Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

title Of the play will probably be ''The
| Legend"
The latest London melodrama. .srhe Best
OF Friends lasted five hours the first
| night.
| Elsie de Wolfe has secured the Amer
| lean rights to Mrs. willoughby's Kiss"
London success.
Captain Marshall. who wrote ..The Royal
Family, has just completed another play
| entitled "The Unforeseen"
By the first of next year Henry W. Saw
age Will have on his pay rolls more than
| 700 persons, all singers.
Henrietta Crossman has decided upon her
play for next season. 1t is comedy en-
titled Mary. Mary, Quite Contrary"
Vesta Tiley the London concert hall
artist. has been engaged for an American
| tour in serious work. and Louis N. Parker,
| the author of Rosemary. has been COM
missioned to write her play.
Now that Weber and Fields have invaded
Boston rumor comes up strong that they
intend to establish a theater in Chicago,
ard that they will divide their time among
| the three cities. making short, brief spring
tours to other towns.
After an absence of two years in Austria
| liza. Lydia Yeamans Titus Is back in this
country, and will play a few vaudeville
houses before she sails for London, where
she is booked for an early appearance.
Some idea of the popularity OF Sherlock
Holmes" may be gained from the fact that
it Is being produced in Denmark. Sweden.
Brussels. Austria, South Africa, Australia.
and five companies are playing the piece in
England. Arrangements are being made for
its translation into French. and 1t will prob
ably be produced in Paris next year.
The new piece which ]. NJ. Barrie has
written for H. B. Iring and Irene Van
brugh is entirely modern the action taking
place between 1898 and 1902. The story is
Of life in Mayfair. but not all the scenes
are laid in England.
Mabelle Gilman made her debut In THE
Mocking Bird" in Albany, n. Y, this week.
1t Is comic opera set in the first part OF
the 18th century.
Lillian Bond. once a member of the SEX
tet in "Florodora," has gone into vaude-
vile. presenting a new skit entitled fne
Echoes Of Kaffir Land"
The Bostonians have decided upon their
new opera 1t is to be called The Queen
of the Adriatic," and the subject is to be
Venetian one. H. c. Barnabee will Dose
of Venice and w. Fl. Macdonald an Italian
bandit.
Mr. H. Edward Lawson. who for some
years past has been connected with the
Columbia Theater. this city, last week sign
ed a contract advertising agent for the
Four Cohans Company.
When the Rogers Brothers go into their
New York theater, which Is to be called
the Liberty, next fall they VIII nave as
companion comedians Eddie Foy, Harry
Bulger Joseph Cawthorre and Dan Nc
Avoy. The place will be run along the
lines adopted by Weber & Fields.
Kate Rorke. the English actress. and
Arthur Bertram have purchased from Fer
gus Hume the American and Canad an
rights to his play. ''Honors Divided After
presenting the piece in London about Janu-
airy it will be brought to this country for
a spring tour.
THE Children of Kings" was given for
the first time in this country in New York
last Monday night by Martin Harvey, the
English actor. Mr.. Harvey had scored
substantial success Sydney Carton IN
1.-THE Tale Of Two Cities" but from press
reports his success In this production has
still been greater
William Furst who is now general must
cal director of David Beiasco's attractions.
was last week presented with an elaborate
silver service. The donors were the leaders
of the orchestra at the Empire. Garr1ck.
Knickerbocker. Madison Square, Garden.
Criterion and Savoy theaters, the gift being
in appreciation Of their many years of serv-
ice together.
Emmett Corrigan tended to star in
piece called 1.-The Prince of Dreams, but
ascertaned that there was no open time Cb-
tainable in the theaters cast or west.
After dismissing his company Mr.. Corrigan
found hackers and a theater in Chicago.
and 1t is expected that he will head a per-
manent stock company in the windy city
within the next three weeks.
Emperor William of Germany is writing
a play He elaborated with Joseph Lauff.
his court poet, but 1t Is easy to speculate
who will get the lions share of the credit
for the production If it is ever produced.
1t is entitled Under the Helmet" and
abounds in long speeches devoted to eX
pounding the glory and grandeur OF the
members of the house of HohenZollern and
their mission in the world. If Finder the
Helmet" is produced the lot of a German
dramatic critic will hardly be IN enviable
one.
The final disagreement between Mascagni
and his management has come. The split
up was not unlocked for. the management
laying the trouble at the door Of the COM
posers eccentricities. as well as the quar-
rel over financial matters. All the western
dates of the opera company have been can
ceIed although Mascagni says he intends
to make a new start under his own name.
One of the probable causes Of the financial
troubles of the aggregation Is the fact that
prices were placed at too exorbitant fig
ure The production in this city was not
well attended for this reason.
Dr.ss AoonfSa Wipnino WiIes