Evening star., 1902-08-23
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A new melodrama is called ''The Girl Who
Dared
Mabel Taiaferro will be in the company of
J. E. Dodson and Annie Irish.
W. J. Lemoyne is to retire permanently
from the stage on account of ill-health.
1t is stated that William A. Brady con-
tel--lates the building of theater at At
lantic City.
Margaret Anglin made a hit in San Fran
cisco as Camille with Henry Miller as
Armand
Minnie Dupree and her company are re-
hearsing The Rose Of Plymouth Town in
Hoboken.
Miss Ellen Boyer, Washington girl, will
play the part of the heroine in Sergeant
James in Boston.
S. Miller Kent's second season in THE
Cowboy and the Lady begins at Provi-
dence, R. l., on Labor day, September 1.
When Ezra Kendall starts his starring
tour in The Vinegar Buyer" he will have
those two sterling funmakers with him,
Charles Bowser and Ed. Chapman.
Charles Frohman has finally decided upon
Edwin Stevens for the chief role in THE
Telephone" the great French playlet, when
1t is produced in this country.
The starring bee has ceased to buzz in
Helen Redmond's little bonnet and she will
continue to play Dolores in ''Florodora" as
heretofore.
W. T. Carleton has Cancelled his engage
ment with one of the "F1orodora' COM
panies and will probably join the George
W. Lederer forces.
Mile. de Boncza, who was 7rn in Paris
in 1872 and who gained the first prize for
comedy at the Conseryatoire in 1894, died
in that city.
Margaret DeMille, a near relative Of
Henry DeMille, the playwright, who died
some years ago. is to appear in "A Chi
nese Honeymoon"
Maude Raymond, formerly of the Rogers
brothers company has been secured for
THE New Clown She will impersonate
a London serio-comic singer.
Anna Barton, formerly in the companies of
Mildred Holland and Sadie Martinot, will
appear as Mrs. Lorimer in THE Moth and
the Flame this season.
--.ce Georges new play has sixty-three
speaking parts and will require an auxil-
iary corps of over 200. The name of the
play has not yet been diyulged.
Eleanora Duse is to supplement her Amer
lean tour with one through Australia This
will permit her to give performances in the
larger cities of the Pacific coast.
Minnie Dupree will be the star in "a Rose
of Plymouth Town this season, and start
ed rehearsal in New York last week She
will have a strong supporting company.
Edward Milton Royle and Mrs. Royle
have been induced to leave vaudeville, ana
will be starred next season in new COM
edy under the management of Ben Stern.
Prof. Albin Stauss, who last season con-
Quoted the orchestra at Chase's Theater,
has been engaged by Manager Schlesinger
for like capacity at the Empire Theater.
comedy about completed by Hugh P. Nc
Nany. H. L. Hearth, the composer of the
music for Miss Simplicity" and ''Ihe Show
Girl" furnished the score.
The piece in which Mrs. James Brown
Potter is to make her debut in musical COM
edy is reported to be called The Girl from
Kay's," by the author of The Geisha
Girl and "FlOrOdOra."
1t is announced that Mrs Montague Ward,
formerly Fanny Batchelder, is to return to
the stage. Mrs. Ward was big favorite in
her younger days and her return will be
watched with interest by old-timers.
Barney Flynn. a comedian with William
H Vests minstrels. is in a Buffalo hospital
suffering from a fractured skull the result
of fall from a window in the Washington
Hotel in that city.
Mrs. Anna Brown, one of the most prom
inent stock actresses in the country some
years ago, attempted suicide at Atlantic
City by swallowing bichloride of mercury.
Dependency over poverty is supposed to
have been the cause.
Marion ChiIders, who played last season
in Virginia Harned's "Alce of Old Vim
cennes," has been discharged from a New
York hospital as cured, where she under
went dangerous operation.
Some of those engaged for the cast of
when Johnny Comes Marching Home" are
William G. Stuart, Maurice Darcy, VIII
H. Bray, Fred H. Perry, Miss Maude Lam
bert, Lucille Saunders, Zetti Kennedy and
Julia Clifford.
for Foxy Grandpa" Thy are entitled
Polly, Pretty Polly" Different WAYS of
Proposing" and II Wonder If He Knew
the Reason Why" The season of "Foxy
Grandpa" began August II at Atlantic City
When the "WiId Rose" Company goes to
Newport to present that piece for Mrs Cor
nelus Vanderbilt and her guests Marie
Cahill will temporarily rejoin the company
for the purpose of singing Nancy Brown
In which she made great hit in New
York.
William A. Brady will have an even dozen
attractions this season-Grace George, In her
new play; three companies in Way Down
East three in Lovers Lane" two in
Foxy Grandpa" Under Southern Skies"
revival of After Dark" and a meIodrama
as yet unnamed.
Bettina Gerard, who has been starring
with Hubert Wilke in vaudeville, is working
now on her own hook, and will continue in
the vaudeville for some time, though she
may return to comic opera, it is stated, un-
der the management Of Henry w Savage
soon.
Marie Tempest opened new play from
the French last Monday night at the Duke
Of York's Theater, London, and created big
success. 1t was a comedy called "Tbe
Marriage of Kitty" Miss Tempest will be
seen in the piece in this country the coming
season under the management of Charles
Frohman.
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