Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05


and Robert Hunter are the managers in
charge.
"The Embassy Ball" in which Lawrance
D'Orsay is starring. will be closed down
temporarily next week 10 await revision
OF the piece by-its author Augustus Thorn
as. The lay-off will last about a month.
Nella Webb. who has been in vaudeville
for a few weeks, has Cancelled all her con-
tracts and Joined the Miss Dolly Dollars
company under the management of Mr..
Dillingham;. playing the role OF Celeste.
David Belasco evidently retains his faith
in the dramatized novel Through Sanger
& Jordan he has purchased the dramatic
rights of the novel she Who Hestates,
by Harris DICKSON.
Anna Laughlin, for three years the Dor
othy of The Wizard of OF and more re-
Gently member of The Land of Nod
company, made her debut-in vaudeville at
Proctor's Theater, New York, last Monday
night.
The first performance of THE Rose of
the Alfsmbra.' the new comic. opera by
Charles Emerson Cook and Lucius Hosmer.
in which Lillian BlauYelt is TO star under
the direction of +. c. Whitney, VIII take
place in Rochester November 10.
Ada Rehan, who has been in England
nearly six months. returned to New York
city last Saturday. She is in the best of
health. Notwithstanding a recent operation
for appendicitis. and at once started in re-
hearsing George Bernard Shaw's comedy,
Captain Brassbound's Conversion.
1.-The Man on Horseback" Booth Tark-
ingtons latest play, is being considered by
F. F. Proctor for his stock company at the
Fifth Avenue Theater New York. He has
been offered the play by Joseph Weaver,
manager for Harrington.
A report comes from New York that
Loves Lottery" in which Mime. Schu-
mann-Henk is staring, is to close its tour
next month on account OF the dlllerenceS
of the singer and her manager, Is. C. WHIT
ney.
At the Valentine theater, Toledo, Ohio,
was produced October u, for the first time
in the English language, Schiller's tragedy,
Don Carlos by Richard Mansfield and
his company There were almost as many
people there from Chicago and New York
and adjacent western cities as Toedoans.
Maud Harrison will shortly make her de-
but in vaudeville with new sketch by
Miss Ford, who wrote The Greatest Thing
in the World" in which Mrs. LIE Moyne
starred a year ago. The sketch Is to be
called "Object Matrimony'' and is a com
edy with a partly serious scene or two. Four
people are to make up the company.
Milton and Sargent Aborn announce that
Elsie Janis will be succeeded by Countess
Olga Won Hatfield in The Little Duchess
about December 10. Miss Janis services
have been lent to Liebler & Company, who
will produce a new musical play early IN
the year and in which the young actress
will be the star.
1t is stated that the appearance IN Lon
don of Kyrle Bellew in his play Rafffes,
will probably be postponed for some time,
owing to the great success OF the piece
in this country. Mr.. Bellew will prob
ably acquire another play in which ro-
mantle thief plays the part of the nero,
fT,l yti am r.
Horning.
Maurice Campbell has completed the cast
of The Little Grey Lady, Claiming Pol
locks latest play. The title role. for which
Annie Russell was once the candidate, falls
TO Julia Deane Edgar Selwyn for several
years with Charles Frohmans forces, VIII
fill the post of leading man Dorothy Don
nelly, William Humphreys and Alfred Hud-
son will have important roles
Following the engagement of The Ham
Tree" at the New York Theater, New
York, George NJ Conan will appear at that
house in Little Johnny Jones for br1ef
visit. The engagement will be the tenth
within a year When next he is seen IN
New York it Will be In George Washing
ton, jr.
The cast of "A Madcap Princess" as pre-
scented by the Sopohie Brandt Opera Com
rany under the direction of ClaXton VIII
StdCh, includes George " boIiltIit w, L.
Elwanger, Bert Merket, Fl. l. Franklin,
Francis Stuart, Tom F. Callahan Belle
EIlsler. katherine Bennington, Charlotte
Towle and Lillian Taylor. The tour starts
at Plainiield, N j., November l.
The widely exploited Biblical play, The
Nazarene," for which so much was expect
ed brought its career to close last Sat
urday night at the Studebaker Theater,
Chicago, where it had been presented. The
fate Of THE NaZarene" is an excellent eX-
ample of the precariousness or theatrical
speculation. Three experienced managers
Frank L. Perley, Lee Shubert ando John G.
Fisher read the manuscript and agreed
that it contained the elements OF success
A meeting of the committee in charge OF
the benefit for the widow of the late VIII
liam A. Mcconnell met last Tuesday In New
York and perfected arrangements Tor the
performance which will be given at Lew
Fields theater the afternoon OF November
16 The program will include Mr.. Fields
company in the burlesque, The Music
Master Mr. De Wolf Hopper, Mr. Henry
Miller and Miss Margaret Anglin.
'ayeroniaue," by Mms Vanloo and Duval,
and translated into English by Henry Ham
ilton, was given its American premiere at
the Broadway Theater, New York, last
Monday night. NJ Messenger, composer or
the score, personally directed the orchestra,
and the musical numbers were received APP
preciatively by audience of representa-
tive first-nighters.
The Klaw & Erlanger version of the great
Drury Lane spectacle. The White Cat"
was given its first American production at
the New Amsterdam Theater, New York,
last Thursday night The piece IS said to
be one of the most beautiful spectacles ever
seen on the stage in New York city. The
book is by Harry B. Smith and the music
by Ludwig Englander William Jerome and
Jean Scwarz also contributed numbers:
If present negotiations go through Tod
Sloan will play the title role in Little
Johnny Jones' when George NJ. Conan quits
the piece to assume the chief part in his
latest musical comedy, George Washing
ton, jr" Manager Sam Harris has offered
Mr. Sloan the part but the two are still
apart the salary question.
Henry w. Savage has decided to call In
Easy Dawson" Raymond Hitchcock and
the members of his company have been no.
tilted that the end is to come at the Grand
Opera House, New York, on Saturday night
of next week. 1t is predicted that Mr..
Hitchcock will next be seen in either ITO
morrowland' Claire Runners ''Noahs