Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-30


I~r rrcitalS Of Mr. Elliott Schenck. to be
given at the Washington Club on the morn
iugs of January $ II, 10 and IL. Mr.
Scheuck who was formerly connected with
TIL. DamroSch-E Fills Opera Company. in the
capacity Of assistant director. gave three
Iccitals in Washington last year to large
audiences on the subject of Wagner's Me
beluu&eu Ring This year his subjects are
Tristan and Isolde and Parsifa-.
Aside.
t,o-taud is again reported to be seriously
james Young is to produce a play based
Cn IN. lie If Lord Byron.
1t is stated that Joseph Holland and Miss
WiUpnI shannon are to be married.
Henrietta Gresham is to star next Surfing
in Bronson Towards "one Of our Girls
Della Fox goes 10 Bermuda. where she
viii study her new play, Hearts is
Trumps-
Robert nownine's daughter is studying
with "a view of making her debut as Juliet
and Parthenia.
Nance oNem and company go to Homo
lulu and Australia. returning TO this con-
tinent in September.
Harry Corson Clark and his What Hap
poned To Jones company are doing We'll in
The far southwest.
Julis NARROW expects to take Barbara
Frietchi"' to London after seasons tour
IN this country.
one western critic says that to get a
r,oraI "ut of "Zaza' i like washing a
mountain Of dirt for an ounce of gold.
Chicago manager who wanted to in
Ir"dUce q novel speciality. had difficulty in
finding ten girls who could whistle.
Partisan actress left the theater be-
cause She said it was against her conscience
10 interpret the suggestiyeness in her roles.
wheels Within Wheels.'' now running
in New York. is described as another nice.
smart thoroughly deuraved sort IF play
Mrs Kendall tainted while playing in
New York recently. but did it SO naturally
that the audience thought it was all in the
play
James \ Herne has not had a play in
frS in which he did not have a turkey
dinner scene There is one in Sag Har-
H. A Du S"uchct. who wrote My Friend
From india. is said to have appropriated
TIN Arizona Kicker as the titIe of
p!-y-
The death Of Hepburn Johns. the Chicago
critic. IS universally lamented and has
called forth many beautiful tributes to his
memory.
F Marion Crawford has completed the
story on which Miss Aliens next play. a
successor to The Christian" Will be
founded
Otero. the dancer. has paid 5000 to Saint
SaenS 10 write ballet Of two acts to last
ths whole evening 1t will be called
"btrrr'< Dream"
Prince Kari was Mr.. MansfeId's first
production as Il star. Seventeen other pro-
foil hos
were written for him.
The Wild West shows are very much ex-
ercjs"d over the DEPARTMENT OF the Inter
irrs decision that no more Indians shall be
lent from reservations for exhibition pur-
poses.
oscar Hammersteiu, the uuqueuchable
manager. has just completed a new comic
opera and filed plans for theater to he
Calied the New Republic" adjoining his
Victoria
The Russell Brothers produced their Gel
Ii sketch in Cork. Ireland, in defiance of
warnings that it would be Ike carrying
cga.> &" New Castle. They record an en-
Ihttit hit.
I.,sirit II. Van Wcs,erveIt Dempsey has
changed th5 name Of her play The Open
Do"r" to On Neutral Ground" and then
L. a Patriot Spy The title was not what
was the matter with it,
Ms i-stfSlly mas DF'-0 acting the pri0vI-
rJl part in a rev One-act play by Charles
Errpkfeld called Comrades in Khaki
which. " course. is timely and military
Mr.. Langtry appears as a hospital nurse.
Mrs. Fiska will begin her tour at Boston
IN New Year night. After playing three
weeks in that city she Will visit Buffalo
=. Louis. Cincinnati. Chicago. Pittsburg
Toronto. Baltimore. Washington and Phil
ade uhia
Air. David G Bangs has been meeting
with much success in the west as Shakes
lear"au reader, lecturer and humorist NJ.
EanES paid flying visit to this city last
week lie contemp!a,es going TO London
next summer.
The matrimonial r,rnar has been more
autdCI"uS than usual 81 late. 4 report that
Mir Charles Fr"nman and Miss Maud
Adams were secretly married IN Cincinnati
reached proportions that secured 1t the dig
Ilty "f a denial.
~ Texas steer VIII have an early book
tn-s al the Academy OF Music The heading
role of "Bus@y' Will he interpreted by Katis.
Putnam Soon after the eRga cement at the
Academy Of Music a Texas Steer will
he taken 10 London.
Admirers Of Roland Reed are glad to hear
that hi illness was not so dangerous a. a
first reported Mr. Reed is an esttmabIe
and appreciated factor in American anus.
mcntS. VINO would leave many to mourn his
departure from stage work.
Richard Mansfield is to have an English
version " a French play. based on The life
Of Judge jeffries The play is called .'I.uIi-
hullcru from the title of the famous no.
litjcGl song which WAS said 10 have whistlet
King James out Of ireland.
= Filipino theatrical company that has
h,.U king a disastrous tour Of the Pa
Cifc coast is stranded a Seattle, where they
are being lodged and fed At the expense Of
The city The company numbers seventeen
people and was brought To the United States
lest <ummes.
J. VI. Rarrie'S play, The Two Kinds Of
Women which WIS accepted by George
Alexander and sftcrward released by him.
lUaSmuth IS there was no immediate chance.
at producing it, has passed into the hands
81 Charles FT"hmau. and is to be presented
IL the Duke Of York s Theater London
kirke Ia Shelle. whose Princes. Chic,
Company will be at the Lafayette next
week. wrote to Whiting Allen. his business
manager. concerning the new opera YES
terday; The dress rehearsal yesterday