Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

IHtHl 10 duNdHldBt Idhefl lIlfOuSiiOut, IL
was one of me most unsatisfactory weeks
of the entire season.
AN UNFOUNDED REPORT.-A report
was recently given wide publicity that the
Bostonians would cease as an organiza lion
after the present season. The report was
utterly unfounded in fact. 1t was sta ted
that Mr.. Barnabee would leave the COM
pany and star in a new musical comedy
Mr. Barnabee, who is now in the evening
of his existence. will still continue to play
the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood
under the present management. His sea-
sons. however, will be adjusted according
30 his own desires. The following policy of
the company is given for publication by
Lawrence j. Anhalt, press representative,
in behalf of Loudon G. Charlton, managing
director of the company:
The only change in policy contempla led
by the directors. the organization being
now a corporation. is in the future to pro-
vide a separate organization for each new
opera produced and to make as many pro-
auctions are warranted by each success.
For these productions the best talent avail
able Will be used, regardless of former or
present connection with the organization.
But in order to continue the use of Robin
Hood, property that in thirteen years
of steady use has played to over two mil
lion and half dollars in gross receipts in
something like twenty-four hundred per-
formances, and at the same time to relieve
Henry Clay Barnabee from the necessity
of playing long seasons of forty more
weeks with the new organizations produc-
Ing new operas, neceSSitating arduouS
travel and discomfort, it is proposed to
surround Mr.. Barnabee with a company
which will play only Robin Hood for a
limited season each year, booked in accord
ance with Mr.. Barnabees personal wishes
regarding the length of season, choice of
stands and character of houses suitable to
fh.a ffr,Ytn Nf ID@l1..
II is obvious that a policy which will
serve the requirements of Mr. Barnabee
and his Robin Hood" company for a lin
Tied season in restricted territory will not
be at all suitable for the new company or
companies playing new pieces; hence the
change to separate companies
Thus, instead of disintegrating or con-
tracing their sphere of usefulness, the cor
poration will expand in several directions,
and while new successes are being worked
out the old success can be continued.
A BUSY ACTRESS.-Amelia Bingham
produces plays. manages a company, acts a
role. rehearses her players. superintends
the construction of scenery, designs the
dresses worn by herself and the women of
the organization of which she is the head
furnishes ideas for advertising devices
plans the style of her printing" supplies
sketches to the photographers for the post
ers used In heralding her appearance
reads manuscripts, paints in oil and water
colofs, trims hats, carYes In wood, keeps
I'm touch with current literature exercises
personal supervision over her invest
ments in real estate and securities con-
ducts a large ard well-ordered household
cntertains often and deliberately lectures
at women's clubs, organizes benefits for
unfortunate actresses such as Nine. Janau-
schek and Miss Clara Morris, goes in for
riding and driving, gives her attention to
an enormous personal correspondence and
still finds times in her life for all the lows
That go TO make up the happy existence OF
less busy people.
Miss Bingham has become yersed in the
knowledge of the cost of scenery printing
transportation from one city to another in
fact all the thousand and one details Incl
dent to the production of large theatrical
enterprises.
THE ARDEN SEASON AT THE CO.
LUMBIA.-On Monday evening, May o. Mr.
Edwin Arden will inaugurate a spring and
summer engagement at the Columbia The
alter. He will be surrounded by a COM
pany which includes some of the best
known players on the American stage
Mr.. Arden has many friends and admir-
ers in this city, and it will be welcome news
TO them to know that he will be here again.
Mr.. Joseph Il. Luckett, manager of the
popular F street playhouse, has been in
New York for the past few DAYS complet-
ing arrangements and selecting plays and
II is promised that the list of plays will be
high above the standard heretofore set.
1t Is probable that the opening attraction
will ID Captain Lettarblair. made famous
by the well-known actor, e H. Sothern,
and which has not been seen in this city
for some years.
\ GREWSOME MISTAKE.-"Across the
top of the proscenium arch in the old Nc
Vicker's Theater in Chicago. twenty years
ago" said Digby Bell. who will be at
Chase's next week. was the familiar
legend Fact is stranger than fiction,' and
whenever 1 read that line l am reminded
of an unusual incident that happened in
that very theater, and that comically veri-
fled the truth of the painted Inscription
overhead.
I'm those days, as in these days. theaters
r,were sometimes used for church services
on Sunday nights. and McVicker's was
then being employed Sabbath evenings by
a sect that believed in the burning pit and
ithe impending destruction of the world for
jts over-accumulation of sins.
"At the same time summer opera COM
ipany to which / belonged was filling the
ftheater on the other six nights OF the week.
Every moment we could spare away from
Performances was devoted to rehearsals.
land the church services every Sunday night
kwere Interruptions.
s. "One Sunday night there had been a
lengthy service for the sinners, and hardly
were the people out Of the front door be-
fore We began the rehearsal of THE Sor-
kSerer The only light we had was a bunch
iusht In the center OF the stage casting its
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