Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22

| has been meeting with great success in
| Paris and will shortly open an extended
engagement at the London Alhambra.
Henry Arthur Jones will arrive in New
YORK from England next Wednesday on the
| oceanic for a three weeks visit He Is
bringing the manuscripts OF two new plays.
The Buffalo customs authorities last week
conflscated $500 fur coat belonging to
| Cecilia LOTUS which the actress failed to
| declare as she crossed the line from Cam
| ada.
a movement was started last Thursday in
New York for benefit performance for
| Mrs. Mckee Rankin-Kltty Blanchard-who
has been Ill. She is at her home up the
Hudson.
The dramatization OF Agnes and Edgerton
castles The Secret Orchard by Claiming
Pollock is almost ready for rehearsals. II
Will be produced first at Hartford. Conn,
some time I'm December.
When Willie Collier returns TO this comm
| try from London he will be seen IN Augus-
tus Thomas latest piece. The War Corr
| respondent. under the management of
| Charles Frohman.
! Augustus Thomas the playwright. and Lis
| family will sail from New York for Paris
october Is. Mr.. Thomas will remain abroad
| probably until next spring when he will
| come back with another budget OF plavs.
Atrred Sutro has made another ten
| strike in London as a playwright n the re-
| ception accorded his latest pay .sTbe
ferfect Lover" Is criterion Lewis
| Waller and Evelyn Willard have the lead
! Ing characters
Marie Tempest, whom Charles Frohman
| hurried across from London to New York
last spring to appear in The Freedom of
SUGAR ne, Is now on touor OF England,
playing to enormous business I'm this de-
lightful play.
"Wronged" is the title OF an English
drama which will have it's American premi-
ere in New Rochelle, n. Y. November e.
The leading role will be played by Miss
Blanche Leighton.
In settling up the estate of the late author
OF David Harum,' ii developed in the sur
rogate's court that the income from royal-
ties for the use of the play was over si25 =
600. This is merely an example of the enor-
nous value of a successful piece of prop
erty in the theatrical world.
William c. DeMine. author Of Strong
heart is just now receiving hearty con-
gratulations from his friends. 1t isn't over
the birth Of new play, but that of a
daughter. who, by the way will represent
the third generation Of the DeMille family
in America.
Richard Mansfield sat for 5000 worth OF
photographs two weeks ago. 1t was his
first visit to a photographer in seven years.
Last week he had a relapse and had TO
cease rehearsals. Modern photography is
a serious ordeal
Joseph Coyne and George c. Tyler and
Eugene Presbery sailed for Europe last
Thursday from New York to be gone five
weeks. Mr.. Coyne said It was business
and pleasure trip. He will join the forces
OF Liebler 81 Company.
The Coffin Sisters. Lillian and Estelle,
who for three years have been under the
1ot1ac Of TDzln
engaged by Lee Shubert to appear in q
musical comedy which will be placed In re-
hearsal in the near future. Miss Paula
Edwardes is expected to be the STAR
Agathe Barsesco, leading actress Of the
Hofburg Theater, Vienna, and the Berlin
Theater, Berlin. is to make a tour of this
country under the management OF Edwin
Gordon Lawrence, when she will play for
the first time in English. The tour is to
begin in December. Her repertoire will in
clude ''Medera," Magda" and other clas-
sic plays.
1.-THE Wizard of o. will probably soon
be presented in London under the manage
ment of Liebler & Company. 1t is believed
that the scarecrow and tin man with Mont
gomery and Stone and strong American
company will make hit in the English
metropolis
The title of the new farce by Leo Dit
richstein, which Lew Dockstader and Rob-
Hartford. November 3, is Before and At
ter" Fritz Williams, Katherine Florence
and the author will have prominent roles
in the piece.
Blanche Walsh has apparently created an
equal, If not greater, sensation with The
Woman in the Case" in Chicago than she
did in New York The piece has a particu-
lar fascination for the western theater pa
irons, and McVicker's Theater has been
sold out for three weeks ahead
George C. Tyler OF Liebler & Company
and Mr.. Eugene Presbrey have sailed for
London to prepare for the opening of Kyrle
Bellew in "Raffles," March Is, in one of
the Charles Frohman London theaters. All
Of Bellows London company will be Eng
lish with the exception of E. NJ. Holland.
A new theatrical firm entered the field
last Thursday, composed OF Arthur Clark,
manager for Raymond Hitchcock, who has
been with Henry w. Savage many years,
and Harry Converse, Boston capitalist and
owner of the Maiden, Mass, Auditorium.
The firms first venture will be the taking
over Of THE Gingerbread Man." the new
play by Rankin and Sloan, and Its first
presentation will shortly occur in New
York.
One of Miss Olga Nethersole's cherished
possessions is a silver laurel wreath pre-
scented to her by the citizens Of Chicago. in
1897 each leaf being a silver scroll wherein
is engraved one of Miss Nethersole's most
notable roles. One blank leaf was left In
the center of the scroll, and II Is Miss
Nethersole's intention to have this blank
space filled in with the name of Marianne
de Pogis, the role which she plays in THE
Labyrinth"
the Genius and the Model" the new
play by William c. and Cecil B. De Mile,
was given its first performance at the Ly-
ceum Theater. Rochester, last Saturday.
It gained emphatic commentator ana the
opinion was generally expressed that this
latest De Mile play VIII be as successiui
as "Strongheart." Henry woodruff and
Edna Goodrich are playing the leading
parts.
Miss Olga Nethersoles business manager
on her present American tour is Mr.. Will
lam A Page, formerly of Washington, who
was in the city during the past week In the
interests of the distinguished English
actress Mr.. Page has been Miss Maxine
Euiotts advance manager the past two
seasons and has been transferred tenn
porarily to Miss Nethersoles company by
Mr. Charles Dillingham;, who is directing
her tour