The Playgoer's Guide

IT WILL not always be possible to announce in this column the exact dates of the first performances of new plays, as it frequently occurs that these are necessarily postponed or changed. In all cases, however, the dates given below are those scheduled by the producers for their openings, and in the majority of cases, the presentations will occur as announced. In some instances also, we may record a piece as "now playing" which may have been withdrawn between the time of our going to press and our date of issue. We believe, however, that in spite of such occasional unavoidable errors, this department as a whole will be accurate and useful to our readers.

Adele.

By Jean Briquet and Paul Herve. LONGACRE THEATRE. 48th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A clever musical farce by the author and composer of " Alma. Where Do You Live? " Excellently acted, with Natalie Alt. Georgia Caine, and Hal Forde in the chief rAles: beautifully staged and costumed.

America.

HIPPODROME, Sixth Avenue, between 43d and 44th Streets. Mats, daily. Another big spectacle of the sort for which this resort has become famous. The many scenes begin with the landing of Columbus, jumping from 1492 to 1013. when a rapid tour of the many contrasted localities of this country is brilliantly, faithfully, and rapidly made. There is a spectacular ballet, with its jewels and brilliant colors reflected in a clear lake; but the sensation of the show is an automobile, carrying five passengers which races down a mountain side and plunges into a lake.

At Bay.

By George Scarborough, author of "The Lure." THIRTY-NINTH STREET THEATRE. 39th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat A girl, in self defense, kills a man and is saved from justice by the wit of her Irish lover. Cast is headed by Guy Standing and Chrystal Heme.and includes George Howell, Walter Horton, Edwin Mordant, John Heme, and Edwin Lehay.

The Black Mask:

The Bride: En Deshabille: Hari Kari: Russia — PRINCESS THEATRE, 39th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat. The Black Mask — By F. Tennyson Je3se and H. M. Harwood. A tragedy of northern England. Cast includes Holbrook Blinn and Emelie Polini. The Bride — By William J. Hurlburt. A farce. Cast includes Mr. Edgard. Vaughan Trevor, Holbrook Blinn. Edward Ellis, Emelie Folini. En Deshabille — By Edward Goodman. A young man and a young woman find themselves in the same bedchamber by mi«take; but as they have been married the proprieties are preserved. Cast includes Holbrook Blinn and Willette Kershaw. Hari Kari—By Julian Johnson. An American girl murders her Japanese over when she discovers that he is a spy. Quite accidentally she chose the most approved Japanese method of ending his life. Cast includes Willette Kershaw and Harry Mestayer. Russia—By Gaston Richard. The scene of this play, which contains eight murders, is laid in Russia during a revolutionary outbreak. Cast includes Willette Kershaw and Harry Mestayer.

Children of Today.

By Clara Lipman and Samuel Shipman. HARRIS THEATRE, 254 West 4 2d Street. Mat. Thurs. and Sat. An ultra-modern satirical comedy inverting all established ideas of filial obedience. Cast is headed by Louis Mann and includes Emily Ann Wellman, Maud Gordon, Frank Stirling, John Hines.

The Family Cupboard.

By Owen Davis. THE 48th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A sensational play of New York life concerning people of fashion and of the Tenderloin. Frank, intense, and "gripping" for people who do not mind strong meat. Cast includes William Morris, Olive Thome. Forrest Winnant, Irene Fenwick, and Franklyn Ardell.

General John Regan.

By George Birmingham. HUDSON THEATRE, 139 West 44th Street. Mats. Wed. & Sat. A clever, pleasantly satirical comedy revealing a real knowledge of Irish character. Arnold Daly in the rôle created in London by Charles Hawtrcy. Cast includes Maire O'Neill, Harry Harwood, Frederick Burton, W. G. Fay.

High Jinks.

By Leo Ditrichstein, Otto Hauerbach and Rudolf Friml. LYRIC THEATRE, 213 West 42d Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An explorer has discovered a drug, the perfume of which makes the timid brave, the pessimist an optimist, the serious jovial, and the prude a daredevil. Cast includes Elizabeth Murray, Tom Lewis, Elaine Hammerstein, and Ignacis Martinette.

Hop O' My Thumb.

MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, 315 West 34th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A pantomime from the Drury Lane Theatre, London. The ballet numbers a hundred, and one of the "features" is the DeSierries troupe of fifty living statues. The cast is headed by De Wolf Hopper and includes Iris Hawkins as "Hop" and Albert Hart, Billy McDermott, Eva Fallon, Viola Gillette, Flavia Arcaro.

The Land of Promise.

By W. Somerset Maughan. LYCEUM THEATRE, 45th Street near Broadway. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A serious play of North American frontier life. Cast is headed by Billie Burke and includes Lumsden Hare and Ruth Richmond.

The Little Cafe

By C. M. S. McLennan and Ivan Caryll. NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE, 214 West 42d Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A musical play by the authors of "The Pink Lady" and "Oh! Oh! Delphine." The story concerns the adventures of a happy go lucky waiter who unexpectedly falls heir to a fortune. The cast is headed by Hazel Dawn and John H. Young and includes Alma Francis, Tom Graves, Grace Leigh.

Madam President.

By Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Weber. GARRICK THEATRE. 35th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Mats. Wed. and Sat. _ A typical risque farce from the Palais-Royal, Paris. Fannie Ward plays the leading r6le. Cast includes Pattie Browne, George Giddens, John Dean.

The Madcap Duchess. ,

By Justin McCarthy, David Stevens, music by Victor Herbert. GLOBE THEATRE. Broadway & 46th Street. Mats. Wed. & Sat. The new comic opera by Victor Herbert, with Ann Swinburne and Glen Hall.

The Man Inside.

By Roland B. Molineux. CRITERION THEATRE, Broadway and 44th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A drama of crime, in three acts. The scenes are laid in an opium den in Chinatown, in the District Attorney's office, and in lodgings in a downtown tenement in New York. Practically every character is a crook of some sort or other, but there is no attempt to make crime attractive. Helen Freeman has the leading r61e. Cast also includes Charles Dalton, John Cope, A. E. Anson, Milton Sills, Clare Weldon.

The Marriage Game.

By Anne C. Flexner. COMEDY THEATRE, 110 West 41st Street. Mats. Tues. and Sat. A comedy which ridicules matrimony as it is alleged to cxist_ to-day in a certain clement of fashionable society. The cast includes Alexandra Carlisle, Orrin Johnson, Vivian Martin, Charles Trowbridge, Josephine Lovett, Allison Skipworth, George W. Howa

The Misleading Lady.

By Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard. FULTON THEATRE, 206 West 46th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A young would-be actress lays a wager, wins it, and is carried off bodily by her jealous victim to his mountain lodge, and there chained up with a dog chain. This modern Taming of the Shrew follows the course of all history. Cast includes Inez Buck. Lewis Stone, W. H. Sams, Frank Sylvester, Robert-Graves, Jr., George Abbott.

The New Henrietta.

By Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes. KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE, Broadway and 39th Street. Mat. Wed. and Sat. An up-to-date version of the late Bronson Howard's comedy "The Henrietta" in which William H. Crane played twentysix years ago. The cast also includes Douglas Fairbanks, Amelia Bingham, Patricia Collinge.

Oh I Say. .

By Keroul and Barre, music by Jerome Kern. CASINO THEATRE. Broadway and 39th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An imported English musical farce in three acts. Cast includes Alice Yorke, Walter Jones, Joseph Phillips, Clara Palmer.

Peg O' My Heart.

By J. Hartley Manners, CORT THEATRE, 136 West 44 th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. Comedy about an uneducated bright alluring Irish girl in the household of coldly aristocratic English relatives. Laurette Taylor's performance of the title-rôle has placed her in the front rank of American actresses. Cast also includes IT. Rcevcs-Smith, H. Hassard Short, Christine Norman, Emelie Melville.

The Philanderer.

By George Bernard Shaw. LITTLE THEATRE, West 44th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A typical Shaw arraignment of the present marriage laws. The play is acted by Mary Lawton and Granville Barker's original company, rehearsed under the supervision of Mr. Shaw.

The Pleasure Seekers.

WINTER GARDEN, Broadway and 51st Street. Mats. Tues., Thurs. and Sat. A musical show in three acts and twelve scenes; a novelty is a snowball fight between the chorus girls and the audience. Cast includes Max Rogers, Bobby North, Harry Cooper, Florence Moore, William Montgomery, Dorothy Jardon, George White.

Potash and Perlmutter.

Adapted from the stories by Montague Glass. GEORGE M. COHAN THEATRE, Broadway, between 42d and 43d Streets. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A very funny up-to-date play about the Hebrew cloak and garment makers made popular with thousands of readers by Montague Glass's sketches. Their racy humor has been successfully transferred to the stage by an unnamed author, and the parts are very happily realized by Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr.

Prunella.

By Lawrence Housman and H. Granville Barker, music by Joseph Moorat. BOOTH THEATRE, West 45th Street. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. A romantic, tender, bizarre fantasy about a girl who has been brought up by her prim, unworldly maiden-aunts, whose life has never ventured beyond an oldfashioned garden, until she elopes with the pierrot of a passing troupe of mummers. The cast is headed by Marguerite Clarke and includes Ernest Glendenning, Reginald Barlow, Leslie Palmer.

Repertoire.

Sir Johnstone Forbes - Robertson. SHUBERT THEATRE, West 44th Street. Mat. Sat In seven plays which he has chosen for his farewell repertoire, Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice. The Light that Failed, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and Mice and Men. Gertrude Elliott plays the leading feminine rôles.

Repertoire.

WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway & 30th Street, Mats. Wed. & Sat. Cyril Maude in his English successes.

The Secret.

By Henri Bernstein. BELASCO THEATRE, 115 West 44th Street. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. A modem psychological drama, treating of French life to-day, in which Mme. Simone is now laying in Paris. Cast headed by Francis tarr, includes Marguerite Leslie, Harriet Otis. Dellenbaugh, and Basil Gill.

Seven Keys to Baldpate.

By George M. Cohan. ASTORTHEATRE, Broadway and 45th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A dramatization of Earle Derr Bigger's fantastic story.

Cast includes W'allace Eddinger, Margaret Greene, Gail Kane.

A Strange Woman.

By W. J. Hurlburt. GAIETY THEATRE. Broadway and 45th Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A comedy in three acts which deals with the advent of a woman.who has spent most of her life in Europe, in a small town in the middle West, where her advanced views cause a great stir in the community. Cast is headed by Elsie Ferguson and includes Charles Waldron, Alphonz Ethier, Hugh Dillman, Sarah McVicker, Annie Buckley.

Sweethearts.

By Harry B. Smith and Fred de Gresac, with music by Victor Herbert. LIBERTY THEATRE, 234 West 42d Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An agreeable operetta. Christie McDonald has a congenial part in the character of a Continental princess who was stolen in outh to save her from the dangers of war, and as grown to girlhood in the ancient city of Bruges, believing herself the daughter of a laundress. Tom McNaughton is the chief comedian.

By C. Haddon Chambers. EMPIRE THEATRE, Broadway and 40th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A comedy, with scenes laid in London, about a highly temperamental artiste, a brilliant pianist, the study of whose character can practically be summed up in the proposition that every time Nature develops an artiste she spoils a woman. The cast is headed by F.thel Barrymore and includes Charles Cherry, Eileen Van Biene, Haidee Wright, E. Henry Edwards, Lizzie Hudson Collier.

The Temperamental Journey.

By Leo Ditrichstein. REPUBLIC THEATRE, West 42d Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A sentimental farce adapted from the French and produced with all the taste and cleverness one expects from David Belasco. As an artist who is supposed to have drowned himself and attends his own funeral, Mr. Ditrichstein has made a success somewhat similar to and equally great as in "The Concert." Cast also includes Isabel Irving, Josephine Victor, Richie Ling.

The Things That Count.

By L. Eyre. MAXINE ELLIOTT'S THEATRE, 39th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An elderly woman of conventional type misconstrues her husband's visits to their actress daughter-in-law — really inspired by love of his grandson. Cast includes Alice Brady, Howard Estabrook, Florine Arnold, Albert Reed.

Today.

By A. S. Schomer and George Broadhurst. FORTY - EIGHTH STREET THEATRE, 157 West 48th Street. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. A sensational play of New York life. One scene is calculated to create a shock but this "feature" does not succeed in saving the obnoxious story from stupidity. The play however, is excellently acted by Emily Stevens, Edwin Arden, Marie Wainwright.

Within the Law.

By Bayard Veiller. ELTINGE THEATRE. 42d Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Mats. Wed. and Sat. This popular melodrama is now in its second year at the same theatre. Its story is thrilling and timely, being concerned with the minimum wage question, the underworld and other topics of contemporary interest. Jane Cowl in the rôle of Mary Turner. Cast also includes Orme Caldara, William B. Mack, Florence Nash.

OPENING

January 5th.The Rule of Three—By Guy Bolton. HARRIS THEATRE, 254 West 42nd Street. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. A farce. Cast includes Katherine Grey and Will Archie.

AT THE OPERA

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Broadway, 39th and 40th Streets The management is unable to announce definitely any programme for January, as we go to press. Announcements of forthcoming operas will be made in the newspapers only one week in advance.

THE CENTURY OPERA HOUSE Central Park West and Sixty-second Street

The operas announced below will be sung during the entire week following the date announced for the initial performance.

January 6 — Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman

January 13 — Gounod's Romeo and Juliet

January 20 — Puccinis' La Boheme.

January 27 — Massenet's Manon

February 3 — Verdi's Rigoletto

February 10 — Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel

February 17 — Verdi's La Traviata

February 24 — D'Albert's Martha of the Low-

land (Tiefland)

THE CONCERT STAGE

Saturday, January 3 — Fannie BloomfieldZeissler, piano recital, at Æolian Hall, 3 P.M. Sunday, January 4—Symphony concert, Symphony Society, W'agner programme; Æolian Hall, 3 P.M. Symphony concert. Philharmonic Society, soloist Harold Bauer, pianist; Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M. Operatic concert at the Century Opera House, 8.15 P.M. Operatic concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, 8.30 P.M. Special soloist, Leopold Godowsky, pianist; his first appearance this season.

Moiulay, January 5 — Jacques Thibaud violin recital No. 1.; Æolian Hall, 3 P.M. Julia Culp, song recital No. 1, at Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M. Chamber music concert, Zoellner Quartet: auspices of People's Symphony Club, F. X. Arens, Musical Director; Cooper Union, 8.15 P.M. Tuesday, January 6 — Alma Gluck, song recital Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M. David and Clara Manner, violinist and pianist, sonata recital at the Princess Theatre, 3 P.M. Symphony concert, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Modest Altschuler, conductor; Æolian Hall, 8.15 P.M.

Wednesday, January 7 — Joint recital No. 2. Eugen Ysaye, violinist, Jean Gerardy, 'cellist and Leopold Godowsky, pianist, at Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M. Chamber music concert, Zoellner Quartet, Æolian Hall, 8.15 P.M.

Thursday, January 8—Beatrice Harrison, 'cello recital No. 1; Æolian Hall at 3 P.M. Symphony concert, Boston Symphony Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall. 8.15 P.M.

Friday, January 9 — Teresa Carreno, piano recital No. x, Carnegie Hall, at 3 P.M.

Saturday, January 10 — Symphony concert Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,

2.30 P.M. Chamber "music concert No. 3, Longy New York Modern Chamber Music Society, at Æolian Hall, 8.15 P.M.

Sunday, January 11 — Symphony concert. Philharmonic Society; soloist, Mischa Elman, violinist; Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M. Harold Baner, piano recital at Æolian Hall, 3 P.M. Operatic concert at the Century Opera House, 8.15 P.M. Operatic concert, special soloist. Eugen Ysaye, violinist, at the Metropolitan Opera House, 8.30 P.M.

Tuesday, January 13 — Song recital, Oscar Seagle, American baritone, Æolian Hall, at 3 P.M. Chamber music concert No. 3, Kneisel Quartet, Æolian Hall, 8.15 P.M. Thursday, January 15 — Symphony concert, Philharmonic Society; soloist, Mischa Elman, violinist; Carnegie Hall, 8.15 P.M.

Friday, January 16 — Symphony concert Philharmonic Society; soloist, Mischa Elman, violinist; same programme as on previous evening; Carnegie Hall, 2.30 P.M. Symphony concert, Symphony Society; soloist, Fritz Kreisler; Æolian Hall, at 3.10 P.M.

Saturday, January 17 — Symphony concert for young people; conductor, Walter Damrosh; soloist, Julia Culp; Carnegie Hall, at 2.30 P.M. Sunday, January 18—Joint recital, Alice Neilsen, soprano, and Jean Gerardy, cellist; Carnegie Hall, at 3 P.M. Symphony concert; Symphony Society; soloist, Fritz Kreisler, same programme as at last previous concert; Æolian Hall at 3 P.M. Operatic concert at the Century Opera House, at 8.15 P.M. Operatic concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8.30 P.M.

Monday, January 19 — Chamber music concert, Kneisel Quartet; auspices of People's Symphony Club, F. X. Arens, musical director; Cooper Union, at 8.15 P.M.

Tuesday, January 20—Choral concert No. 1, Schola Cantorum; Kurt Schindler, conductor; soloist, Julia Culp, contralto; Carnegie Hall, 8.15 P.M. Chamber music concert, Adel. Margulies Trio, Æolian Hall, at 8.15 P.M.

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Wednesday, January 21—Joint recital, Jacques Thibaud, violinist, and Harold Bauer, pianist; Æolian Hall, 3 P.U.

Thursday, January 22 — "Musical Talks" at Music Lovers' Club at the Little Theatre of II A.U. Symphony concert. Philharmonic Society: soloist. Carl Flesch, violinist; Carnegie Hall, 8.15 P.M.

Friday, January 23 — Symphony concert. Philharmonic Society; Soloist, Carl Flesch, violinist; same programme as on preceding evening, Caraegie Hall.

Saturday, January 2 — Concert for young people. Philharmonic Society. Conductor, Josef Stransky; soloist, Kitty Cheatham Carnegie Hall, 2.30 p.u.

Sunday, January 25 — Symphony concert, Symphony Society £olian Hall, at 3 P.M. Champer music concert, Max Jacob's String Quartet; Carnegie Lyceum at 3 P.M. Symphony concert, Philharmonic Society; soloist, Jean Gerardy, 'cellist; Carnegie Hall, at 3 P.U. Operatic concert at the Century Opera House at 8.15 P.M. "The Messiah," chorus of 1200 and Franko1 Orchestra, conductor, Tali Esen Morgan; soloists, Mme. Jomelli, Corinne Welsh, Orville Harold; Claude Cunningham; Hippodrome, 8.15 p.u. Operatic concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, 8.30 p.u.

Monday, January 26 — Chamber music concert No. 2, Flonzaley Quartet; ^Eolian Hall at 8.15 P.M.

Tuesday, January 27 — Song recital, Mme. Schumann-Heink, contralto; at Carnegie Hall 3p.u. Chamber music concert No. 2, Philmonic Ensemble of wind instruments; Æolian Hall, at 3 p.u.

Thursday, January 29 — Symphony concert, Philharmonic Society ; soloist, Julia Culp, contralto; Carnegie Hall, at 8.15 P.M.

Friday, January 30 — Symphony concert, Philharmonic Society; soloist, Julia Culp, contralto; Carnegie Hall, 2.30 P.M. Symphony concert, Symphony Society, .Eolian Hall, at 3.10 P.M.

Saturday, January 31—Mischa Elman, violin recital at Carnegie Hall, 3 P.M.

Sunday, February 1 — Operatic Concert at the Century Opera House at 8:13 P.M.; Operatic Concert at The Metropolitan Opera House at 8:30 P.M.

Saturday, February 7 — Jacques Thibaud, Violin Recital at iEolian Hall.