Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-23
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Madge Ellis Is still a great favorite In
London.
Are You a Masong' is the title of a
farce soon to be presented in Boston
George Lederer or Klaw & Erianger may
manage Alice Nielsen's tour next season.
Sidney Herbert is now playing the chief
heroic role in ITO Have and To Hold"
A theater at Newark N J., will be added
to the Proctor vaudeville circuit next sea-
son.
Walter Jones has been i'll In Chicago for
two weeks, and Will play no more this sea-
son.
Peter F. Daley is in luck Augustus
Thomas will write his play for next sea-
son.
Corinne will play in pantomime in Lon
don under the management of George
Lederer.
THE Sins of Father a melo-drama by
Dore Davidson, will be a road attraction
next season.
The Rogers Brothers company may play
a season in London after the tour in this
country closes.
Quo Vadis" was recently produced in
Paris and met with strong approval from a
| large audience.
! The directors of the Empire, London, de-
| clared dividend of 81 per cent on last
| years business.
Willie Collier and his wife Oouise Allen
| recently celebrated the ninth anniversary
| of their marriage.
Madame Rejane will play South Ameri-
| can engagement upon a guarantee of $780,
| 600 for fifty weeks.
| Annie Russell will visit but six cities be-
sides this one between now and the close
| of her season in May.
Alice Nielsen and 1.-The Fortune Teller
! company sailed from New York for Lon
| don last Wednesday.
Marie Studholme was recently married
| in London to Maharaga, an India potan-
| tate of immense wealth.
Theatrical business in London and Paris
was very poor last week. Lack of novelties
is reported as the cause.
Eddie Fay will take Sam Demands place
in THE Prima Donna the part being
altered to suit his eccentric style.
Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott
| may play short season of comedy in Lon
| don before coming to this country.
Last Monday night 1.-THE Belle of New
| York. was played in Rochester, making
the 1,jOOth presentation of the piece.
! w. s. Penley. the well-known London
| actor-manager, is seriously i'll and his the
alter has been closed for several weeks.
1.-The Belle of Bohemia is now reported
| to be frost" in London. A poor cast is
said to be responsible for the failure.
A hippodrome is to be built in New York
in which circus, burlesque and vaude-
Vile will be displayed at the same time.
| Arthur Byron, leading man with John
| Drew for the past seven years. will leave
| that company at the end of the season.
Edna Aug will probably have promi-
| nent part in the David Warfield company
| which Belasco will send out next season.
| Edward J. Radcliffe has applied to court
| to be placed in bankruptcy placing his
liabilities at about $500 and assets at
| $50.
Louis Nethersole will probably put for
ward Sadie Martinez next season as the
star in Clyde Fitch's THE Marriage
| Game"
Trouble is reported in 1.-THE Founders"
company. and Thomas Seabrooke may re-
sign. Henry Dixey. it is said, is slated
| for the place.
George Lederer has secured the rights to
| 1.-The Tramps." a musical comedy by the
author of The Circus Girl" 1t will be
produced May 1.
Andrew Mack will soon present a new
| play. entitled Tom Moore" founded on
the life OF the Irish poet. 1t is written by
Theodore Bert Sayre.
| Mary Moore. the well-known English
| actress sailed for South Africa on one
| hours notice that her son. who is in the
| British army, was Ill with typhoid fever.
| former Of the rough sort, and easily re-
called by patrons of Kernan's, has made a
| hit in New York with the Sire Brothers
| aggregation.
Olga Nethersole is getting along nicely
| and second operation will not be neces-
| sary, her physicians saying that she will
be able to receive visitors the latter part
| Of next week.
Gertrude Berkeley, member Of the
| Kansas City stock company. is reported to
| have gone insane last Monday night after
| the lowering of the final curtain. Over
study is said to be the cause.
On the occasion of his farewell speech at
| Dublin Sir Henry Irving read a telegram to
| the audience which read: Give my love
| to Dublin, where first commenced, nearly
| forty-nine years ago. TOOLE.'
Flo Parker, a member of the old Bijou
stock company in this city, will probably
cisco when THE Telephone Girl" of which
she is a member, reaches that CITY,
William Faversham returns to the stage
! after his long illness. the middle of next
| month, as the leading man of the Empire
| Theater Stock Company. He will play the
| chief role in revival of Diplomacy"
| Jessie Miward leading lady of the EN-
| pire Theater Stock Company, returns to
| England at the close of this season, Mar
| garet Anglin taking her place. Miss Mil
ward will head her own company In Eng
land.
| Harry Monkhouse. who made big hit In
| this country with the London Gaiety Com
pany, recently died In the English metropo-
| lis. He made his debut i'm 1871 and has
| been one of the leading English comedians
| for many years.
The theatrical managers of Vienna have
| protested against license again being is
| sued to the Barnum and Bailey show. They
| claim their receipts We're cut down one
! half for the three months the big aggrega-
tion was in that city.
| Edward Abrams, the advance agent of
THE BurgomaSter," has some ideas of his