Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27
Playhouse Paragraphs.

'Mexieana" is to go on tour again next
season.
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the Liebler Company is after amateurs
who are presenting Mrs Wigs of the
CABBAGE Patch without authority
George Arliss has been engaged by Olga
Nethersole as a member of the coupany
10 support her In her Paris engagement
Louise Cunning and David Bispham are
10 appear as co-stars in new musical
comedy next season.
Efie Shannon and Herbert Kelcev are
soon. to open an engagement at the Sub
urban Garden, st. Louis.
Hatty f. Fox, a niece of Della Fox. Is ia
be member of William G. Stewards opera
company this summer
Lew Fields is endeavoring to secure Jos
WEIGH. Louise Dresser and Ellie Fav for
M! ms new production at the Herald Square
Theater next fall.
Olga Brandon. who some years ago was
with John Sleeper Clark's. E S WIZARDS
ana the kendals companies, died recently
in London.
Mrs. Mary Kunkel Zimmerman, a former
BaItimorean. is one of the soloists at the
Bach festival now being held at Mont
clair, N. j.
Nat c. Goodwin recently tried a one
act play called "A Blaze of Glory" by Paul
Armstrong, author of The Heir to the
Hoorah."
Richard Mansfeld's engagement which
has just closed in Chicago is said to have
oeen me most profitable he has ever filled
in the Windy city.
A new play by Henry Hamilton and Will
liam Devereux. based on the stories of
Robin Hood is to be produced at the Lyric
Theater. London, by Lewis Waller.
Nearly $1,000 has been collected for the
monument to be erected by the PLAYERS To
Edwin Booth. 1t is probable that the me-
mortal will be placed in Gramercy Park.
New York, facing the club house.
Frank worthing is to play the leading
masculine role In The Whirlwind Harry
Melville's translation of La Rafale
Bernstein's play which Mrs. Patrick CaInn
bell Is to present at the Criterion Theater.
London.
Walter Jones Is writing c new musical
comedy. which he calls "Puss in Boots
and in which Eva Tanguay is to star next
season Miss Tanguays season in 'Sambo
Girl closed last Saturday.
The Indefinite run OF "Happyland' In
New York, which is expected to mean all
summer, has deprived De Wolf Hopper of
an expected automobile trip through the
British Isles. He had intended to sail
early in June.
Olga Nethersole's gagement in Paris
begins June Z. She is to give fourteen
performances at the Vaudeville Theater
and before she returns to this country She
Is to tour the English provinces in ''Adri-
enne Lecouvreur."
Thomas W. Ross who has made such a
hit this season in Checkers has signed
nve-year contract with Conan & Harris
to star five years lnder their management
He Is 10 be seen next season In The Gov
errors Son.
Miss Marie Doro, the. leading woman for
William Gillette. has employed her spare
time since her season closed in writing
songs One of them has been accepted by
Charles Frohman to be used by Miss Ella
line Terriss in her London engagement
FRITZ Scheff's entire supporting company
has been engaged for next season. The
prima donna has sailed for the other side
and Will not return until September, when
she will resume her enga cement In Mile.
Modiste' at the Knickerhoeker Theater,
New York.
Mrs Ffske will spend the summer in the
mountains of California and does not nIan
to return to New York until late In An
gust, when the rehearsals for the new COM
edy In which she is to appear will begin.
The play is by Langdon Mitchell and is en-
titled The New York Idea"
Henry Schumann- Heink. son OF Mime.
Schumann-Heink, the opera singer, has en-
tered the Cramps Shipbuildng Company,
with the idea of specializing in some of
the mechanical branches of shipbuilding.
He is twenty-three years old, and has
served in the German army a year. He
hopes to enter the navy of the United
States eventually.
There are only thirty-seven dramatic
situations in existence. you know, said
Charles Klein, author of the Music Mas
ter and THE Lion and the Mouse" re-
Gently, land they have all been used so
many times that you can not copyright one
of them All you can do is to provide
new background"
James K Hackett has obtained for Amer
Ca the rights of three-act farce entitled
Brown at Brighton" written by Fenton
Mackay and Walter Stephens, and which
obtained great popularity in the Avenue
Theater. London. about two years ago. 1t
is Mr. Haeketd's intention 10 make the pro-
duction early next season.
Nearly every one who saw Wilson Mel
rose as Joe, in THE Cowboy, and the
Lady, al the EelaSeo last week was struck