The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08

Gus feats on the flying rings; and mo-
ton pictures of a trip to Lilliputian
land.
Milton and Sargent Aborn will feature
Estelle Wentworth with one of the com
panies playing over their circuit Of sum-
rner opera stock Miss Wentworth, who
just closed the season as prima donna Of
the Virginia Earl company, was about TO
sail for London when she was induced
by the Aborns to remain in America I'M
til late in the summer. after which she
will rejoin her husband. Albert farr,
who has gone to London with The
Prince of Pilsen.'
Another of Victor Herbert's compost
tions will be sung by the Aborn Opera
Company at the Lafayette Opera House
next week, when practically the cast
playing in THE Singing Girl will be
heard in 1.-THE Fortune Teller" Grace
Orr Myers viii have the title part. Two
OF the comedy characters will be done
by Herman Hirshberg, Robert Lett. and
Phil Branson.
Henrietta Crosman is going to take
TO the woods-Maine or New Hampshire,
probably-after the close of the kitty
Bellairs" season, this in lieu Of Eu-
ropean trip as announced. She will be
with David Belasco again in the fall.
Maude Lambert Will be the prima DON
ma in Louisiana" an extravangaza TO
be presented in ST. Louis during the
exposition.
Elsie DeWolfe has sailed for Europe,
and Ethel Hornick, with John Drew dur
ing the season, has succeeded to Miss
naXU0TFor-s ~ RI
one of the few New York successes of
the season.
Writing anent the national theater."
a correspondent of the New York
Dramatic Mirror" says: My own ex-
perience is that-with exception OF
Shakespeare and The School for
Scandal She Stops TO Conquer" and
few plays of that group (and Shakes
peare and this group of plays are always
being played somewhere, national
theater' or no national theaterO, the
obsolete drama is not even educational"
We are glad that there is still so much
sound sense in the world. The good
old plays of the good old days are a
myth, a fetish. an illusion. The best plays
that ever were written are being written
today, and the man who does not be-
heve has only TO see a few of the good
old plays of the good old days TO realize
the fact with startling vividness.
Blanche Ring has returned from dear
old London. She brought In a whole
hatful of news about Miss Ring, about
London, and about the dramatic world.
The most interesting thing in the bud
get is that Miss Ring is to be the Ameri-
can Cherry Girl playing the leading
role which Ellaline Terriss has filled
during a phenomenal run at the Vaude-
vile in London. The book is by Sey-
mour Hicks. and the music by Ivan
Caryn. who also wrote The Earl and
the Girl which Frank Daniels has OBJ
tained for America, and the equally
well-known Duchess of Dantzic"
David Belasco has accepted for next
season Joseph Arthur's Oriental drama,
TO be called either ''Seirine." the name
under which it had it's English copy
right performance, or Gross and
Crescent" The play has strong re-
ngi0us element. and the scenes are laid
in India in 1906. during the reign of the
Emperor Jehangire. Mr.. Belasco intends
TO give 1t a production heavier and more
elaborate than any play he has hither-
to handled.
A performance will be given by the
students OF the Columbia School of
Dramatic Art at the National Theater
May IL, under the auspices of the Army
Relief Society, a charity in which many
prominent ladies in Washington are in
terested. Its object is to collect funds
and provide relief for dependent widows
nH nrlhanc nff7rarC a nd ar1F cd
of the regular army of the United
States. The performance will consist Of
a double bill: Love in Idleness'' and
'Haroun-al-Raschid.'' and will serve as
the first exhibition of the Columbia
School of Acting. The director, Rob
ert Hickman, was for twelve years
stage manager with Charles Frohman.
of the Empire Theater, New York.
A dramatic happening of interest was
the first production in this country of
a play by the French poet and drama
fist. Jean Richepin, on Thursday even
ing in Milwaukee. In the French, the
piece was known as lie Chemineau,"
Englished as The Harvester" Otis
Skinner had the title part, a restless
gypsy-like fellow. wanderer, and vaga-
bond. not so much from caprice or de-
sire as from temperament and racial
ATTRIBUTES.
It Is said that Joseph Jefferson Is at
work upon another series Of reminis-
cences, and, in fact. that the first chap
tiers are already in the hands of the
printers, the intention being to have the
work completed for the holiday trade
next year.
Ralph Stuart. who is starring in by
Right OF Sword has purchased a new
play by Thomiston Harris called "A Son
of Bohemia" which he will produce
this summer, on the Pacific Coast. 1t
IS a romantic drama
Robert Downing claims to have played
'The Gladiator in the arena scene OF
which he will be seen at the National
Theater during the latter part OF the
week. over 5000 times. thereby becoming
a close rival to Joseph Jefferson in rip
Van Wrinkle"
James T. Galloway, who will be seen
with Miss Minnie Downing in Mona"
at the National Theater the last half
OF the week. is one Of the successors
~ he late Tarnaq a TJerpe