The Washington times., 1901-08-11
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Aubrey Boucicault is writing play for
| the Boston Cadets.
Addison Pitt has been engaged by Hen
rietta Crosman for her company.
| Charles f. Evans, who is now abroad
will be among the seasons stars
Blanche Walsh will play Joan of the
| Sword Hand" during the coming season.
| Thomas NJ. Hunter will be the Nero of
Whitney & Knowles Quo Vadis" next
! season.
| Neil Burgess will make a tour of the
country in a revival of The County Fair
| this fall.
Herbert Cawthorne will resume the title
role in The Burgomaster" in Boston
August ~.
John P Jordan will be member of
Viola Aliens organization in I'm the Pal
ace of the King
| Madeline Lucette Ryley Is at work on a
new play for Forbes Robertson, the Eng
| lish actormanager.
| Isle Leigh has been selected as lead
| ing woman of the Forepaugh Stock Com
! pany IN Philadelphia.
klaw & Erlanger's company to present
| Ben Hur'' the coming season began re-
hearsals last Monday.
Cora Urquhart- Potter has discontinued
| her church recitations and is now busy
with her autobiography.
! Williams and Walker will again for
/ sake vaudeville and be seen in a new
| piece called In Australia"
| Samuel ROrke has secured The Casino
| Girl from George w. Lederer ana will
| send the piece on tour in the fall.
| Thirty horses will be employed in the
| forthcoming production of Arizona at
| the Academy of Music, New York.
Leo Ditrichstein, the actor, has writ
ten play entitled THE Last Appeal in
which he hopes to star in the fall.
Victory Bateman Will play the leading
role In the Shipmah Brothers production
of The Adventures OF Lady Ursula
Virginia Harmed ssfirstIstarring tour will
introduce her in stage version of the
popular novel. Alice of Old Vincennes.'
Marie Hunt has tbeebs Ell gagged for the
role of Mistress Hopkins in the Whitney
production of "rhe, ~ ooing of Priscilla"
Kiplings Jungle Books have been
dramatized by the aathor and English
manager is negotiating for their produc-
ton. ~
Z. F. Keith is entertaining a number
Of his friends board ms steam yacht.
They are bound for the Buffalo EXPOSE
ton. Nd
Neil o'Brien has sailed for London.
where he will join the N. C. Goodwin
Company, In when We Were Twenty
One" z-ls
Grayce Scott who became a popular
member of the Lafayette Stock Company
last winter has gone to Europe for several
months. ~ 8 ia l'.- ~
Lester Lonergan has Joined Mrs. Fiske's
company and will have an important part
in her production of Miranda of the Bal
cony."
David Lewis has been engaged by. Al
fred A. Aarons for the company which
will occupy the Metropolitan Opera
House.
Joseph Arthur will dramatize some of E.
=. Roe's stories. The first stage version
to be made will be He Fell in Love With
His Wife"
Agnes Herndon will play the principal
| female part in Mans Enemy which
Will be one of the attractions at the Acad-
envy of Music.
Eugene O'Rourke. the heavyweight
comedian. has refused offer to play
comic feminine roles in Z. L. Rice's reyiv-
al of "Evangeline.
Beryl Hope will be the leading lady of
the --aney stock company. which will
occupy the stage of the Blaney Theatre
Louise Collins sailed for England with
the William Gillette Company. She was
accompanied by her aunt, Anna Mont
gomery, of this city.
appear in The Whirl of the Town" Elfe
Fay, who is in England. has been engaged
for the same company.
Maude Winter. formerly a member of
Mrs Carriers Company, viii enact the
port of David Wariield.
f. d. Stairs New York theatre which
will be known as the Majestic, will have
Warde K Nokes in The Headwaiters."
as the opening attraction.
Are You Mason?" will be given in
London next season. Paul Arthur viii
interpret the role which Leo Ditrichstein
originated in this country.
Philadelphia will see the initial produc-
ton Of Lederer & Leavitts revival of
'Mazeppa." in which Verona Jarbeau will
have the leading feminine role.
James X. Hackett announces that his
season at Wallack's Theatre. New York,
win last eleven weeks. He does not con-
slider the possibility of a failure.
Herbert Kelley and Effie Shannon have
new play by Martha Morton entitled
will open on September s. in Detroit.
Joseph Herbert will succeed Charles
Dickson in the leading role of The Ex-
plorers." The part will be rewritten and
made into that of an eccentric old man.
Alice Hunt, a young actress of much
ability. viii be the ''Madge' and ride
Queen Bess' to victory as the jockey in
In Old Kentucky" the coming season.
At last the title of the play which j. M
Barrie is writing for Maude Adams has
been made known. IL is Quality Street
and the public knows as much as it did
before.
Harry Davenport Pauline Chase. Mont
Somery and Stone, and Charles 7. AL
drich have returned from London where
they went with "Tie Girl From Up
There"
Than & Kennedy will send 'Yon Yon-
son" on the road in the fan with Knute
Ericsson in the title role. Beatrice Nor
man will again essay the leading femin
inc part. ia
Mabel Gilman will besthe beauty in the
klaW y E!iaHBer production of The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" Joseph
Cawthorne has also been engaged for he
pantumimc
Maurice Bernhard. son of the Divine
Sarah, is 1T work on rs decentralization of
with Fire and Sword.r by Henrik Sien-
kiewicz. which wil-be given an early pro-
duCtion in Paris.
Frank Hartwen wif' replace Horace
Lewis in Lovers Line and Mrs. Hart
Wen has been engaged for the role of
Aunt Melissy whichSwas originally played
by Agnes Findlay.ia a
John Mason, whosh IS been spending the
summer on the Pacific Coast. has return
I'd to New York and will begin rehearsals
for his new play. The Altar of Fri, nd
ship immediately.
Della Fox has refused an offer to be
starred in a musical piece called The
Little Joker" She Announces she viii
continue To appear in vaudeville during
the coming season. r.
Lottie Venue has occurred the English
rights to The Marriage Game, which
Clyde Fitch wrote for Sadie Martinot and
in which the latter viii be seen during
the coming season.
Lincoln }. Carter, who writes the most
lurid sort of ms lodramas imaginable. has
turned out another thriller which he has
named Two Little Waits and it will be
produced in the fan
Mary Sanders is in Boston. She has re-
turned to the Castle Square Theatre stock
company permano ntly. and last week
scored heavily in the leading role of "A
Bachelors Romance"
Mary Mannering's support in Janice
Meredith the coming season will be Wal
ter Hale, Charles Cherry. Theodore