The New York Clipper (February 1912)

Februaby 17 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER. Under the Sole Management of DAVID BELASCO DAVID WARFIELD SEAS 1911-12 FRANCES STARR THE RETURN OF B » B D *»|| C0 PETER CRimiH A, " ,,B ^SIS? RB BLANCHE BATES NANCE O'NEIL THE WOMAN By WILLIAM C. DiMILLE At the REPUBLIC THEATRE THE CONCERT By HERMANN BAHR American Version by LEO DITRICHSTEIN II I NOBODY'S WIDOW By AVERY NORWOOD By ALICE BRADLEY The GOVERNOR'S LADY THE CASE OF BECKY By EDWARD LOCKE THE BELASCO THEATRE >Af«*s-fc AOth Street, N«w York City THE REPUBLIC THEATRE West 42d Street, New York Olty MARC KLAW IS BACK. Mure Klnw arrived in this city Feb, 6, on the Kalserln Augusts Victoria. He said that he had seen several musical comedies while abroad that pleased him, and some of them he had arranged to produce here. Mr. Klaw went to see Franz Lebar'e "Era," at Vienna, and "The Marriage Market," at Budapest. Doth win be produced here. ' , Mr. Klaw accomplished a number of other Important deals during bis absence. "My objective point," he said, "waB Vienna. We had heard on this aide Interesting storlee about a so-called invention, known as the Idno-Flastlcoo, and, accompanied by Harry lilsslng, our electrical expert, I went to Vien- na to see It. It waB represented to bo an In- vention to project moving pictures on a stage without screen or glass, giving the Illusion of living figures. "Wo found the Illusion to bo Interesting enough, but It happens that there Is a plate glass used In.the device and that-the Inven- tion is nothing more or less than moving pic- tures used In conjunction with on effect which years ago waB known as 'Pepper's ghost.' In either woidn. it Is a combination of the Old and the new, which patent lawyers assured me could not ho protected legally. "For those lessons I declined to Interest myself la the American rights, especially as I learned that a London music hall manager and en American vaudeville manager had last year made a contract for virtually the same thing. "I attended a performance of Lchar's latest work, 'Eva,' In Vienna. I think It one of Lfhar's best efforts. Wo have the rights for this country. "In London I saw 'The Count of Luxem- bourg,' which Is still crowding Daly's Thea- tre. We shall 'produce 'Luxembourg' In the Fall. In Berlin I saw "The Little Cafe.' It Is one of the best laugh producers In years. We shall present it here next season. "In connection with George Edwardes. I arranged for the American rights of 'Tin; Marriage Market' This.'operetta was writ- ten by two Hungarians and, curiously enough, hns Its scenes laid In California. Tho piece Is an overwhelming success. " The Quaker Girl' Is still a big success at the Adelphl Thcntre. The Indications-are that tho Adelphl will declare a''second dividend of twenty per cent. In June. "The Little Work Girl,' foy Paul Rubens, will follow 'Peggy' at the Gaiety, ana we hold an option on the American rights. , "I heard the score of The Pink Lady' played all over Europe, although we never have attempted to exploit it over there. Great Interest 19 manifested toward our production of the pleco at the Globe." ' + : ♦»—— CAST OIT "OKIVER TWIST." ' Llebler 6 Co. have'arranged with Klaw & lOrlanger for the production of the Dickens centenary revival of "Oliver Twist," at the New Amsterdam Theatre, following the en- gagement of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." It has been reported that tho drama would be put on at the Century Theatre, but George C. Tyler, managing director for Lleb- ler & Co,, states that at no time had such a move been considered by sis Arm. The com- plete cast which haa been assembled for "Oliver Twist" Is: Fagln, Nat C. Goodwin; Bill Bikes, Lyn Harding; The Artful Dodger, Chas. Rogers; Chnrllo Bates, Pcrclval Vivian; Tom Chlt- llng, Pcrclval Clark: Barney, Alfred Gray; Mr. Brownlow, Charles Harbury; Mr. Qrlm- wlg, Fuller Melllsh; Monks, Howard Gould; Harry Maylte, Courtenay Foote: Dr. Slmc, Robert Vivian; Mr. Bumble, Frank A. Lyons; Giles. Alfred Hudson; Brlttles, Frederick Kcndrlck; Warden, Robert Vivian; Oliver Twist, Marie Doro; Nancy, Constance Col- lier; Betsy, Gertrude Boswcll; Mrs, May Ho, Suzanne Sheldon i Roso Maylle, Olive Wynd- liam; Mrs. Bedwln, Jane Wilson;, Mrs. Bum- ble, Alice Belmore; Maid, Ada Gilford. 4 «» ORACH S1EUHITT aUITS STAUIG. Grace M»rrltt, whose rinrao off the stage. was Grace Edna Merrltt Cooke, was married on Feb. 6, to Hcriry Kcblo Merrltt, In To- ronto, Can., the homo of her sister, Mrs. Charles Hoffman Neely. Mr. and Mrs. Mer- rltt Will live In Indianapolis, where the groom Is prominent In business and social life. Grace Merrltt had won distinction as on attractive actress of high comedy roles, hav- ing been .the flrjt to create the Ieadlng"f«ni- nlne part In Bernard Shaw's "Men of Des- tiny" In this country, and afterward starred for three years tu "When Knighthood Was in Flower." For Iho last two years she has played under the management of William A. Brady and the Shuberts, remaining on tour forty-one weeks Inst season, In Clyde Fitch's comedy. "The Blue Mouse.", KLAW <SL ERLANGER'S ATTRACTIONS and THEATRES SEASON 1911-12 QEWERAI, OFFICES: WW AMSTERDAM THEATRE BUILDING, 214 WEST i8d STREET, NEW YORK PITT New Amsterdam ■ ■ "The House Beautiful" • ■ 42d Street, West of Broadway Eves. 8.16, Wed. and Bat. Mat. 2.16 ' KLAW A EHLANQEK Present .._ EUGENE WAITER'S dramatization of ihe popular novel THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE Bf JOHN FOX. Jr. With CBARLOTTE WALKER Knickerbocker : : : : £'& EV S?..!^ ' CHARLES FftOUMAN-I'roprlotora-KLAW A KKLANOEIl OTIS SKINNER JharlesFruhman] "KISMET" EDWARD KNOBLAUCH KLAW A KKLANOEIl Present [By Courtesy of Charl "ArablanNlght" "KISMET" EDWARD KN Produced and Managed by HARRISON QKBY F18KE CiSti *>TV l ,n Conjunction with COHAN A HARRIS) VXcUCby B'wayA«th8t. Eves. 8.16 Wed. A Sat. Mat. a.16 COHAN A II ARK Is Present "OFFICER 666" A Melodramatic Farce by Augustlu Macllugh With George Wash and Wallace Eddluger [in conjunction with COHAN A HARRIS) Geo. M. Cohan's ™* Eves. 8.16 4*1 St. Mats. Wed. and COHAN A HARRIS Present Sat. 2.16 GEO. M. (Himself) COHAN And ul» own company In the Mimical Faroe "THE LITTLE MILLIONAIRE" Book, Lyrics and Mmlo by OEO. M. COHAN New York S5HL* KLAW A KKLANOEIl, Mgrs. MARIE CAHILL IN THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY "THE OPERA BALL" Eves. 8 Mat. Bat. 2,16 THE MUSICAL COMEDY HE LUXE "THE PINK LADY" Mnslo by IVAN CARYLb. Book by 0. M. B. McLELLAN Founded on Ihe French Farce "Lo Satyrs," by OEORuES BERll and MARCEL 0UILLEMAU1). Productions will bo made in U12 In LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN, VIENNA, ROME and AUSTRALIA IIV ASSOCIATION WITH JOSEPH BROOKfa Bj EDMUND HAY "THE ROUND-UP" Stirring Play of Ihe Arizona Desert 'REBECCA OF 8UNNYBROOK FARM' HENRY MILLER IN "THE RAINBOW" By E. A. THOMAS Firth Season I Third Year PLATS ON TOU R i llr KATE DOUGLAS WIU01N and CHARLOTTE THOMPSON Ran one season In New York and one In Boston ROBERT HILLIARD "A FOOL THERE WAS" By PORTER EMERSON BROWN SWEET PANSY" .1'l.AIK IN PREPARATION CJM. LEW WALLAOE'B "BEN-HUR" Arranged for Iho Stage liv WILLIAM YOUNO MiuilobyEDaAllBTlLL"- OREATEST Miuio by EDO All HTILLMAN KBLI.RY PLAY OF MODERN TIMER By ME1LHAC and HALEVY 'MuslobylVANOARYLL "THE PRIMROSE VILLA" A Musical Comedy Version of a French Farce By (lEORdK BARR • ~t 0A~ " Book and Lyrics by 0. M. B. MoLELLAN Music by IVAN UARYLL "The Count o£ Luxembourg" From MessrM, A. M. WILLNERind ROUT. BODANSKY'SComedy LONDON'S MUSICAL TRIUMPH Music by FRANZ LKHAR 'THE LITTLE CAFE Music by IVAN CARYLL ['•La PcUt Cafe") Book by TRISTAN BERNARD «. THE MAN FROM COOK'S Book and Lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM Music by RAYMOND HIJBIIKI.I, M In Association With DAVID BELASCO and CHARLES FROHHM MANAGERS' EXCHANGE OFFICES; New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City Olympic and Century Theatres, St. Louis Metropolitan Theatre, Seattle liiuckntonc Thcuire, Chicago Empire Theatre, Syracuse Mason Opera House, Los Angeles Atlanta Tbeatio, Atlanta NEW ORLEANS THEATRES I Tulnno, Crescent ♦ <» COHANS SUHI'lllSHH AGAIN, a, . Mr. and Mrs. Jerry J. Cohan were again surprised last week when Marjory Rhodes, a niece of Mrs. Cohan, announced that she was married on Jan. 22 to James T. Tronp, of Rochester, N. T. FROHMAN (JETS RIGHTS OF NBW BERNSTEIN PLAY, "THE ONSLAUGHT." With the arrival, on Feb. 6. of signed con- tracts from abroad, it was settled that Henry Bernstein's neweat play, "The Onslaught," produced recently at the Gymnose .theatre. Pads, will bo presented hero next seajon by Charles Frohmun, and thereby hangs a tale as true as It Ib Interesting. According to the cablo reports that have come from abroad within the last few days. In "The Onslaught," tho plot of which is largely conccrnedwlth the anti-Semitic perse- cution of a French senator, Henry Bernstein has really dramatized tho anti-Semitic perse- cution suffered by himself, when, with ''Play- boy of the Western World"-like scores of mobhlng and violence, the Comedle Froncalso attempted to produce his play, "Apres Mol." Itut that there Is any connection between Bernstein's unfortunate experiences with ".Apres Mol," a year ago and tho plot of "The Onslaught," Mr. Frohman emphatically denies, declaring the etatement nothing moro than tho common fallacy thnt something that has happened after a fact has happened be- cause of a fact. One night thrco years ago, In tho foyer of the theatre where, curiously enough, tho play Ib now being acted, Henry Bernstein told Luclcn Gultry tho plot of r 'Tho Onslaught." At the end of tho story Gultry said to Bern- stein : "I accept now the Paris rights of that piny." Shortly afterwards Mr. Bernstein crossed the English Channel and, without sriy injr anything of his intorview with Gul- Iry. In n similar way told Charles Krobmnn Ihe plot of "Tho Onslaught." With equal promptness Mr. Frohman's comment on the story was: "I want tho American rights of rhat plav." It was then that Bernstein told Mr. Krobmnn that this was the first play he had ever disposed of by word of mouth n the two largest pjay producing markets in • "The Onslaught" Is an entirely different Dl'ay from the manuscript that Bernstein Is writing In English for Ethel Barrymoro'a use next B eason. Mr. Frohman adds that "The Onslaught," when transferred to thei English- speaking stage, will require fewer changes In text than almost any other contemporary French play; that, In fact. It will not need tho hand of the adapter at all, but will stand literal translation. . ♦•-♦■ DHOADUVnST RECOVERING. George Broadhurst has gone to Atlantic City to recover from tie effects of l fall be had last week. NBW THHAinE FOR YONKEIIS, N. Y. J. Romalne Brown & Co. have leased to Henry Rosenberg, of New York, for a term of sixty-three years a plot of ground at the corner of Broadway and Prospect Street, Yonkers, N. Y , on which will be erected a modern fireproof theatre, with a seating ca- pacity of u500. J. B. McKlfatrlck is the architect. Operations will be begun Imme- diately and the building completed by Sept l, It will bo divoted to high class -traveling attractions, booked by Klaw k Erlangcr, ana popular priced vaudeville. <«» ••tub Heal, thing." to continue. Maurice Campbell announced last week that Henrietta Crofsnou would continue to play "The Real Thing" for two more yean, because of the success she has had on tour, *■» RAYMOND ENGAGED. William Raymond haa been engaged by Charles Frohman for BIIUo Burke's company, In "The 'Runaway," and will join tho organi- zation in St. Louis this week. HARRY 8HELDON Theatrloal Agent SUITE 54 GRAND OPERA HOUSE Telephone Central 1892 CHICAGO, ILL. HENRY B.HARRIS ENTERPRISES SEASON 1911-1912 HUDSON THEATRE, West 44th St., near Broadway, NEW YORK HARRIS THEATRE, West 42d St., near Broadway, NEW YORK FULTON THEATRE, West 46th St, neat Broadway, NEW YORK WALNUT STREET THEATRE, PHEADELPHL4 ROSE STAHL in "MAGGIE PEPPER" ELSIE FERGUSON in "THE FIRST LADY IN THE LAND" HELEN WARE in "THE PRICE" "THE QUAKER GIRL" "THE TALKER" FRANK MdNTYREIn "SNOBS" "THE WILD OLIVE "THE TRAVELING SALESMAN" "THE COMMUTERS" "THE COUNTRY B0Y"-"A" "THE COUNTRY B0Y"-"B" "THE COUNTRY B0Y"-"C" "THE PROFESSOR'S WIFE" RUTH ST. DENIS In EAST INDIAN and PERSIAN DANCES