Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-09

skinner. at a Browning matinee, when In
Balcony" viii be given.
Willie Edouin's return TO the London cast
or Floradora" has doomed business won
uerfuiiy Edouin is a great London favor
ite' occupying about the position once held
by the late Fred Leslie
Phyllis Rankin, who is playing in Lon
don' recently took a trip to Cambridge Col
Iege and sang for the students She re-
ceived a tremendous reception and a
wagon load Of flowers.
Minnie Ashley's trouble with her eyes has
become more serious than at first supposed
ana 1t is hardly probable that she will APP
pear on the stage again this season Miss
Ashley's last engagement was with .,San
Toy"
When Augustus Thomas presents his lat
81 pay, colorado. next November for
the first time he will have had direct super
vision over the rehearsals Heretofore
clyde Fitch has been the only author who
mas looked after the rehearsals
Crystal Herne is to play Glory QuayIe IN
the forthcoming production OF The Chris
tah IN chicago, and viii play that part
throughout next season on the road Tni,
engagement is the first PLAYED by MIS-
Herne outside her fathers company.
Holbrock Blinn, who is playing the chiif
role in ITO Have and To Hohd Will leave
that company shortly and return to Lon
don. He is TO originate a part in Sweet
ana twenty, soon to be produced In ;he
English metropolis.
Norman Whalley has signed a contract
with Manager chamberiyn to play the
queen in My Lady" the part heretofore
acted by Violet Hollis Miss Hollis Viii
shortly sail for the continent and will an
pear In the leading music halls.
Ella Engstrom OF the Engstrom Sisters
was married the list of last February to "A
well-to-do clothier from the interior of New
York state. She will retire from the stage,
but her sister Lille will continue 10 sing
and dance as Of yore.
A conservative estimate places the for
tunes of Blanche Walsh at $4,000 Ada Re
nan at $1,000 Edna Wallace Hopper al
SSo"o Maude Adams at $1,000 Camille
D'Arville at 10000. Virginia Harmed al
so''ooo and Maggie Cline at $4,000.
Trixie Friganza, the well-known chorus
girl who is in London with THE Girl of
Bohemia" and who was recently married
upon the arrival of that organizafior i'm
England. has already applied for a divorce
her husband Is a steamship physician Ijr
Barry by name, and Miss Friganza SAWS
she married him out OF spite.
W. A. Mortimer. leading man for the
CONSIDERATIONS Brooklyn Stock Company.
mas entered suit against Charles Frohman
for $1,000 for defamation of character Tho
suit is the outcome of an injunction secured
by Mr.. Frohman against Mr.. Payton. pre-
venting the latter presenting ''L'AigIon
With IAN inferior cast" as the former nut
it.
Julian Mitchell. stage manager for Weber
and Fields, will go to London with ..Tba
Girl From Up There" Mr.. Mitchell oriri-
nally staged this production in this CITY
being loaned to Mr.. Frohman by Weber and
Fields, and this courtesy is extended one
more He enjoys the reputation Of being the
very best handler Of musical productions In
this country.
Frank Perley denies that he will star
Alice Nelson next season in his newly ac-
CURED opera, The Chaperons" He will
organize an entirely new COMPANY and is
Keeping sharp lookout for a soprano for
The principal role. The ChapTrons' was
written by Fred Rankin, who is partly re
Sponsible for The Ameer," and composed
by Isadore Witmark.
Harry Mitchell leading actor ~ tho
James Jeffries Company, was thrown from,
me balloon used In the play THE Man
last week and instead of alIghtinp on bjs
feet struck head first. 1t was thought AT
nrst that Mitchell would die having suf-
Iered conclusion Of the brain, but he will
recover although it Will take months.
1t was in 1879. at the Park Theater pbfI,-
delphia, that E. III. Sothern made his first
appearance on the stage. Ii was I'm his
I3ther S play entitled Sam" and voIInc
Sothern had TO bring trunk on the stage.
tonch his cap and say, Half "A crown your
honor' thlnk you won't object" He re-
menbered to touch his cap, but he forgot
his lines, and his father prompted him 81
loudly that all the audience heard il From
that pad beginning to his brilliant pre-
sentauon OF Hamlet is a wide leap.