, will take place at the
Aston Theatre next Tuesday afternoon
az 4 o'clock. A91