Afcwof Thi. Season'5 Playwrights
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MID-WINTER- ALONG THE RIALTO IN WIGS AND WINGS Some nt the 1 Kings I rom the Theatre Which Are Remembered 1) RE. VN OOO RROl S ' «'.henné." Gertrude Kingalon wrote the German accent. The English actress -: ¡<'a> 4ve ever «a\v \>*s rphl .Xploiae her rooeon« for thi« additio.i eerel sn ice." It »a« back in I to the play a» follow«: and ve mu«t ha4e reabouta, "The part wa« not v»r-.tten with a - tlmii ton. but there is w Imo | German bOl when 1 was re¬ «r memor\ ever accent, hearsing she «eemed to «TOOl that OC- ¦houch 4» r have not seen the cent «s a»i explanation I might almost ' U rïe not mn%* semi* aay a palliation of her actions. »-bel laid. It 44'a** Bag. lish is a formal language. When Bu'tra aet lying purely to our »en-ant» we don't say \our head?" or ¦peaking 'Thou.' :«« the Germans and Austrian* . tv. but .j..» thç do tO theirs, an expression which con¬ ..¦nu came back vey, that feudal relation of good-nat¬ can bear it «.till: "l<< «o cien i that «r ured understanding that Shaw- has con¬ j« damn bad ..hot." veyed 10 finely in the character of the -..i«.h profaait*/ about Scigeant. A«i Knglish servant would IBB) have been never take upon himself the liberty oi «Inch endeared the line that a foreign servant does, but, 'laming the on the other hand, he does not take you carry .no warm personal interest. ram the theatre. For instance. "It eremoniou- friendli¬ ¦< thi. Season'5 n« "White AFcwof ness o'' the Germon accent that no Playwrights Heather." and all 4ve can remember purely Knglish diction would have *po( that one act ended a« a over.' :i (TOO -a\ here, and I very much .i <*\c!aimcd "They've troné doubt if I could have made Catherine'; W hitr Heath extrovogoneie» acceptable without it. I Wi haven't B*n idea 4vho they feel on very good terms with Catherin«- aated to tind. is now. I know she likes a compliment, if BBC, but Mill it but she dislikes a courtier, which is the up. «uhtlc difference between a clever wom¬ have « i i.-. H an who is vain and a vain woman «rho nually. and to-day they reper :o tell i- a which is truly staggering prob¬ .;li return .'-. Ah, there difference! AROUND BROADWAY tory see the of any particular per you "Something I rotten in th« Ko, I cannot explain it if you don't ably largest .'¦>" rathe*- than to repeat. it. >>ut Catherine, though clever, was formers. I if Shakespeare's wori r¦.>- awhile." Co ready to be pleased with an adroit flat¬ By t.KOK'.i: S. KM FM \.\ embraces "As You Like It." "The Tam- *' ourself. and you but laid on with a trowel the Shrew." "Twelfth Night," tery, flattery Bilvie ll.-iii ¦ * Bhakeapsarian re: *he funniest joke she hated a~ an inpult to her clever- "Much Ado About Nothing." "A Com rry a4va> F"**XIT-t producer. Last MBSen, when but some - ej-, of Errors." "The Merry Uise« of rping line, Tom Wise scored heavily a« Falstaff that has after Windsor." "The Merchant of Venice." Id bit lingered and a large BSCtiea af Use pul»! . Dream." more charm and importance is Numerous into the theatre. Mr. "A Midsummer Night'« Plays Departing unable to get "The 'Met .en. V E. Thomas's the idea that it 4\oull be an "Hamlet," Tempest." hypochondriacal Hein got beth." "Othello."' V.' re inclined to believe thai niai.y "Her Husband's Wife,*' will noble act to make it P' "Henry transcend the comedy. altogether ard Hi" and "Romeo and Juliet." Of he theatre >nend but one more week at the Ly¬ for the aforesaid public to ^ee hiss the (ireek drama, have »h<* Long after every speech ceum Theatre, for Henry- he collected a they been making way this year. Accordingly the . ""untain" has « "Klectra" of Sophocles and in "T Miller in "The Great Divide." "Good company to play "The Merry \\ remember "*¦ iorgotter> th.* .-ncctator will Gracions Annabelle" also will bring Windsor," accordingly he nut up nu¬ "Iphigenia" of Euripide?. Al«o of the stony boots their list are "Jeanne nip. tramp, run ot the Republic to an merous thousand? sf dollars, sad Percy Maekeye'i .Irav.- near the af¬ eng end in another week, and "Getting 4vhat accordingly the company BBS Jost d'Arc" and "Canterbury IM? Evea in a so 1. fright play its finished a seaayon of fifteen flrael Sheridan'« "The Rival«." An o( York Idea" the Married" will conclude engage¬ "The New Other three of them in New York. course, "The Yellow Jo« rumble of the early ment at the Booth. offerings last men*" «boot to depart are "In for the Mr. Hein still be!:.- Some -ea-ons ago the pre-? ige at milk 'inal -cene will out- Night," at the Fulton, and "Follow the nobility of the act, but he the Ceban Players reached the point ainly the swish of the t.. Me," at the Casino. "Seremonda." at that he can take a hil Hi M they considered it «dvi-able lo*e boat oars seduces the attention as the Criterion, -till has a fortnight think the publi» play only at educational institution«. .< anything else in "The of it. one of the fifteen weeks showed a Iheir soauner leoeoa la about eign Jacket." Consider also the in¬ ahead Not Yells« real and most of them -howed teen weeks, and la mapped o articulate cries of the mother in the profit, oí the She hat Theatre teal losses. In fact, Mr. Hein is just ¦ member company. folly that there is never «n idl» r«: sel of "The Life of Man." Off- The Morosco the f\ ? unannounced at or hav about poorer than he was be¬ although been acting for a season two. day. Nor can inclement weather p' ob noise- are not the least ef- Oliver Morosco finally has hi.» New $40,000 the moment »hen these line« are writ¬ distin fore he got the idea tor th« noble dee«l. «ng airea, ¡y -upported auch vent a performance »!»%«-. < feature of Hauptmann's "Weav¬ York playhouse or he will in an¬ ten, which is along about Friday morn BS E. H. Sothern ant He says that nobility i<- all right in its guished players is made for reflMVOl to .¦ er.«." an»! al! w. *-cmember of "Girls," other week. On the night of Febru¬ ing 1 me'.a sh,* hat _ B theasjh and not infrequently tl . tact that, in one ary 5 the doors of the Morosco Thea¬ of three la«: Speaking ni' "If." the lOOOai from been only one neceeeory In the m í«: «X« tre will be thrown open, with "Canary in Mr. u MISS HI III DRaXPI \tlantic City, valiere it opened OB iniT Sothera'i production aoee. la their »11011111-! Cottage." a musical farce, as the first .lay. are that It la the Ural nlay "Hamlet." -. '.veil covered 1 ncctabie modern attraction. The new house is in *(. treat the question of a pooeibl« Jap¬ H r. t'oburn hail some the entire lal ashamed to be SBBB with Street a few hundred feet playing Forty-fifth anese invasion. The action n.-i --¦ en thing in «onimoii from the «tar«. Kacl South and as fr. .0'» He regards it in some- Of Broadway and on the north lequy. the Pacific Coast, and it turn« out that »red thai the other, a) The winter« ha-, beofl «pen* I manner a reporter side of the street. Adjoining it on be the invasion is but the hen.'.; ,ir« ar.i. though intensely feud ef acting, m New York, for notebook. There is no de¬ theatre which is de¬ preparing the the east ¡i the the a.vakenir:,:. the lie*.«-»' t v. cr«' better plays ir but the Follow« prcpared- to follow. They have, ployed professional eventually as the home of -¦ actec signed noOl urge, curtain. generally t hree .» inter tour», ne .. I hi« pose of tbe play¬ Theatre Françai*-. then And each of having been ¡a»t MOBOB wrights is preposterous. If the fourth "A Toiler-Mode Mont" ehieh Cohan also Yello » lacktêi reeopt¡ob »all of a rouni may be removed and A Harris an- BO« presenting some- .¦..«m BROOKLYN DRAMA Bisrel] of this <m tour, act it ¦. play roopled i." fol an entire where in Ohio. poted to i"' a suc- or sesss tisu Man." - -.« ¡» a MAJESTIC "The Cinderella the belief that It « a ithdrav« »'.'ouït ..nable to lift char- -, d proportions that it broke MONTAI'K "Treasure Island." company presently ur yeai*B ago just at the moment when it torehead now and again and will he bold over until the fall in the into ...nt parts, and Mi-- TELLER'S SHUBERT "Fair and .va« about to become profitable, that at ¡l C'iing on in««ide. Of hope that it will have a New York run Wills Mi. ('oburn went their re Warmer." with Madge Kennedy. snd 4ed to the pre-' at ibe Her lourse, tie old constructive, explana- ORPHEUM Auelaide and Hoghes, .u!i season. It is the tale of a spective ways. Eadless stock companie- ion soliloquy is a poor device, but Mme. Poree, Lydell and Biggin«, tailor's apprentice who dons the garb followed for both of them, anil it wa« B -- and attend had any standing even though McCarty Faye. of h gantlenan and proceed.- to 1906 ',, une in Knoxville »ix<*d Sheri¬ BUSHWICI -Lydie Barry.