The evening times., 1901-11-29
THE PLAYER FOLK.

months has been treasurer OF the Acad-
emy Of Music viii succeed Whitman Os-
good as manager of that theatre, tenn
porarily, anyway, until Mr. Stair, the les
see of the property determines definitely
upon his local representative. Mr. Her
man has made many friends for the Acad-
eny Of Music by his courteousness, and
has ii many ways proved himself to be
very efficient box-ofiee man.
In case Mr.. Stair concludes 20 install
Mr. Herman as permanent local mana
ger, his interests would be IN exception
ally good keeping
Mrs. Carter will bring her La du
BIrry'' company 20 Washington by a
special train Of seven cars on Saturday.
December / Contrary to common belief
the first production of David Belasco's
new play in which Mrs. Carter wiz ASSUME
the name part, will not be given at .4le
National until Tuesday night, December
TO- the Monday night being reserved for
a final dress rehearsal, to insure a per
feet performance on the following even
ing.
Andrew Mack. one of the fayorite Irish
singing comedians, is headed for Wash
will bring his new play, Tom Moore
to the Columbia Theatre q few weeks
hence
Mack has only once tried a local en-
gagement, and as it did not prove profit
able, his managers have since kept hin
away from the Capital City. He occupies
a somewhat unique position in the dram
attic world, sharing as he does with Chaun-
cey OlcOtt, the hOEOTs OF the Irish com
edy field. Although Olcott has been be
fore the public some years longer than
Mack. the latter is equally popular with
the Fourteenth Street audiences IN New
York.
Olcott vas a former minstrel hrst-part
singer, while Mack's earlier successes
were scored with May Irwin and Peter F.
Daley. He once tried to star on bis own
account, with rather disastrous financial
results and il was not until he came IN
der the management Of Rich & Harris. the
Boston amusement directors. that he at
tanned any prominence. Mack writes
some very popular music, most OF which
is introduced In his plays.
A prominent member Of Henrietta
Crossman's company, presenting George
Hazleton's play. Mistress Nell is Geof-
frey Stein. OF this city Mr. Stein Is the
stage manager Of the Crossman oTganiz2-
ton He Vas a member Of the company
before the success at the Biiou Theatre
New York. lifted Miss Crossman from the
cb=curity Of stock work into the prom
{ inence she formerly enjoyed as a member
OF the Frohmau forces eight or ten years
ago
Mr. Stein received an unusual amount
of
ers when Mistress Neli' was first taken
+ to Gotham He is a brother or Treasu-
rer stein or the Columbia Theatre. and
( his Washington friends are almost num-
( berIess.
( All Of the Washington pIayhouses were
well filed at both performances yester-
( day.
! Ramsay Norris. IN addition TO acting as
+ business manager for Louis Mann and
/ Clara LipmaR. is dTamatist OF cons. der
able note. His 'Nadge Smith, Attorney. -
! served May Irwin very well last season,
after the failure OF The Belle OF Bridge
port
+ Mr Morris is at present putting the
I finishing touches TO a new play, which he
/ has called Ninety and Nine" q very
/ effective title, by the way The piece
4 will be produced at the Academy of Mu-
/ sic next October, and the management
/ OF the metropolitan theatre evidently
thinks well Of its chances for success, as
{ the entire season has been placed al the
/ disposal OF Frank Mckee, Who Will pre-
sent the drama
Ninety and Nine" is said to possess .
! pOEsrfuf religious motif, and as may be
/ imagined, Evangelist Ira Sankey's famous
Z hymn was its inspiration Mr. Sankey
said, in . recent interview, that the
! hymn has been sung n practically every
I tongue IN the world. and he himself has
( sung il 10 multiJudes in hundreds OF
I cities, from New York, at the Madison
( Garden. TO Jerusalem. on the Mount o
I Olives. II is known throughout the Chris
[ tian world as familiarity as is Nearer
( Nv God TO Thee" ard on this account.
Il for no other reason, Mr.. Morris play
/ is bound to attract no little attention
The setting of the third act of the piece
7 IS expected to be unccmmonly effective.
( 1t viii cost small fortune IN itself. Mr.
/ Norris says its principal feature is a big
and absolutely novel sensation. for the
presentation OF which an entirely new
stage viii have 20 be built at the New
York Academy of Music There Will be
some fine choral effects in the play. the
scene of which is laid in two small Indian
/ villages.
Edwin Arden, last season leading man
/ OF the Lafayette Stock Company Of this
city. and a great Washington favorIte. has
already been engaged TO originate the
chief male role
Leslie Stuart, whose music in --FIoTo-
dora made the success Of that musical
comedy, has signed q contract with
Charles Frohman TO write the score for q
new musical piece. the book OF which
will be done by Paul Potter The work
! Will be presented next season from which
| it appears that Mr.. Frohman has deter
mined to try his hand one more time at a
musical entertainment. His past endeavors
in this line have been such gIittering fail
ures that a less courageous man would re-
tire from the game
Mr. FrohmaR's record includes 'eThe
Shop Girl Little Miss Nobody III
Town, The Rose of Persia" which ex-
PeTienCed a bIighting frost in washington
last year. and The Girl From Up-There =
III which Miss Edna May was presented il
this country and London last season MOI
one Of the list was anything like a sue
cess, although the cable accounts of Mis-:
Mays first English performance were Il
the effect that she had scored tremen-
dous hit But this was rot borne out By
later adyices, and The Girl From Up
There" SSs not brought back to this
country, and Miss May was. after few
/ months work to coax the English publ,
into the theatre, placed in another mu-
sical affair.
The Liberty Bellies" viii celebrate it