Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23

TIE EVENING SIN
In the near future. with Marguer,te Cor
nille and Minnie Ashfsg in pro@inent roles.
Seymour Hicks and his VIE, Ellaline Ter
ris. are to begin tour through this coun-
try next September, when they will pre-
sent My Daughter-in-Law.
John F. Sheridan, of Fun on the Brls-
tor fame, is still popular favorite in Aus
tralia, and his season Just closing has been
unusually successful.
Nance O'Neil. who has achieved a ire
mendous success in the antipodes, will
leave Melbourne about the LIST of July for
this country, opening in San Francisco Sep
TENDER !.
Walter Stetson and Selma Forester OF
this city are playing vaudeville dates
through the south. They have met with
success in their new sketch, II Want to
Know"
David Belasco got in ahead of many
managers and playwrights and purchased
1.-The Bath Comedy for dramatization re-
Gently in London. He will present the play
In this country.
THE Belle of New York. has captured
Boston and has been greeted with unusual
ly large audiences. The chances are that
the fall season begins.
Mrs. Carriers new play for next season,
written by Richepin, has been received by
that lady in London. Its theme has been
kept very quiet, but it has leaked out that
1t Is laid in the time of Louis XIV, and that
1t has something like fifty speaking parts.
"a Million Dollars" is the name of the
new extravaganza which will be put on at
the New York Theater next month. George
ID how Il
and lyrics, while A. B. Sloane provides
the music.
William Gillette has secured new lead
ing lady for next season in Maude Fealy,
who created the role Of Eunice in QUO
Fadis.' Miss Fealy will play the part of
Alice Faulkner in Sherlock Holmes"
News has been received from San Fran
cisco that ]. Sherrie Mathews of the team
of Mathews and Bulger is very i'll. and that
there is little hope of his recovery. An IN
derstudy has been playing his part for sew
eral weeks past.
Charles T. Aldrich. the tramp iuggler.
has added a burleSque on Ching Ling Foo
to his act. He first performs the tricks
cleverly and then explains how they are
done in his usual humorous style.
Mrs. Langtry has not suffered socially at
home for presenting The Degenerates" in
this country last season At present she is
in great favor with the English arts
tccracy. Just how she has done it nobody
seems to know. but she is now courted and
made much of by the ladies of title.
Nellie Braggins. who was last in Wash
ington with the Three Little Lambs was
married last Thursday in st. Louis to
prominent railroad official of that city.
Miss Rraggins is playing summer en-
gagement in st. Louis and Will be on the
stage until the fall, when she will retire
permanently.
Robert Coleman of this city who has
been playing prominent roles with the Muir
ray Hill Theater stock company during the
past season. returned to Washington last
week. Mr.. Coleman and his family will So
journ at Atlantic City during the summer.
Ellen Vockey Seifert is now residing per-
manently in New York and is earring for
her brother. Theo. Vockey, the artist, who
is an invalid and who needed change from
this city. Mrs. Seifert has retired from the
stage.
1t Is reported from New York that Della
Fox is recovering from her recent Illness
and that she is able to take walks I'M
attended in the grounds surrounding the
sanitarium in which she is at present con-
fined. The physicians in attendance say
that their hope of her ultimate recovery is
strong.
1t has been denied that Eugene Blair Is
venports productions Her manager says
that she will continue in "A Lady of Quail
ity.' and will at the close of her present
season go directly to London In search of
new play
After a run of thirty-three weeks, "Sher-
lock Holmes" closed its season at the Gar
rick Theater New York last night. Next
season Mr.. Gillettes company will be much
changed, Bruce McRea and Miss Katherine
Florence. who have had leading parts. both
leaving the organization. Ethel Knight
Milison will succeed Miss Florence.
Western dramatic editors stand up for
their rights. This functionary on a Wis
consin paper lately remarked: 1--WE are
struck sometimes with the generosity of
managers of shows and entertainments. Not
long ago We were asked to give EN- puff
for one ticket. as though we had no lady,
because we are unmarried.
Last Thursday evening George K Fortes-
cue. who plays the part of Doc Snifkins in
1.-The Belle of New York" celebrated his
one thousand twelve hundred and tiftieth
appearance in that role. Mr.. Fortescue ere
ated the character. and has played it stead
lily since the production of the piece In the
three years he has missed but one perform
ance, matinee in Chicago
Augustus Thomas has spent the greater
Part of the last three months in Texas in
search of characters and atmosphere for
El5 new play The Gentleman From
Texas for Maclyn Arbuckle. The CEN
trail character in the story will be young
Texan lawyer and politician. Arbuckle
was formerly a lawyer in Texas and a
shining light at the Bowie county bar till
his defeat for Justice of the peace by a
grocer led him to accept an engagement as
an actor with Peter Baker, the German
come dian.
At the recent performance in London of
Bernard Shaw's You Can Never Tell
there was a polite call for the author,
whereupon the manager came before the
curtain and read message from Shaw,
saying that after seeing the piece in re-
hearsal nothing could induce him to sit
through it again. The next day most of the
newspapers had kindly and tolerant notices
of the piece, and the day after Shaw ridi-
culed the critics for praising it. He also
stated that the great literary merit of all
his work was due to his abstention from
rum, tobacco and meat.
This, from a weekly dramatic paper,
shows the first effects Of the organization
of the vaudeville trust: 1.-The result of the
combination of the managers so that they
have a pooling business office is that the
business of booking agents has been knock
ed so high 1t is utterly impossible to observe
1t with the naked eye. That, at least, is
what the agents say. 1t is also true the
trust has palpable tendency to NOV down