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12 WEEK DN 'V THE BTJOOTvLYX DAILY EAGLE. NEW SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1914 Some of the Reasons That Cause Local Theatergoers to Turn a Deaf to the Wail of the Magnates About Bad Business. THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS OF THE What Does the New York Public I' rpW Owe the Theatrical Managers? 0) A-C fWT i reasons. Tho multmllculoi.

of t.hea- 1 I 1 V1 TO 3 Cl -V. mil! fin of Broadway to i.li.) ether thorn Is o. mighty rvlccged wail going up f'-oiu lie purveyors of the-t'lieaj Tim bot-drcpped out of lie business. the ether there Is 0. mighty! iberoT theatergoers.

I'fV A Out-of-T own Patrons Furnish 'W ZrSk I fv V. The Usual Rich Harvest. IfV i l-nVL" JMMMWWtW r-r ry 'f 11' I V-'W t. TOn "THP THTHrt'-, THAT COUNT 'I SCENE TROn "THE THINGS THAT COUNT." a hwA If hi Dickens Play, Fritzi Scheff, 'The Dummy', And 'Things That Count' in Brooklyn Louis Parker's "The Highway of Lite," a Dramatization of "David CoperPeld," Coming to the Montauk with the Original Cast and Production 'fThe Things That Count" at trie'' Deri'alb "Pretty Mrs Smith" Comes to the Majestic Broadway Has "The Dummy," si torn bps OIJ App and Spirit ft itiliHtisitiii pRces the Rtnlto wlmjs of Easy Money, the the Street, arc drooping dc- y. Woe is Uin theatrical man-tter! Uis oflices are crowded with Pfti.

Glooms and unemployed actors, mill together tlioy mourn for tho Mifcekols that arc nut. The philosophic are cursing the war us the cause of their misery. Others have found the root of the evil nearer homo, In the tariff, the general hard times, tho unreasoning critics who arc ruining the business, and other carts that lead horses. For one reason or tmi.thor (he public has turned Its back r.pon the theater. It will not read he.

billboards; "tho greatest dramatic triumph of tho century" cannot marshal quorum and must go to the ttorehuu.se, or on tho road, where things are worse instead of bettor. The public is really to blamo, according to Broadway, tor it finds r.oney for other things, even in hard times, aiid has been Known to crowd (heaters during times of panic. Now it stubbornly refuses to bo conscripted for a march to the box office. The leanness of seven lean years has of a sudden. Tho trusting, altruistic theatrical managers who have 601 ved theatergoers so faithfully have come at Jaat to Know that their confidence has been misplaced, that the public is a monster of ingratitude, that strikes down Us true honc.rac.lur The Conscienceless Public Which Remains Unmoved.

And still the public's withers arc unwrung iuul its tears unshed. Sometimes it seems that a subtle, diabolical smile can bo delected by the knowing ones, who seo in the new twist of affairs a slight trace of tho vindictive. lis though it marked the slow luiniix of the lethargic worm. All this, of i course, is conjecture. Tho public, Is i not t.y nature vindictive, and even if ii neie, it is mcapat.ie ot such coll- ii icy action, i ertuuuy it treasures its amusements and would not deliberately bring misfortune 1o the army of entertainers, the rank and tile of the i'cling profession.

For them tho situation is serious and deplorable. There is nu mawkish fenliment in the con-ern that is felt by all who possess true humane feelings for the pour r.cturs and actresses who are sufTerini; as a result of the present conditions. ut as a matter of truth, does the Niw York public own the theatrical malinger Is there any real reason why the public should rallv to bis support in this or any other crisis? The public is generous. It can be relied upon to come to the support of an worthy cause, if it is aroused. It is conceivable that it could be rallied to ipport the.

tne.iter in time of need. If it looks upon it as an institution in every way worthy of its support. The Boomerang that Produced Present Theatrical Conditions. New York Is the producing center of ihe theatrical business as well as the chief source of prollt to the theatrical magnates, although the system of ex-pit Itation they have devised enables to the last dollar from tho "provinces" as well. However, it Is the metropolis that counts.

When business is good here, meager profits from the secondary source, the road, can be endured. The trouble at present is that both sources of prollt have been affected, and especially nt the fountain headNow York. What has actually happened is that economic conditions throughout the country have caused a tremendous Plump in the number of visitors In the city. This has hit the hotels as hard as it has hit the theaters. One of the.

largest hotels reported not long ago that it was running l.onn patrons a week behind the usual number at this season. There are several other i tute a full evening's entertainment, there will be. fewer plays than ever before, as the total will be but thrnov The chief of these is in four scenoH, (he changes of which will be made without a lowering of the curtain. In ihe lapse of time this play will oc-. I cupy ubout one hour.

There will be I a new comedy by a well known au-I thor, and a drama of "thriller" New Attractions Theaters This Week In other words, the chief support of Manhattan theaters comes from out-of-town patrons, the floating population, made up of visitors from nil over this country and Ihe world, and large contingent of "New Yorkers" who live here or.ly a few months of the year. When the luilux and reflux of this stream Is affected the theaters suffer. At lirst glance It might seem strnngc. that the largest center of population In the world, a city with 10.000,000 of people within easy traveling' distance of its theaters, should depend upon visit' ors from a distance for patronage. It is easy to understand why our visitors should spend their money In the theaters.

They constitute one of the city's principal attractions. They hold what a large number of transients particularly want to sua, and are willing to pay well for the privilege of seeing. It Is a really scientific system, as far as the theaters and the ticket, specula tors ure concerned. They have what the visitors want, and have the money i to pay tor, and the rich harvest that is netted proves that, In normal times, the business is sound. The Flaw in the System That Develops in Hard Times.

It is only In hard times, or under un usual conditions, that the one flaw in the system becomes apparent. Such a time Is the present, when the army of spendthrift theatergoers, willing to', Pay i', j.i and even a seat tor any old "show," falls to invade the theatrical Suddenly. In midst of in.TM.flM of people, the theaters are. empty, and managers cannot find tor their best wares. It is realiv a remarkable situation, but not Inevr-'ieiihie.

The trouble is that those 10,000,000, more or less, are "wise." Dur'ng the fat yavs hoy have been tree I'd with insolent in 1 inference by tho managers. Wh-wi (Uov have been lured to ho hot i'V notust icsire to see the lfr'erii'g they have been liscourti '-'formed 'lint there ore no good seats, "re. "wise" ones know that they are ttu hotels, the ticket agencies and 'he h.imls of the speculators. They get a seat in the rear of the house somewhere, in which case they are treated as though a great kindness had been done them. Short Out-of-Town Memories And Long City Dittos.

Alas, for the city theatergoer, he is apt to be disappointed In the j.lav, or Ihe "show," even then, Heally, good attractions are scarce, in tho best seasoas. If tho playgoer happens to tlnd that he has picked one of the numerous "successes" forced along for purposes of being advertised on the road as a play with a long New York "run," he accepts the situation like, a martyr, but he does not forget. One unfortunate experience of that kind causes the occasional theatergoer to curtail his visits to tho playhouse by one half, and he leaves the play resolved to find his amusement henceforth at the movies or elsewhere. The out-of-town visitor is or another stripe. Me has the best of everything, lie pays a little more for seats, but be gets good ones, and he will probably like the show.

As compared with Ihe last road company ho saw In his home town, it is a great treat. He has no such standards of comparison as the city theatergoer, and even if he is not enthusiastic about the piece, he thinks little about it. He expects to be gulled in New York, ami he lias a short memory as to how and when he was "strung." It is obvious that before the New York public wastes any sympathy on the. theatrical malingers who are complaining of bail business, the managers must do something to win the confi dence of the public that lives here all the year. 1 here are enough potential theatergoers in this big community to support all the theaters, year in and year, out, but be "ore there is any change in their attitude, the managers who need their patronage will have to revise their present system.

An operetta. music.iMv wnh book. excellent ami av a musiial cimivij Iv l-anrl. a new una bv Ocorgp Ilruud-hurt which lells a lurid rtory dramatlc.il-ly. Well ucti-il.

with punch at one end oivd soiiic uniuslnit ciimedj' at the other. Hla." A lively farce, with plenty of old and now which re divi-rtlns Clev.T and acting Loi.g A charmint little play of Ihe "Pen o' Jlv Heart with Huth Chuttorton a delightful Judy A new i.xtrnvuBiinsa. in which tnuv'aro at tluir best. Thoruughlj pn.ioyatjlc. Sort." A new theme, made interesting JInie.

"Mar. the World'' elalv.raie uroducilon of beautiful naireantrV and educational merit, combined with the usual spectacular features only pjtsiole liie big Irvine riltee-Kxccllent German Stock Com. pany. tviilckcrhooker "The Cfrl Frn.n An entertaining musical ami duncine comedy. In which Julia l.

a.d Mrian and Joseph Cawtboro win now l-urels In pieaslnp roles. l.ibrrfy-' I'yBniallon." Iiernard Shaw's latest "cmkohu, entertain- inent, presett ed by Mrs. llnck and an excellent company. l.iitlr-"A 1'alr of slllt Stockings." A lace and llncrle atfair capably presented In." A melodrama that tells an absorbitiB story with humor acted by John llarrymore and a b-o0. com' patiy.

I.yi-euiii An interesting, but not a very dramatic piny, in which Halo appt'ai's to advantage. Miliibllttlill Oin-i-a the biBf.st spectacular meloUrai'ua ork litis -ew witl, sordid theine' ttiKer Whitesida and unusuul stage, settings. "iiesida cv Darling." of a new musical "show ThI l-'reii' Ii plot is not over relined. house "Jly Lady's Dress." A discerning theatergjer. I Well acted and staged.

"rgutra. Hnnrh 11,1.1 Marriage of cum- I ineater; I y1? "ettln'g story is led very convincing, rlilrly-tillllh Street "The High Cost xarce, not alto- i I', "nming with 1-v Ciel.l- ihR stt-r i IV" a- ecijtiiijjQ Hawk." An ltiferestitiK 1" 'rench pi.i) ruvvr.stiam, la (lahrlelle Dorzlat and Conway Teari imv Only Ofrl." A new musical pleCH OV M. HHfl Henry Jtloa 1 j-om. J-nterTHiniiiB. (winter "Dancing Around." An I elahorate production, fairly amusing, with Al -lolson and other clever entpruinern, Pome good songs and dRnclng, marred by vulgarity and cuarsenen.

Guide to Current Plays froles last season, Mr. Morocco having "ti.rst the vicinity ol th const, that timo It lias been re- part 't he storv has to do wltli a society woman no nas gonfi- to i'aim iHtacn to seek rt and peclnskm afier set.a-rutiiiK from her husband. The latlnr hajipcus to be her thlnl partner In tlie nitti'inionial panie. The others are to be dead, but tliev return to alarm "Frettv Mrs. The third husband chances In, and with the three the heroine ha3 an exciting' lane.

Tilings Tlint Count." William A. Urady will present Lau- T-nn fa "Thn Things that Count," 'at the DoKalb Then I or this week. This play, which has been seen hero before, was ap- proved by the clergy, educators and r.l..v- iiu.l Ai-tinln. S(1(. jleMt; Alice the daughter of William A.

Brady, will head the company at Ihe DeKalb. Miss Brady, who was recently seen as the featured player in "What. Is I.ovc?" is a young actress t-f considerable talent who has made her way upward in her profession through hard work and ability. Uniailwa.v lias "The Dummy." "The Dummy," which had a long run at the Hudson Theater, is coming to the Broadway Theaier this week with tlie same east that was seen in Manhattan. "The Dummy" is too well known to rocitiiro an introduction.

It is a. detective comedy, written by Harvey O'illggins and Harriet Ford, who wrote "Tho Argylo use. with four acts of fun, exciting plot, "heart interest" and characterizations. It was founded on tho "Detective Barney" stories of Mr. O'lliggins.

originally published In Collier's, which chronicled the exploits of a "boy detective." This young sleuth Harney, of "The Dummy," Is played by Finest Truex. Others in tlie cast are: Edward Kllis, whose Spider is a feature of tho play; Jane Oaker, who ptays Hose; Joseph I'renmin, the Bobbing; Fdith Snayne. Frank Connor, Gus Forbes, II. A. La Motto, John X.

Wheeler, John Win-throp, Nicholas Judcls and little Joyce Fair. HUNTER COLLEGE GIRLS TO PLAY FOR RED CROSS The girl students of Hunter College, formerly tho Normal College, have decided to give a thousand dollar benefit lor the Hod Cross Fund. It will consist of three performances of "Prunel la, or Love in a Dutch Garden the evenings of January 23 and 26, and one, espet ially for the associated alumnae of the college, on tho afternoon of January 25. This was the play successfully presented by Winthrop Ames, with Marguerite Clarke in the title role, at the Booth Theater. It is by Laurence Housman and H.

Granville Barker. For tlie last six years the Play Year of Hunter College has given a Christmas play. At first the cast was con-lined to the senior class, but more recently tho Play Year has consisted of the tower seniors and the upper juniors. Tills years they voluntarily relinquished their time-honored right to be the sole performers in this important annual event and voted to chango the date and give the entire student, body an opportunity to compete for the various parts in order that the boneflt might be representative of the entire college and thus get the support of all of the 1,400 undergraduates and the Associated Alumnae. PAVLOWA TO DANCE FOR RED CROSS BENEFIT Tho Music League of America has arranged witli tlie Pavlowa management for a gala performance in the Metropolitan Opera Mouse cm ov.

m- HOM a purely literary point of view Louis W. l'ai'Uefs "The Highway of Life, recently nrpscntcd at Wallack Thcati in Manhattan deserves to take lirst place among the productions ot the year In it. the author- preserved most effectively the "Dickens atmosphere!" reproduoinff in many elaborate scene? the characters and incidents of Dickons' "David Coppei'lield Mr- Parker's efforts did not meet with great success In Manhattan, probably because the taste that prefers Dickens to i 'popular" fiction Is sadly lacking along liroadwav. The IJeblcr Company is i sendimr tho original production andrast i lo the Montauk Theatre this week, "ami the thousands of Srooklynites who lovo Dickens and enjoy an evening the theatre should see "The Highway of Life." The chief objection to the piece at the lime of the original production was its length. It is a series of stage pictures rather (han a drama, but it.

is well done and holds Ihe Interest. "The Dummy," which was recently pronounced by an audience nt the Montauk to lie worth while, comes to the Broadway this week with the same company. The Things That Count, at the DeKalb, has been seen here before. It is clean and wholesome, comedy. At the Majestic the attraction is "Frettv Mrs.

Smith," a "comedy with music." which was recently seen at the Casino in Manhattan. It is somewhat short on comedy and the songs are few, but it has a good singer In Frit.l Scheff and a capital pair of entertainers In Charlotte tJt'eenwood and Sydney Grant. Last week attention was called to the Crescent Theater's opportunity to serve Brooklyn theatergoers by presenting really good plays at popular prices. The Crescent is making a gootl start in lie right direction by presenting Haddon Chambers' play, "Passers By," this week. This Is a play that should have, a wide appeal, and theatergoers generally should find the Crescent production interesting.

"Till: IIKilUVAY OF LIFE." At the Montauk Theater "The High-nay of Life" will be the attraction this week. The play is based on Dick ens great story, "David Copperfield." In fact, according to Mr. Parker's own description, it is Dickens himself, page for page, line for line, situation for situation. The play has been elaborately mounted by the Liebier Company and includes eleven scenes made from models which were originally to have been made in England, but can be labeled now "made In America." Gates tind JJorange. who were tho scenic build ers ot tne itenier spectacles at tho Century Theater, have made this pro duction, ihe costumes are designed in remarkable accuracy and not only to the period but to the artistic char acter of Cruikslmnk's drawings.

The long east reintroduces Kmmett Corrigan anil Lennox Pawle. Mr. ('nr. rigan will play Dan I peggotty. Mr.

Pawle will appear as Micawber, the Immortal. His wifo. Miss Dorothy Parker (daughter of tho English dramatist), will appear as Ein'ly. The cast includes J. V.

Bryant, Aliss Eva Vincent. Pince Miller, Miss Khoda Ileresford, Master John Mealy, Miss Ldyth Latimer, Vernon Steel, Philip Toiige. Fred Nieholls, Lionel Deaiic, Boitve Souther. Traeey Barrow, Leslie Ityecroft, Alfred Bueklaw, Miss Emma Chambers, Miss Dorothy Parker, J. 11.

Green, Miss Louie Emery, Miss Ann Gascon, Mrs. Maggie Fisher, Master Kmmet Bradley, Miss Arlino Dewey, Miss Gladys Bradley, Miss Kieser, P. Ileggie. Miss Helen Weathersby and Miss Mabel Stanton. Fril.i Solicit Ht Majestic.

Fritzi SchelT, in "Pretty Mrs. Smith," will come to the Majestic Theater this week. Associated with Miss SchelT will bo Charlotte Greenwood of "Man With Three Wives" and Winlor Garden fame; Sydney Grant and Georgo Anderson. Oliver Morosco wrote the play, assisted by Klmor Harris, and Henry James and Karl Carroll are responsible for the music and lyrics. The work was originally brought out in Loa Au- To represent the four-scene play especially, a much larger group of players will be required than has appeared so far at the Princess Theater.

Most of tho Princess players as known to New York audiences will remain. SHAKESPEARE IN BERLIN At the beginning of tho autumn, Ileinhardt dropped Shakespeare's plays from the repertory of tho Deutsohes Theater in Berlin, fearing lest some thoughtless part of its public might "manifest" against, them under stress of the antagonisms of tlie war. Soon however, ho found his subscribers asking for one anfl another of Shake-1 speare's pieces, which on both sides of the footlights are. the strength of tho house. To fortify himself, ho asked the opinions of various eminent scholars, artists and men of letteis in Hor-lin, and printed their reply in tho little paper that the theater issues.

Hero are three enlightning specimens of them: Maximilian Harden, the editor of Die Zukunft, and a German of Germans, replies: "If only all stag-o questions were as simple as this! Of course, Shakespeare must be played now and in the future. We can in no way dissolve the ties which bind us to one of the chief ancestors of our German culture." Professor von Harnack, the director of the Royal Library, says that Shakespeare belongs to the world and must be played. Max Lieberman, the painter, writes that Germany paya homage to Shakespeare as one of the world's giants, and Shakespeare is aa closely connected with Germany as if he belonged to It. "We must play him as the representative of the old England, which would be ashamed of the Pharisaical conduct of the present Knglnnd, and in order to show that we have too much discrimination to mix Chauvinism with such questions of culture." Boston Transcript. DRAMA LEAGUE BULLETIN "Outcast," Hubert.

Henry Davle3 play, in which Elsie Ferguson Is appearing at the Lyceum Theater, haa been commended by the playgolng committee of the Drama League. Tha plays now running which have been named in the Bulletin are: "Tha Hawk," "The Phantom Rival," "My Lady's Dress," "Pygmalion" and "Man Goes First." ADDRESS BY EDITH FCRXESS. Edith Ellis Furness, author of "Mary Jane's 'and Charles D. Coburn ol the Coburn Players, will address tha third public conference of the MessiaU Social Service League In the Churcll House of the Church of the Messiah, Manhattan, tonight, at 8:15. Their sutx ject is, "The Theater: The Great Peace Art." The Rev.

John Haynea Holmes will preside. This conference is one of a series held Sunday evenings for the discussion of topics of current social interest. It will consider tho stage in its relation to social service. COMIXG EVENTS. "The Whirl of the World," which ran for twenty-two weeks at the New Yorli Winter Garden, will be the Thanksgiving week attraction at tho Majestlo Theater, following the engagement of Fritzi Scheff in "Pretty Mrs.

Smith." The original players to be seen. Includa Kugeno and Willie Howard, Moon anil Morris, John T. Murray, Burrell Bar-baretto and Emily Lea, the Ward! Brothers, Clarence Harvey, Mile. Cha-pine, Juliette Lippo, Edward CutTBr, Lewis J. Cody and others.

May Irwin, the popular comedian, will appear at the Montauk Theate Thanksgiving week in a new comedy by Catherine hishohn Gushing titled Another Great Rush of Come to Manhattan "The Ills Idea" nt Hie Hudson. At the Hudson 'Theater tomorrow evening Charles Gilmure will present "The Big Idea," described as an tin- usual play from tlie pens of A. E. Thomas and Clayton Hamilton and produced tinder the direction of Cohan Harris, who announce tlie cast ensemble as follows: Ernest Glen-denning, Kiohard Sterling, William Courtieigh, Forest Hobinson, Harold Lussell, George Wright Harold Grau, Desmond Kellcy, Isabel Garrison, Hazel Dowry and Frances Wright. i French Drama Season Opens.

The full company which is to appear under tho auspices of the French Drama Society here during the next ten weeks, at the Century Lyceum Theater, has arrived In New York. It includes some very competent artists who have played at the Francais, the Odeon, the Gyinnu.sc and other Paris theaters. The first play of the season, which will be given every evening next week, Is "l'ne Femme I'assa," by Komain Coolus. The society will also give a special matinee on Friday of Kostand's "Ko-tnancsques," which will be preceded by a short lecture. When Lucicn L.

Bonheur, president if the French Drama Society, was at school in France years ago, one of his classmates was Pierre Wolff, who is today one of France's most celebrated dramatists. The two men also did their military service together, and when Mr. Bonheur went to Paris early this year to engage artists for the French season here, M. Wolff remembered that old friendship so well that he released Mile. Guerande from her contract to create tho principal part in his new play this winter, thus enabling her to come to New York.

Mile. Gturando will be seen here In "l'ne Fcmme Passu," "Lcs Romanesques" and other plays "The Trallic" the New York. "The Trallic," a so called "white slave drama," which was seen at the DeKalb Theater last season and was presented at the Grand Opera House here last week, Is going to Manhattan, opening at. the New York Theater to morrow night "The Trallic" Is by Rachael Marshall and Oliver Bailey, and deals with the tratile in girls. During its run in Chi cago it was indorsed by prominent sociologists, clergymen and public officials.

The cast of players include Bess Sankey, King Strong, Eva French, Syi-via de Frankie, Edwin Levin, John Daley, Robert Middlemass and Leo Lindhard. AViillcnstein" tit the Irving Place. The first production staged this season bv Director ltndolf Christians of ihn German Irving Place Theater, will he H-iven Wednesday night. Mr. be iriven Wednesday night.

Mr l'leeni-rln" little iilav from the war of '70. Mr. Christians only returned fZUW iwed 7o payers "lo reinforce his stock company. "What It Means to Woman." What It Means to a Woman" Is tho title of a new modern play la "four I i I I i i I acts which H. H.

Frazce will present for the first timo In New York in his Longacro Theater Thursday evening. What a woman will do without the motive eliminated the ntio is de pleted in the first three acts 01 tne play, which has been written by E. H. Gould mid F. Whitehouse.

Wtib everything to' contribute to her happiness, including a husband, even if he fails in everything, a young wife doliber-alely "goes the pace." Successive episodes tell the story of restless seeking al'u-r new sensations, which is afterward attributed to he tilcf does not love her husband, although she married him In preference to another. Admonitions, and finally the blunt truth from her husband and friends fail to deter her. The brighter side of the picture is presented in tha final act, where the woman comes to her senses in a new environment, after having run gamut 'of sensations and wrecking her own home because she was mismated. The principal role will be interpreted by Kita Jolivct, who heads the cast of players, including Frank Mills, Joseph Kllgour. Laura Nelson Hall, Alice John, Catharine Calhoun, Jean Juliet Shelby, Marlon Lord, Florence St.

Leonard, P.oyden Keith, Arthur Hyman and others. The play has been staged under the direction of Edgar MacGro-gor. "The Garden of Paradise," at the Park. After many months of preparation, involving, it is claimed, over $100,000, and the employment of Joseph Urban and his entire staff from the Boston Opera Company to prepare the scenery and design the dresses, the Liebier Company announces the first production of "The Garden of Paradise," at the Park Theater on Friday evening. This play, by Edward Sheldon, is a dramatization of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid." Probably the greatest surprise promised will be the illusion of scenes under the sea, and other stage pictures for which Joseph Urban was famous in his scenery made for the Boston Opera House of "Monna Vanna," "Jewels of the Madonna," "La Bo-heme" and other well known operas.

This is the. greatest oroduction of the career of the Liebier Company for (iftpn vears." savs George C. Tyler, ot the Liebier Company. An augmented orchestra, under the direction oi Nahan Franko, will play the incidental music for "The Garden of Paradise," written by Arthur Farwell. The entire production is under the stage direction of O.

P. Heggle. The cast includes Littledale Power, Jessie Villa rs, Minnie Terry, Phyllis Thatcher. Emily Stevens, Lionel Bra-ham, Sheridan Block. Harmon B.

Cheshire, Murray Kinnell. John Rogers Ashetou Tonne. Clarence Felter, Maud Hildvard, George Kelph, Murray Kinnell W. W. Gear.

Frank Conroy. A Barrett, Bennett Kilpnck Hug'i McCr'ae Maurice Kit-hard Hale, Clifford Walker, Frank Conroy. Lionel Brahani. Hence Kelly, Harry Ne ville H.isinn Henley, itosaue umimeii Airnes DoTtitee. Eva.

Michener, Hazel Tiirnev; Eutmemia rown and ilch- arij u'nie Sheridan Block New BU. -rnMter "of Ktt will reopen Saturday evening, with an entirely new programme oi one- act plays. Although these will consjl BROOKLYN IH jon II rim way "The Dummy." litiNlm i'k B. Keith vaudeville. iiIiio "Girls of the Great "White Way.

1 olii in lla Icw vanflfville. 1 'rrnniit "l-'asscrs lIcKnlb "The Things Thut Count." Kiliplrc Dtive Murlun's Company, l-'lnlliufih V'audfvillp. Knlton I-oew vauflrville. tothtiiii "The Family f'uphoaiti." CJnjfty "The Mischief roiil "The Chorus Liidy." I.lbf rty I.oew vaufleviiKv MnJeHtio "'rtty Mrs. Pmith MiHiinuk "The Highway t-f I-ift." Orplieum B.

F. vau-loville. Iaytn' "The House of Horning. lroniett B. F.

Kfirh vauJtvi.Je. ShnbertLoew vaudeville. ftar "Auto Girig." Warwick Loew vaudeville. MANHATTAN NEW ATTRACTIONS. Mnnday "The Hik Idfa." "The Tniflic." New York.

"L'ne I'Vtnme Passa." Ontury Lycouin. WrdiifNdu "Wal lens tin." Irving Vhico. Tburndoy "What It Mean." tu a Wt.iun," Longacre. I'rlduy "The Garden of Paradisr," Park, Nalurday Tlirde new nlays. prliiLvifs.

PLAYS NOW RUNNING. A or "The Miracle Man." An interesting and well acted play by Ofirgi: M. centrring uround a vvneinliif fait li-lit-aier whose simple goodness rliititf lis over a band of erookri- BrlHri "The Phantom Rival." A genuine tuniedy novelty, wholly delightful. acted and staged. Ilniit "Kxu'-rlenrp." A splendid production of a modern morality play that is big and moving.

Well acte.j and intently inierest-mg. Candlrr "On Trial." A remarkably and absorbing nn-dodraina, splendidly staged and acted. Cnallio "Suzi." A tuneful eomeriy operetta nil i i'h huh better music than loiuedy, but strike a fair average. Cohan Pays to Advertis-." A capital farce, "built fur laughing purposes only," which Is n.a1f enj-jjable by a cumpauy of competent actors. Comrdy Gnes Firs! leal I3i)gdiPh ciiiifly Jone.

pitfentfd by Marl' A light salir-Henry Arthur Teinpeht and an Knglish company. Cort "Cndr Cover." Swift moving melodrama of myetery, thrills and romance, cleverly acted and entertaining. KltlnaT "Innocent." An erotic play with a sensational appeal. It la a Borlld. unrelieved ftory of a woman's debasement.

Well acted in the main. limpirr "Diplomacy. A revival, refurbished, of play, witli "William Gillette, Blanche Hates and Marie Doro. 7rty-fourth Street "Tlic Lilac Dyniino." ber 24. New and hitherto unseen bal- tians will present Schiller's "Wallen-lets will bo presented, and the pro- stein's Lager." tlie prelude of the fatn-ceeds will be devoted to the woj-k of i.us Walli nstein Trilogie.

"Die picolo-Iho lied Cross, the impartial mini" and Wallenstein's Tod" follow in instrument ef mercy to the wounded Iquiek succession. With "Wallenstein's soldiers of all nations and th0 bereft Lager" will be given "Kurmaerker und women and ciiiiarcn ol Europe, The committee includes Mrs, It. llavemeyer, Mrs. Willnrd Straight, Mrs. otto H.

Kohn. Miss Malvina Hoffman. Kndolf K. F. Flinsch, Mrs.

Llnzee lllngden, Dave Morris, Alvin W. Kreeh, Mrs. W. K. Vantler-I'llt, Hawlins John Henry Hammond..