Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12

| George BTOUcTlCh Is one OF the engage
| ments for THE Burgomaster" for next
season.
The veteran actor, W. J. Lemoyne, is
| able to be out again after long and Sc
| we're illness.
| Alfred Aarons will have 1.-THE Knicker-
| booker Girl and My Antoinette" on the
| road next season.
Elita Proctor Otis is to star next sea-
| son in oliver Twist" It is also reported
| that Wilton Lackaye will probably play
| Sykes.
Julia Arthur CMrs. B. P. Cheney has sue
cessfully undergone an operation for ap-
| pendicitis in Boston.
| John W. Albaugh jr.. has been engaged
| for the leading part in Captain Molly"
| the new play by George c. Hazleton.
The tour of the Sultan of Sulu' will
| open In st. Louis early in September.
| Frank Moulin, Maud Lillian Berri and Fred
| Frear are to have the principal parts
| Wilson Barrett wrote play of four acts
/ and the better part of a novel while on his
| South a frican tour.
| Edward E. Rice is to produce king High
Ball' next season by Charles Horwitz and
| Fred V. Bowers. He has also accepted a
| musical comedy from an unknown author
entitled, Ships That Pass in the Night"
| There Is an expert rifle shot by the name
| of Colonel Bordevery playing in the Lon
| don music halls who gets some sort of a
| tune out OF a piano through his accuracy.
Grace George is to appear next season in
a romantic play of the time of Charles l.
and VIM. A. Brady, her husband and man
| ager, says that it will be an elaborate pro-
| duction.
| Joseph Sparks. the well-known Irish
| comedian, will be starred next season, ap-
| pearlng in new play called MIR.
OReilly," by George Hobart and Baldwin
Sloane.
The announcement was recently made
that Marion G. Cullen. former leading lady
| OF Shore Acres will be married to Per-
cival Jones, son of Mayor Jones of Toledo
The ceremony takes place next month.
In the London divorce courts last week
Julia Opp was granted a separation from
her husband, Robert Lorraine, the we'll
known English actor. The suit was not
contested.
Frank Bush, the wel-known Hebrew
character actor. has become favorite in
England and has signed contracts which
will keep him abroad for the next five
| years.
my Lady Molly" by Sidney Jones and
George Jessup, is comic opera in two acts
| It's first London production late in Septem-
| Der.
| Edgar Davenport and Olive Oliver will be
! among the Charles Frohman forces next
| season. Mr.. Davenport was recently lead
| ing man for Grace George in Under South
| ern Skies"
| Douglas Flint has been engaged for the
| chief role in when Reuben Comes to
| IoWn for next season, having recently
| signed a contract for three years with
| Morris & Hall, owners of the piece
''The Wizard of Or" has enabled Mont
| gomery and Stone to make the hit of their
| lives, and they have signed a flve-year con-
tract with Manager Hamlin Of the Grand
| Opera House, Chicago.
| George H. Jessop, the American dram
atist who has been for so long a resident
| of London that he has almost been forgot
ten in this country, is to have an opera
| produced here in the autumn, entitled my
| Lady Molly
Heinrich Conreid the manager of the
| German Theater in New York will prob
| ably be decorated by Emperor William for
/ the gala performance he gave at his house
! in honor of Prince Henry when he was
| visiting this country
| pearl necklace was recently purchased
| at public sale in London for $40 900 by a
| young earl recently come in possession of
| big fortune. report was Immediately
started that Edna May was to be the re-
| cipient thereof.
| Venie Henshaw, we'll known in variety
| circles for her cleverness in presenting the
counterfeit tough girl, has been ged by
| Edgar Seldom to create the role of the Yid
dish slavey in his play, "Peck and His
| Mother-in-law," next season.
Emma Carus is playing the part of Mrs
Jack Orchard in The Defender in Bos-
| ton Irene Perry who had the role having
| left the company to marry the son of Bisho
| OPP Bell of North Carolina. The part is a
| burlesque on the famous Mrs Jack Gard.
| ner of Boston, and Irene Perry scored a
| great hit in the role.
| The permanent stock company in San
| Francisco, headed by Henry Miller and
Margaret Anglin. has scored a tremendous
| success, audiences that ack the house to
| the doors being the general rule. Last
week 1.-The Gay Lord Quex" was the bill.
| and the entire house was sold out for tSraa
nights of the week before the first perform
| aEce was given.
| Arrangements have been made by which
| the orchestra at Chase's Theater will be d.
| rected next season by VIM. T. Kerngood
Mr. herngood mas mad extensive experience
| in this direction, and in the composition of
| vaudeville music, having been associated
with number of enterprises. among them
some of Weber and Fields road productions.
Mr.. Clyde Fitch has delivered to Mr.
Chares Frohman manuscripts of .aThe
| F'lirt, for Miss Ethel Barrymore: his new
comedy, "The Girl With the Green Ewes :,
and a comedy entitled "a Bird in Cage :"
which Mr.. Frohman will produce at the
Vaudeville. London, after the production
there Of Mr.. Barrie's Quality Street" with
MISS Eilaline Terriss and Mr. Seymour
Hicks in the leading roles
| The death of John Stromberg. musical
| director for Weber-Fields, left vacancy
| which aroused much speculation. It was
| reported that Reginald de Koven had made
contract to compose the music for the
skits but this proved to be untrue and a
| contract for the work was given to w. r.
| Francis who has written the music to
many songs In strictly popular vein, and
| who is especially known as the composer Of
jeff de Angels Royal Rogue"
When Rice's "Show Girl begins it's en-
| gagement In this city in the fall theater-
| goers will be treated to one of the regular
Rice productions which, for the past fifteen
years. have been synonymous with girls.
| glitter and gorgeousness
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