Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-09

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gagged. as has Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lent
for solos on the cello and piano.
CHEVY CHASE LAKE.-The Meier fam
,ly of swimmers tumb,ers and high divers
have been re-engaged for another week at
Chevy Chase. Besides the original program
several new features may be expected
After the performance there will be dancing
in the pavilion. Another interesting feature
will be representation of the United states
cruiser Olympia" by means of different
colored lights. Sunday evening Proi.
Donch's band will give sacred concert.
Eugene Sandow is exhibiting himself with
success in Paris.
Mrs. Burton Harrison has written play
which will be brought out next season.
A granite monument has been erected
over the grave of Barley Campbell in ST
Mary's cemetery, Pittsburg.
1t Is said that Flora Fairchild. Julia Ar
thurs sister, will star in the latters plays
next year
Forbes Robertson has acquired the rights
to The Cloister.' by Emil Nerhaeren, the
well-known Belgian poet.
Blanche Walsh is now in Rome and dur
ing her stay in that city will seek an audi
ence with the pope.
Klaw & Erlanger announce that The
Viceroy'' will be the principal opera IN the
repertoire of the Bostonians next season.
Richard Butler. who has made hit in
"Quo Nadis," will play an important role
in Ben Hur" next season.
THE Education of the Prince the new
play in which Anna Held was to appear
next season, has proven TO be failure in
Paris.
Joseph Herbert has completed musical
comedy to be called The Magnetic Gill
The rights to the piece have been acquired
by Alfred AaronS.
1t is said that if Charlie Ross does not
return to Weber and Fields next season
Maurice Farqua, an English light opera
singer and entertainer, may take his place
Rose Melville is to star again next season
In Sis Hopkins 1t has been reported
that a well-known playwright in New York
is at work on a new play for Miss Melville
T r. Thalberg and Gerald Quincy have
completed a dramatiZatiOn of Robert Louis
Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and
will produce it at Glasgow June 4.
Harriet Ford and Beatrice DeMille, who
wrote The Greatest Thing in the World"
for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne, have just sold
a new play entitled THE Awakening to
Julia Marlowe.
AL Griffith has made SO good an impress
sion by his recent appearances in imita-
lions. singing and dancing that he may go
into vaudeville permanently.
julius Calm has issued the fifth volume
of his Theatrical Guide. which has come to
be regarded as the standard encyclopedia
of road" Information.
Augustus Thomas new play. THE Cen
tleman From Texas will exploit Maclyn
Arbuckle as a star Arbuckle's season will
begin at the Chestnut Street Opera House,
Philadelphia. September II.
A parrot will be conspicuous in Foxy
CUTLER" 1t will be trained to repeat GER
tain lines and will respond to cues. A
French animal and bird trainer in New
York now has the parrot in hand
What Happened to Jones' must have
startled the Australians. During a single
week in sydney something like $4,000 was
taken in. Charles Arnold. the veteran Ger
man dialect comedian, played the princi-
pal part.
Sherlock Holiness" with William Gil
Iette in the star role, is still doing well in
New York. 1t has been running for eight
months without a break change in the
cast.
David Belasco has purchased "Nicandra"
from its author, Russell Naun, and Mrs.
Carter will be seen in the play in this coun-
try next season. This is the play Mrs.
James Brown Potter was so anxious to Sc
cure.
"ouo Vadis' ended it's London career
last Saturday night and the hackers of
the venture are said to have lost money.
Its close resemblance to The Sign of the
Cross is said to have hurt It's drawing
powers.
ba ric has i,,
York, is blocking the arrangements for the
rebuilding of the Columbia Theater. in
Chicago. which was recently destroyed by
fire. Nixon & Zimmerman own the pres
ent site. but cannot rebuild without &C
quiring additional ground. Mrs. Green
owns the land desired. and has put pro-
hibitive price on 1t.
Well defined rumorS were current in New
York during the past week that Corbett,
the fighter had bought an interest in
Sporting Life" and would play Bob Hill
lard's old part the coming season. Cor
belts renewed popularity and the strength
of the piece should make success certain.
The lawyers looking after the estate of
he late Thomas Miaco have notified the
different house MARI gers and players that
the theaters and read companies belonging
thereto will be continued under the direct
ing care of Harry Williams of Pittsburg,
and Robert Fulton, who for years was one
of the old managers most trusted lieuten-
ants
The announcement of the organization of
the Association Of Vaudeville Managers of
the United States has been formally made
1t includes keith's and Proctor's houses
and theaters in all the big cities from New
York to San Francisco The New Grand
of this city and Glen Echo Park are in
Guided in the list.
Charles Frohman and several companions
who are in Paris. witnessed 81 Aiglon"
last Saturday night with Nine. Bernhard
in the title role. This play has been Sc
cured for Maude Adams next season and
the party agreed that the leading part
would fit her. 1t is probable that the play
will suffer several changes in its transla-
ton into English.
was said TO have expectations Of marrying
vorce. has returned to the English metrop-
Oils from Africa. but has ignored the Sal
walton Army lassie. Mr.. Cavendish is the
financial hacker of 1.-THE American Beauty"
and his Indifference has created gossip.
Richard Mansfield journeyed from New
York to New London. Conn. in a yacht.
and. after accepting an invitation to dine
the next evening, discovered he had left his
dress suit at home. Full Geographic in
structions were sent to New York and a
messenger boy carried the clothes to Mans
field at an expense of So.
Daniel Frohman has secured the stage