Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18
Walls of Jericho" which James X. Hackett
is under contract to produce next season.

Walls of Jericho" which James K. Hackett
is under contract to produce next season.
Wright I.orimer produced 1.-THE Man
o'Airlie' al matinee in Boston last Thurs
day. 1t is a four-act play by William u
Wills, which was first produced in 1867 In
London, and in 1871 was purchased by
Lawrence Barrett, and for two years was
in the latter's repertoire. An interesting
incident of Mr.. Lorimers production was
tie presence at the performance OF MIS-
Ma =. hall Williams. daughter of Lawrence
Barrett, and young Lawrence Barrett VIII
liams, the actors grandson.
Craze Cameron. who was to have opened
with the Shubert production of The Earl
and the Girl in Chicago last Thursday
night, resigned from the cast and will stay
IN vaudeville. Miss Cameron says that she
has more opportunities in vaudeville than
in comic opera. Miss Katie Barry was Sc
cured for Miss Cameron's role.
David Belasco has obtained the dramatic
rights of the novel, The Garden of Allah,
and from this story will write play, prob
ably for Blanche Bates use next season.
The novel is from the pen of Robert Hitch,
ms. who wrote Business is Business ana
Felix" and tells of the adventures of an
English woman in Algiers.
I.eibler & Co and KIaw & Erlanger have
made arrangements to give an all-star re-
vival of She Stoops to Conquer in New
York on April II. The cast will include
Eleanor 1GODSOIl, Tiara loIbOuSbOt, hyiic
Beliew, Louis James ]. f.. Dodson and
Arnold DAILY. Mrs. Charles Calvert, an En-
glish actress of note, will also be member
of the company.
A movement has been started to place a
memorial tablet to the late Mrs. G. II. Gill
bert in the Bloomingdale Reformed Church
at New York. Mrs. Gilbert was a member
of this church, and the rector, Rev. Dr. w.
c. Stinson, and Daniel Frohman have the
matter in charge. 1t is planned to allow
the congregation of the church and the
actors of the country to subscribe toward
the expense of the tablet.
A brace of pistols reputed to have been
used by Mr.. Blanchard when he acted BOD
Acres in THE Rivals at Covent Garden
Theater. London, in 1924 has been offered
Tim Murphy for his forthcoming revival of
the comedy. The comedian does not feel
quite secure about the authenticity OF the
shooting irons. If the facts as claimed can
be proved he will take them and consider
them lucky find, for Mr.. Blanchard was
one of the great Bob Acres.
Harry B. Smith has been engaged by
Florenz Ziegfeld to rewrite the book OF
''Papas Wife" a musical comedy adapted
from the French, in when Anna h tt
starred several seasons back, and which
will be used as a vehicle for that actress
road tour which starts in New YORK next
month The piece will be known as Papas
Duchess" a change in title having been
suggested by the proposed addition of many
of the best features introduced into The
Little Duchess.
1t is not generally known that William
Gillette is the inventor of the theatrical
device known as the horse effect, Whlch
is now in use in scores of different produc-
tons In staging Held by the Enemy,
several years ago, Mr. Gillette tried sew
eral devices to secure the effect of a gal
Looping horse. heard first in the distance and
approaching rapidly nearer. After expert
menting with several devices then IN use,
the distinguished author-actor solved the
problem in his own way by using marble
slab upon which the operator strikes with
cocoanut shells. For his other plays MIR.
Gillette invented many other devices of a
technical nature, but patented none of
them.
James Carew is this year playing the role
of Sam Coast, the western villain In
is the fifth actor to play the part, which
seems to be hoodoO role, inaSmuch as
every actor who preceded him resigned to
accept q part in another play, which failed
But while there have been five Sam Coasts
since the play was produced all the other
roles are still played by the players who
created them in the original production.
The most important feature of the triple
bill with which Frank keenan, will reopen
the Berkeley Lyceum Theater IN New Iork
will be a dramatic version of Leoncavallo's
opera Il Pagliacci," which until now has
been known here only in its operate form.
The story as a play was recently pro
duced at the Savoy Theater in London with
much success, Charles Warner appearing
as the mountebank Tonic, and Mrs. Brown
Potter as his culpable wife Media.
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