The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-23
THE PLAYER FOLK.

Several Washington friends of James X
Hackett viii go to Baltimore tonight to
attend the first performance Of his new
play, "A Chance Ambassador" 1t is prob
able that during mis- local engagement,
during Christmas week Mr. Hackett win
use Don Caesars Return" the play he
presented in New Yok for two months,
and "A Chance Ambassador if this even
ing $ trial comes up to expectations.
There are various means Of attracting
notice on the stage. but the latest device
is utilized by an ambitious young actor in
Kyrie Bellows company, now playing in
4 Gentleman of France in Chicago
Inc youth has acquired some notoriety
because he is able to fall down a fight OF
stars better than any other member of
| the Bellew organization. SO naturally
does he tumble down ten OF eleven steps
mat ne has been given the title Of Stair
case Phenomenon in the Chicago papers
The opportunity of the athletic young
1eIiow comes in the fifth act of "a Gentle
man OF France" It is in this scene. too
That Mr. Beilew. the redoubtatle hero Of
me piece, fights FIVE men and routs them
most easily and gracefully One of the
qulntette receives a sword thrust under
the arm while mounting the stairs, turns
and fails forward a few steps, and Their
proceeds 20 roll down the rest of the
flight
At the first performance of the BeIlew
play the audience supposed the fall was
quite accidental so dangerous was 1t ap-
parenty. but the actor has been keeping
1t up at every performance since.
The acrobatic actors name is Harvey 1.
benton He was a member Of Maude Ad-
ans company last season, but did not
\ n raTfl To. IT-.Asg -
claims that by persistence in falling down
the stairway in a Gentleman of France
ne hopes to attract sufficient attention to
eventually be entrusted with a speaking
part
1t is practically settled that Henrietta
Crossman will take her production Of
As You Like IT. to London next fall
While in London with his star last sum
mer, Manager Maurice Campbell began
laying plans 10 this end, and commits
stoned representative to carry them TO
completion. When Miss CrOssmau sur
prised the pu Tic and her critics with her
mistress Nel' last season, opDortuni-
ties were forthcoming to 20 to the Eng
tlsh metropolis with it, but her manager.
VINO IS also her husband. did not consider
the time propitious. However. the offers
set the London bee a-buzzing. and so the
valuable prestige Of q success there IS
TO be sought
Miss Crcssman continues to actively re-
hearse Joan O. the Shoals which she
IS TO produce in the near future Those
who have read the manuscript believe #
will not only mean another. great success
Tor the actress. but that it viii greatly
advance its authoress, Mrs. EVELYN
GTeenleaf Sutherland, as a PLAYWRIGHT
Mrs Sutherland is partly responsible for
the drsmatization OF Monsieur Beau
eaire.' played by Richard Mansfield
Sixty-three children from the St. Roses
Industrial School are guests of Manager
Fred G. Berger, at the performance Of
the Two Orphans at the Lafayette
Square Theatre this afternoon.
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman, in Paul
Potter's new play, The Red Kloof. VIII
follow Miss Bob White at the CoIum-
bia Theatre.
The management Of Pen Hur'' has es-
tablished publicity headquarters" in
large vacant storeroom on one OF the
principal streets of St. Louis. and moth
ing is being left undone to let the peO-
pie Of the Missouri metropolis know that
the dramatization OF General WaIface-s
viii be al the National Theatre. this city.
early IN February The engagement viii
be for two weeks longer period than
any other travelling theatrical attraction
has ever stayed IN the Capital City
'The Hunt for Happiness which
Blanche Walsh successfully produced
Monday night in Des Noines. Iowa. is
play Of modern life somewhat on the
problem order, with a leading character
which possesses almost as great emo
ticnal strength as Sardou's La Tosca'
The play is in four acts. the first three OF
which occur in America and the last in
Monte Carlo. The story was originally
written IN Italian but was put into Eng
Ush in the form Of a novelette,. BY the
authoress and published in New York
magazine.
Mrs Patrick Campbell and her London
company viii open her American season
at the Grand Opera House. Chicago. De
cember 80, and viii remain there two
weeks, when she viii go to New York
city for a three weeks enEapement AZ
the Theatre Republic She Will appear IN (
Washington later. Her opening play IN
Chicago will be Louis y. Parker's YER
sion of Suderm2nn+s ''Nagda' Her rep-
eTtoire viii include beside s'Magda.
PiEsro's The Second Mrs TanGuerav''
and The Notorious Mrs Ebbsm5th - Jose !
Echegaray's Mariana -.PeIIeas and
Melisanda" the new comedy written for
her by E. F. Benson, of the London
Times an adaptation of Dumas Diana
de Lys," and the two One-act pieces which
created so much talk in London Mrs
JoTdan-ACtress,' by Constance SmedIev
and The Happy Hypocrite. - by Max Beer
bofm. Mrs Campbell is now rehea-sIng
her company for the American tour. and
the engagements so far made sustain the
already accepted theory that the organf-
cation will be one of the best that ever
sailed from England.
Daniel Frohman may be said to be q
maker of actors and actresses. It was
he who first introduced E. =. Sotherp
HiIda Spong. James K. Hackett and
Georgia Cayyan to the public as stars
Others who have appeared under his man
agement and received valuable tutelage
from him and are now numbered among
the stellar attractions are Herbert KEEL
cey, Henry Miller William Faversbam
Maude Adams, Henrietta Gresham.
Mary MaDnering, E J. Morgan. Mrs. LIE
Moyne Fife Shannon, E NJ Holland
John Mason, and Virginia Harmed Ce-
ella Lotus. too. who is featured as lead
ing lady with Mr. Sothern, was given her
first opportunity to enact serious roles
by Mr.. Frohman-
Bertha GalIand is Daniel Frohman's
newest star. She is a native of Penn
syIyania. having been born in Scranton
twenty-three years ago. She made her
debut as one of shakespeare's heroines,