Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

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| original cast.
! Gus Skinner seems TO be repeating on
| Duel
Robert Hilhard is to star in '"rhe Turn
of the Tide" with Katherine Florence as
| his leading woman.
| Eugene Reddng who plays Col Larfrctt,
In Before and After is a Frenchman. by
name Joseph Ribodeaux.
Alexander Clarke has made a hit in the
leading comedy role of The Student
! KING, the latest DeKoven success
| Lottie Collins OF "Ta-ra-ra Boom-d.-
| ay Tame is making a tour of the English
| provinces in vaudeville.
Madame Modjeska began her season this
week In Plaintield, N. J., under the man
| agement of Jules hurry.
Annie Russelrs tour as Puck in "A Md
summer Nights Dream" is to begin the
| latter part of this month.
Frank Moulan and Maud Lillian Berri
| are to appear in The Grand MoguI." Inv
| FRANK PlXley and Gustav Luders
The initial performance of Marie CO.
f, re!lis scriptural play. "Barapbas" is to
| take place in Boston early in November
The London engagement of FRITZ schefi
and her American company in Mile Mo-
| uiste is to begin the first week of next
| April.
For the American production of ire
Belle of Mayfair Charles Frohman has
engaged Christie Macdonald for the title
| role. 's
The new productions in New York this
| week are William Gillette's play 'Clarice''-
and Clay Clements presentation of sam
! Houston
| Miss Blanche Chairman ana Misc T,.,,,-,.
Bradley. two former Washington Young
women, are in the cast of ~ Inc Vanderbilt
Cup"
| A new musical comedy entitled Ma msel,
| Sallie" was tried out In Waterbury Conn
with Kate Barry and John Slavin In the
| leading parts.
The production of Joan of Are by Percy
Mackaye in Philadelphia by f. H. Sothern
| and Julia Marlowe receives praise from the
| critics. The drama is described as noble
| and poetic.
Ibsen's wild Duck with considerable
| success. The Shepherd King" continues
to be his evening bill.
Grace Georges success in her new NAV
| Clothes" has been such that all of Tie
bookings at the Manhattan Theater New
| York. have been rearranged to permit her
| to remain there indefinitely.
Helen Ware. who has been playing the
part Of Celia with Blanche Walsh i'm The
| kreutzer Sonata" has been engaged by the
| Shuberts for a prominent role in their pro-
ductfon of "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
|
| Messrs. Nixon and Zimmerman Will pre-
sent Henry Irving, jr., in the following
| repertoire during the present season:
"Paola and Francesca" The Lyons Mall"
.Othello" Charles t. 'Maurcette' and
| 'Markheim.'
George Edwardes is to produce an adapta-
| tion of Sardou's Les MerVeieuses" AT the
| Daily Theater, London. The adaptation has
| been made by Capt. Basil Hood, and the
musical setting has been written by DR..
| Hugo Felix.
1t is probable that Boston will have the
| first production of the new Belasco play
which is to succeed Blanche Bates in The
| Girl of the Golden West" when she, breaks
| her run at the Belasco Theater to fulfill
| contracts for her appearance in other cities.
| Elsie Janis the star of The Vanderbilt
| Cup" gave her first public" performance
| in Washington. 1t was at the White House
and was given before President and Mrs.
Mckinley and the members of the cabi-
net Elsie Janis then Little Elsie
just twelve years of age.
An engagement of more than passing
interest which will occur during the month
of November in this city will be Leslie
Stuarts new musical comedy, THE Belle
OF MdyIdlT irene Bentley Is among the
players selected for the American cast OF
The Belle of Mayfair
The series of lectures which Dwight
Elmendorf will deliver In Washington Will
cover the most interesting section of any
of his past dscourses. The first lecture
will be devoted to Holland, and will occur
at the New National Monday afternoon,
November u, at 4:3o.
Mr.. William Archer, the noted dramatic
critic of London, in summing up the
dramatic season in the London Tribune and
in mentioning "All-of-a-Sudden-P Peggy re-
fers to Ernest Denny, who wrote the play,
as one of the new forces" in English
drama
Cape Cod Folks" dramatized from
novel of that name, was produced in New
York under the direction of the Lebler
Company and made pleasing impression.
The principal roles were taken by Sarah
Perry, Earle Brown. Charles Mackey. f. j.
Radcliffe, George Richards, Lizzie Conway
and Bessie Barriscale.
Among the new plays in prepare don by
Charles Dillingham; for presentation after
the holidays The Story of Country
Town." character comedy by Henry Bios
som; THE Boys Of Company B. a mill
tary comedy by Rida Johnson Young;
new play by Haddon Chambers not yet
named, and "Artie,' George AIDES new
play.
1.-THE Vicar of Wakefield" has met the
fate of other literary celebrities and has
been adapted for the stage, and set to
music by Lisa Lehman of I'm a Persian
Garden" fame. The play is to be brought
out in London in December under the joint
management of Frank Curzon and David
Bispham, with Isabel Jay as Olivia and Mr..
Bispham the Vicar.
Wilton Lackaye promises to equal his
reputation as actor by his ability a
playwright His dramatization of Les
Msera bles" under the title of THE Law
and the Man has received much praise,
and Mr.. Lackayes success as Jean Vatican
has been so marked that he is to continue
in that play, and is not to be seen in the
stage version of THE Jungle" was at
first intended.
Charles Klein, author of THE Lion and
the Mouse" is one of the few playwrights
who has been equally successful In the
writing of both drama and librettos. He
furnished the book for De Wolfe Hoppers
lei Captain and for Jefferson De Angels