Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-10

hosiery into her costumes in Mother
| Goose"
"a China Doll" closed a two weeks run
in New York last Saturday night and will
| probably be shelved.
/ Manager E. w. Fuller Of the ACROSS the
| Pacific" company and Miss May Harrison,
| an actress, were married In Cincinnati last
| week
| Alice Johnson has been engaged by
| Liebler & Co. to play the leading role In
support of Ezra Kendall in "Weatherbeat-
| en- Benson
| Jos. Cawthorn the principal comedian in
| Mother Goose will be starred next sea-
| son by Klaw & Erlanger In big musical
! production.
Fred c. Whitney, the theatrical manager,
| who has been suffering from pneumonia in
| New York, has passed the crisis and is
i expected to recover.
THE Pretty Sister of jose" Maude
Adams vehicle of last season, will prob
| ably be sent on tour next month, with Jes-
| sic Bonstell playing the title role.
Eva Ray Hamilton, who married Robert
| Ray Hamilton while she was chorus girl
| some fourteen years ago, died in charity
ward of New York hospital last week
Edward Ables has been engaged to play
prominent part in Francis Wilson'S com
pany when that actor produces the next
Clyde Fitch Offering, called Cousin Billy. :
John Harrison Wagner, an Australian, a
book reviewer and editorial writer, and the
author of Mr. Wix of Wickham,' shot and
killed himself at a hotel in New York last
Sunday.
vile pair, Fisher and Carroll. has scored
as a comedian with the Fields Stock Com
pany in New York in 1T Happened in
Nordland."
Arrangements have been completed for a
revival of "A Gilded Fool with e. j..
| Radcliffe as the star. The revival is meant
| for the road and will only be seen In the
| smaller cities.
The Four Mortons, Sam, Clara, Kitty and
| Paul. top-liners in vaudeville have signed
| contracts with Percy Williams and Will
| shortly take the road al the head of their
own company.
| known to the patrons of vaudeville, are to
| be starred by Forester & Mittenthal, an
| original farce comedy being the vehicle for
| their debut into stardom.
Augustus Pitou, jr., road manager Of
THE County Chairman" company, resign
ed MS pOSltlOn III ftdEtlOIu last 4hohodS
and will leave the theatrical business to
enter commercial pursuits.
Elizabeth Cary young American girl
whose birthplace is Philadelphia, mace her
debut a dramatic soprano recently IN
Brighton, England and is said to have
achieved a gratifying success.
Wilson S. Fritch. the Attleboro. VT. min
lister who abandoned his church to be-
come an actor, will make his debut as
professional player in Boston December T.
appearing in THE Wages of SIM
The name of premiere of the Grigo-
| latis troupe of aerialists in Mother
| Goose" who makes the flight over the
heads of the audience. is Fraulein Ellie
Eagel, striking name for an aerialist.
Woodward & Burgess, managers of the
aters in Omaha and Kansas City, have OBJ
tanned the rights from the Augustin DAILY
estate to present on the road the we'll
known melodrama, Round the Clock.
Sir Charles Wyndham has loaned Frank
Athery. a member of his company, to
Charles Frohman to play the part of Vivian
Trood in the new Pinero comedy, "A Wife
Without Smile, now in rehearsal in New
York
Laura Bennett, recently in vaudeville and
now playing with ION the Suwanee River.
in the part of Aunt Indy has made
quite an impression with her managers,
and she is to be starred next season in
new play
The announcement of Maud Jeffries'
marriage to James Osborne, which took
place in New Zealand last month. has just
been made. Mr.. Osborne was formerly
member of the company of which Miss
Jefries was the star
Manager Frank Perley has completed ar
engagements to turn The Little Minister
into a comic opera and win put it forward
next fall with Viola Gillette in the star
role. The title of the new opera will prob
ably be Lady Babbie."
Miss Annie Evelyn Morse. an actress
who came into prominence some time since
through being robbed. of jeWelry and cash
in New York, was married last Wednesday
to Herbert NJ. Sprague, wealthy lumber
man, at North Adams, Mass.
For the first time in the history of the
American stage foreign dramatic com
Baroness Won Wrede. who joined the Nine.
Rejane company this week. The baroness
is sister of Kuehne Beveridge.
Tommy Russell who deserted the stage
after his success in Little Lord Fauntle-
roy to go to school and later into the
brokerage business has decided to go into
vaudeville and will present a sketch writ
ten by himself the first of the year.
Ida Emerson of the well-known vaude-
vile pair of Howard and Emerson has
once more sued her husband for divorce in
Chicago court. AS this couple has been
divorced and remarked four times this
latest action is not taken seriously by
their friends.
Henry Jewett. leading man with Viola
Allen was robbed of n jeweled watch.
several pieces of jewerly and 500 in money
last week in ST Louis by colored man,
who was admitted to his dressing room at
the theater under the supposit1on that he
was the actors valet.
A report from London states that Beer
bohm Tree has arranged to make another
tour of this country next year under the
mana cement of Tyler & Co. He will be-
gin his American tour in New York next
October and his revival of 1.-The Tempest