The Washington times., 1901-09-22
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Clara Blandick has Joined E. Fl. Soth
erns company.


Melville.
Tyrone Power and Edith Crane arr
against the head of their company, tour
ing Australia
Sousa's Band will soon sail for England
for three months tour through Greal
Britain and Ireland.
/ Bettina Girard win return to vaudeville
in a new sketch, a. Hopkins Theatre
Chicago. September 30.
Edith Evelyn and Grace Mae Lamkir
are members of the ThanhouSer StocE
Company at Milwaukee.
Hall Gaines novel. THE Deemster,'
has been dramatized and is now being
played in the United States.
1t is said that Lord Francis Hope, hus.
band of Nav Yohe. has secured an inter.
| est in the Paris Folies Bergere.
Charles Dalton will be seen in THE
! Helmet of Navarro this season. Grace
| Eliston will be his leading woman.
Sam S. Shubert, manager of THE Brix-
| ton Burglary, is forming Il second COM
| pany TO present the comedy on the road.
| Clara Morris is to go on the lecture plat
! form. She will deliver a limited number
/ of lectures on THE Stage and the Ac-
/ tor. --t-f-f.-
Nance ONeil. who has been acting in
Australia for several years, will make a
| tour of South Africa beginning Septem-
Der a.
Max Freeman has adapted a play from
its French original. called Tales Out
of School," which he will produce this
season.
Robert Lowe, of this city. is directing
the rehearsais of Joan of the Sword
Hand In which Blanche Walsh will star
this season.
Sada Yacco and Otto Ka~awami the
Japanese players, assisted by Loie Fuller,
will play an engagement at the Paris
Athenee this month.
st. Patrick's Day is Bad Day for
Coons" is the latest song hit made by Lew
Doekstader. It is by the author of Get
Your Moneys WORTH
Howard Gould has arranged to star In
Brother Officers" which scored a sue
cess when presented by Charles Froh-
mans Empire Theatre company. last sea-
son.
Mabel and Edith Strickland will star
this season in II. Grattan Donnelly's play.
For Loves Sake" Their tour will be-
gin tomorrow night at Benton Harbor,
Mich ..,5 80 r
Guy Bates Post and Grace Fisher have
Joined the cast of ''The Marriage Came"
in which Sadie Martinot will inaugurate
her stellar tour tomorrow night in Phil
adelphia.
Liehler & Co have engaged John Flood
for the role of Henry of Navarro in "A
Gentleman of France in which Kyrle
Belew will star this season under their
management. - 7il 80 g
parts with the Bellows stock company of
gagged for the company which will sup
port E S. Willard this season.
Frank Keenan, viii appear this season
last play which Sol smith Russell pre-
sented before his collapse two years ago.
The season will open September 2S-
A rumor comes from across the seas
that ]. C. Williamson. tie Australian
manager. has secured Mrs. James Brown
Potter for a tour In the Antipodes. She
will appear in ''Zaza" and Il Aiglon.''
THE Wooing of Priscilla" under the
management of. F.. C. Whitney, and with
its season. ~ 1t is said that the play will
be taken on the road later in the season.
Paul NJ. Potter, author of the play in
which Louis Mann and Clara Lipman will
star this season and which deals with life
among the Beers. Is engaged on new
play founded on the recent Chinese
troubles.
Ethel Jackson. the prina donna, will be
featured in the production of Willard
Spencer's Miss Bob, White this season.
Miss Jackson's engagement to ]. Fred
jr-,s the manager, has just
been announced.
Thomas L., Coleman. whose work with
the Lafayette stock company won him
many friends, is "a member of the Dear
born Theatre stock company of Chicago.
which opened its season last night in
The Only Way"
Harry Corson Clarke, who has been en-
Ladies' Paradise which Alfred a. |
Aarons Is presenting at the Metropolitan |
Opera House. was forced to resign from
the cast owing TO Illness
James X Hackett will present a new
play by Edward z. Rose, called "A Chance |
Ambassador during his current engage
ment in New York. He will continue to |
present Don Caesars Return in con- |
junction with the new play.
The King of Greece has erected mag |
niffeemf hog a
known as the Royal Theatre. 1T his |
request Rejane, the noted |
French actress. and her company viii |
dedicate the new playhouse.
Plays based on incidents of the South |
African war are beginning to multiply. |
Alfred Debout the French dramatist. has |
just completed one under the name of La |
-onquete dor" which has been accept |
ed for production by Coquelin.
Ralph Stuart, formerly leading man
If the American Theatre Stock Company |
IF New York, has been engaged by VII |
lam A Brady to support Grace George. |
season that Mr.. Stuart would star.
William A. Brady will bring out |
Around the World in Eighty Days" at
he Academy of Music, New York, after
-evival of Arizona which Is now
occupying the stage of that theatre.
Last Friday afternoon in Chicago
Blanche Bates gave special matinee per
U
She was assisted by Eugene Ormonde,
campbell Gollan. Albert Bruning. Mrs f.
". Bates, Mabel Howard, and Helen
Ware.
Elsie Dewolfe has returned from Eu-
'ope. where she spent the summer and |
las begun rehearsals for the new Clyde |
1itch play, entitled THE Way of the
World" in which she will inaugurate her
initial starring tour at the Columbia
Theatre. this city. October A.
Helen Lord, who, achieved conspicuous
riumph in London when she succeeded |
edna May as the Salvation Army Girl in
he production Of The Belle. of New
York. is TO be Frank Daniels leading |
ady this season, appearing in the title |
ole of his latest comic opera, Miss Sim
,licity."
Joseph Jererson's fan tour of eight
weeks begins September 80 In Troy, n.
Z. and ends November %. in Baltimore.
fter which he goes TO his Florida home
or the winter. II will be welcome news
o the thousands of Mr.. Jefferson's ad-
nfrers to know that he is in splendid
ealth and strength.
Jean Gerardy, the noted French 'cellist.
mo Is coming to this country by way of
"a aifornia about the end of this month.
i'll open his forthcoming tour with a NAM |
er of recitais in the West before he win
e heard with the Boston Symphony Or
hestra- Since last Nav NJ. Gerardy has
cen IN Australia, Ney South Wales, New
and Honolulu.
Charles Rogers. an English actnr- nla,--
right, now dead. dramatized "Sheriock |
ioirnes some time ago and his cx- |
,utors recently applied for an Injunction |
} prevent William Gillette and Conan |
'oyle from presenting GiHette's version
! England under the title of .Sherjock |
tonnes. They claim the title for the
eirs OF the late playwright. As mat
r OF fact, the title is the property Of Mr.
oy!e and the Injunction was denied.
John Z. Kellard will be supportad hv
n excellent company when he presents