The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-21
NOTES OF THE STAGE.


The Turn of the Tide" a new Wal
street play. will put out in November
with Robert billiard in the principal role
| Having conscicntioUsly quarreled witt
all the legitimate" managers there are
Arnold DAILY has now gone into vaude-
vile.
William Norris VIII play an important
role In 'sir Anthony" Haddon Chambers
new play, soon TO be put on in New YorR
by the Lieblers
Disgustingly immoral is what some Lon
don critics say Of Sudermann's latest out
put. Die Blumenboot" which was pro-
/ duced in the British metropolis last week
Adele Richie has had TO readjust and
reapportion her affections once more
Some one has given her a new bull pup
swelling the census OF her kennel by g
per cent
AN evil that can't be eradlcated" Is
the verdict pronounced on the theater by
a debating club jury. composed mostly OF
cIergymen, that has been in session al
Newcastle. Del
The Socialist Stage Society has been Or
ganized in New York to promote the
cause Of socialism by means OF the the
alter. and 10 free the stage from the bonds
Of commercialism.
An enterprising metropolitan paper. de-
voted 10 theatricaIs. has made the inter
esting discovery that a stock company
still exists within the confines Of Greater
New York. IT is in the reimbursement OF
Harlem. OF course.
The curtain-caH record seems to have
been broken al Hamburg recently. on the
closing night Of Carus0's German tour.
He received thirty-twO Of them during the
performance. The great tenor is now en-
route TO Sew York
The idle rich again, The young man
who. for TWO years. has been relentIessIy
pursuing Margaret Anglia with mushy
poetry was turned loose on society by
his family with no profession or business
and an income OF $500 a month lie has
been sent to an insane asylum.
Francis Wilson isn't the only comic
opera comedian who has drifted into
straight comedy. When Leo Ditrlch-
stein was younger than he claims TO be
now, Dee won applause and fame in Europe
Ia THE Bcggar Student" and "Nanon. "
comic operas as were comic operas.
The Vics T % Wakefield" is TO be done
into a music drama by Mrs. Liza Lch-
mann and produced in New York under
the joint management OF Frank Curzon
and David Bispham early IN December II
viii be the turn Of "RasseIas" and Rob
insOn CrusOe next no doubt if they
haven't already been done over musically.
Sardou, greatest of living playwrights.
is 50 interested IN the operate version Of
his Les MerveLIleuses. soon 20 be pro
duced in London, that he has deter
mined TO waive his lifelong prejudices
against the sea-siCkening English Chan
mel in order 10 witness the first perform
ance Of the new piece.
Ellen Terry told an interviewer in Lon
don the other day that her greatest pas
sion now was for the quiet of the coun-
try The noise and rush OF the city
have come to ill her with terror. Once
when IN Seattle. she says. she declared
her determination TO have cottage there
But Henry Irving scared her from her
determination by telling her she would be
bored TO death there. How rich I would
have been II / had bought land IN
Seattle, she exclaimed
Lovers of the rawly realistic are going
to be sadly disappointed in the dramatiza-
ton of Upton Sinclair's THE Jungle"
Steers will not be slaughtered on the
stage. The audience must take its horror
second hand. The slaughterhouse scene
shows only the visitors gallery. filed
with Mortified spectators OF the bloody
work supposed to bo going on below. But
the scene closes with the fall Of the gal
lery. precipitating the visitors presum-
ably into the bloody mess beneath This
will. no doubt. console the devotees Of re-
aliSm in the raw