Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

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A G. Andrews completed sixteen years
in Richard Mansfields company on Feb
ruary -.
The firm of Hamlin. Mitchell & Fields has
taken the management of Victor Herbert
in his concert tours
Late cablagrams from London say that
Sir Henry Irving, reported as seriously III
in that city, suffered only slight chill ana
is improving.
Notwithstanding vigorous denials by Nat
c. Goodwin that actor is soon to shel py,
1.-The Usurper' and put forward his oId
success. a G.lded Fool
1t is claimed that Miss Viola Allen has
during her career on the stage never APP
peared in any play in which she did not
play The leading feminine role.
'"The President" a dramatizatOn of AL
fred Henry Lewis novel of the same name,
has been prepared for the stage by the au-
thor and George Marion, and will be pro-
duced in New York about the LIST OF May
by Frank Mckee and Henry w. Savage.
The company has not yet been made up
Helen Lowell. the Miss Hazy of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, is on the
still hunt for great sp1nster play; she
is ambitious to become the female Sol
Smith Russell.
Tim Frawley. at one time well known in
this city and recently in California anu
South Africa, has been engaged for a part
in Nancy Stair the piece soon TO be pre-
scented by Mary MannerinG
Augustus Thomas, whose condition at the
time he sailed for France. three weeks ago,
was a cause of alarm to his friends, has
entirely recovered his health, according to
reports from Paris. Mr.. Thomas had peen
4 ~ -t1 in nf nh
and, was worried over the condition of his
wife, who was i'll.
There was n well-deffned rumor current In
New York recently that Lew Fields. once of
the firm of Weber & Fields and now the
star of 1T Happened in Nordland,' had
been engaged by Charles B. Dillingham;.
Sir Henry Irving has accepted the invi-
tation of f. r. Benson and the memorial
committee that he and his company should
play 1.-The Merchant of Venice at the
Standardization festival, April a.
Miss Topsy siegrist, formerly of the
Weber &, Fields forces has been engaged
by Amelia Bingham for a part in the pro-
duction of Mile! Marni which will be
produced tonight for the first time in Sche-
nectady.
acter comedian of ability and recently with
the Dewitt stock company in Baltimore,
died in New York last Saturday after
three weeks illness of pneumonia. He was
siXty-nine years old.
The opening attraction at Days Theater,
New York, next fall viii be THE Catch
of the Season" now running in London
and according to the present schedule Ed
ma May will return with it to America
in the capacity Of star.
Henry Miller is the latest recruit to the
vaudeville stage. He has signed a contract
with Morris & Grau for an engagement
of sixteen weeks and will make his debut in
Frederic Lemaitre at Proctor's, New
York, next Monday night week.
Tim Murphy's production of the Joseph
Jefferson repertoire, The Rivals Cricket
on the Hearth and Lend Me Five Shil-
lings,' will mark his first appearance in
any other than an American play or char
acter written by an American author.
Miss Golde Mohr, recently of the Weber
& Fields forces was married to Alan w.
Wood, a retired steel manufacturer of
Pittsburg, over year ago. but the mar
riage was just made public last week. Miss
Mohr will now leave the stage for good
Eddie Foy is the happy father of another
baby boy, which arrived last week at his
home in New York. This makes seven Foy
children The comedian. with due rever-
ence for a leader in his profession, has
decided to call the latest arrival Irving.
Lulu Chaser could not stand one-night
stands in Pennsylvania and was taken so
i'll in Wilkesbarre that she had to leave the
company. Miss Mary Conwell was put for
ward in her place. Bertram Wallis of the
same company is also laid up with pneumo-
MIA.
Cecilia LOTUS tour in The Serio-Comic
Governess' will end in Boston next Satur-
day night and she will Immediately go into
vaudeville, contradictions to the contrary
h, ding ma lip ENrpb har
manager, has consented to the arrange
ment.
Forbes Robertson delivered an address on
art at entertainment which he and Evie
Green gave last Wednesday afternoon at
the Hotel Astor. New York. The program
was arranged in the interest of Elizabeth
Ford artist, whose pictures were ex-
hibited.
Joe Howard and Ida Emerson, his wife,
well known on the variety stage. have once
more become reconciled after divorce pro-
ceedngs for the fourth time had been start
ed in the Illinois courts. Both are fulfill
ing engagements at the present time in
Chicago theaters.
William Gould, the well-known singing
and dancing comedian, recently returned to
New York from filing an engagement in
South Africa Mr.. Gould warns all Ameri-
can performers away from Africa. as he
says the people down there do not under
stand our methods.
''The Rollcking Girl" is the title decided
upon by Charles Frohman for the musical
piece in which Sam Bernard and Hattie
williams will reopen in New York in May.
This piece once "A Dangerous Maid"
whose author, Sydney Resented, has been
revising the manuscript.
At the Manhattan Theater, New York,
last Monday afternoon Miss Julie Herne
made her metropolitan debut as play
wright. Her play. in which she assumed
the title role, is ''Richter's Wife" and Is
in four acts. 1t was received with consid-
cradle favor by a large audience.
ADJUSTMENTS.
TONIGHT AND ALL NEXT WEEK,