Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16

reer may be summed up in the word
work 1t is the only way to succeed in
anything, and above all in acting. WORK,
| work. work and not only on the part in
hand It's the hundred parts one doesn't
play that make perfect the part one does
play. 1t is the tireless days that one spends
conceiving and reconceiving a Juliet, or a
Rosalind that help one in the most trivial
of modern roles. and it is the taking down
and rebuilding up of a Magda ideal that
begets technique of experience that serves
In every part one undertakes.
"A woman's social position has no bear
ing. helpful or harmful, on an earnest stage
career, unless. perhaps its idleness has in
capacitated her for work, in which case
she had better end her days puzzling over
the proper procedure at dinner and similar
social problems and leave the struggles of
the stage to women of tireless energy and
an fnexhaustible capacity for work"
NO SUMMER OPERA AT CHASES.-
Chase's will not have comic opera this
summer. This is the conclusion reached by
Mr.. Chase. and polite vaudeville Will be
continued throughout the season. which
Will probably end at the usual time, about
the first week in July, although the date is
not yet settled This announcement will
probably be received with regret by many
lovers of light opera. Mr.. Chase however,
considers that he has about exhausted the
possibilities along this line, and as polite
vaudeville attractions of attractyeness
continue to multiply, he feels that there
Will be no cessation of public interest in
poilte vaudeville SO long as the theatsr re-
mains open. The advent of summer Will
De observed in due time by the transforma.
Ion OF the theater from its winter garb to
summer dress. 1t is promised that. the
forthcoming bills VIII. many of them. be
! no'aDie The next novelty will be Miss
Annie Abbott. the mysterious psvchic.
whose strange manifestations of occuIt
4 lipu fha
BOSTON Tor many weeks past. She heads
the bill commencing May 9.
ITO BE OR NOT TO BE."-Tbero b..
oeeh serious disagreement at the Lafay-
cite Theater between Henri Gressitt and
his star, Miss Eugene Blair. The trouble
arose concerning scene in "Sapho." Mr..
Gressitt has been associated with Misc
Blair for eight years, and during that time
has bent every energy toward Uromorira
her success Naturally. there have been diff
1erences of opinion between the two but
there was never anything of so important
or lasting a nature as that which took
place on the stage of the LAFAYETTE Thea
te; yesterday morning at rehearsal Every
thing had proceeded smoothly until the end
OF the first act was reached As will he re-
called, the first act takes place at a mask
ed ball when Fanny lie Grand meets and
falls IN love with Jean Gaussin the young
man from the country. Jean takes Fanny
home, and when he reaches the stairway to
her lodgings, he lifts her in his arms and
carries her to her room. This is the scene
which from the time that Olga Nethersole
hrst produced the play has created SO much
comment Miss Nethersole, however. re-
fused to change her Interpretation of the
role, and continued to be carried I'D the
staircase as If nothing had ever been said
upon the subject. Miss Blair, also, thought
nothing of acting this finale. although it
appears her manager was not quite as de-
cided in its favor as was the star
Accordingly when the moment arrived at
stairs Miss Blair looked around in vain for
the steps. She asked the manager in an
annoyed tone where the staircase was Mr.
Gressitt told her there would be no stair
case scene; that he intended the act to
end at the foot of the staircase and not on
the way up. Miss Blair waxed indignant,
and it is said that a scene calling for ar
dent temper and much emotional power on
both sides ensued. The star insisted upon
the staircase and the manager emphatically
declared there would be none.
The leading man, although an athletic
young fellow, is nevertheless deeply con-
cerned as tC the outcome of the contro-
veIsy.
WASHINGTON PLAYERS AND MAN
AGERS.-The number of actors, managers
and representatives of theatrical effort in
all its various phases who We're either
their home is so great that this city has
come to be regarded as a center of histrion-
ic development. So numerous are the Wash
lhStonlans upon whom the footlights are
now shedding their glamour that it is almost
impossible to secure a LIST that 10 oor,,,,o.
ana entirely accurate The following conn
piled by Percy Leach, is porhans os Co.,,
prehensive as any that has ever been rnaJa
..t,t Iereais names of prominent people
whose national reputation has long sipce
overshadowed their local careers. The Ist
Is as follows: he hSe
~, w lIton Lackaye, THE Pit Tim Murnbv
Inc carpet Dagger" Charles b. HanfnrJJ
H. aff sother snak 1sE Sidney Mather e.
folks; Geo. Denham. Babes In Toyland :"
John T. Dwyer N. o. stock COMPANY. r
s;ei EraWtey, starring in Australia; Geoffrey
Checkers Harry Gilfoil, vaudeville. 10y
kearney Ethel Barrymore; Frank Mecca.
mick. Rallies" Hans Robert. KIaw r.
Granger Pa r;s g! Co; Ed. oconnor, Peggy From
Shine, Thad Shine. melodrama: Perry
Leach. vaudeville and stock; Robert Down.
ing, starrlng-teaching: Kingsley Benedict,
oNei Coz ef sonic cI nrsd Kappler James
iheodore Friebus, melodrama; James Ma
money meiodrama; Robert Lowe, dramatic
v vaus me W Wonn meodrama; AL stera.
Ryan. melodrama; Thomas s. Coleman
Julia Marlowe; Thurlow Berger. Richard
Bnhier, Pail Revere: w. H. Coniev
Dare Devil Dorothy" Teft johnson VIM
Pruette, "A Chinese Honeymoon" Arthur
Earnest. The chaperons:'' VIM. w. Gull
lesson, dramatic agency; Claude Stewart
viola Allen; Ernest Scheyer, Homer Lind
opera, vaudeville; James Manly, Beauty
Doctor; John Pollock, VIM Brady Co.
William Boag, w. H. Crane: George vii.
son, minstrel; Ernest Holcombe musical
comedy; d. NJ. Lumsden, "a Girl from
Dixie" VIM. Dougherty, melodrama: Ho-
bart smoek, Prince of Pilsen:'' Harry
bunson, The PITT" Clarence Rogerson
musical director: Taylor Cronin, sSleepy
King; Henry Buckler. Ed Bixley. vaude-
vile: Lew Worth. vaudeville; Dave GENERA
vaudeville; Lavinia Shannon SandoI Mi,
nkln, Ransoms Folly" Laura Oakman
Under Southern Skies" Ruth Halhert
The Governors Son. Annie Rothe. Ethel
barrymore; Ethel Howard, E. H. Sothern:
Mag Boley. The Chaperons;" Efie Oar
| ling, melodrama: Daisy Hammack. James
| X. Hackett; Anita Hendrie, stock Company:
Anna Boyle. Flora Snyder. The Burglar
Lucy Rogers. melodrama: Alice Judson
My Lady Molly" Clara Stevens, vaude,
! vile; Josie DeWitte musical comedy; Vim
ME DeWitte. musical comedy; Virginia
| Bagley. The Palace of the King" Carrie
| Bryor Lillian Seton. Red Feather" Hell
enc Laekaye. Amelia Bingham; Carrie Bird
| WELL Mel. Opera Co.; Edythe Warner
Charles Warner; Ady Zeii, melodrama
/ Margaret Walker rusicaI cona6y. Nrar;a