Evening star., 1901-08-31

Bowen is the youngest prima donna on the
American stage. She is not yet eighteen
years old.
Eleanor Kent will have Helen Bertram' 8
old part of Columbia in Foxy Quiller'
next season. Miss Kent has been singing
during the summer with a stock opera
company in Cleveland.
VIII Cowper will replace Edward Elsner
in support of Marie Wainwright in vaude-
willie for limited engagement of two
weeks, opening in Chicago September 2.
and continuing the following week in st.
Louis.
Rostand, the French playwright, is re-
ported to have signed a contract giving
Mrs Minnie Haddern Fiske the American
rights in his next play. Sardou is also re-
ported to be bound up in an agreement or
the same sort.
Charles Frohman reopened the Duke of
York's theater, London. last Saturday
night with revival of ''The Royal Rival"
Lewis Waller playing the chief role. The
house was packed and both play and COM
pany received big ovation.
Burr Mcintosh. the photographer
who made the photographs of Mary Man
nering as Janice Meredith, states that he
has printed and sold since October 1 last
over 1000 of these pictures. Miss Man
nerings photographs, both personal and in
character. are now in greater demand than
those of any other stage celebrity.
Charles r. Gilbert Washington boy
who was with Marie Burroughs last sea-
son. has been taken into Stuart Robson's
support and will report for rehearsal next
Monday. Mr.. Gilberts splendid work last
season attracted Manager Arthur'S atten-
tlon, and he was one of the first selected
for Mr.. Robson's support this season.
&. Blanche Rice who was the yiyaciOuS
Tags of Neil Burgess County Fair last
season, has been engaged by s. Miller
Kent for the part of Madge in THE Cow
boy and the Lady One stipulation that
Miss Rice demanded in her contract was
that her name on the program and other
printing should read. &C. Blanche Rice"
The manager replied that S. Miller Kent
was the star" of the company, and it
was his desire that the public see" Kent
Last Thursday marked the beginning of
the career of James X. Hackett an ac-
tor-manager. 1t also marked the premier
of Victor Mapes' Don Caesars Return"
in which Mr.. Hackett opened the season
al Albany, and which he will thereafter
present throughout the country. after
metropolitan season at Walack's begin
n!ng next Monday. Mr.. Hackett has taken
great pains to provide an interesting cor
rect and consistent production.
The klaw & Erlanger Comedy Company
and the Rogers Brothers in The Rogers
Brothers IN Washington have made the
biggest hit in Buffalo scored in years They
opened to over 81, 200 Monday, the 10Th in
stant and during the remainder of the
week played to capacity, selling out each
day before g o'clock. They end their two
weeks stay tonight. They now have one
of the largest advance sales on record at
the knickerbocker Theater in New York
where they begin a long run Monday even
ing, September 9.
Among the forty young women whom
Nixon d zimmerman have engaged for the
Gnorus of Willard Sponsors Miss Bob
Whlte' there have been discovered two
former dramatic stars mot of the first
water possibly, yet stars for all that, four
"ex-leading ladies'" and one baroness
Among the men is a former sheriff of
eX stock brokers, one West Point graduate,
a doctor and one recent member of 'the
4"'. Quite swell gathering for the
merry, merry
Miss Amelia Binghams production of
Clyde Fitch's play The Climbers" which
will be seen at the National Theater on Oc-
tober u, direct from the Bijou Theater
New York. where it ran for 300 nights, en-
cages the services of the best available
theatrical talent in America. The roster of
her company displays the names of many
players favorably known in this city 1t
includes Robert Edeson. Frank Worthing,
Ferdinand Gottschalk. Minnie Dupree,
Ethel Winthrop. Amelia Bingham, Madge
Carr Cooke, James Carew, Bijou Fernan-
dez. Alfred Fisher Florence LLOYD James
b. Sturgis, Henry Warwick, E. c. More
land, Marian Gardiner. Maude Ream Sto-
yer. Lillian Wright, William Moore, Harry
Wright jr.
After really remarkable New York run
which continued throughout the entire sum-
mer, Francis Wilson has closed his engage
ment at the knickerbocker Theater to
make way for attractions holding contracts
that could not be Cancelled. In The Stroll
ers the comedian is credited with having
the best vehicle for his fun-makng meth
DDS since the days of "Erminie" In addi-
tion he has the best supporting company
he has had in years-One that includes Ed
die Foy, Marie George and Irene Bentley.
Ihe production Is an innovation for Mr.
l!son In that 1t is musical comedy in
stead of comic opera. but 1t has proven to
be Just what his audiences wanted Early
in September he will go on tour with The
Strollers with company of 100, the orig
maj production and the same principals.
In Sweet Glover" the play in which
Adelaide Thurston will star this season.
there is to be a realistic moonlight effect
in the first act. Miss Thurston was watch
ing her electrician, who was making the
stage moon, and she found fault with it's
size. 1t was decided to settle the contro-
versy by propounding the question. How
big does a full moon look to you?" to a
number of acQuaintances and abide by the
result. Miss Thurston found that the size
OF the moon varies widely to different in
dlviduals. Viola Allen thinks it is as large
as cart wheel 1t seems no larger than q
dinner plate to S. Miller Kent, and Tim
Murphy thinks it is about the size of the
head of flour barrel. To Marguerita Svl-
va 1t looks no larger than an orange. The
idea suggests itself as a good one to try
on ones acquaintance.
First Use Of an Army.
From the Nineteenth Century.
poses of defense against internal commo-
tion. This statement may surprise some
people who think of police only when ques-
tions of internal order are concerned, and
have not for many years witnessed the SOL
der in evidence in civil commotion or in
surrcctfon. But we shall have no true
idea of what armies exist for unless we
begin with this, perhaps in Importance the
highest, function of an army The utI-