Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21


Two companies playing THE College
Widow" will be put out next season by Mr..
Savage, one covering the east and the other
the western country.
E. S. Willard is to revive 1.-The FOOLS
Revenge" next season and those who saw
Taylor's tragedy with Booth as Bertuccio
are preparing to make comparisons
Miss Pauline Hall will not be seen again
In vaudeville next season, as had been In
tended. She is to star under the direction
of George w. Lederer in her own play.
The vaudeville firm of Warren & Gard
ner has been engaged for next season
for THE Maid and the Mummy" and re-
hearsals are to start the last of August.
Before Mrs Leffingwell's Boots makes
a tour Of this country 1t will be taken to
London for a short season with the orig
inal company and Fay Davis playing the
star role.
James X. Hackett appeared In a new role
at Pittsburg last Wednesday night when
he played the part of the villain in the
drama THE House of Silence" He closes
his season tonight.
Raymond Hitchcock was married to Flora
Isabelle few days ago. The new Mrs.
Hitchcock will continue to act In her hus-
bands company, of which she has been
member for several years.
The vaudeville actors are reported to be
quietly forming another association very
much on the order of their first society
known as the White Rats. The movement
is said to be a protective one,
Miss Fola La Toilette, the daughter Of
Governor La Toilette of Wisconsin, has
Joined one of the Proctor stock companies
in New York. She played minor parts in
Ada Rehans company last season.
Elehor Robson and Ada Dwyer, who have
been inseparable companions for years, are
having their first tours in different com
panies, as there was no part Tor MISS
Dwyer in She Stops to Conquer
Robert Blossoms one-act play, THE Rector
and the Actress which he wrote for the
benefit given recently for the Actors
Church Alliance in New York, will soon
be presented on the vaudeville stage.
Helena Frederick brought suit against
publisher for putting her picture on the
front page of a paper novel without get
ting her permission. The publisher settled
the suit and promised not to use her picture
any more.
The management of the Royal Opera.
Covent Gardens, is trying hard to induce
Charles 3. Dillingham; to allow his star,
FRITZ Schef, to appear with the grand
opera company in May. Mr.. Dillingham;
probably won't yield.
Arthur Hill, WHO mas Deen pIdSllS the
cowardly lion in the Wizard of o. since
its first presentation, has resigned from
that organization and next season will have
an important part in one of Melville B.
Raymond's productions.
John Drew Is greatly elated over his
election to the presidency of the Players
Club to succeed Joseph Jefferson. He said
the other night that Mr.. Jefferson had once
predicted that he would be the next presi-
dent. Booth was the first.
Maxine Elliott's new play by Clyde Fitch,
which is to be produced next season, has
been named My Girl. Joe" Mr.. Fitch
will confer with Miss Elliott in London dur
ing the summer and they will go over some
of the important scenes together.
Estele De Mar married in st. Pat
rcks Cathedral, New York, last Sunday
to Ernest Schelle, a broker of Philadel-
phia. Miss De Mar, who has been a mem
Der of one or another of William A. Brady's
companies for several years, will retire
from the stage. Last season she was