Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-05

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but has finally come to the conciusion he
really threw himself into the Niagara Falls
during a temporary alteration OF mind.
The latest report regarding Viola Allen is
| that she will not go to Europe this summer
but VIII spend her vacation at her Long
Island home.
| 81 Aiglon, according to report is MOI,
craving as well as expected in Paris. al
though il is paying expenses, and pretptss.
hardt.
| Canfeld and Richards "a Temperance
| IoWn closed the season with last Satur-
DAY nights performance at the Academy
The company was taken by surprise, but
mad to make the most of IL.
Johnny Ray of "A Hot Old Time. has
oeen very HI In New York for the past two
weeks and his physician has ordered him
| taken TO sanitarium. Mrs. Ray is also
H. and VIII accompany her husband.
The Grau-Savage Grand opera Companv
will be in the field next season, and bring
back to the operate stage Jessie BartIeIt
| Davis. who will be the leading contralto OF
the organization.
The latest report from New York is to
| the effect that Miss Ethel Barrymore, the
actress, is once more engaged to be mar
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tect and cotillion leader OF upper tendon
is said to be the happy man.
A great vaudeville show is to be given at
the Firth Avenue Theater week of Nav a
when that house comes under the manage
ment of Mr.. Proctor Cissy LOTUS Thomas
~. Seabrooke and the Earl OF Yarmouth
| are among the "top-lners' announced
Daughters Delightful" by George V.
| Hobart, will shortly be produced at the
| Herald Square Theater under the manage
ment of John b. Doris, who exploited
| orange Blossoms" and In Paradise" The
play is said to be farce comedy Of a start
ling nature.
Grace George is to be given another op-
| portunity to star next season by her hus-
band. William A Brady. Mr.. Brady has
secured the four-act romantic comedy Her
| Majesty, and will probably put it out for
a week of night stands before the season
| closes.
The american Beauty's" reception in
| London has been rather cold by the press
! received the greatest praise, but the other
| principals well liked. The play has
| been partially rewritten since the first pre-
| sentation.
| To,stofs latest book. 1.-The Dominion ot
| Darkness" is being translated into English
| Tor use in this country. The play has al
| ready been produced at the Royal Theater
In Copenhagen.
| The Milton Aborn Opera Company sud-
| denly closed season last week at Newark
n. j., owing to poor business. ]. K Muir
| ray and Clara Lane. who were stars of the
organization, went to Cincinnati, where they
appeared in a vaudeville sketch
Leonard Boyne has revived Wilson Bar
rett and Clement Scott's drama called Sis
yer mary IN London under the title of Cap
| tam Leigh He acted in that play at the
American Theater in New York when Julia
Arthur. Maxine Elliott and Elsie De Wolfe
were also in the cast.
1t is reported that bath House John 90
as Alexander John Coughlin of Chicago is
| called. who has attained great notoriety on
account of his wonderful clothes has re-
ceived an offer from the management of
Roster & Balls, in New York to go on for
a week and sing his famous song, Dear
Midnight of Love"
There will shorty be produced in Boston
a play depicting New England life entitled
In Gossip Town. by Mr.. Claude H. Bates
on visit to a small New Hampshire VIII
lage. where means of excitement are scarce
and where gossip abounds.
Daniel Frohman has secured the dra-
matte rights of Robert Tourney" by VIM
sage. The dramatization is to be made
for Mr. Frohman by Abby Sage Richard
son, one of the authors of the play THE
Pride of Jennico." The novel contains a
| strong love story. with the French revolu-
ton as the background.
At the conclusion of the coming Wash
irgton engagement of Francis Wilson, Lulu
Chaser Will quit the company for good and
a new soubrette will work with the WE'LL
known comedian next season. Miss CHASER
has been with Mr.. Wilson since 1892 when
she graduated from the chorus into the
leading role. 1t is reported in New York
that Miss Chaser will head a company of
her own.
The first presentation in Paris of The
tragedy Charlotte Corday" was given last
Monday night under peculiar surroundings
1 The lines were modified in several Instances
before being read on the stage. and during
the performance soldiers in uniform were
| scattered throughout the building and a
regiment drawn up in front of the house
| Nothing spectacular came from the audi
| cree.
Manager P. B. Chase of the New Grand
| left the city on Monday last to inaugural e
| the summer opening of Lake Hiawatha
| Park- the noted amusement place near CO.
iumbus, Ohio, owned by him. 1t is reach
| ed by an electric railroad. operated by Mr.
Chase, running from Mt. Vernon. Ohio,
| contains large, handsome yaudeyIlie
| theater, about $50 cottages along the min
| iature lake for summer residents and has
many acres of beautifully cultivated lawns
and grounds.
Memphis people are said to bitterly resent
| an affront recently put upon them by Rich
| ard Mansfield. 'Cyrano" was being played
| there. and in the cast was Florence Kahn
a Memphis girl. who succeeded Katherine
Gray in the part of Roxane Mr. Mansfield
seems to have resented the outburst Of
| clamorous reclamation aroused by Miss
| Kahn. for when the audience called for
! him, to place a fgurative laurel wreath
upon his classic brow. be refused to re-
| spond but sent out young supernumerary
| attired as cook.
| A stormy first night was witnessed in
\ the Deutsches Volkstheatre In Vienna on
| the occasion of the recent production of
| Der Letzte Knopf" by the Hungarian ORA
| matfst. Julius Won Gans-Ludassy. The au-
| thor. a realist of the most modern type
| chose for his subject the everyday life OF
| the inhabitants in the workmen's quarter
| In Vienna. He pictured the seamiest sides
of life in terms which We're brutal in their
| truth. The last three acts We're played
amid a tumult which suggested a scene in