The Washington times., 1904-09-25
MAJEsTA Lafayette Company

/ The Forest BRED Lion MAJESTA
ment in San Francisco. The new Shaw
play, How He Lied to Her Husband"
will be put in rehearsal during the pres
ent run of Candida"
Frank Moulan has been engaged. for
the role OF Mary, the kings cook. in
"Humpty Dumpty." which opens at the
New Amsterdam Theater. on November
IA. His wife, Lillian Berri. has been Sc
cured for the part of Prince, Rudolph
Henry Miller is the latest reported
lessee of the Madison Square Theater.
New York, which has been closed since
the IrOQuois fire. Gossip has it that he
will become an actOr-manaser, and will
open that house with stock company
and produce comedies.
William +. McAIulIen. the operator of
the spot light at the Iroquois Theater
Chicago, upon the occasion Of the great
disaster there last December. has dis
appeared and the States attorneys. who
are about 70 bring the managers of the
theater to trial on charges Of man.
slaughter. are making every effort to
| find him.
Henry Clay Barnabee has appeared in
vaudeville in New York. HIS sketch is
called The Opera King and includes
a travesty on The Old Sexton" as
sung by an amateur bufTo. THE man
with cork leg" His support numbers
Ruth PEBBLES, a soprano; Campbell
Donald. comedian. and Meta Carson. ac-
companist.
George c. Tyler sailed from England
for New York on the Deutschland last
Friday. Besides presenting Eleanor Rob-
son IN Merely Mary Ann in London.
he completed arrangements with Nine.
Retane and Signor Novein for their
American tours. and has secured from
Hall Game the American rights in his
new play, entitled THE Prodigal Son"
Ben Greet and his company VIII this
week give several outdoor performances
at the Country Club at Lake Forest. ILL.,.
and will then proceed to California,
where they viii present Hamlet" in
its entirety. at the University OF Cali
fornia- Later they will appear in sew
eral OF the college towns Of the Pacific
Coast.
David Belasco and Maurice Campbell
to appear in Philadelphia at the Acad-
envy Of Music. in Sweet Kitty Bellairs'
early IN November. The Academy was
rented many months ago by Mr.. Belasco |
and Mr.. Campbell. 1t was at this house |
that Miss CrOsman appeared last year 1
for one performance, the gross receipts /
for which were a trihe over 5000.
Kirke Ia SheHe has made some |
changes in the cast Of The VirginiaE," 1
which. with Dustin Farnum. as the star /
opened its second season last week at /
the Montauk Theater. Brooklyn. Helen /
Holmes and Frank Monroe are the two 4
important new members Of the company. /
Mr.. La Shelle has disposed of the /
English rights in The Bonnie Brier /
Bush" to William Mollison. He will re-
taN the Australian rights himself. and 4
will probably send there a company /
composed largely OF American actors 1
now appearing in the play.
Mr. Conried is advertising for gen |
tlemen supers'' for hts season at the 1
Metropolitan Opera House. According !
70 Leander Richardson, it doesn't seem |
likely that many of the leading mem |
bers Of the -Four Hundred Will respond |
20 the Invitation TO carry spears and |
fiji In the pictures for the delectatiOn |
OF friends and relatives in the boxes. |
The advertisement looks more like the |
device Of circus press agent than the |
serious proposition Of an impresario.
Claiming Pollock has retired from the |
business staff of William A. Brady TO |
become the head of the Schuberts' press |
bureau. Mr.. Pollock has been chief press
representative for Brady for five years /
and during that time has found oppor- |
tunity 10 write several plays and drama
TIE few books. 1t is understood that /
Mr. POlOcks chief reason for the
change Of base IS that he may remain I
in New York all season. and give proper .
attention 70 his own writings He has
just completed a play which William A.
Brady may produce.
It is said Robert Edeson has never
been seen TO better advantage than in /
"Ranson's Folly" the. new comedy Of |
American army life by Richard Harding /
Davis, which, under the direction Of /
Henry p. Harris, has been presented 100 /
times in New York, and which will be /
seen for the first time on Monday, Oc- |
tober H. at the National Theater
'Ranson's Folly is Blossoms wis
dom, for he has never done anything /
better" is the critical summing up Of |
one of New York's best-known dramatic |
reviewers Judged by the cordial ap- /
provaI bestowed by New York audiences |
Mr.. Edeson has increased the popularity 4
based upon his appearances in Sol |
diers OF Fortune" which first intro
duced him as a star, and I'm which he |
won an enviable place in the regard of /
American theatergoers.
Major Mcconnell. of the Chicago /