The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-28
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Rehan las sailed for Ireland.


John Hares American tour closed last
Saturday night
Charles J. Bell has replaced John Flood
In The Climbers.
Anna Held will go to Paris at the close
OF her season on May 6.
r. A. Barnet has completed new com
edy called "CappadoN.
The Corsican Brothers" was first pro-
duCed In America in 49,
Lillian Burkhart has new vaudeville
sketch called Kitty Give.
Edna Wallace Hopper win be featured
in "Tlorodora" next season.
Days Theatre in New York may nave
a pantoiaime next Christmas.
Rachel Sterling has replaced Ethel
Strickland in Lovers Lane.
Joseph Jefferson's spring season opened
in Harlem last Monday night
Julia Morrison will return to the stage
next season in an original play.
Leoncavallo has Just completed a now
opera called Roland Of Berlin
Charles Frohman has purchased La
Vcine,' a success OF the Paris season.
f II. Sothern ana Virginia Harmed will
be. counter New York attractions next
fall
Ysobel Haskins was married last We'd
nesday to Walter Price, a New York
broker.
George W. Ledersr viii produce. The
Stroilers at the Knicke.bocher Theatre
Joseph sheehan. of the Castle Square
opera forces, will spend the summer
abroad
Miriam Nesc has been engaged as
leading woman of the Toledo, Ohio, Stock
Company.
Lillian Blauvelt will make a short CON
cert tour here and viii return to / Irope
in the fall.
Martin Harvey. the English actor may
buy Lowenfeld's new London theatre,
The Apollo.
Beulah Dodge will continue as the Sal
walton Army lassie in The Belle of New
York next season.
]. X Emmett will have a new sketch
called. THE Outpost The story deals
with the Boer war.
Adelaide Keim has succeeded Virginia
Harmed as Ophela, in L. II. Sothern' $ pro-
duction of Hamlet
Mrs. James Brown Potter'T daughter,
Anna Urquhart Potter. is 10 marry James
Stillman. of New York.
Oscar Hammerstein has been awarded
$4,000 in suit against the New York
Life Insurance Company.
George c. Boniface, jr.. will be a mem
Der OF The Giddy Throng' when the
burlesque is taken to Boston
From Scotland Yard" another detec
tive play. was produced with success at
Waterbury, Conn. on April Is.
La Pressa,. the Cuban lightning change
artist, made his first appearance in Ameri-
ca last Monday night at keith's.
The Sire Brothers of the New York
have engaged the Princess Chimay, for
merly Clara Ward, for their theatre.
Willard Holcomb has been engaged by
Liebler & Co. to do the press work for the
spring tour Of ''Unleavened Bread.
Rose Coghlan has been engaged for n
four weeks engagement with the Bel
iows-Long stock company at Denver.
Count Tezma.' recently produced in
London by Forbes Robertson and Ger
trude Elliott was an absolute failure.
]. c. Williamson has secured the Aus
tralian rights to Ben Hur," which he
will produce in his country next April.
J. II. Gilmour leading man with Maude
Adams in "LAiglon." will go into vaude-
Vile at the conclusion of the Adams sea-
son.
Henrietta Crossman will return to New
York tomorrow night at Wallack's Thea
tire. where she viii present Mistress
Nell.
Phyllis Rankin is in vaudeville in Eng
land. She sings songs from The Belle
of New York. assisted by six chorus
girls.
The White Rats of America will tender
a benefit tonight to President and Found
er George Fuller Golden at Roster &
Balls.
The Four Cohans will open the Boston
Museum next fall. 1t was always Roland
Reeds custom TO inaugurate the season at
this house.
The erection Of Polish theatre in Chi
cago is being considered by Polish resi-
dents OF the Windy City. The estimated
cost is $4,000
Francis Carlyle will not play BERTHE
Cecil with the Frohman-Beiasco produc-
tion Of Under Two Flags" when the play
goes on the road.
Helen Dupont. Of the vaudeville stage.
has been engaged by George w. Lederer
for his production Of The Strollers' at
the knickerbocker.
Eva Tanguay. Marie Cahill, and Harry
F-aN~ hoo 4
Chaperon," which Frank l. Perley will
launch next season.
Frank l. Perley is negotiating for eth
er Zelie de Lussan or Fanchon Thompson
to appear in the operas which have been
serving Alice Nielsen.
Marguerite sylvia has completed the
libretttO of an opera for which Julian Ed
wards viii furnish the score. Miss Sylvia
may use the piece next season.
Onata Watanna's novel. THE Japanese
Nightingale. will be made over into "A
musical play by Frederick Rankin. Isa-
dor Witmark viii write the score.
II is said that Sarah Bernhardt has Of
fered the use Of her Paris theatre to Elsie
De Wolfe after the iauer's London err
gagenent in The Way Of the World"
Benefits are numerous nowadays, but
no one Of recent date has realized any
thing like the sum Of that given Henry
+. Abbey in 1884, when the receipts were
$500.
r. A Roberts. stage manager Of the
Peter F. Daley company. is III in St
Louis. He has severe attack of rheu-
matism, which has seriously affected his
sight.
H. Dudley Hawley. who has been play
ing the imp in Rices When We Were
Twenty One. is III at Il hospital in
Washington. Iowa, with congestion of the
brain.
Eta Butler. who was seen at Chase's
during the winter. has scored the hit Of
THE Prima Donna Irrespective of the |
presence in the cast Of Lulu CHASER and |
tiny Toby Claude.
La Petite Adelaide. the toe dancer. was |
2 complainant In a New York police. court |
last week against her husband, William !
4. Lloyd, whom she charged with the |
theft Of waist. hat, and jeweled pin.
Vincent SerranO. VINO appeared here a |
Few weeks ago as Lieutenant Benton in |
company TO join Nat Goodwin and Max |
inc Elliott In The Merchant Of Nonce."
Harry Woodruff viii not have Mon |
seur Bcaucaire' next season. The play /
in which he will inaugurate his first sea |
son as a star Is the Joint work Of Eugene |
Prcs5rcy and Augustus Thomas and Will /
be called Rex
Clyde Fitch's pastoral play. Lovers |
Lane, after four months of remarkable |
prosperity at the Manhattan Theatre has |
been transferred to the Theatre Republic, |
where its New York run will be extended |
until hot weather
Claude Giilingwater win replace Maclyn |
Arhuckle as Lord Rockingham in the
production Of Under Two Flags" at the
Garden Theatre. Mr.. Arbuckle will join
the Goodwin company for the tour Of
The Merchant Of Venice"
The engagement has been announced
OF Lila convere, Of the AlcAZar stock |
company, san Francisco, to Francis ]
Brngicrc, OF California Miss Convere IS
n Washington girl and was last seen here |
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