Notes

Rumors of a Gilbert and Sullivan revival by the Shuberts are being corroborated. J. Harold Murray and Viola Gillette, now appearing in tuneful and romantic Caroline, have been engaged as a nucleus for the company.

Sarah Bernhardt is an immortal artist in various senses. She has recovered from her recent supposedly fatal illness. Her first performance after her recovery will be in The Sphinx, by Maurice Rostand, son of Edmond Rostand, famous author of Cyrano de Bergerac, Chanticler, L'Aiglon.

A revival of Harry Wagstaff Gribble's comedy, March Hares, was presented for the first time Sunday night. But in order to elude the Sabbath Day Alliance, it opened at midnight, so that it might immediately become Monday before there was time for action against the play.

The Russians of the Moscow Art Theatre did not like either Hamlet or The Hairy Ape. But after seeing Laurette Taylor in Humoresque, Constantin Stanislavsky, one of the two founders and directors, remarked: " It is a marvelous adventure in realism !" So saying, he climbed up on the stage and congratulated Miss Taylor.

The American Academy of Medicine bought out the house for the performance of Pasteur on Wednesday. One of the elements of drama in the play is Pasteur's conflict with reactionary forces in the French Academy of Medicine.

In a signed letter to the press, thanking the public for their reception of The Merchant of Venice, David Belasco promises " at no distant date" a series of Shakespearean productions: King Richard II, King Henry IV (both parts), Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (with Lenore Ulric). The "no distant date" will be at least next season.

Mr. Otto H. Kahn refused to attend a private reading last Sunday of Eeigen, Schnitzler's outspoken drama, which the New York Green Room Club was to give in his honor. His refusal followed a letter of protest from Charles S. Sumner, President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. According to Mr. Sumner, the play's performance in Berlin last year was the cause of rioting. It is answered that the rioting was not that of protesting virtue, but of eager spectators trying to get in.