Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

after 80 performances. II is to be revived
next December for the Christmas season.
Charles Frohman will produce the piece In
America next autumn.
Charles Frohman has arranged for the
appearance in London next season of The
RolliCkirg Girls with Sam Bernard, Hat
tie Williams and the entire American COM
pany which is to present the new piece in
New York.
Hall Caine has determined upon hap.
py ending for the dramatic version OF
his novel The Prodigal Son which is to
constitute Arthur Collins autumn attrac-
tlon at Drury Lane Theater. London. or
the four acts which the piece contains
three laid in Iceland and one on the
Riviera.
1t has become the fashion in Berlin to
exhume and modernize the works of
AesChylus, Sophocles and other ancient
play writer's. In accordance with the mode
an adaptation of "Oedipus' was recently
produced at the Deutsches Theater. 1t Is
the work OF Herr Won MISUNDERSTANDING
dorff who has handled the powerful drama
admirably. The Interpretation was good.
Mary Moore and Sir Charles wyndham
who sailed March 1s for England. not only
made money from their theatrical tour In
this country, but according to exRepresent-
alive Jefferson NJ. Levy, they bought stock
OF Il certain company some weeks ago,
when it was selling for $500 a share They
sold at $40. making a profit OF about $40.-
600 between them.
Gable advices have been received that
Mime. Emma Calve. the great prima DONNA
has just signed contract for tranScon-
tinental tour Of forty operate concerts
next season. The tour will open about the
first of November. and will be under the
direction of John Cort of the Northwestern
Theatrical Association and S: Kronberg.
the well-known impresario. Nine. Calve
Will he assisted by company of renowned
European artists. who are now being en-
gagged for this tour.
new play. called THE Proud Laird"
by COsmo Hamilton and Charles Cart
wright. is TO be produced at the Manhattan
Theater. New York, on April 81 The piece
is described as a whimsical comedy which
satirizes the clannishness of the Scotch.
Pauline Hall is to enter the vaudeville
field next season with strong company
of her own that will play at some of the
first-class houses. She will depart soon
for London, where several engagements
have been booked for her. and will return
10 America about August 10.
A special performance has been given in
England of a new play named The Dry
ad, by Mr.. Justin Huntly Mccarthy. Fol-
lowing his usual custom, Mr.. Mccarthy has
utilized the same plot both for a drama
and for a novel. He has laid his scene in
Greece. His heroine is a dryad, the last
link between the living world and the old
hea then divinitieS.
Henry W. Savage has emphatcally denied
rumor that he contemplates retiring from
the managerial field. He is shortly going
abroad, and will arrange for several pro-
ductiOns on the other side, notably for an
English production of "Parsifal." He Is to
make four new productions next year one
of which will be with his English grand
opera company.
Nine. Modjeska, who has been living on
her ranch in California for over a year and
recently appeared in Los Angeles for a
benefit, is to have one for herself at the
Metropolitan Opera House. New York. sig
mailing her farewell to the stage. 1t will
occur early in May. and Daniel Frohman
has consented to take charge of the affair.
1t is the intention to have the actress APP
pear in selections from several of the plays
in which she has been most successful.
Sir Henry Irving has been obliged to
abandon all hope of playing Shylock at
Stratford -on-Avon. His physicians insist
ed upon his resting until il IS time to be-
gin rehearsals for his Drury Lane engage
ment. few weeks hence His tour of the
United States and Canada has been post
poned for a year. following the advice of his
doctors that he should not have so long a
tour for the present. The American tour
says Charles Frohman, is not abandoned
1t will take place in 19O6-O7 instead of
10O5-OG.
Clyde Fitch has gone to Europe. During
his absence he will visit Puccini the Italian
composer who has agreed to write a score
for an opera based on one of the Ameri-
can recent plays. Mr.. Fitch changing his
drama into libretto. The playwright will
then go to the mountains of Italy to COM
pete My Girl joe" new drama for Max
inc Elliott, and a dramatizaton of Alfred
Henry Lewis ''Wolfville" which Charles
Frohman Will produce early next season.
Mr.. Fitch will return to America next Sep
TENDER
Hauptmann's new play, 'Elga." has been
received in Berlin with extraordinary en-
thusiasm. 1t is based upon Grillparzers
short tale, "Das Kloster Won Sendomir,"
and takes the form of dream of conjugal
infdelity and vengeance dreamed by wan
dering German knight in the hospice of a
Polish monastery. The seven episodes of
the story are enacted without any interval
save that which is furnished by the dark
ening of the stage and interludes of distant
music representing the midnight singing of
the monks. The auditorium remains dark
ened throughout the performance, which oc-
CupicS two hours.