The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-30
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

the sick list Nine. Kirkby Lunn, con
tralto Of the Metropolitan opera House.
John Drew doesn't know just when.
but he is confident he win play Shakes
pearean parts again some time. He says
he would feel quite unhappy if he thought
he wasn't
It is said that no less than fifty Amer
lean variety actors are stranded at differ
ent towns along the line Of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad between Winnipeg and
Victoria.
Vaudeville is to he further enriched by
accessions from the nobility The Baron
ess Litta Won Elsner is soon 10 appear in
"A new and odd act. assisted by Pillar Mo
rim. the Spanish dancer.
The dramauzation Of The Spoilers"
already tried out in Chicago. will be pro-
duced under The Frohman direction at
Baltimore. on January Is Ralph Stuart
will be the leading man Of the company.
The operate phenomenon Of the day
is the fact that the worse the opera, from
a musical and esthetic point Of view. the
larger the crowds it draws says "A free
spoken observer of things musical in
New York
Rose Stahl has taken her pen in hand
between times of playing The Chorus
Lady and dropped a few lines 10 Mrs
Russell Sage, asking the latter 40 please
send about $l00CC9 to the actors nome
on Staten Island.
After the public ceases to clamor for
Wilton Lackaye in his own decentralization
of Les M.serables." he viii 60 back 10
repertoire presenting A New Way 20
Pay Old Debts" Jack Cade. and the
Salvini version OF The Outlaw"
Fraulein Annie Dirkens. one Of the
brightest stars OF the German stage.
made her New Yark debut Thursday
night in a farce called How Men Are
Chained She showed herself to be an
actress of great vivacity and charm.
In private life she Is the Baroness Ham
merstein.
Aubrey Boucicault, who has for years
steadily frowned on marriage as a mere
fad. went of quietly 10 Elizabeth y ].
one day recently with Ruth Holt. and
when they got back to Broadway they
were man and wife Boucicault IS about
TO join the jefferson company and take
"a leading part in Playing the Game"
John Philip Sousa has written an arti-
Gle full of whitening sarcasm on canned
music as music produced by mechanical
means is called. lie Ironically gives Il
/ cast Of Faust of the future. in which
Nile. Columbia Cylinder is down for the
role of Marguerite and NJ. Duplex Two
Horn Photograph appears as Mephisto.
Notwithstanding the triteness of its
name. THE Maid and the Mimic" pro
duced at Springfield, Mass. Friday night.
it is said to have turned out 10 be one of
the most entertaining musical comedies of
the season. The Iibretto and the fun are
described as particularly original. Doro-
/ thy Russell, Doris Goodwin, VIII c. Man
deville, and George ODER are in the cast.
| Louis Harrison may possibly pause and
reflect hereafter before calling down" a
| chorus girl right before the face and eyes
/ Of a large audience. He called one down
/ in loud voice at St. Louis THURSDAY
night and was paralyzed when the girl.
/ Isabelle Meyers, stepped from the chorus
| line 70 the footlights and told the audience
/ that If they knew Louis as well as she did
/ they would hiss instead of applauding
/ him, Then the girl quit the theater.
! Oscar Hammerstein announced in New
York Friday that although Melba was
/ only bringing with her half a million dol
lars worth Of diamonds. he would have
two special policemen at the pier TO meet
her when she landed from the Caropia
and escort her 10 the Manhattan Opera
House, where she might stow away hel
sparklers in the strong box with Oscar
diamond sleeve buttons and vest buttons
/ Director Hammerstein is anxious that
AeIba shall have all the diamonds she
| brought with her to wear when she ap-
pears in La Traviata"
By the time Mr.. Z. II. Sothern ha.
| produced and got in smooth acting or
der the repertory of Il plays which he j,
now accommodating, he Will have ready
for his permanent occupancy a new pro.
| fessional home on Forty-sixth street. New
York, to be called Booths Theater MyeI
r. Bimberg, who makes a speciality OF
| theater construction, will build the new
house and expects to have il ready fol
Mr.. Sotherns occupancy by the begin
ming of 1908. The site cost sS50.O0O. anC
the same amount will be spent upon IN,
structure Old-timers in New York vii
be glad to see the name of Booth re-
stored to the theater list of the city.
! No doubt the extreme modernity Of Ger
tain passages in Madam Butterfly" is re
sponsible for the following interesting anC
just remarks by a New York musica
critic: AS a matter of fact. the puttins
of plays of modern life to music is very
doubtful art. 1t causes a very natura
amusement to hear the simplest question!
and remarks Of life set 10 the pompou!
lphTaseolOgy Of orchestral diction Wher
this sort of thing is done an illusion i.
lost. d vision dispelled. and we fall bacl
upon our everyday selves and laugh
/ Wagner was right when he chose the sub
ject matter for his music-drama from thu
dusky and shadOwy realms of legend anC
mythology"
Told by Lew DOckstader.
From the New York Telegraph
Coming down Pennsylvania avenue /,
VVasbingfOn 7 encountered q Negro bobo