Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

tured man agreed with him In his version
OF tn affair. The Judge suspended judgment
until next Monday and in the meantime re-
duced the bail from 5000 TO Sl'VVV'
Miss EulaIie b Griffith. better known on
the stage as Dorothy Lee is playing IN
the "Rabcs in Toyland" company. under
Tho wells Dunn and Harlan Company.
Miss Griffith Is the daughter Of MI. ana
Mrs. \. b. Griffith Of this city.
Mr. ITc,ar Nelson DOGGY of Capitol Hill
was issued by the Library Of Congress two
copvrights for musical compositions the
mast week one was classical compost
lion and the other standard composition.
'They will be published by the c. Ditson d
Co music publishers of New York.
charles Frohman has entered into a con-
tract with Pinero to write modern drama
and with Cecil Raleigh for a comedy. Mr..
Frohmau also intends producing In London
about the first of the year a musical play
called "Our Girl by Paul Potter and Ed
ward smith. with music by W. T. Francis.
Pauline Frederick. who has successfully
played the leading woman's part in 1T
Happened in Nordland," at Lew Fields the
alter. New York, since Blanche Ring refused
10 appear some three weeks ago, has ten
dored her resignation and will retire from
Mr.. Fields company at the end Of its New
OlA run.
The run of Leah KIeschna" having come
10 an END IN LONDON Charles w al ilSL IL
about to undertake a tour of Australia
where he will appear in some of his old sue
cesses. After that he comes to this country
under contract to Keith and Proctor and
Will present a condensed version OF his
greatest triumph, Drink.
Miss Emma Janvier who has made a pro-
nounced hit in The Mayor of Toxic" is a
niece of the late Commodore William f.
Sp!Cer, who was in command of the Charles
ton navy yard at the time OF his death.
She is also the cousin of Thomas Janvier,
who attained an enviable reputation as a
writer Of southern stories.
With The White Cat now running
smoothly in New York for Klaw q Err
hanger, that firm has turned its attention TO
their next production, The Prince of In
dia. 90 Sarah TruaX has been engaged Tor
the leading role; J. e. Dodson will play the
title part and Edwin Arden and William
Reach will be prominent in the cast.
one of the first enterprises to engage
Charles Frohmans attention in London this
winter will be the production of The Lion
and the Mouse at one of his theaters.
Henry b. Harris has acquired from Charles
Klein the author, the English rights to the
play and has arranged with MI, Frohman
TO give 1t a production abroad this season.
Fred c. Whitney is said to have formally
and absolutely Cancelled his contract with
Nine. SChumann-Heink to go into effect the
first of next month. The singer will imme-
diatey sail for Europe and says she will
never again appear in comic opera. Mr..
Whitney is also reported TO have received
quite a large sum of money for the release.
a dispatch from Boston says that Denman
Thompson, the Josh WhitcOmb of The Old
Homestead" for the past twenty years has
been forced by i'll health to retire from the
stage The retirement may be, for only the
remainder Of the season, but the chances
are that 1t is for good. as Mr.. Thompson
q nv. g to al =
renee has taken Mr.. Thompson's part in the
play
When the Lew Fields company leaves
burlesque Of The Music Master will be
left behind for service in the vaudeville
houses 1t Happened In Nordland will
be heightened out to It's former two-aCt
size. In which shape It will probably prove
more effective than the travesty of play
that has never been seen outside of New
York city.
tt was decided at Il conference in New
York last Thursday night between Miss
Ada Rehan and a representative of the
Shubert interests that the tour of that
actress in George Bernard Shaw's play,
Capt. BrassbOund's Conversion" in which
She had planned to star this season would
be postponed until spring and probably un-
til next season. Miss Rehan's Illness IS
given as the cause OF the postponement.
James Carew the actor for whom CLYDE
Fitch searched in vain when he was ar
ranging the cast of The Toast of the
Town. has been located. He is a member
of The Man and Superman'' company, APP
pearjUg at the Court Theater London Mr.
Carew accompanied Maxine Elliott to Lon
don in Her Own Way" and Mr. Fitch re-
engaged him for Viola Aliens company
When the date of reheasals drew near
CareW was experiencing a change of faith
RI no ba1l