Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18


inais in daily life along Broadway and
9th avenue.
For the first time on any stage. Eliza
beth Lee shepards drama. 1.-The Red Car
nation dealing with the dramatic at
tempt of the French royalists to save Mario
Antoinette from the guiilotine, was pre-
scented at the Yorkville Theater, New YORK
last Monday night. Odette Tyler had the
chief role of Elizabeth du Bots.
Peter F. Baker, the singing Dutch come
dian of Chris and Lena" fame, who de
serted the legitimate for the vaudeville
stage, and has since toured this country
and several foreign lands. is to return TO
play written for him by Pierce kingsley,
author of Deserted at the Altar"
There Is to be an American theater in
Havana. James Hurtig, a New York man
ager, is said to have purchased on the
Prado a site for one-million-dollar play
house and hotel. Mr.. Hurtig and A L.
Wilbur are the promoters of the enter
prise. The new theater as planned will be
equal to first-class American play house
Sir Wadleigh Griggs of Richmond Hili.
England. has presented Lillian Russell with
the original prompters book used during
the first performance of Tine School for
Scandal in London. The curio is ia II anu
script form, and has marginal notes In
Sheridan's own hand. and two color
sketches of Lady Teazle
A Fatal storm.-Cigarette, the big bay
horse used by Blanche Bates in the New
York revival of Under Two Flags, ana
a fixture in the play ever since, emptied
two buckets of a stage storm the other
day and died. Cigarette also drank
bucket of water on top of the storm-which
was mostly bran-and curled up his toes IN
short order.
Charles Frohmans visit to Paris was 20
Petite Rphpmp ~ the rPignlng sue
cess of the Varieties Theater, and TO
which he has obtained the English and
American rights. After looking over the
comic opera Mr.. Frohman arranged for
the translation. and will have the piece
ready for production in London and New
York next fall.
Ada Rehan closed her season in Philadel-
phia last Saturday night, and will shortly
sail for London, where she will hold con-
ference with George Bernard Shaw over u
play for next season. She has definitely de-
cided to produce Shaw's Captain Brass
bounds Conversion a play once in Richard
Mansfield's hands. but desires later play
from the English satirists pen.
One season in a stock company has been
enough for Marie Cahill, and she will leave
the Fields forces next season, heading an
organizat ton of her own, and presenting
musical comedy by Milton Royle George V.
Hobart and Silvio Helm. George Beban
who was with Miss Cahll in Nancy
Brown" has already been engaged for one
of the principal parts in the new piece.
The Casino Theater, New York. which
was damaged by fire recently will not be
reopened until June. In the interim the
orchestra floor will he lowered to the level
of Broadway, six doors will be built which
will give egreSs direct to the street and the
house will become one of the most thor
oughly freproof in America. The first at
traction in the renovated theater will be
The Earl and the Girl
William Morris, who is playing in Mrs.
Temples Telegram at the Madison Square
Theater New York, will star next season
in dramatizati ton of Eugene Sues master
recently signed a contract with a well
known manager to produce the piece The
Wandering Jew dramatized by the
late Ne.son Wheatcroft 1t is in four acts,
and will be first presented in New York.
Belasco & Mayer have purchased the
Columbia Theater, Portland. Ore. ground
and building, for $1J0,0J0 The stock circuit
of this firm now includes two theaters in
San Francisco, one in Los Angeles and the
recent purchase in Portland. Should David
BelasCo. the playwright, send any of his
attractions to the coast he would have lit
tie trouble getting dates, as one of the
members of the Pacific coast firm is his
brother.
special dispatch from Cincinnati says
that Murray and Mack, now appearing in
that city in An English Daisy" will sep
arate tonight and the company disbandcd
for the season. mysterious quarrel is
said TO have brought to an end a theatrical
combination that has lasted fifteen years
Mr. Murray will probably star next season
in a piece called The Prince From Prince
will