Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

and for this reason has resigned, although
she was being paid $1,000 week
Winfield Scott Freeman, a nephew of
the late Senator Calvin S. Brice of Ohio,
is one OF the sextet coys in ''Florodora.'
on his Florida plantation. has returned to
New York to arrange for Chauncey Oh
colts tour next season.
Fanny Dupre. one of the two flower
girls in 1T Happened in Nordland," is a
granddaughter of the late Francis Hen
riquez. formerly president of the New
York stock exchange.
Mrs. Sarah Cowell LeMoyne has won as
much success in Robert Browning's trag-
edy. "a Blot on the 'Scutcheon," as she did
in this poets I'm a Balcony" in which she
appeared several years ago
sousa and his band closed their third
English tour at Queens Hall, London,
April 90 and will sail for this country
from Liverpool on May 10.
Catherine Cooper of the Fantana COM
pany has been refused copyright of her
stage name by the register of copyrights
In the Library of Congress.
George NJ Conan has written a number
of vaudeville sketches for other enter
-
for Fay Templetou will be the first long
play he has written for an outsider.
Mrs George Purdy. wife of the musical
director of "Florodora,' who was Tor
merly well known to all theater goers as
Helen Dayne, has retired from the stage
and is now the d-essmaking expert of the
Delineator.
Clyde Fitch's The Woman in the Case"
is being adapted for presentation on the
NV ThandOra the
thrill producer, who sails May 10 for Berlin
where the play will be put on early In June
J. II. Stoddart. the veteran actor. who
was stricken with nervous prostratlon
in Gait, Ontario, and who, 1t was feared,
would not recover, is on the mend ana
will be removed to his New Jersey nome
In the near future.
NJ Coquelin, already a wearer of the
cross of the Legion OF Honor, mas an
nounced himself candidate for the sem
atorship of the Pas he de Calais. He has
a good fighting chance
John Drew will begin his next tour at the
Empire Theater New York, on September
4, in a American comedy by Augustus
Thomas the title of which has not yet
been announced
Claude Gillingwater. who has been with
David Belasco's company for seven years.
has been engaged by Charles b. Dillingham;
as principal comedian for FIRTH Schef,
and will appear in her new opera next Oc-
tober.
The report has been given out that
Churchill & Co. the western amusement
promoters, are negotiating for lease Of
the Empire Theater of this city, and will
reopen Ii next season a ten-cent Yaude-
Vile house.
Marie Tempest and her theatrical COM
pany from the Criterion Theater, London,
ba cd To Nav York for a month
at the Empire with The Freedom of
Suzanne" the farce by Cosmo Gordon
Lennox (Mr. Tempest), which has been
running successfully for several months
in the British capital.
Ida Conquest was defeated April IS in
her suit to recover $500 from Thomas V.
Ryley for salary which she claimed at the
rate of 5000 a week for four weeks. Judge
Green in the city court, dismissed her
complaint, saying she should have sued
for damages for breach of contract.
Dave Braham jr.. whose creation of the
part of the race track tout Push Miller,
in Checkers" Is regarded as one of the
hits of recent seasons has accepted the
scenario of a play called Push Miller"
in which the character is developed Into
stellar proportions. His friends hope 1t
will stand the strain.
For the first performance of the revived
and rejuvenated "Trilby," with many of
the original company, including Wilton
Lackaye and Virginia Harmed, in New
York on May 8, a box has been reserved
by William A Brady for the actresses
who have played the title role since the
play was first produced. They include
Blanche Walsh. Mabel Amber Rose Stahl,
Marion Gray and Edith Crane.
One of the new musical comedies in prep
aration Is "a Little DEVILS Half by
Harry B. Smith and Herman Perlet. Frank
Norcross will produce it, and he has offered
the principal role, boys part. to Virginia
Earle. The piece tells the story of a youth
so nschievOus that 1T seems as If he must
be in league with satan. The description
suggests an old piece played by Alice Oates
entitled "Asmodeus; or, The Little Devil"