Evening star., 1898-09-01
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
The Theatrical Season Beginning Garlic,
Than Usual This Year
Managers Look for Good Bu.ine,.-
Some Attractions That WASH
fngton Will See.
From a Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, August 80 1925.
Ihe theatrical season is beginning early
mere this year. The Casino has OF course
been doing Yankee Doodle Dandy for q
! month to the biggest kind of business and
Denman Thompson has been repeating his
| former remarkable success I'm The Old
homestead at the Academy of Music
Daly has opened his theatcr In a musical
oanc1ng melange called the Runaway
Girl, which seems 10 belong to some other
mouse than his. It's on the same plane as
| .ne Nasiho productions without any OF the
dash and vim tha; characterize the work
| OF MT Lede7er's forces. Stuart Robson is
rehesrsing his new play The Meddler.r
az Wallacks. AL Candy IS rehearsinS
Little Miss Nobody" at the Garden Thea
yer. while at the Knickerbocker John
Soosas latest opera, The Charlatan' "a
belng put into shape by the De Wolf Hon
per opera Company. Among other conn
pahies now rehearsing is the Alice Nielsen
, ppera Company the members Of which are
| learnlng The Fortune Teller" which was
written especially for Miss Nielsen by Vic
,or herbert and Harry Smith. Frank Per
icy. VINO VIII manage Miss Nielsen as we'll
90, ne ne bostonlans. expects great things
from his star, but some of the experienced
people whom have talked with are NOT so
sahguine. They admit her beauty and
plquancy, but say that her voice is light
ana thin, and that while she showed To
good advantage in the company of such
singers as compose the principals of the
Bostonians, she is hardly strong enouph 10
SHINE in the stellar armament
Bright Music In "The CharIatap.-
heard portion of a rehearsal of The
Cbarlatan' the other day. and II all the
music is as bright and catchy as tina,
winch heard this opera will exceed the
popularity of The Bride Elect" or lei
Captain" Alice Judson a Washington eirl
is IN the cast She has soubrette part,
anu 1hlnk sha has now struck her legtti-
mate gait and will make a hit
All the managers predict an unusually
successful season. They say that now that
the war is over people Will have time to go
10 the theater, and that they will feel the
hMeeN M OF amusement. They say that the
close OF the war is one reason why the sea-
son is beginning so early and they belieye
lhat more money will be made by good at
trecions than for many years mast They
thinK that the season in Washington will
De unusually prosperoTs for IL is expected
that the acquisition of new territory end
the arrangement for its government will
make necessary a large number OF new
omces, and that those who wan. 10 fill
those offices VIII visit the capital CITY dur-
ing the coming congressional season.
klaw & Erlanger, All HaymAn, Julius
cam, A NJ. Palmer, Charles Frohman,
Andrew Mccormick H. s. Taylor and Geo
Tyler all express views similar TO those
given above
/ met Charlie Hanford on Broadway. and
ne was busy looking after the Shakespear-
can revival that he is to give with Jos
Haworth in Philadelphia next month He
hopes to continue the company during tho
entire season. Theodore Hamilton who
VIII De remembered as one of the most
capable of the old-time actors, goes with
Stl art Robson this season. He has taken
on more flesh than he had when years ago
ne was the handsome leading man of the
Natlonal Theater Stock Company. but he is
nearly and vigorous. and no one would
oream that he was now up in the sixties.
sousa and His Band.
John Philip Sousa is planning a long tour
Tor his band. He will not go to Europe
until 1900, and then he intends making
quite stay in Paris during the exposition.
l had quite talk with George Hinton. and
he showed me the list of the cities and
towns the band was to visit. There were
places that 1 had never heard of before
and yet 1t is said the inhabitants thereof
worship Sousa ana his band. Mr. Sousa
and his band will visit Washington three
times during the season
Dan Godfrey, the celebrated English
bandmaster, and his band will also visit
Washington. probably the latter part of
November. Among other musical attrac-
IONS that will go TO the capital city are the
Royal Italian Opera Company that made
such an impression at Wallacks last spring:
The international Opera Company, headed
by Clementine De We're and Mime Kronold
and probably Niksch and his Berlin Or
chestra- 1t is not definitely decided about
the last named organization, but Henry
Wolfsohn said that they would probably
come. Mr.. Wolfsohn said that when Henri
Aarteau, the French ytolinist comes TO
this country h. will play two concerts in
this city with Miss Lotta Mills of WASH
ingtcn.
Matters Musical.
Not only do the theatrical managers pre-
dict a good season, but those interested in
musical ventures are sanguine of good
business. Rosenthi al and Sauer will be the
chief attractions rianists, and II is ex-
pected that both will draw enormously.
The former is well known in this country,
and the closing of his tour last season on
account of his illness was sad disappoint-
ment to those who had hoped to hear him
new, in the maturity of his powers.
Sauer. the new French Pianist. is said TO
possess as distinctive personality Pad
erewski. and those who have heard him
abroad look for perfect craze over him
on the part of the women.
Emil Paur, former leader of the Boston
symphony Orchestra, is now New Yorker
and is looking after the interests of the
permanent orchestra. He hopes to secure
for 1t the place in the Metropolitan Opera
House during the opera season as that will
keep his force together and won't interfere
with the concerts at the Waldorf-Astoria,
which are really the only business for the
orchestra now in sight. Anita Cluss, a
Washington girl, has made a great reputa-
ton for herself here as harpist and has
been financially successful. This summer
she has been playing in Saratoga.
Mr. Joseph Luckett. the manager Of the
Columbia Theater in Washington, spent
two days here recently looking after the
be okings for his theater. Among the profess
siorals well known in Washington whom
have met are Geoffrey Stein. Jas. Mahoney,
Tkad Shine, Louis Harrison, Clarence Ham
dysides. Jack Hirsch, JEFF Lierburger,
Henry and James Peakes, John Rogers, Ed
die Dunn, Aubrey Boucicault, Forrest Carr
and VIM. Guttison. The last two are both
members of the International Opera Com
pany and are both Washington boys.
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