Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-21
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Patch.
The theatrical season now on at st. Louis
is something of frost The many houses
are playing to almost nothing, and the peo-
pie are gazing at the sfdeshows along the
midway. JON
THE Wizard of or goes into the Grand
Opera House. Chicago, next week for an
eight-weeks' run and will then shut down.
This will give The Wizard a continuous
Mark Gray Lyons. the mailman, who,
when lwenty-three years old, shot at Edwin
Booth in McVIckers'e T heater, Chicago, April
%. 1879, recently died at his home at Keo-
kuk. Iowa.
Charles B. Dillingham; will present Miss
Lulu CHASER next season in a musical YER
sion of When Knighthood Was in Flow
err, to be called "A Madcap Princess" ar
ranged by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig
Clara Norris probably made her last APP
pearance in New York last Saturday night
with the closing of the season of the 1.-TWO
Orphans" star cast. The women members
of the company presented her with hand
some loving cup.
Lee Arthur's new play "A Business Man."
will be produced In Chicago for the first
time June H. William Norris, now with
Babes in Toyland," will play the chief role,
which is said to be strong in pathos and full
of heart interest.
Edna May is to be permitted to get her
long-sought divorce and to obtain 1t with
! out difficulty. Fred Titus, her husband,
who. is at present q member of the Red
Feather company, will go to London June
and make arrangements to that end.
Nine. Antonio Navarro MARY Anderson),
who retired from the stage in 1889, has re-
jected the latest of many attempts to in
duce her to reappear in public. This was
an invitation to make a tour of the United
States, and she was offered guarantee of
100000 on the season
step toward opening the Iroquois Thea
ter. Chicago, has been taken, and plans for
remodeling the interior in strict compliance
with the ordinance have been laid before
Commissioner Williams by the new owners,
Hyde Behman of New York and Barry
Davis of Pittsburg.
Viola Aliens big success in Twelfth
Night last season has led her to continue
In Shakespeare next season An elaborate
production Of "a Winters Tale" will be
put on. Boyd Putnam recently signed a
contract to act as her leading man next
season He has been with Joseph Jeffer-
son for the past several seasons.
Paul Spadoni, 'the modern Atlas" In his
sensational cannon ball catches. will be
the novelty at Chase's week after next,
and the remainder of the bill will include
Les Trois Dumonds, the reunited Reno and
Richards, Winona Winter. Mary Dupont,
Anna Caldwell, Fred Clark and Mile. Flor
cite.
Joseph NJ. Weber will not confine his eff
forts to the management of his music hall
In New York after his severance of his bust
ness relations with Lew Fields His first
Independent venture will be the manage
ment of Lillian Russell in John Kendrick
Bangs and A Baldwin Sloan's musical
piece, Lady Teazle,' which will open its
season in New York about the first of Sep
TENDER. This play Is a musical comedy
version of Sheridan's School for Scandal"
The three-act comedy, my Awful Dad"
was presented on Tuesday evening last at
National Rifles Hall. The occasion being
benefit for Mayfower Council No II
daughters of America. The comapny con-
sisted of Messrs. Layton Burdette Walter
L. Dunn, Geo. Jenkins, John ]. Dering,
Chester Ogden, VIM. Belshaw and Misses
Earle Dickinson, Katherine Major, Eleanor
Drew and Elsie Worth.
Frederick Warde. an actor and lecturer,
who has been playing Shakespearean plays
since the days of Edwin Booth, filed a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy recently
In the United States district court Brook
iyn. The petitioners debts were contract
ed during the early part of the last de-
cade. during series of unsuccessful thea
trical tours in the west
Made almost "a nervous wreck by the
opportunities of his creditors Warde took
advantage Of the bankruptcy laws to save
his health" his attorney said.
Extensive preparations have already been
made by Frederick G. Berger, jr., for the
installation of the new stock company at
the Academy of Music June next Mr.
Berger, who Is Washingtonian, the son
Of the well-known manager of the same
name, has all season devoted himself to
the management of Sign of the Cross
company, in which he is heavily interested,
and which last night closed a success
full season in Binghamton, N. Y In
order to make assurance doubly sure
in the matter of pleasing the taste of
patrons Manager Berger has arranged to
have voting slips distributed at the Acad-
envy next week, on which a list of the better
class of melodramas is printed, so that
the patrons may signify their choice In
the selection of the opening BILL
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