Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06

coming year. and probably two more Will
be ready within few months after that
time.
James Mahoney is playing very success
fully with the stock company in the Park
Theater in Philadelphia
Louis Mann's role in ''Hoch the Consul
is that of German-American officially rep
resenting this country abroad.
Louis James and Frederick warde opened
their season al Lansing. Mich, last Monday
night, appearing in The Tempest"
Mrs. jack was given its first presenta-
ton in New York last Tuesday night. Alice
Fischer is featured, instead OF starred and
made hit.
Manager P. B. Chase has decided to use
no more window advertising and to cut
down the bill board display 80 per cent for
his Baltimore theater.
Nance O'Nell, the American actress,
opened her season in London last Monday
night appearing in ''Magda-" Cablegrams
| report big success, of which Mckee Ran
| Kin had prominent part.
David Traitel is to produce Lord Stratn-
more" a dramatzation Of Ouida's novel
| this season. Virginia Drew Prescott. last
season leading woman with Frederic
| Warde, is to have the leading part.
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leading man the last two seasons. has been
| engaged to appear with Ethel Barrymore
| IN a Country Mouse" He will appear in
! Carrots"
The injury Clara Lipman received in the
shoulder, on board ship returning with her
husband. Louis Mann, from Europe has
! turned out worse than at first expected and
| 1t is doubtful if she can act this season
A new musical comedy with the title.
Ihe Girl Trust will be presented for the
hrSt time in New York in November The
piece was written by d. O Brien and F. X
Hennessey of Chicago. E. E. Rice will
stage it.
The new comic opera in which Mabelle
Gilman will star this season is to be called
The Mocking Bird" The play is by Sid
ney RoSenfeld and Baldwin Sloan. The
Sire Brothers promise an elaborate presen-
tation in October.
Elsie De Wolfe is at work in Paris MAX
ing up for a part Of her education which
| has been neglected. She is taking dancing
! lessons, having for instructress Mime. Mari
quita, former premier danseuse of the
opera.
Anna Held reached New York from Lon
don and Paris during the past week, and
reported having many new gowns of I'M
| usual beauty. Miss Held opens in this city
October II, appearing in The Little Ouch
| eSS.'
Marguerite McSwyny, daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Eugene McSwyny, was married last
| Wednesday to Harry Denham one of the
members of Chase's theater orchestra.
wedding reception attended by many
| friends.
E. D. Stair launched his latest star
George Sidney in Hartford last Monday
| night, the piece being Busy IzZy" The
| farce comedy went well. Mr.. Sidney played
the funny Hebrew with Ward and Vokes
| last season.
Mrs LIE Moyne's role in her new play,
| Among Those Present" is a leader of New
| York society whose humorous character
| istics are said to resemble her comedy i'm
! PRESERVATION in the Moth and the Flame"
| She goes under the management of George
| II. Brennan.
James X. Hackett has arranged with
| John Oliver Hobbs Mrs Cragie) and Muir
ray Carson for the American rights to
| THE Bishops Move a London produc-
| ton, and will use the play with Isabel Irv-
ing either next spring or next season.
The Actors Society recently issued list
| containing go names of players still eligi-
| BILE to engagement for the coming season
! Among the number were several exceed
| ingly popular players. The numerous
| schools of acting are blamed for the lack
of demand for actors of known ability.
Little Edna Aug has signed a five years
contract with Florenz Ziegfeld, and will
appear in the smaller cities exhibiting
pieces made popular by Anna Held. Miss
Aug somewhat resembles Miss Held, and
by clever makeup it is limited that she
might even be billed as the French actress.
1.-The Emerald Isle" was given it's first
! presentation in New York last Monday
night, with Jefferson De Angels in the
| principal role. The work is said to have
| scored a big success along Legitimate comic
| opera lines. and Mr.. De Angels is thought
to have the best part he has taken for a
| decade.
The third edition of the Reuben" song
| given by the Rogers Brothers and written
by Maurice Levi is said to be more tuneful
than the others. 1t tells of the trials of
the Reuben and the Maid after marriage
and in addition to the funny lines the mu-
sic has that catchiness so characteristic of
| Lewis work.
James Whitcomb Rney's Jap Miller" a
rhymed description of a wonderously glib
| Indiana rural politician. is the basis of
| Herbert Hall Winslow's The Vinegar
| Buyer in which Ezra Kendall will star
| this season. Lottie Alter and Charles Bow
| ser will be in the company.
According to news from ST Louis Mrs
| Grace Van Studdiford, the prima donna of
! the Bostonians has announced her inten-
ton of retiring permanently from the stage
| this fall. Mrs. Van Studdiford returned to
the stage after her marriage on account of
| her husbands loss of his fortune, and hav-
| ing made enough to build a handsome home
| in st. Louis she will retire again in order
to enjoy the fruits of her industry.
| Mrs Nena Baker Goodwin. the divorced
| wife of Nat Goodwin. died at her home in
| New York of liver complaint. She was a
| prominent society woman of Buffalo and
divorced also from her first husband She
married the comedian almost Immediately
| upon obtaining decree and Mr.. Goodwin