Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-18
Playhouse Paragraphs.

Florence Bindley will star next season
under the direction of B. f. Forester in a
new musical comedy entitled 1.-THE Belle OF
the West" the book and lyrics by Harry B.
Smith and the music by Karl L. Hoschna
The season will open in Cincinnati late in
August and the play will probably be seen
in Washington before the holidays
Over s10,0OO,OOO was spent In theater-
going In New York last season and about
1S,0G0.0O persons attended the play dur
Ing the course of the year. Despite this
total big successes were few, The College
Widow" being the only comedy drama that
ran the entire season in New York.
There is able-bodied report going the
rounds to the effect that George NJ Conan,
season after next. will have a theater of
his own in New York city, devoted exclu-
sively to his own musical productions
1t has been incorrectly stated that Mrs.
Fiske is to open her season and that of her
company at the Manhattan Theater, New
York, in elaborate revival of Tess of
the D'Ubervilles.' Such a revival is on
the cards, but it will not be made until
after several new plays which are sched-
uled for production by Mrs. Fiske have
been seen.
Herbert Kelley and Efie Shannon have
sailed for Europe. and while in Paris will
meet Jean Richepin, by appointment and
pass upon the merits of new play he
has offered them. While in London they
also expect to examine a play by an Eng
fish author.
The hanging of Carson Marks, the Con-
necticut farmer, on the stage of the Clin-
ton Music Hall, New York. has been dis
continued. The severe criticism of the Yid-
dish press against the hair raising realism
Of the scene was too much for the manage
ment
According to reports from London. it is
believed that the Belasco and Shubert
interests have combined, and that the first
offering of the combination in that city
will be David Warfield in 1.-The Music Mas
ter Lee Shubert denies the report en-
phatically, and Belasco declines to discuss
ter he will devote his energies almost en-
tirely to the management of theaters
rather than attractions. He has made a
good thing out of his lease of the Audi
forum in Philadelphia, and is looking for
another theater there, as well as one in
Chicago
Andrew Mack's tour in Australian terri
tory has been so successful up to date that
three weeks extension of the bookings
has been arranged for. Consequently, Mr..
Mack will have no vacation between the
close of his Journey in the antipodes and his
booking in San Francisco the third week
in October, except that which the voyage
ON the Pacific will give him.
v. F. Proctor has offered Lily Langtry
So 500 q week for a twelve weeks vaude-
vile tour in the United States with either
a monologue sketch or a play as the We
hicle. Mrs. Langtry has not yet decided
what she will do, as she has also been Of
fered a tour in South Africa on advan-
tageous terms.
Albert Spalding, son of Mr.. j. w. Spald-
ing of New York city. recently made his
professional debut at the Nouveau Theater
in Paris scoring pronounced success in
q most difficult and classical program rem
dered In Saint Saens' Concerto, Bach's
Chaconne Beethoven's Romance and Sara
safes Zguenerwesen. with great sentiment
and perfection Of technique.
Miss Dorothy Hammack. a Washington
girl, who was with James X. Hacketts
company the past season, will appear In the
cast at the Columbia Theater this week in
the stock company's production of Betsy"
Miss Hammach will continue with Mr..
Hackett's company next season.
There is q lot of wild guessing going on
in New York as to the identity Of the
Red Domino" the French dancer who
has never been seen to take or her GRIM
son mask since she landed In this country
a couple of weeks ago. Mystery has PROV
ed a fine advertisement.
Louis Duvan, quaint old wigmaker OF
San Francisco, who was known to the
theatrical profession of two hemispheres
died June 10. He was q familiar figure