The Washington herald., 1906-11-07
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

From her bungalow in the Isle of
Wight, where she has been living for
months the simple life in hope OF winning
back her health. Ada Rehan sends word
10 New York friends that she viii not be
seen on the stage at all this season. But
next year she will return, with health
fully restored, she hopes, and resume her
work.
Claiming Pollock's play, THE Little
Gray Lady" has been novelized for the
literary vaudeville trade. That is, II has
been done into a novel that sells for
quarter.
Denman Thompson is getting out cir
cuIars positively assuring the public that
he Is stiu alive. Moreover, he intends to
demonstrate the fact bodily next season
by resuming his spinach and hayseed
makeup in revival of THE Old Home
stead" There ought TO be some way 10
compromise with Denman-
After a summer spent in iGyIlic sur
roundings in her villa at VaIlombrosa,
Nine. Emma Eames has returned to New
York To fulfill her engagement TO sing
three times every two weeks in the Con
ried grand opera season at the Metro
politan. She has studied no new parts,
but she confesses to an ambition some
day 10 undertake Carmen. Before her
operate engagement begins she Will
make brief concert tour
Frederick Bond had 10 dig up 800 in
real money out Of his stage clothes be-
tween the acts Of The Social WhirI'' at
Worcester, Mass. one night last week
II was a little bill that Frederick owed
20 a Worcester grocer, and the cruel man
sent a deputy sheriff around to collect H.
armed with a fearsome legal process
which the actor had to honor or take the
chance of being yanked out Of The So
cial Whirl' right in the middle of the
performance.
The general prevalence Of the musical
comedy habit among managers this sea
son has made pretty girls with good
voices so scarce in New York that the
people who are arranging TO put on The
Maid and the Mimic" the latest venture
in musical comedy. are having the hard
est kind Of a time to iii their COM
pany.
Wilton Lackaye is so busy making
money in the West with THE Law and
the Man" that he had to take by proxy
his latest honor. that Of shepherd of the
Lambs Club, into which high soffice he
was installed vicariously the other night.
with SIR Thomas Upton among those
present
Conan Doyle isn't as successful as a
playwright as ne is as a writer Of ro-
nance. New York critics sa,- in their
comments on Kyrle Bellows production
Of his "Brigadier Gerard" in the metrop-
Oils Monday night. The play was set
down as rather duh. Bellew made only
a qualified success in the title role.
With the aid of large contingent of
the local police force, The Clansman"
was given without riot or bloodshed at
Reading Monday night Its suppression
in other cities in the last two weeks has
served to advertise the piece in great
shape. and the Reading performance was
witnessed by packed house. il is said.
Vaudeville has no more glories to ac-
cumulate. now that real live princess
has appeared in it. Actors and actresses
of note whom stress of circumstances has
obliged TO take to it intermittently have
long ago ceased to apologize for it. Now
they will begin 90 boast of the days when
they were "headIiners The Princess
Estelle de BTOglie, the latest glory Of the
continuous" seems to have made a very
pleasing impression by her singing at the
New York Colonial on Monday
May Irwin is the whole show in her
new skit by George Y. Hobart. sugges-
lively entitled Mrs. Wilson, That's All"
just uncorked in New York There's not
even a good lean" part for any one but
the pOrtly May. She holds the stage all
the time. and whatever talking she
doesn't do is reported 20 be in monOsyI-
labels.
Such realistic touches as believing
steers and brawny butchers red-handed
from the slaughter pens of Packingtown
made the dramatization of Upton Sin
clair's THE Jungle" put on at Trenton
Monday night, almost shocklngly true TO
the life of the stock yards The play
seems to have been a go with the audi
ence that witnessed its premier. The au-
thor made a speech between the acts. of