Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-12


offer another meodrama. While Hanlon's
'Superba" will furnish refreshing change
after some weeks of melodrama, 1.-The Con-
victs Daughter will undoubtedly be given
a warm welcome. as the popular Academy
seems able to secure the sort of sensational
plays most enjoyed by its constantly in
creasing patronage The week of January
Il The Convicts Daughter will be given
| its first presentation here. 1t promises an
interesting departure from the beaten paths
| OF popular anuSementS.
Aside.
Stanley Weyman's The Castle Inn IS
| being dramatZed.
Afv1e Richie is seriously Ill with pneu-
| m ha AT New FORK hotel.
Reader-"EAiglon" is pronounced as
| though spelled "Layg-lone."
Alice in Wonderland" is doing an ex-
| traordinary business in London.
| Billy Farrell has made genuine hit with
| his cake walk in the London pantomimes.
Mrs. Langtry has secured all The English
rights to The Bath Comedy"
Toby Claude is out of The Cadet Girl"
| Hcrtense Gaumage taking her place.
John Rice and Sally Cohen produced a
new sketch in Toronto last Monday night.
Weber and Fields may take their entire
| company to London next spring for Il two
months engagement.
| Macklyn ArbuckIe will have ono Of the
leading roles in the Goodwin Eliiott star
cast Of The Merchant Of Venice
Albert schaefer of the Musical Schaefers
is in a London hospital very Ill with
| typhoid fever.
Otis Harlan has replaced Nat Wills as
one of the funny kings in Edna Mays
The Girl From Up There"
Frank Lawton, the whistler. will not re-
| turn to America for some time, as he has
London engagements long ahead.
A formidable agitation looking to the
| earlier beginning of theatrical perform
ances has been started In London.
The censor of plays in London had the
! good sense to suppress a song in caricature
| Of President Kruger.
Sir Henry Irving is out with vigorous
| denial of the reported resignation Of Ellen
| Terry from his company.
Mae Lowery and Richard F. Carroll are
| the latest additions to the New York pro-
| duction of The Burgomaster.'
James j. Corbett. the pugilist. is said to
| contemplate going into vaudeville, using d
| monoiogue as an introduction.
Phyllis Rankin is said to be much de-
pressed over her last reception in London
and wants TO return home.
Another English comedian will replace
| Willie Edouin in "Florodora" when the lat
ter returns home.
Last week in New York Is said to have
been the poorest, financially. of the season.
Managers are without an explanation.
George Alexander and Beerbohm Tree,
| the well-known London actor managers,
| may be knighted at the queens next BIRTH
| day.
Nixon and Zimmerman have secured the
| London Drury Lane pantomme for this
country, getting in ahead of George Led
| erer.
Katherine Grey will take the leading roles
of the Grand Opera House Stock Company
in Pittsburg as a result OF Victory Gate
| mans illness.
new American comic opera. called
1.-The Cannibal King" will soon be produc-
ed in London. Robert Coverly and Rupert
Hughes are its authors.
AS an experiment the London managers
recently took all the American principals
out of 1.-The Casino Girl and the English
comedians made the play ridiculous.
Madge Lessing's husband has been trying
to get her to return to him. but so far
without success. London friends of both
fear trouble may result
Edward Tyler. the comedian late of 1.-THE
FOUNDERS" Is in Arizona destitute and slIf-
fering with consumption. Friends in New
York are arranging benefit.
Morris Heine an actor-manager of some
nete, last Saturday filed petition in bank
ruptcy in New York. placing his liabilities
at nearly $4,000 and assets nil.
Charles Ross, late of Weber and Fields
has been signed by Manager Chamberlyn
for a prominent role in MY Lady" Bar
nets burlesque on the Three Musketeers."
Dainty little Kitty Mitchell. we'll known
in the vaudeville world was married last
Thursday night In Providence to Frank
Mead of Boston, a theatrical agent of some
note.
The original English dramatization OF
Kipling's "The Light That Failed. is said
to have been made for Olga Nethersole.
Why that actress did not produce the play
is not stated.
The Mckee Rankn-Nahce O'Neil Com
pany has been doing big business in Aus
tralia with standard plays. fine revival
Of Macbeth was given in Sydney to large
audiences.
Jennie Joyce last Wednesday attached
! the receipts Of Roster and Balls for sal
airy due her. The Hashims are running
| this house and the money involved amount
ed to about $3.50.
''The Casino Girr' returns from London
| and opens in New York about February ~.
James Sullivan, Albert Hart, Sam Collins,
Carrie Perkins and Ella Snyder will he in
the cast.
Thirty members of THE Belle of Bo-
| hemia'' sailed from Boston last "Wednesday
| for London. The entire cast of principals
and twelve chorus girls made up the
| number
| Walter Jones Is said to be seriously I'll In
Boston with lung trouble Jones has been
| appearing with the Matthews and Bulger
| company in that city.
The Earl Of Yarmouth will star through
the south in 1.-THE Councillors Wife," play
ing the role made prominent by Henry
Miller when the comedy was first presented
in this country.
WheH Madeline Lucette Ryley gets
| through with the launching OF Henry Miller
Ia Orchard Savage she will rewrite MY
| Lady Dainty so as to make Herbert kei-
ceys part more prominent and effective.
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