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In The. Heir to the Hoorah." playing at the Columbia/this week.. Is a" Jap* «nese .actor who- assumes the role of a Japanese valet.- Hush. His name is Tamamoto; his place- with the best of the cast. I saw" him on Monday irighf followed : him through two acts and* then wondered If -Mr. Tamambtb were really valet to Guy Bates Post— a Jap anese valet, fey himself, 1 as they manage it in "Scotty." The illusion was perfect. You world have given -him your hat and gloves if you had met him in the desert; you.. would- have taken him ''on his- race" at any employment office' And ; . then, of course. I discovered that Tama : iuoto ; fs a very, clever actor; a ' very clever actor ;indeed.. Just how ? clever the role, .of course, offers but slight op portunity t« discover, as .he. quaintly •claims himself, but there is na more .flexible, adroit, -spontaneous work-done by any member of the company of "The . Heir to the.Hoorah"'than by ; Tama :\u25a0 m0t0..-'. • " ' .\u25a0['• •• \u25a0„•••:'.' • • \u25a0 I wondered what he thought of It all \u25a0•of.. "The Heir to the<Hobrah",as:'art. of .occidental. acting, of himself in- relation \u25a0to the American stage end such. I won dered <i-hBt his stage manager thought : of . bim. wondered, if Hush, "the- valet, were by chance only a phenomenally clever. parroting .of a stage manager's . id.en. a mere product of the Japanese •ygenius of • Imitation. -' : ~i :\u25a0:\u25a0 .'. Mr. Bro w-er took me behind the scenes to find out.- Robert, Brower,- who has managed more famous people ' than «yen one's grandmother. could mention. r The old gentleman was • gently' com- (this was Tuesday night) that they had .had to came all the way to San Francisco to find -out -that "The Heir is a bad- play. He told me tjf its triumphs In Xew Yorlcof iti victories upon tbe road, ana then- of his 'grieved surprise at its reception here. "It's not a great play." he owned," "but it is wholesome and' amusing and a 'pretty good plaj,' on tho whole." ; so think. 1.. 1 told him; and" then we . came . upon Mr.' Tamamoto, pouring out the "cocktails." the, nrst of the sec ,: ond act. He met, my request for an in terview much as,, he might have met - \u25a0*.'*, request for »• chair — which, cour ,. te'oysly, he* immediately set for -me sin • -.the . mimic- dining-room, just out of eight of the audience.' V.— Whisky?" I asked. te begin* things. '\u25a0\u25a0nodding' af the" glasses. "Tea," Mr. \u25a0 Tamamoto confessed- Then h& ex . plained, We used to have champagne, :. but on these one-night stands you can \u25a0\u25a0-: hot always purchase it." « • "These one-night stands!" not an .. actor of them -all could have said it \u25a0'•''more accustomedly.' '•_. .\u25a0' "You have been long with the com ' pany?" I Queried. \ . •i/"I was" (with precise pride 'this) '."one of the.origtnalcastl" ,\u25a0>'.. "And before" that. Mr. Tamamoto?" "-\u25a0;:'• ''"I 'was in the commercial business '--•"pardon me." . \u25a0 He had had one ear on his cue, and .-'.now glided to the open door'with the .tray of cocktails, ready, smiling; alert, s '.the valet perfect. He came back just Vj-a* -.coolly to the business, of the Inter . view. It -was so. throughout. Off or on, !-',lifce~a bit of. syncopated accompanl ; rneht, . the." . valet jumps in and out /through the -«cene, his "Yes, sir," .'..'\u25a0••'Xo, sir." filling m like a bit of animate .\u25a0mortar. The part is like those grand : opera' bits, never noticed unless -they • are badly done; all work and no glory — \u25a0'.., and % hard work. But like clockwork .in j-.its rhythm, \u25a0 and like anything but' "^clockwork in its spontaneity, "was Ta • 3nam'ot6*S"valet, ; and as instantly be , *ween bits 'he- was at my side, without :.. a' ruffle to his 'name. -' lt was a repose -./'Nap'oleonic. ' " •. • •'\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0"-;; He resumed: "I was -in the obmmer •r:cTal iusiness before this — " •'• -.- : . "Is it possible that* you never acted -.'.before?" -I exclaimed. • -'-'."Ph. yes." Tamamoto replied, "I was :'-ln -:t'he dramatic business at home, be ..•J&reVl came 'to America," , . * -.. /Now we were getting at it. But why '\u25a0•had "Mr. "Tamamoto chosen then r to try Vjfor American instead of Japanese stage ;. -laurels? . ' . .. ; Mt. Xamamoto explained it: "This ' \u25a0.country Is very much, easy 'for actors '. than my country. Here one can' be star • in' a. f few years.. There one must work \u25a0-.•for many, .many years before he can be ' : . accounted anything.* A Japanese actor ."^has. to be able to play anything — com ?-'tdy, tragedy, all roles. . Then. . he/ must have Ability also to "play fe- i y .Triitle' roles — it is hard to- be great .actor .- -Iri -Japan." . . . • ' ; / "' ••A-nd what did you play, there, Mr. .'• Tamainotb?" ': . ; -*V«: \u25a0.'."'.\u25a0 \u25a0-\u25a0*• "'} r! : >: r"Traredy, ' comedy, both." Tamamoto .-\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0• *ia.Mj-. • "I have done all kind 'of work ;!:tlic : re."".,, . , ' \u25a0 .' . * ';.'.••. -""Do you find that the ..Japanese dra •••\u25a0'.. jhatic schooling helps you in the', occi :. •jje.hial drama'?'*. ". \u25a0•\u25a0;-•\u25a0" "On. -ye?,"' the Jap'an.ese said — and ;.'!'-Oh,. yc-s,"-;is his most e*xpres ''slon. ' "I" .haven't had the honor to \u25a0V^uidy in America at all." ; -..'"Then the 'Japanese teach acflng in ;.'the same way tjiat it is taught here?" .V. '-'Oh, • yes," * the actor emphasized .again. "But we must. Study more there ..than her*'. # We have- first to learn to .'.dance, and to* move hands and 'feet dis gracefully — gracefully. They will not • '•Ryei> let ypu go on the stage until you =:"hkve learned. Not even amaleurs. No . matter how. Intelligent one is, one has to to .througti with this first. And t^en, on'the* stage, under the master's *.•«,' one learns to act." . \u25a0 ' ; "And every, actor jnu.st learn every Icijjd of part — but sujely there are : .comedians too.riv and others -born to .'tragedy, in* Japan Just as with us?" • .': °""Qh, yes,*", and Tamamoto explained that: , "If one -is most -fit for it- he will \u25a0get the comedy or tragedy part, but he" HAW ABOUT A DISPLAY OF REJECTED CANVASES ? •." # Did you "ever hear. of an exhibition of '•rejected canvases? " . • Neither did L put xny 'word for It, It * wnuld be tremendously fnteresting— to the public, if n»t to the bruised and bleeding, artists. And I.'ll stake my new Easter " Milan that a second Jury would vindicate, the value of a good naif of the" discarded ' cifnvases. and. throw out a good- half of those accepted. * To be sure "there are always pictures in '. an exhlbitiQnthat are head and shoulders over the mass. And if the canvases them • eelv<s are not, the appended names are — Shakespeare notwithstanding. . • With this class of work, the Jury feels . 'but.gmall necessity for. scrutiny— Keiths . are Keiths, Matthews* are Matthews, "Peter/" are Peters, and of course they I «o in without question— and usually de servedly. * . • But it is with the great bulk of the .' middle-class pictures— and incidentally un '- familiar names— that the* Jury "gets balled , up. 'And; here's where . the; trouble •be gins—the differentiation between the ac , *,ceplable and the non-acceptable. . ,Now, since" th,ere is no absolutism in art, lio. definite yardstick of requirements, . ft easy to. see that personality Is going. to A^* a big factor in deciding, the . fate of Whose middle-class, pictures— personality *%nd— well, what's the use in hesitating to «ay the truth?— friendship and often reci- Pprocity. . In the current spring exhibition four a rtists out <jf the five that ; composed the .Jury. were competitors— a customary bift « • * • must "know how to do ajl kinds of parts', and sometimes will 'have to do bther than his specialty.". - \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 "And when does the actor become a star in Japan?" ." "Not for long time"—^thls with a rare .laugh — "but one acts there under a Danjuro. pPrr r Kokoro for many years.- Then, If those actors approve" you they give you •&. diploma and ydu are a star. They give a.lso. and ''this is —a great "onor, their honorable name , to 'you.' ( DanJuro has .been for hundreds of >;eers great actors' name' in Japah." "Hush!" -fromtthe stage. : ; The -next moment I heard the bright, shallow, metallic .voice saying to the intruding- butler: . , •' . \u25a0 \u25a0 . "You get. out of hsre," the Jaugh-ter fojlowing, and then the noise of the butler's supposed, .tumble -.-downstairs after the valet's" application of Jiu .jitßU. *. . . • .. • "Like a- graveyard out there," g^um bfed the butler, as he shot through the dtvor, and he ought to know something of audiences — Harry Rich?; confrere of McCullough, Booth and almost every famous actor of -the ! American stage. "Was that • real Jiu-jitsu?" I asked Tamamoto as he rejoined me. ' ( "Yes," he smiled,.- "but I used not much force. \u25a0 It" -is, '..'in cases of ' emer gency, very useful." 'And then I asked the actor as to his own artistic predilections. "I like best tragedy," he informed me; "of course. I haven't any part here .'(!): there is no chance for any one to show •their ability, here: Iplay the part just a* manifestly unfair and unwise provision; r and an, arrangement permitted in no other; sort of competition, save in art But why in art? Are there not. competent men out side of competitors who could be prevailed upon to serve as Jurors? ' Perhaps' the verdict of the disinterested men would be the same as ; the verdict of the self-judging. Jurors, but it would ? at least carry with it a saner sense of Justice. It would\ at. least ' relieve the ex hibitors from the\suspic|on o.f practicing reclprocity-7-the "ytu be good to me and I'll be good to you'^stors'. > That such words are spoken among men of honor Is-,, of\ course, unthinkable. But that such ; thoughts V are uncon sciously communicated is human, merely human— and therefore^ the injustice of. a self-Judging jury,' not to mention the su preme Indelicacy, of it ! \ ' <: But, to got back to the exhibition of re jected canvasc?. a private view f of some of them, seen ' before thi opening of the exhibition,;sent my. ideaH| askyward of what the display .would be., \u25a0\u25a0=. To be sure, : there weie unthinkable things among the ''Junk,'.' but some that b«ld unquestioned ' qfaality tend no ; small degree of personality/and 'general; worth. "Ah!"'th*ought I, '.'this Jury musthave 'struck oil' in 7 , the . entries, \o have ' re jected some of these." \ . " •"../; And then the exhibition ppenid— with its promises not wholly , fulfilled."- ...V :'-' : Of the splendid : things ."on / thV walls,; l have spoken luxuriojusly ; of . tae middle class work, .with: comment; ;of \the ': bad things— and there are some thiass : that \u25a0straight Japanese- — of course, politeness is natuce .to; Japanese"— as^he . might hav.e said sjant'<ey'esi /. "It is only to be oneself, to play this. ' . I - like mucht bet ter my last part."- .- • \u25a0 • -. \u25a0. . r "This is not -the, ; flrst : part^ you ' have played iv, America?" \u25a0- -. . . • ';. "Oh, no," I Were . Tamamoto's clearest of black'eyes a little reproachful? "No," he continued, VI played Mn 'Th.c- White Tigress of.; Japan.' - It^was -there.Mr.- La.. Shel.le sa*w me arid engaged me for .'The Heir.' *• 1. liked 'mirch - that;. part. 1 1 was Japanese spy —^l killed half a -dozen Russians : everyjnlghM"; Tamamoto's enjoyment of ; this/ was; 'very . palpable. "It ' was' a,play ; of \u25a0 the war,- of, course, and .very exciting. 'V,' /: .'c > ', ,'j \u0084 . "Were there^ other Japanese actors in the cast?'.' I asked* him. .' : "No, - 1 \u25a0 was : the ; ' b-nly > one;" Japanese, and,". Mr. Tamamoto's smile/ included me 'as •> a ".journalistic 1 ", representative,' "therefore ;I ; had." the '•• honor \ to* receive many good notices.fromithe^presses." "Did you like the : play?"J I asked, j I knew "The - White - Tigress '\u25a0, of Japan" to be all-its; title paints^it. •" " • Tamamoto! did- like ' it. ,"It; haa ' a nice part .for me," .-he lpTits';it/v» quite, occi dentally., He : likes .."The; Heir to .the Hoorah.".. Ho declined :to; commit 'him self-as to other plays-^—just^why,' l don't know. -He' declined 'to commit himself as to • that . fascinating /quantity, -the American: actress. '• One of his jjeneral-; -izatlons as to : plays' ls:* "Any play must end -in « harmony • to satisfy 'the au dience." SlrHenry Irvlng'he acknowl- LAURA BRIDE POWERS '_ are bad \ as: the - worst|of j,thV : vjiank"— i have purposely.. ramalned j silent,-. believing that one misses thejoy'of . life by;scoop ing around! for bad things, and taints 'the Joy of "others.- . :.- '. '•' \u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0''\u25a0 Why note! the dead dog in the" Illy pond?. However,';by comparing. the, "junk". with some ;' of \u25a0\u25a0 the i accepted ." canvases— notably some '.of: fhe portraits 'and portrait stud ies—l .cannot suppress Vthe't desire to see a" frankiand 'open" exhibition *of, J the 're jected pictures'. • ' \ It would be ' tremendous ; fun— and Vit might effect a needed reform. ' " . . AVould ;j; j the 2 rejected ; artists "„ have sand enough to do it? I'd like to help, just for j. Santa v ßarbara, -^ with . .Its '; Andalusian sky and : sapphire ' sea ; - Its '.\u25a0 furrowed ' canyons draped » fti ;• chaparral ; i ts ' \u25a0 oak studded 1 fields ateem ; with blue' andgold; its gray;old:mlsslon,';c'mbattled : and -turreted,-" freighted, full; with?: sweet romance and j rosy; reveries— these I are' lur ing." the • painter : folks to , its ?sof tYcaresses's It's Santa Barbara now77if.lt isn't 5 Parish '-'lAmongI Among the ' things ' to ; happen' in ~- the Tart colony; there is 'the Charles ' Rollo -Peter 3. exhibition,; planned" to" taker-, precedence over ! May '' affairs.'r. : \:~"'t':- \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'';•• Wa;ter ' Pritchard ' is ' there, the \u25a0interest ing young^ Irishman"! with?' his. scintillant Tahitian; dreams- to'iba :translated?to?can vas.;; So,', too" is H;; J.: Breuer.^wholis'held' In thrall by the: splendor 'of ; the T oaks \u25a0 that' stud' the .vales, and 'canyons. V y .' -\u25a0 . .\u25a0• .-; •;; ;• \u25a0\u25a0:. ;•""\u25a0* *\u25a0?'• \u25a0\u25a0' There is not in San Franclsco--grad-' > .ACTRESS TO BE -SEEN HERB- AND : ' JAPANESE ACTOR AT PRESENT • AT -THE: COLUMBIA. A . - edges as - his , Ideal s-player.'of . the Occi-; dent, - ; Danjuro,'' .v.Mans fi.eld's acting^'he.'dld'notiremember well enough to .".be ;.entitled*toVdellver any. opinion!" - The. Japanese ;idea.rr of r act 'fng he declares]to;be".the.' "natural act-; ing; - if' always { looks ?badt. to • "put on.' Of course,^ on . the ;stage,'. things j must be exaggerated a* little', to";look. natural."': f, ; Of -what career /lies open 'to; the Jap anese actor upon^ ; : the \u25a0A'merlcan '. stage we 'talked them. -this; conn cciion:l mentioned "The Geisha.""; ; fvi" ''I. am r, not -much- interested iin, the musical, comedies,"^ Mr. Tamamoto re buked;me.with.v: .':;." : ' ? ' . : ; v • ' "But .what is 'there open . tolthe ' Jap an ese'- player?".- 1 asked-. .•;; \u25a0 "I have thought V long, of -lit,": said Tamamoto/ very .soberly,- shaking his head .until,. each;, hair/; glistened _ like black glass." Quaintly he went*oh"then:; "I admlt-I;could;play any kind<of ipart. I' am. not: vain, ;but:,l know." But^there are no \u25a0 parts ! ; f If ; it is -an . lrish part? I ually -becoming '; an :• art " center-^a fe morel beauti ful ] s tudio/ than < the s new/ atelier ; of \u25a0 Jules f Mersfeld^er, 'who has '\u25a0' found . In « the .drawing-room 'of the r old > Ralston man sion,^ 1222 tPine ? street,"; an " ideal l,"environ ment for his art, treasures. \v ; ; - ;;\u25a0 ' ; ; The great pier, mirrors in this' wonderful old H House^ of ..Mirrors, with \ its i. palatial proporMons, ; give jan * imposing, setting^ for bronzes, "drapes/i pictures ; and; rugs; y And it; Is," .with ; the -possible ; exception : of ,*Ame dee Joulliri's studio, 3 - more nearlyja^ Paris-^ ian' w'orkshdpUhan iarty/of v the 'men^palnt-' ers'. hereabouts possess. . \u25a0• \u0084 ~y:~ y : [. -\ ; ~; : . ' : , Here'; in j his ; new and,', by. . the way, *it i was here \u25a0 In' his new. quarters , that his much-heralded St/ Lbujs; Fair ,' medal arriytd— -Mr. 1 . Mersf elder \u2666 has ,'setS to'^work upohl a J big collection: ?.This ; is : to s be com-; pleted some^, time in: the; fallr; when'; he^wlll take ' the I town \ by,., storm^-justf asj he X did : .with^ the - gre'at '< canvas iof * VThe -;Oaks.','i now. In* the . H. -E. Huntington collection. -J. '- : T Mr.'."Mersfelder'si; twenty C years', 'yresl-' dence Mnr.NewjYork— a ..faricryf from",,the /.West ! ln, matters, of art^brought' him ;back something :of 7 a^' stranger .to • the i younger art -lovers." i Buti Ills? record f with-; the! So-; ciety '; of ? American { Artists,^ where ; he ;ex-{ hibited every, year twith distinction,- ts suf-; .flcieht '\u25a0:• guarantee^ 'oil the*' worth ",;} of ;the forthcoming ; collection.' % Both; as ai technl-' cianl and'jaaian'.i lnterpreter 'of -soul-, and "spirit ; he~:h£s ; wonihis laurels; - , ;\u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0? > ;;, Mr.l Mersfelder,\|ikeiihost : of the i paint ers,'; liblds ; Saturday^ af terhoon j aVreception day,; when , he: serves ) &S cup *of / Ceylon ; of speclalibrew— for .you and all good, friends WITH THE PLAYERS AND THE MUSIC FOLK BLANCHE PARTINGTON 'do not perhaps look it, and they would not let: me.t ry."/ ; . " . V\Vhy not V write, something yourself, for \u25a0yourself?",) . . . I V'l ' have .written a. sketch for vaude ville,'/ • he_ announced; ;.- "Many managers have ;" expressed wish to .put /me on -if \u25a0have a play. Vl wait for on err-you write one 'and. it dwill' opportunity for both!" V"What:about^the love Interest?" I asked. -"Must I make the pretty Amer ican girl": fall in love with your* ' • Soberly \u25a0\u25a0) -Mr. : Tamamoto,:Baid "that would r be nice," but .afterward agreed \u25a0with'-me r .that It might not "appeal" "to the American: audience. . ;; They -wete, setting scenes (or the last act and ': the actor piloted me into the dim distances' behind even .the stage. There 1 some -one was putting : up a : no tice.' Tamamoto looked up and laughed. It read:- '-.^ " .v:."EVERYBQDT called for rehearsal tomorrow ; at 10." ; ;\ ; : -"I'm notJ guilty," -lie said. Then he ; enlarged: VJ'Some people when 1 there Is not so large. crowd don't play their best. But,',', he nodded a wise head, "one never knows w.hen? critic Is there. I play al ways .same— to Justify myself. It is my duty to do always my best perform ance." : ; . .1 thought; he ''always- must "\u25a0Ao h!a best j performapce," but I' -granted also to know .what s.ome; one; else / thougrht, and so asked; Mjv Wilfred Lucas.- stage manager .of = "Thel Heir to the Hoorah,".- and its genial ''Bud" Young. He is much of "Bud" off" stage, T by .the way; twelve year's in the drama, and waiting only tfie lucre to get" him a few acres San* Diego way to: bring the /wife and baby to. His own-"Helr":was born ten days before the "Hoorah's,"... he told me ? as he- brought .the. latter for me to look .at ' • "Japanese as actors? Well; " Mr.-.Lucas put It, "If? all actors were like the Japs I'd : have,; 1 no , trouble. Tell : 'em a thing, they never ; forget It. , They are always there," always on top-. Teach Taraamoto? Not a thing. Why, he-was a full-Hedged star before ' he came to - us. He's all right.'* , : . Pfr#XS FOl£ WEEK JIT THE THEJtTEIIS •' Frenalod -{finance has at last found its way Into -the drama by way of ''The Lion and -the Mouse,", a new American play by, Charles j Klein, . that r wlll be at the Columbia Theater tomorrb.w even ing., The J play, '-.which more . than one critic has 'said .comes. "dangerously near" to; being the great* American drama, hag had"an _ extabrdinary^career up to date: In .Chfcago, it achieved the unique distinc tion of being the only play; known- to have been threft. times in one day, this following upon, a week ; ot \ daily per formances. . ; I{s" subject is pertalhly apro pos—the ; corruption of politics by the plu tocrats., VThe character . of "Ready Mon ey" I Ryderjjj the particular; plutocrat ' ex ploited, is] said :to ; have been drawn from Rockefeller, and Henry, Rogers, while the "mouse," : ; whose greater ' wit confounds the "lion,"- is supposed to hare been drawn . from Miss Ida Tarbell," ; the ex poser off the Standard Oil methods. The , stories of the ; play and the people at any. rate \ to a certain extent coincide. The '• story • goes U. that f Miss Tarbell's father ..was ruined by Rogers, ' and Miss Tarbell's expose of the: Standard Oil methods r ; followed thereupon, much as ; in^;-'-the play. Shirley Rossmore's father is* hounded almost to his death by the plutocrats, whose schemes he .will not forward against the interests 'of the -peo ple, and :: afterward proved guiltless of the charges .brought against him through the eft* ortslbf his daughter. The love in terest " is • ingeniously complicated \u25a0, by .'• its being Shirley Rossmore upoft i whom th*e son : of "Ready, Money" Ryder- sets his af fections:^; fc \u25a0\u25a0••\u25a0- . ' '' '' . - \u25a0 •The cast -that, will presfent the play here promises; most fortunately. It is headed by; Arthurt Byron, > whose Hungarian no bleman-in/"The- Stubbornness of Gerald \u25a0lne" ' Is still' a delightful i memory . here." Miss Gertrude ;Coghlan ; -Brill be .the Shir-; ley, Rossmore, and if- there'is anything, in heredity, she shpuld.be a "good one. -Miss Coghlan I is ; a "daughter ' of . Charles ; Cogh lan-of famous memory and: a niece of Rose • Ooghlan— a : promising ancestry." The rest of the -'cast I includes Joseph Kllgour, Grace -Thbrlie, George Parsons. A. -^. Lip man," Edward ~'\ See, .' Florence Gerald,' - W. H.- Burton, "Flora; Juliet Bowley, Edith Shayne, Lillian Dlx. and Ada Curry. • :..'.- \u25a0.-:-,'.:* "i. • . '\u25a0 . •. . \u25a0\u25a0.'""\u25a0 'If Crcston. Clarke's production of "Mon sleur| Beaucaire"' at the Grand.. • Opera house this week is anything like. the one A NICHE -OF' JULES MERSFEaJDER'S STUDIO IN -THE: OLD' RAESTON MANSION AT1223 PINE STREET. WHERE HE HAS ; -'.' -,••;-- V- GATHERED HIS /ART TREASURES. MAKING OXE OF. THEJiIOST BEAUTIFUL. STUDIOS IN SAN FRANCISCO. CUOSX- L.V RESEMBLING ; THE PARIS' ATELIERS. " ; • ,' • ...- - *m-r» he "gave here two , years;ago .thp manage ment^ can J congratulate Itself. " The play is exceedingly pretty, : in. the best roman tic .vein/ and Mr. 'Clarki's Monsieur Beau caire is one of . the ; roost attractive ' figures onjthei contemporary stage. "Monsieur Beaucaire": xan be heartily recommended to all j classes . of playgoers. " * .-'•\u25a0', . .' '•\u25a0•\u25a0.'\u25a0•.-. ! The popular "Isle of Spice" will be per formed*, for I the 4 last "time ' at " 'the Tlvoll tonlgh't. being /succeeded tomorrow even ing by -a new musical, play. entltled""Mlss Timidity," ". '\u25a0 The - -management • promises fun and 1 good * music galore. " V- \u25a0 \u25a0 .\u25a0/.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0."-:?; -•\u25a0;\u25a0'•.' \u25a0\u25a0."\u25a0 \u25a0- At the : Majestic players will signalize : their return ; to the - house by an .elaborate revival of "Shenandoah," in which a, large, company .'., of 1 national guardsmen ; will' make .their appearance. '\u25a0: \u25a0'.''\u25a0 .\u25a0. \u25a0 . • "..v '\u25a0'•• •' • '•" -. "Charley's Aunt" will be revived at the Alcazar ' this w«ek— a \u25a0, sign • of crowded "houses. Sardou's.-'"Sorcerers," recently presented in' New York by Bernhardt arid Mrs. Pat . Campbell; \u25a0 will be given shortly at the Alcazar for the first time locally.' ~ >\u25a0 ;: \u25a0 7.' . ••' '. ;• : \u25a0 • ;•-\u25a0 ••-. - The Howard brothers," said to \u25a0 be : the •only "white : people on earth sever: admit ted to the \u25a0 mysteries of the priests of Thibet," j will . appear, at - tha ' Prnheum to day. -From ; advance notices theif '- work appears to .be of the telepathic order, .one Howard, ( blindfold, on"" the stage, writing anything the other Howard, go ing, about; In the audience, sees, such as bank note, numbers, coin"^ dates: the feat accomplioned without " any . word or • sign from either performer. Bert Coote, who has made, such' a hit .with "A Lamb on .Wall -' Street," continues, and the other •new people j of- the b'lll promise • welL • , -;•-•\u25a0 --\u25a0\u25a0 .. • ... \-[ : Th« : California has "Miss New York Jr." company, as -the current entertaln •ers. • . : •' . • .-.\u25a0•\u25a0-\u25a0•• The j RiaTto Comedy | Four, vocalists and funmakers, -WUI lead the new Chutes peo ple" this week.' . Trank Tinkham. a clever w h eehnan, 1b » also •on *\u25a0 the bilL . . Seats . for : the German performance to 'be given ? byithe Arthur Becker Lustspiel Ensemble •at the \ Columbia Theater on Sunday hisht; April 8.- will, go on sale •Tuesday, morning. • "Die Ofientrelse" will be, the bill. .- " •-. t£ The Alhambra .'will .have- fhe famous Bartley; Campbell; drama, "My Partner." this week, the play having been secured for production at large expense and trpu ble; by Fred Belasco." / - o • The*. Central; announces J'The Minister's Son" ' for the ' current entertalnmentl MUSICAL EVENTS V FOkPRESEMTWEEK Gerardy, » the famous '/cellist, • will be here 'on Sunday .afternoon -next to give then 'the .first ! of -two -recitals. .M. Ger ardy . will •be < more than welcome. Great 'cello-playing\ has lacked an exponent sinee -Pablo Casals played here. M. Holl mann counting only lightly". In.M. Ger ardy,*; however, ' is - one •of the most gifted disciples '.; of - : this '. royal instrument, per haps; eVen . the » foremost ; among • the 'cello virtuosi.'. His programmes could not be bettered. - the first including the Varia tions . ' Symphonlque "(Boellmann), that Pablo ' Casals so nobly , introduced here ; •the" first "concerto ".of Salnt-Saens, a mag nificent >work,'. and' sa-id to be one of Ger ardy'g', chief .* d'oeuvres, and the Popper VPaplllbns.V , • ; "; ' \u25a0 . » • . The. recitals will 'take place at the Co lumbia' ; Tljeater ; next -and \ the following Sunday afternoons.'. • ..... . .' .. .ty ';• w• ; : «• \u25a0 ; \u25a0 Kubelik. I unfortunately both, for- M. Kubelik and. Mr.' Gerardy,. also gives* the first of two return { concerts next Sunday afternoon; -Why r not,; -good Mr, -Gorlitz and Mr. *• Marx, . combine the two affairs, as Mr. ; Greenbaum gave va # Harold Bauer and* Hugo i-HeermannHogetber? Kubelik and Gerardy '.together, could duplicate-that most , notable "' of (concerts, and ; the grati-; tude f of;: the -mus'lc- lovers would- be a double on'e^-ln .the \u25a0 joy df . hearing two such artists : together .and -in not -being forced to \ decide 'between • them. Both concerts are'/bound >to ; suffer. . The con cert-splng-.clientele'here";'ls \u25a0 not. large enough ;" adequately *. to support both . af fairs, and there' mlght.'.U would seem, just as .well ,-be -two' half -houses^in - one house as in- two^>l 5 amjsure- the managerial caliphs could ] arrange It,- and "great would 'be ;th"e' joy." thereat. .'• t •. Of ; course \ there \ is ' chance to hear both players i again,;; Kußellk giving '; a second and.^asf concert ; at the tomorrow.- The return concerts have been arrancad by Manager Gorlltz-ln response to many requests.. - . . \u25a0 , . - 'Th« Lorinaf Club, concert, of °next Tues day' evening, to be arlven as- usual at Native Sons* Hall, will b« of unusual l» tarest. Half of ths programme wIH -b« devoted performance of .Wagner's "Das LJebesmahl der ,Apos.tel." whioh "lUthw be heard for th« first tim© locaV ly.. The work is ona of the most- dlfOouA among th* male . chorus 'eenre.: and re quires fine full 'chorus of male volcas and a large orchestra for lta rendering:. The club .will be , assisted In [ preseatlnx the work by many former • members,' and an orchestra specially engaged for ta« 00 caslon. , \u25a0 . ' * The "Pilgrim** - Chonu,", from > "Tann hauser," Goury's "Awakening of Sprtng* (for -which Mrs. B. Apple aaa " been en gaged as. soloist), and George E. Whltlns'f "March "of the Monks -of Bangor"- will be other numbers, WUllani C. Stadtfeld directing,, and Frederick Mat t or at ttia piano \u25a0 and J. C ; Fyffe at the orsaa. as usual. , . • i ' - * . Next" Friday evening the Mlnettl'or cheatra will give its second concert ot the season at Native Sons' Hall, wtth the following attractive pro gramme: 1 Herold, Zampa overture; Kuc ken, (a) "Gebet." "Verlaas uns Nicht"; Massenet. .Co) "Arasronaise"" (from ."Ballet dv Cld"): Furstenau. Fantaiare'Brlllante for two flutes' (with orchestra accompaniment). Miss May Ludlow and A. Rossi; Schu mann, (a) "Tjraumerel"; GUlet. fb) "The .Mill"; Wagner, "Albumblatt"; Strauss, "Artist Life,".' waltz.? y , ' The ! following Interesting: programra* will ba played at a piano . recital to b« ariven at the Kohler & Chsse concert Hall next Tuesday evtning: » Sonata,- Opus 22* (4 movements), (Schumann) ; : "Barcarole", F minor, ver sion ps William Plutti, (Rubinstem); nocturne, F sharp major (Chopin); tm promp'tu, F sharp, major -,'( Chopin).; "Walflesrauschen" '(Etnde)," (LJsxtV; "Love Dream" (No. B).' (LJszt); "Polo naise. E major (Liszt); Preludip c Fuga Fant/atica (C sharp ballad (A flat minor ), "Toccata" '(A minor), mel ody ("A Homage to Anton Rublnstela"). "Val«e" (E major), fantaisle. "Impromp tu" (C sharp minor), "American Rhap sody (3 [movements), William Piutti. NOTES OF PLAYS JiNp ACTOR FOtK Blanche Walsh will goon be here wltE " "The .Woman in the* Case." „ . ' •'. * ,'.* ••'».-?'? Flora Juliet Bowley of "The Lion aod the Mouse" company Is a native daugh ter. Miss Bowley has. won considerable favor on the stags. m , The latest., college play suc«ess la "Brown, of Harvard," recently produced by Henry . Miller at the Princess The ater, Xew York. «. The play 'is by Rlda Johnson Young and the star thereof Henry Woodruff., one time among Henry Miller's constellation at the Columbia. A* dramatization ,of -Bunyan's "Pil grim's Progress" will be among; the unique productions of * the forthcoming season. The allegory has been adapted for the stage by James Mac Arthur, who dramatized "The Bonnie Brier Bush." Mr. Mac Arthur has been at work for two years upon the play, It' ls said is a very adequate reduction of the 'story.. The part Of Chrfstian,* a kind of Everyman character, will be essayed by. Henrietta Crosman.,' ', " - \u25a0 ' ' ' . • \u25a0 • \u25a0 • ' Manager -Will Greenbaum is, arrang ing, the details of (he .magnificent com bined opera-house, theater and audi torium which will be one of the great features of * the Fa'irmont, and to be ready about November, provided no'de lays •' In i the securing of . the • necessary building. materials Interfere. . Thu deco rations and" furnishings of the place will be in keeping with the magnificent "fittings of the new hotel and there will be 1600 seats on the lower floor and about 1000 in the one .balcony.-., *..."\u25a0 *.•*•\u25a0• . . . "The Lion and the ; Mouse" - did such an enormous business during the : last week of. its engagement in Chicago that matinees were given every* «day. .with the ' exception of Monday and Sunday. The new Charles Klein play is the talk of New. York end seats are selling *hera up xo- the first day of -May. . 23