Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04

lIoH " 30 INTO vaudeville.
Julia Marlowe opens next week in Boston
| with her new play, Queen Fiametta.'
e. E. Rices king Highbalr' closed its
| season in New York last Tuesday night
| Thomas E. Shea has added 1.-The Fool 8
Revenge" to his list of plays for this sea-
| son.
| Elsie De Wolfe in THE Way Of the
| World' opened her season at Pittsburg last
| Monday night, having a fashionable audi
| ence and securing splendid greeting.
| Maude Leekly, who has been a member
| OF several weli-known musical companies.
| Joined the Bostonians last Wednesday. She
| will sing cOntralto roles in the rep rtoire of
! that organization.
Richard Mansfield will assume the role of
| Brutus In Julius Caesar at the Grand
Opera House, Chicago, week from tomor-
row evening. The production will be a very
large one.
Among the arrivals in New York this week
| was Miss Aleda Cortelyou, a cousin of the
secretary to the President. who is to have
| the part Of Madge Larrabee in Sherlock
| Holiness
| Marie George has given up the idea of
| going to London to appear in ''The Chinese
Honeymoon" and will probably accept a
prominent role with Lederer's "A Wild
! Rose" company.
| Alice Judson has Joined the Boston,ans
and is booked to sing important roles in
| Maid Marion" and robin Hood" The
season opens Monday night and the COM
pany will reach Washington in the early
| spring.
| Snitz Edwards. who deserted the stage
| for the work Of a drummer for big
! whisky company, has become tired of his
| new calling. and will play one of the lead
ing comedy roles in 1.-THE Silver Slipper"
| Of 1.-The Defender" at the close of the Phil
adelphia run of the piece, and will immedi-
ately take up rehearsals of my Fiancee."
| A. H. Chambenyn's next musical comedy
production.
my Antoinette" went to pieces at Nor
| ristown, Pa, last week. and when the
| players were about to take the train for
New York a manager from Trenton arrived
with enough money to take them to that
city, but he was too late
Robert Rogers and Louise Macintosh.
who Will be pleasantly recalled for their
good work with the Lafayette stock COM
pany last season have been engaged by the
Sire Brothers to support Mabelle Gilman in
THE Mocking Bird"
The first burlesuues put out this season
by Weber & Fields will be upon the plays
Iris and THE Mummy and the Humming
Bird" In the latter piece Charles Biglow
will burlesque John Drew.
George Burlingame, the well known wres-
| tier. made his debut on the stage an act
or at Baltimore last Monday night. He play
| ed Calchas. tanner Of wild beasts, and also
| the executioner. in "Theodora,' which was
produced at Chase's Theater by the stock
| company.
| lish nobleman who is to be seen the
American stage Richard Lambert a
grandson of the Earl of Craven and a
brother of Lord Ernest Lambert, Is to APP
pear in 1.-The Tyranny Of Tears"
Montreal was the place selected for F. s.
Wizards opening date last Monday night,
and he was welcomed by a big house. APP
pearing in David Garrick." Maude Fealy,
who is the leading lady, shared honors with
Mr.. Willard.
William West who had to drop out Of
the cast Of 1.-THE Rogers Brothers at Har
ward" on account Of losing his voice. will
rejoin that company next Monday nj h.
Mr. West consulted the best specialists
with the result that he has fully recovered
his voice.
I Maude Nugent. the well-known vaudeville
headiner, who has been i'll from a serious
operation, has fully recovered and will re-
sumo playing in a week or two. Miss
NuSeHL CidlHlS tHdt SoOu IuTSIHS ny HeT
husband, William Jerome. pulled her
through her Illness.
Frank c. Banks has been on the stage
exactly fifty years last Saturday night, and
to celebrate the event Charles Frohman
gave him an elaborate banquet at the
Clarendon Hotel, New York. He Is hale and
hearty and at present playing an important
role with the 'Notre Dame" company
The controversy between Paul Armstrong
and Barton Pittman over the piece est.
Ann reached a climax in New York last
Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Pittuan was
roughly handled by Armstrong, and only
through the Intervention of by lander
was the former prevented from brirg'ng a
revolver into play.
Walter Laurence. stage MANAGER Of
princess Chic" and Hermione Hazleton,
prtma donna OF the same company. were
quietly married at Hamilton. Ont. last
Monday. Mrs Laurence is the daughter of
P. 8. Hudson of Chicago. a wealthy grain
merchant and representative Of the Arg n
tine Republic.
A special cable from London last Thurs
day says that the application of Lord
Francis Hope to have made absolute the
himself was granted. There is now no legal
barrier to her union with Capt. Putnam
Bradlee Strong.
Fifteen years ago kyrle BeIleW was the
leading man at Wallack's Theater, New
York, and James ONeill occupied the same
position at the Union Square. The two
were fast friends. Last week they came
together for the first time in fifteen years,
fate having kept them apart all that time.
although under the same management last
season.
Charles D. Gibney. who Is playing the
leading roles with Fife Ellsler in when
Kntghthood Was in Flower" and Gerolda
Malone, the daughter of the veteran actor,
John Malone, and also member Of the
same company, were married In Fond du
Lac, Wis, recently. Last season Miss Ma
lone was one Of the show" girls with
1.-The Chaperons."
John Arthur Fraser, the playwright, died
Tuesday In Harlem Hospital. New York He
Is known to have written more than forty
melodramas of the type of THE Limited
Mail" 1.-THE Robber Baron" "a Mothers
Heart" etc. He was about thirty years old,
and during the time he devoted to his pro-
fession Was almost constantly In LITIGATION