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16 Xtte Btllboapd SEPTEMBER 3, 19ia The CDnun; Season m GoAam (Continued from page 8.) been innning on and off for abont three years in England.. Ur. Tenr's companr will be broaglit orer for a two montlis' stay. The story of Tbe Scarlet Pimpemel baa some foun- dation in fact, and has been adapted for tbe stage by Orczy-Barstow. It 4s woven aroand -the adTentnfes of an' Englishman. Sir Petc> Blakeney, who. daring the French Bevolatloo. tiins many hairbreadth escapes in saving aris- tocrats from the gnillotine. Be assnmes the name of The Scarlet Pimpernel—a little wayside flower. The identity of the redcleas adventurer Is unknown to his wife and most of his friends, and he appears to them to be notliing more than an ensy-going and rather empty-beaded, gentle- man, whose interests seem centered In sport and Eleasnre. There are. however, one or two of is friends who are in the secret, inclnding Sir Francis Foolkes and Lord Anthony Dewhurst; it is the awakening of Iila wlfe. I.adr Blakeney. to the true facts of the case, that forms tbe main interest ot the play. In the first scene, by a clever dlsgnlse. Sir Percy Blakeney. other- wise Tbe Scarlet Pimpemel, manages to save the- lives of tbe Comtesse de Toamal and her dangbter, both of whom have been condemned to death by the Tribunal of Terror. He conveys them oot of Paris In a carrier's cart; tlie driver, apparently a garnilans old hag. Is In reality The Scarlet Pimpemel himself. Tbe second scene Is In England. An emissary of the French Bepnb- 11c. named Cbauvelini has been sent over in or- der to discover, If possible, the IdenUty^ol The Scarlet Pimpemel. Meeting Lady _ Blakeney (lierself a.'Stench' woman, and named .Margaret St. lost before "her marriage) at an Inn near Dover, he Informs her that her brother. Armand St. Just, win snlfer the direct penalties of the law at the tiands of the Republican Government unless she helps him to discover who The Scar- let Pimpemel really Is. . In the second act Is seen bow Lady Biaiceney nnwittingly reveals to Chauvelln that The Scarlet Pimpemel Is no other than her husband. Sir P^rcy Blakenw^. without, however, realldng the fact herself. Tbe third act shows Sir PWey Oetennlned to save the lives of Ws wife's brother. Armend St. Jnst, Klaw and Erlanger have made contracts with Ivan Caryll, the musical director of the 6ay- ety Theatre. London, and composer of many of George Edwardes* musical prounctions, to fnr* nish one musical comedy for production In this author ot The Belle of New York and X.eah Kleshna. The Satyr was produced at the Pal- ais Boyale. Paris, two years ago, and ran for more than two hundred and fltty olghts. Mr. CaxTll wrote tbe moslc for Tbe Bnnaway Girl, ■tt -TT^rffrT TT WrrC:! lv zTMT- the Urat week in October, Bebecca of Sunny. brook Farm, a dramatltatlon of "The Bebecca" atorlea of Kato Douglas WIggtn, by the author and Charlotte Thompson. Edith Taliaferro will play the role of Bebecca. The play was pro- duced out ot town last season, and Kored heav- ily la Boston and the Mew Bngland tcriltory. It Is mncb mom than tbe ordinary dramatisation of a book in that Mrs. Wlggln haa added a great deal of new material, thereby tumlahlng new glimpses ot Rebecca. The first act shows the arrival of Rebecca on the old Concord stage, driven by Uncle Jerry Cobb. The girls ot the Tillage, lEmma Jane, Clara Belle, and others, fumlsh many laughing scenes, but they succeed, under Rebecca's leadership. In so dil- turblDg tilings at the.Brick House, that In th* course of a good State o' Maine thunderstorm, Rebecca runs away to a mote congenial homo of the stage driver, who finally persuades her to return. The amusing: episode of tlie soap selling occnrs in the second act, and . tbe meet- ing of Rebecca and Adam Ladd ("Mr. Aladdin"), whose munificent purchase of three hundred cakes of soap wins the premium for the Simp- sons. The third act occurs In the Sawyer barn at harvest time; when the whole Tlllagu is nr«- parlng for a flag raising. Tlie rOUIckittg' gaiety Of this act slips Into charming scenes among tbe cbtldien, and Bebecca, in entire unconscloos. ness at what she la dolDg. ioends tbe ua for.. tunes of the Simpson family. Between Acta III. and IT. three and a half years elapse, and little Rlverboro puts on long dresses. It Is grad- uation day, and Rebecca and the others, wbo are now **golng on seventeen,** have Just come home from Wnieham Academy.' -The old brick house with the hollyhocks growing under the win- dows, gleams red In a June sunset: and later the moon arises on the last scenes between Rebecca and "Mr. Aladdin." where the little scene plainly shows where her girl's heart Is paislDg into tbe keeping of a man who has watched orer her life since I^er coming to Rlverboro. Mr. Joseph Brooks will present Miss Ulllan Russell next season In a new comedy by 'Miss Charlotte Thompson, entitled In Search of a Sinner. The play will have Its premiere In Powers' Theatre,Ciilcago, September .IS. Mr. Brooks baa also accepted for Hiss . Bosseirs use a new play by Miss Elolse Steele, entitled Hie SS?„ *^.t Co™t ae Toomai. It is not untn the hero himself has started on his loumey to SiS""?, "^L^^ Blakeney leams the truth and finds that the man she betrayed to Cnaovolln la -no other than her husband. The remalna^of Jiil.'Sfi, K*^T.°*^^ her efforts to undo the mschief she has nncansciansly done. In her grtet and terror at discovering the nerU in which she has placed her husband, she^astens to Join him In France, to warn him of toe danger which she^ lias arisen. It is in a ^ench Inn, near Calais (Act IV.) where Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney meet,, and after many dangers the fideUty of the wife and the cleverness of the hnsband result In the hanSy reunion of the two. and the downfaU of their arch-enemy. Cbauvelln. Mr. Iteny assumes Oie SJfesl.^l-'B^Se?.'^"'^^' '^""^ Under the management of William F. C>>nnor Sarah Bernhardt foUows the Terry-Neilson en- gagement. During her visit ishe will appear In the following plays, ten of which have never been presented here: L'Aiglon, by Edmond Ros- tand: Jeanne d'Arc, by Moreau; Les Bouffons, by Zamacolsr Sapho, by Daudet; La Sorcleie. bv Sardpn: l;.a_J)ame anx Camelias. by Dnmas: li Beffa, by^Phedre: La Ramne, by Rothschild: La TbscSi . bT* Sardon; Xe Passe, by Porte Hlche- cme act^f Faust: Fedora, by Sardou; Monna Vanna, Hamlet: Tiflstoi's BesnnecUon. adapta- Hpn'br Battallle; Le Bois Sacre (The Sacred Wood),! and .The Bomanesques. Sbe plays St ,Xonfa.: tlie : Comlns winter. : Miss Bernhardt re- .turasf to.:the'New;v;Amsterdam la the spring, vriien: she iWilli appear In The - Princess Leohtlne and Faust.- li--,- TTber jfirm.::-^w^ij>rodnee..- MIss£:^]>addsaclc. the operatic snc^esnoC the cntrent-Berlln and Vien- na seasona^;,teaily.: ln« ^ tbe fall... The operetta, which is-, in. tfazee «cts, is by Fritz Granbanm and Heine Befehert..' ;vritli '. music by Rudolph Nflson. Miss Dodelisack calls for a atroiig slng- int; and acting; cast. Its; scenes'"', are laid In Scotland and at an English watering place. The plot tells the story of: a yamig::8cot goardsman who gives up a fcHtnne and .8 ?castle tor love of a humble Scotch-girl.- t»'find'. In the end that unknown to either: of '. tliem'' ahe.'Is a ti- tled heiress.:. The- cnnedy Is clean and Clever. Continental erlttes i ivTlte that tiie- music pos- sesses exceptional merit. m country shortly after the holidays. This is a musical verelou of The Satyr, a French farce ■by George Ban. of the Comedle Francalse, Paris, The book and lyrics are by C. M. S. McLcIIan, The Shop Olrl, Tbe Oncbess ot Dantzig, The Girls of Gottcnberg, and The Soring Chicken. In aHBocIatlon with Mr. Joseph Brooks, Klaw & Erianger will produce at tbe Liberty ifbeatre. Pace that Kills, In wbleh she will appear later in the season. After a toor In the West, In- cluding St. Louis, foUowfog her stay In Chi- cago, HlH Bnsiell will co9ie to New York early In February for a long engagement, Klaw & Erianger have completed arrange- ments for a Pacific Coast tour by Henrr Miller In A. E. Thomas' comedy. Her Husband's Wife, opening In Kansas City, Monday, September 5. On 'bis return East be will appear In-this city under tbe firm's management In a new play. Ur. Thomas' comedy. Her Husband's Wife, had a run In late spring and > early summer. at the Garrick and Criterion theatres. Both the Phil- adelphia and Chicago engngementa were also suc- cesses. It Is Mr. Thomas* first play. Klaw & Erianger and Joseph Brooks win-also produce Welcome to Our City, byOeorge V. Hobsrt, with Maclyn Arbuckle In the leadlnc role, opening at the BUon Theatre. New Yark City. Booked In St. Louis.: Mr. Nat Goodwin will also appear under the management of Klaw A Erianger In a new. comedy by George Broadhnrst, called The Cap- tain. The.firm will also send on tour Miss Adeline Oence, In a light musical comedy, wltb dajice* by Genee. booked for a : lour to : the Pacific Coast. Speaking at the flrm'i London eaterprliei, Mr. Marc Klaw said to me: "I have made ar- rangements while in London: for tiie American rights of The Count of Lnxenbontg, by Prans Lehar. the composer of The Merry Widow. It.: is having an enormous run in Vienna, and all the hotel orchestras are playing Ita melodious airs. I have arranged tor another musical com-, edy, but I am not at liberty to annonne* Ita name Just now. I msy be able to go, further into detail later. "While In London,: Mr. Frohman and the flnp' ot Klaw- It Erianger .booked Interests with George ISdwardes. rand 'wilt; be associated wttb Mr. Edwardes In his new Adelphl. Theatre. A handsome and sDiclons theatre If to be recon- structed and redecorated -with great lavl^ness, and no doubt will be one of the bsndaptnest thestres In London when It openk In September. Its opening production will be s musical cam- (Continued on page 70.)