CP N THE PASSING

cinema season has come to '

TRK aa fixed In New York's j

cycle of entertainments aswhat la reverentially described as"frand opera," It comes, however. In i

the eprlnir and lingers through thesummer months until the young drn-mnt- lc

season has vigor enough to pushbio movies hack Into their properabode, such aa the Strand and theRIalto. not to mention tho many lessknown temples thnt shelter them. Al-

ready two of these elaborate produc-

tions are on view and six theatres aredevoted to the silent drama. More areto come.

It Is possible that with this electionof a regular time for their appearancela tho metropolis there Is some solu-

tion of the relation between the twoform of drama. None of the citytheatres Is rented at the heightof tho season to a cinema, how-ever elaborate It may be. Thatpart of the year belongs to the spokendrama. The picture plays do not pos-- !sesH the strength to rival It at this

i period. So It Is necessary to wait untilthe first strength of the theatre year

. is passed.'" So, after all, the moving picture Is

'not a rlv.V to the theatre when thatInstitution Is in Its best estate. Thatmuch has been established by the ex-

perience of the past two years. It'Is only an a secondary competitorfor the favor of the public that the

'cinema Is now to be regarded In Itsgelations to the spoken drama. It Is i

established more and more plainly j

with every succeeding year thnt thetheatre of the spoken drama, In 'tsbest estate, stands in no danger of thecompetition of the camera.

Tho theatre season If now approach-ing Its deepest sleep. The doors of theplayhouses arc closed and there Is nosign of , activity about the dustyfacades. Hut behind the closed portalsthere is II the enorgy necessary to j

he preparations for the coming sea-

son. Not. only here but In towns notremote a.i managers experimentingwith the aramns that the city Is to see

next year. On u recent Monday f.'urplays haviig New York as their ulti-

mate lilac of production were acted !

in different cities. The thentres that j

closed last night removed two of the I

most BueccHr.'ul attractions of the year,

and those that survive have the sus-

tenancej

of Bunp and dance.

It Is iiniurlng to the man with u

memory lont enough to recall the tin- -

IN THE TWO A DAY.

George "White, assisted by Lu-

cille Cavntiagh, will again be theheadliner at the Palace Theatrethis week. Such popular dancershave not been seen in a long timeand they prove that dancing--,

when it is so well done, will al-

ways have a following. Anotherdancer who is new to tho city isEvan-Burrow- s Fontaine, whodoes a hula hula dance, which isnot, like her name, afflicted witha hyphen. Kenneth Harlan and aselected troupe of Oriental dan-

cers will support the hyphenatedv., .In ilnnror. Fritz! Schoff. Nellie

. Nichols, Clark and Verdi andAlexander Carr arc alno on theprogramme.

mi... V,t....:nl T'..s...4 en ! c nr irmilit is still open that it iust cannotkeep quiet about it. mis wcck istn l.o "Fourth of .lulv Week" atthe theatre. H happens to lie

'that at every other theatre justns well, but so long- - as the Colo- -

tnlal tniPKs 11 nag a monopoly on'the national holiday it might, as '

. . ......1, .11 - :'WCII IJC auowcu iu uiu rrn- -j i ! 1?..1hU Hi... CnnlitnSHIIOO. 11111)111 IIVK.) JUflllV'Tucker, Hcrt Fitzgibbon, the Bo- -

1 canny troupe anu .vimc. uewcy, t

. itWnO sings iiki! a uccuriiing

iUn nrnliminnrv iinnnnnfn.I llU .It.' Jiuicnts, mid is unique in haying

and the Ward Brothers are on the I

I

'nroirrnmmo."Hollo, New York!" has itn J

Vand Eileen Sheridan do not mo- -(nopollzo all the opportunities, as.there are picniy 01 entertainers

n the iirotrrammo. anil thero nroL newcomers evury week to add

variety to tnis amusing nuric.que,which marks the high water markof , the Columbia Theatre's sum-mt- r

achievements,

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nual predictions of the theatre man- -

agcrs. They are going to keep theirtheatres open all summer. There Isevery renson to believe that the cityIs to be filled with strangers. Theywill want to be entertnlncd and there,must be n demand for the the.it ro.But the first few warm nights putsuch a crimp into the receipts a, th;box office that there Is n scramble tosee which playhouse shall shut upfirst. It Is difficult to wnlt until Sat-

urday night. It Is Indeed us hard forthe manager a.s It was for the Westernfamily at tho New York hotel withsuch n beautiful porcelain bathtub Pint i

Its members could scarcely wnlt for I

Saturday night to get Into it. ;

80 the managers hasten to clove upchop when It Is evident that th"went her Invites to other forms of di-

version The musical plays supply fill

that the city needs of theatrical en- - j

tertalnment In summer. Nothing Is

Iwtter for tho than therest which Is forced upon them. Tliepublic returns to their ministrationhungry for the of whichIt has been deprived. So the necessityof closing their doors for n month ortwo should be no hardship to the thea-

tre managers. If Indeed they ire uble

to rent tho playhouse to a profitablecinema the manngers are to be

It Is no news thnt the o.opheil

summer review lenns heavily on thovaudeville stage. Indeed the methodof these plays Is to look

oer the vaudeville stage, engage theHounding Hananus, Gurgle and Gulp,

Fntelne or some other celebrities whobring their own dialogue as well astheir voices and to thestage cm which these musical playsare noted. It 1. not always easy tolell why they are sometimes less

In their new milieu. Thowheezes of the comic hoys, thestately beauty of the more orless passe Fatelno, the quips of theHounding Bananas do not have thesame Influence on the audience thatthey did nt the I'alace Theatre or else-

where. Uut whv? If the Imported at- -

tractions were always to be relied on

the tnsk of concocting these summerwould be much easier

and less risky than It Is now. Rutthe effect Is by no mentis to be count"don. Although the conditions are ailbut thf Hunie. there Is an elemont of

risk in the which wouldnot be neccsMiry If the actors could

he counted on to exert the same powerover audiences In every place.

The lack of humor in the summershows was recently attributed by an

worker In tho theatre to

the of the theatre man-

agers to pay generously for this workfrom the librettists who might bethought, capable of supplying It. ThatIs not In the least the conclusion ofthe writer. Because this or that hackis able to demand more than this ortout one It does not necessarily followthat he Is going to write anything bet-

ter than the librettist who docs tho Job

at 1 fs cost. It Is Indeed to the freshand perhaps less well known geniusthut one hnd better turn for humor.Certainly the If exhaustedir.utlneer who H nblc to command aUtter rate than the beginner Is nomore likely to .supply the sparkle and

In which theso pieces areusually to deficient, it will probablybe necessary, therefore, to seek thoc iuhp of their dulness somewhereelse,

The appearance of Yvonne Garrlckiih an actress In the vernacular Is likelyto he followed by tho accession to ourown stage of many; other secedersfiom foreign stages. Miss (lurrlck,who really wns an actress of positionIn Paris, having been, a socletnlro oftht. Comedle Kniiical.se, will soon befollowed by I'Mgur Hecinan, who wasHlbo the most fanmim of the joung

j ictoiK In Paris bi'foro tie came to thiscountry to play at the French theatre.M Herman l a Belgian, but gainedhlr rapidly In France, Heh now In the early twenties, an at-

tractive and an actor skll- -

K

ful In the artificial methods of theFrench school, which Is In renllty,never so mannered as when It seeksto be modern and naturalistic.

Other French actors will be In thiscountry next nutumn and they willultimately follow the example of their

and seek n place In theAmerican theatre. There Is little prob-

ability that the theatre of Gumps willrecover for years from the effect ofthe war. It Is nld that a theatre In

I'nrls which Is y able to take In

t"5 on its most popular nights isan fortunate. The subsidized

theatres do somewhat better, but theirearnings are as much decreased In

proportion. The music halls whichdraw the largest nudlcnces have re-

duced their prices to half the usualsum. So there Is little immediate pros-

perity In view for the stage In France.

In Germany there Is of course little

While Ed Wynn. alias "the kins'?Jerterj" has his name In numerousplaces on the Winter Harden pro-

gramme of "The Passing Show of1516" no mention Is mad- - f him In

the list of authors. Not that Wynn"wrote the show" nor that hf wantscredit of any sort- - except as ,t laughprovoker-- Is this written, but to peepIwick of the scenes during the earlystages of the play's formation.

"A tragedian." says Wynn, "may behanded ten thousand words to hurlacross the footlights, but the come-

dian's utterances must be cut to thebone. I have been writing my ownstuff for the past thirteen years andduring that t!me T have specialized inmy own If I do say Itmyself 1 can fit myself better thanany one else. I started writing whenf was at the of

Then I was a member of theMask and Wig Club and played withthis for several years. Itwas this adventure that led me toadopt the stage aa a profession.

"My first resolution was to writemy own lines and 'change my act' nsoften as once a year. dur-ing the eleven years I filayi'd Invaudeville I would report at Mondayrehearsal to he greeted by the managerwith:

"'So you're doing a new act? Say,Kd, why don't you give us your oldact? You know the one with the Ac'

"Maybe a half hour later wo mightbe discussing some other act and themanager would say:

"'Isn't It peculiar they have beendoing that same act for the past wellever since I can remember. It's queerthey don't get something new.'

"Well they never could say thatabout me, for during the twelve yearsI have been on the stage 1 have writ-ten and appeared In these acts: TheHoy With the Funny Hats, Rah RahHoy; the Students; the Freshman andthe the Hllllkcn Fresh-ma-

Mr. P.usybody; .loy and Uloom:the Kngllsh Nut, the King's Jester.

"Taking Into an en-gagement In 'The Ueacon and thel.nily" and a few vacations, this makes

The plans for the tour of the KillsOpera Company, which bus beenorganized by Charles A. Kills of Bos-

ton, manager of the BostonOrchestra, are now com-

plete. Mr. Kills has organized thiscompany for the purpose of giving ashort season In various cities of themiddle West nnd Southwest, nnd willconfkio himself to the ofto operas, "Carmen" nnd "II Trova-tote.- "

The season will run threeweelts, eighteen in nil,Altogether nine cities will he visited,

The tour begins In Toledo, Ohio,Monday, October 111, where two

will be given In thoColiseum on Monday nnd Tuesdaynights, will be given In

the In Mllwaukes October

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requirements.

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more that Is bright In the outlook.Think of an actor like Arnold Korffwith the prestige of the llofburg InVienna playing under the artistic conditions which have surrounded hi re.

j cent performances In this city. Huthe has acted In his own tongue andnot In the tnnsuage of the people.

'There Is likely to be les contributionfrom the German theatre for a vn- -'

rlety of reasons. Hut It Is true thatth actors of the Continental nationsare straining their cyc.s In this direc-tion a towiirri the promised land.Possibly It Is the great prosperity ofthe Kngllsh actors over here which

(has made their lot so envied by theircolleagues of other lands. The Englishactors have found this ewuntry sincethe war began a happy hunting

Iground. And there Is likely to be Justabout as large a representation ofthm next winter. Already the ros-

ters of the new companies .ire full of'irir nnnics.j

nlmost a new act for every year of mycareer. Well, when I came to theWinter Garden I determined to keepup my record, so I laid aside all ofmy old stuff, such as the funny hat.and started anew.

"Hut speaking of the hat. you knowI really miss It It was the funniestlaugh getter 1 ever knew and duringthe time that I used this Idea I woreout over SOO hats. Hut that Is n thingof the past and something I did notwrite.

"You may recall a scene In ThePassing Show' In which Mr. demonsInterrupts me while I am doing a mon-ologue on the stage alone.

" 'Tell me. Kd," he says. 'How doyou make them laugh?"

"The remark sounds silly and trite,but It leads up to a hit of businesswhich reflects the whole laugh side ofhuman nature. After doing one or twothings I tear Mr. Clemons's collar.There Is a laugh. I say to him: 'Doyou see them laugh?' Hut does Mr.ficmons laugh? Decidedly not' ItIs a misfortune to him, but to othersIt Is fun. It Is the same way In life.Should a lady accidentally fall In acomical position people ore sure tolaugh e her misfortune. If at churchsome one sneezes In the wrong placeIt occasions unrestrained titters, andso on.

"The high price of gasoline, for ex-ample. Is no Joke, yet In the .garage

In 'The Passing Show' when Isell It In nn cyedropper It gets aterrific howl. Many of these thingscome ubout by accident, pure and sim-ple. They never thought of writingIn the eyedropper. It JlM happened.All of my ud lib mutter came alout Inthe same fashion. In other words, mypart Is one which grows with thestaging of the show. I feel my wayvery carefully and listen to all advice,but that does not mean that I take It.

"For example, last season with theFollies Mr. Zlegfeld asked me to fill Inbetween two scenes. It was up to meto create my own stuff. That Is hnrdto do In n big show- - work In 'one'after a big scene or a smashing num-ber. I told Mr. Zlegfeld I would comeout and talk about myself. It wouldnot do, he told me. Hut I did It Justthe same. You may remember when Iused to tell the audience about gettingpaid so much for doing this and that.It went surprisingly well.

'I am very happy nt the WinterHarden because I nm like a colt run-ning oer green pastures. No one at-

tempts to bridle me In the usual fllp-llk- e

managerial manner, hut extremecourtesy seems to be the underlyingmotive with every one,"

IS and 19: in the Auditorium. St. Paul,October L'O uni. 21; in the Auditorium,Omaha, Neb., October 23 and S4; In

Convention Hall, Kansas City, Octo-

ber 25 nnd 26; In the Coliseum. FortWorth, Tex., October 27 nnd 28; In

Cmventlon Hall, Tulsa, Okla., Octo-ber 30 and 31; In the CoUneum,

Mu , November 1 and 2, and inMusic Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, Novem-ber 3 ond 4. All these performancescarry with them guarantees given by,In Mime places, chambers of commerceand In other places by prominent mer-chnnt- H

and bunkers.The company which Mr Kills Iuim

organized will number nppioxlinati'ly176 people nnd will cover the entireroute In a special train, which willcomprise one private car, one

car. three rullmans, twotourist cars and four baggage cars.

The company la moat distinguished

THE' ELLIS OPERA COMPANY

AT THE WINTER GARDEN

In Its personnel. For the performanceof "Carmen" Mr. Kills has engagedGcraldlne Farrar and RItz Fornla ofthe Metropolitan Opera Company,Helen Stjey and Alma Peterson ofthe Chicago Opera Company, LuclenMuratore, the great French tenor;Clarence Whltehill, the American bary-tone: Leon Rothler, basso; ConstantlnNlcolay, basso, and Octave Dua, tenor.There will bs also a distinguisheddancer whose name will be announcedlater.

The artists engaged for the perform-.inc- e

of "II Trovatore" are equally dis-tinguished. Kmmy Destlnn has beenencaged for the part of f.eonoro,Louise Homer for jtrtiernrt, MorganKingston. the English tenor, for Man-rlc- n,

while Mr. Rothler or Mr. Nlcolaywill sing FerroniJo. The barytone for

WHAT BECOMES OFTHE CHORUS GIRL?

"Soms seem to think," said IewFields, who Is appearing In "Step ThisWay" at the Shubert Theatre, "thatthe chorus girl Is Immortal: that shenever dies. Some college boys nreevn foolish enough to think some ofthe glrta are divine. They nre. In faceand figure some of them. Well, thedear girls get married. Indeed, theirenchont, proneness and propensity for

matrimony Is simply astounding!i:very body wants one. And what willhardly be denied, they make mightygood wives. They are beyond ques-

tion the most devoted, domestic anddelectable wives agoing! Ask any ,

manager what has become of somadainty little dewdrop of femininitywho was once Irj the chorus andyou'll find, nine cases out of ten, thatshe Is rhe loving wife of some y

rich oft! codger or the ad-

mired helpmeet of some silken son ofdalliance, with plenty of cash to buyher automobiles, yachts and countryhouses. In every big city of the landyou will find these delightful crea-

tures bearing honored names and llv.tng up to them right loyally ond nicely.I never met the husband of a chorus '

girl who wasn't glad he had her andher children. The chorus girl as awife, to put It mildly, Is a success.This fact Is generally admitted, andso It Is no wonder that you may dis-

cover these divinities courted, flat-

tered and addressed throughout theircareers on the stage. Hut what nbiutthose who do not marry? This refers,of course, to those who do not remain011 tho itnge. Well, speaking fromexperience, they then become angelsngalu, and continue so everlant tngly.I speak not In Oath, but sober truth.1 have known dozens of girls whohave left the stage In order to nurseand comfort an aged or decrepitfather, mother, brother or sister! Thechorus girl doesn't do anything halfway; sh Is ever the little brlek. who,

NOTES OFOn Wednesday and Thursday eve-

nings, .luly 5 and 6, the Neighbor-hood Playhouse will give two benefitperformances for tho Relief Fund oftho Cloak and Suit Makers Union,now on strike. The NeighborhoodPlayers will be seen In three of theone act plays produced so successfullyby them as the closing bill of theirseason. These Include "The Price ofCoal," by Haiold Hrlghouse; "A Mar-

riage lroposal," by Anion Tchekoff.and "A Night at nn Inn," by LordOunsany, which aroused so much In-

terest when first produced, The Fes-tival Dancers of tho Henry StreetSettlement will also contribute to thoprogramme group dances from PieRussian ballet "Petrouchka" nnd In-

terpretive dances from the Fcstlvnl,both of which were produced earlierIn the season.

Kvery seat In the house will be f0

THfc rLAia THAT LAST.

The sudden closing of thedramatic season last night leftonly "The Boomerang" at theBclasco Theatre and "Fair andWarmer" as the plays that sur-vive. So thero is still chancefor the public to enjoy somedrama without the aid and com-fort of music.

the Conte di Luna Is stilt In abeyance.Mr. Kills Is In the midst of negotia-tions with one of the mast distin-guished Italian barytones who Is nowIn South America.

Cleofonte Campanlnl, the very dis-tinguished conductor, has been engagedas general and musical conductor ofthe Kills Opera Company and In thatcapacity he will have complete controlof the artistic end of the enterprise.The engagement of MS-- . Campanlnl Isregarded by Mr. Ellis as a most Impor-tant feature of his undertaking.

The company will be complete Inevery respect. There will be an or-

chestra of sixty selected musicians, achorus of picked singers of like size,while the ballet for the Incidentaldances In "Carmen" will comprise six-

teen young women.

when she makes a sacrifice, doeswithout grumbling, and completelyand finely. There are plenty of this

I run across them In all thebig and little cities, and they are evercheerful and resigned.

"I think youll admit that rhe chorusgirls of the old Weber and Fields MusicHoll at Twenty-eight- h street andBroadway wero a comely lot Whathas become of them? Well, nlmonevery one of them is happily married,und many committed matrimony whileplaying at the Music Hall, which wasabout twenty years ngo. Kvery littlewhile a pretty young chick comesalong and ask for a position, my-lu- g

'Mr. Fields, my mother was In thechorus of the old Weber and FieldsMusic Hall." Kvery chorus girl hasan ambition, and that one Is some-times achieved It Is generally sup-posed that this consists in a desire formultitudes of broiled lobsters a::d sensof sparkling wine. This I but nu it herof those silly notions regarding thispublic pet. Ask one of them whatshe hopes to do or become and she'llreply, ninety-nin- e times out of n hun-dred: 'Kltherafirlma donnn. legitimateor comic opera star" Almost everyone bends her energies In these severaldirections Thl Is the history of thechorus girl from time Immemorial.They all know thut Lillian Russell wasat Pastor's and that Virginia Karle.IMna May and Madge Leasing sprangfrom the Casino chorus and that AliceNellsen and I.uln Olnser once trippedIn tho merry-merr- If wa hnd royalty,dukes nnd lords and such you'd prob-ably nnd that the chorus girl wouldbo liberally represented In the aristoc-racy. What Is true of England wouldsurely apply with us. As It Is. ninnyof the young Indies of the Americanmerry-merr- y have married particularlywell and they have dignified their posl.Hons right royally, which Is a betterroyalty than anything with a coroiu"on lis head. The point Is. the churngirl Is not the average feather bendthat she Is supposed to bo, The boithing you enn sny of n gtil l thatshe mode a good wife, and this ennbe truthfully said of a large numberof girls I've known. The failures ontheir part sink to zero point. What-ever becomes of the chorus girl, thismay bo said of a preponderating ma-jority. The stage has left no percep-tible taint."

THE STAGEcents and the entire proceeds will begiven to the strikers.

Morris Gest, one of the producers ofGeorge V. Hobart's play "Kxperlence,"met F. Zlegfeld, .lr In the cafe ofthe Hotel Knlckerlsxileer yesterday af-ternoon at luncheon and made a wagerof $250 with Mr. .legfeld that "Kx-perlence" will piny nu engagement Inthe Teatro Nnclnnnle In the city ofMexico before tiiristmns time.

There will be three "Kxperlence"coinpnnleh next .season, nnd one of

, them .s M'lu'dnleil to play in the Stateor I cus In .September, reaching illPaso Thanksgiving week, If the pro...u.ss of events roes as Mr. ticsi

they will the company will turnsouth after the Kl Paso engagementand will Jump through to tho city ofMexico to entertain the American sol.dlers. If this happy event turns outa.s Mr. liest plans Mr. li willlose, $250, but If Mr. (lest should meetwith any oppntl.in from a gentlemannamed Carranza Mr. Gest is likely tothink that the niitne. of that Max ten nihould be changed to "Cniramb.i,"which Is a polite swear word In tlioMcxlevin language,

"I made this wager with Mr, Zleg.fell) yesterday," snld Mr. Hest, "as aresult bf n conversation 1 had at FortSheridan, 111., In March, with "!. 1,L. Talt. commanding the Sixth t'.u-nlr- y,

which has Just been ordered toMexico. Wo took the 'Kxperlence'company to Fort Shrrldan to entertainthe soldiers. Whn some of the girlshnd lunch with various officers of the

regiment I heard the officers predictthnt they would be In the city of.Mexico by Christmas time. I at oncetold them that our company wasbooked for Kl Psso in Thanksgivingweek, and If everything went well wewould bring tho company on to thecity of Mexico for Christmas dinner. Ihave every reason to believe thntthese young ladles will be entertainedut Christmas dinner In the city ofMexico by the officers of the SixthCavalry, ind that we will present

In the beautiful 000,000opera house known as the Tettro

Blanche Waldo Dewey makes herAmerican debut at Keith's ColonialTheatre next Sunday afternoon, whenshe will give a ten minute demonstra-tion of tho new vocal art which shehan discovered and perfected and ofwhich she Is thus far the sole andonly exponent

Mmc. Dewey's art, which hss bensrelnlmeH hv InAdlnr miis!rinjii Andcomposers of all Europe, Is absolutely I

unique, nccordtng to the verdtct ofscientists, and Is, morevovcr, so dim- - '

cult to chnrncterlzo that no word hasthus far been found In the Kngllsh ornny other language with which to

It.Mme. Dewey Is the first and thus

far the only human being who haslearned how, literally, "to sing likem bird." Though she Is a finishedmusician, having begun her ctrer ntthe age of eight as a violin virtuoso,Mme, Dewey hns no singing voicewhatsoever. Neither can she whistlenny better thnn the average member '

of her sex.What Mme. Dewey can and doe do, ,

however. Is warblo nnd trill In the"'.tmost musienl perfection nny musicalscore set before her, not through theconventional channel of articulatesong, but by a process seemingly In-

volving only those organs of the throntwhich the nlghtlngnle or thrush util-izes In the production of song.

LuIen Itonheur ts planning to hnemuslcnles given by Mme. Calve andconferences by famous lecturers, con-

ferences patterned nfter those of theTheatre Hndlmene In Paris. In hi' newFrench theatre on Forty-fift- h streetNegotiations are pending with severalFrench nttists nnd lecturers now Inthe t'nltcd States such as Yvette Hull-bcr- t.

who Is expected to give nof recitals; Jules Hols, who will give11 course of lectures, ,tc. There willalso be courses of diction and coupesof acting.

The theatre will have the moral nndfinancial support of Otto H. Kahn.Robert Hoelet, Cornelius Vnnderhtlt,Mrs. Henry A. Murray, Mrs. J. F.Fcder. Mrs, Butler Williamson, Mrs.Robert Bacon, Mrs. W. D. Guthriennd others. The following committeewill have charge of the selection efthe fiiriil-hlii- of the new theatte,which will be built after the Frenchstyle. Mrs. John K Alexandre. Mrs.Il" D Raheoik, Mrs. Itobert L. Bacon,Mrs. Fordyce Parker, Mrs. WilliamMnnlce. Mrs. Henry A. Murray nndMrs. W. H Snnds.

Mr Honbeur Intends to retainClaude Benedict ns scenic director, Ed-

gar Becman, Greuze, Yvonno(inrrlck nnd others of the present com-pany. While In Parts this summerMr. Bonheur hopes to obtain the sup-port of the French Government, whichwill fncllltnte his engaging several ofthe artists of the Comedle Franealwnnd nrtlsts of other theatres who arefree, such as Jeanne Provost. In aword, It Is Mr Bonheur's ambition toestnbllsh In New York not only a firstclnss French thentre. hut at the snmitime n centre of social and artistic cul-

ture which will serve nn rendezvousfor artists and writers of the two coun-tries, and which will be a home for nilFrench artists and lecturers who cometo this country.

Robert Jones, whom Granville HirkerIntroduced to American audience withthe setting for "The Man Who Mar-lie- d

ii Dumb Wife" and who was nsso-- .elated with Joseph I'rhan In the dec-

orations for "Caliban," will assist Ar-thur Hopkins in producing the matinee!of scenes from typical American plavsof dllTcrviit periods from 1750 to the"present time, which Is to lie a feature'of the work of the American drnmacommittee of the Drama League nextyear.

Ann PinlnKton's first dancing stepsnro recalled by A. L. Klnsteln of Phlla-ilelphl- a,

who gave the dancer her firstpress notice at the very beginning ofher stage career.

"I cnr.not lay claim to nny originaldiscovery of this Mar. but I think I

was the first newspaper man to icco-4- .

u.e her Juvenile ability anil give herIndividual mention." sn.s Mr. Kin-.-.t-

ii."It happened this wn. In a I'b.la-delph- ia

newspaper I conducted aknown as the . li.incinc

World, Mini particular attention wmkpaid to the annual children's carni-vals. I think It was about 1901, while

attending the annual carnival of IVfWalter Wreie's Juvenile clan in ivAcadtmy of Mimic that I i ,artlcutarly lmpre.sd by the hiniivstage presence nnd general carrln-o-f

one little girl. She seemed as muat home on the big lighted Ma ..

In her parents' home."loiter I asked Prof. Wrne who tv'

little girl was. "That la Anr f'ennlr.p.ton or Camden, be replied.

" 'Well, she a decidedlyI snld. ii exceptionally eleu-one- ,'

he agreed. Special mention '

that effect was made n my Sunia)account of the carnival.

"It was the next year that PrelWro organized what he tern-.- '

'Wroe's Buds," a selected few ofolder and cleverer pupils, and s'- - irfor them professional engagemntn 1

Keith's theatres and other vand-vi- V

houses. Ann Pennington was on nf

the Buds. Since that time her rrrress has been steadily upwnrd.

--And," Mr. Klnsteln coneluA. "Inm proud of having been the on tjrive her the first nnwspaper boost thi'she ever received."

THE NEW FILMS.

The Candler Thentre will onWednesday be the scene of n newcinema play called "The Quee"of the Roses." This t 'heoperetta of l.concnvallo and tl'smusic of the famous Rucg'ernwill be plnyod to illustrate tf,.progress of the scenes. AndreaDippel had the American richtto the work and had plannedproduce it nt tho Century Theatre, when Italy declared warit wns impossible for Mr. Dippelto get the costumes nnd scenerywhich ho had ordered. The Rorgraph Film Company if ihnw "cthe cinema, which in a way den'-wit- h

one of the adventures' of theformer King of Portugal. Therewill he a large orchestra underthe direction of Signor Carlo

of the Roynl Conservatoryof Rome to play the music.

There will ho the usual mui-- a

accompaniments to tho prigramme at the Rialto Thent'ethis week. Reginn Viciirino, .TiJifCampbell, barytone, and Ktederick Ounther will sing with thoorchesrrn under tho dircetinrHugo Ricsenfeld. "The CaptiveGod" is, however, the cinema

programme, and appropriateIy deals with the gods of Monte-zuma. It is urged as an advar-tag-

on the pnrt of the pl.v th.rit suggests "An Aztec Romance"by O. U. Roan which was nr'eibriefly nt the Manhattan Ope'House several years ngo, Tl.f'will be a Keystone comedy

pictures shown.Rlanehe Sweet is the 'nr

"The Dupe," which veil' e erthis week at the Strand Tk. i'"Frank Reiehor prnilmi! '

piece, Hector Turnliull wrotestory. Margaret Tiirnb ill .

verted it into a picture phiv. sino end of famous persons wcrconcerned in the artistic i,l- --

ture which landed it event un"'on the screen. The hero no i n

social secretary who rpfue t j

allow herself to lie made Mte e

tim of an unhappy wife 1. V nrfor a corespondent. .Inn Ptib'nlPerle Frank, Rruen Wcyv.Carl Kdouardn will supi - 'hmusic.

Almn Hntilon will be ninttrnrtlnn nt the Globe T'crethis week, where W. A Rr.i.K- -

to put "The Weak'"-Man-011 the programme 11

Millie Hurke in "Clmi..'- - t: '

mnncc." Associated with M

Hanlon on the screen v "Holhrook Hlinn nnd 1'Woodruff. This will he Mi.chapter of the Rillir Mi't "'""

Myrtle Stedman '

star of "Tho America', H.at the Hroadway Thc.it'. r .

sensation of thf film '

shipwreck, showing Mic 'rt hut precedes such a '

There will lie music, aid : ,v

of picture plays wil1 pre.-.- .

main play of t li prop- - ' vWilliam Farnuni - ..c f

a man from the- - Wr-- iAcademy of Music tin- - at'. '

He is gointr to plav 11 a ti'nsion of "The Mail From V ' "

Root." Retty Hchaiie wil' .U"-'-

with him. The pie'c. - ' ' '

from Caroline l.ockhnitof the same inline.

"How Rritatti 1'ivpn'

hi scon lli'.s n ft i' 1" a '

Standard Thentre, I n .' '1its long run at t In- !... '

atre' last night. 'I" " ' -

pictures v, ill I v j

every day ilunnc M

The lug piptur. "lie scon afi "'P I

tion" at the I lb. .

"Civili.alion" in Hi-- 'Theatre.