The Washington times., 1901-08-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Dan DAILY and company began re-
hearsals last week.
This week will be Francis Wilson's last
in New York in "The Stroilers.'
| The garden scene from Faust is being
utilized in vaudeville by John Griffith.
| Charlotte Deane has been re-engaged
| for e. III. Sotherns company next season.
Samuel Freedman has been engaged as
business manager of Stuart Robson S
| tour.
Augustus Thomas comedy. "On the
| Quiet" will be given in London next
| season.
Ada ZelI, of this city. is playing ingenue
roles with the Hopkins stock company of
Chicago.
oden Williams will be in the cast of
| Warfield.
E. H. Sothern will be his own stage
| director for the production of Richard
| Lovelace."
| Gertrude Coghlan has begun rehearsais
for Vanity Fair under the direction of
John Reed.
Anita Austin, late of the Anna Held
| company, has been engaged for The Lib
| erty Bellies
Grace George begins her season at
| Hammerstein'S Theatre Republic, New
| York, in November.
Madame Hermann will play a special
engagement at the Wintergarten, Berlin
| beginning September l.
| Primrose 6 Dockstader's Minstrels will
| continue to entertain lovers of that form
| of amusement this season.
| Ethel Hornick has been assigned the
| role in Mrs. Danes Defence" which
| Jessie Millward originated.
| 1t is stated that Ada Rehan will appear
| in Martha Morton's play. THE Fascinat-
ing Miss Ford next spring.
Up to the present time one hundred and
twenty European vaudeville acts have
been booked for this country.
Adele Block has been engaged to play
the Duchess of Portsmouth in Mistress
Nell with Henrietta Crosman.
1t is rumored that Wilton Lackaye will
again become a star in the fall under the
! management of William A. Brady.
''Peck's Bad Boy viii take the road
this season. The company will be under
the management of George Heath
Saint-Saens will furnish the score for
Victor Hugo's "Bursraves." which will
be given at the Theatre Franchise.
Blanche Holman and her company will
present a new vaudeville sketch called
THE Broadway Girl in Gay Paree."
Richard Strauss has written a one-act
opera entitled "Feunrsnoth. which viii
have an early production in Dresden.
Edgar L. Davenport assisted by Poiiy
Stockwell, is playing vaudeville dates
using a sketch called ~Just a Man
Becky Sharpe" has been produced in
London at the Prince Of Wales Theatre,
with Marie Tempest in the title role.
'The Telephone Girl will take the road
again this season. Gustav Kerker has
supplied several new musical numbers
Maude Adams stop.father instituted di-
vorce proceedings last week against the
actress mother on the grounds of deser-
tiun.
Eben Holden has been dramd;izcd by
F.. IL. Rose and rehcarsals VIII begin i'm
mediatoly. f. M Holland Will enact the
title role
William Brown Smith has been added
to the east of clyde Fitohs play. The
Marriage Game. in which Sadie Martinez
will star.
Flora Isabelle has been engaged for
The Messenger Boy Miss Zabelle was
seen here last year in the title role OF
san Toy"
a dramatizat:on of Vanity Fair under
the title Of Becky sharp was given re-
Gently in London with Annie Hughes in
the title role.
Quincy Adams Sawyer story cf
New England life, has been dramatized
and a. II. Chamheriyn is regotiatinB for
the rights to produce IL.
Robert Fitzsimmons has written book
bearing the tie Physical Culture ana
self Defence" Can 1t be possible that the
literary bee Is buZzing in the puEiiist-
actors vici'iitv. ard that the II ICE Is IL
danger of losing one of its shining lights?