Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29
Playhouse Paragraphs.

Playhouse Paragraphs.
vesta Tiiey is to make an American
tour soon.
Annie Russell is to make a brief tour
in Friend Hannah"
Cecil Owen has been engaged as Jane
Remarks leading man.
There isFe report that AL Leech, the COM
edian' is critically i'll in Lancaster, Pa
Selma Herman is to have stock conn
pany OF her own in Chicago for the sum-
mer.
Richard Mansfield is to deliver a lecture
In st. Louis for the San Francisco relief
fund.
The name of Sam Demands play by Ed
gar Smith s to be THE Rich Mr.. Hoggen-
hetner."
Mrs Fisze appeared in New York with
success in new one-act play by John
Luther Long entitled Dolce"
Mrs. Patrick Campbell appeared lately In
one of the large English cities in for-
eign adaptation entitled THE Whirlwind."
Madame Modjesks has offered her ranch,
near Los Angeles, for the use of refugees
from San Francisco and other cities
Viola Allen has engaged Fuller Melnsh
for her company next season. Mr.. Mellish
this season has been with Richard Mans.
field.
Before this season ends e. H. Sothern
and Julia Marlowe will play an engagement
of five weeks in New York IN six Shake
epearean plays
In Scranton last Saturday Louis james
was presented by the members of his COM
pany with a loving cup. Mr.. James haa
finished the season.
Theodore Kremer is reported to be writ-
ing a thrilling melodrana around the San
Francisco disaster. Il is to be called The
Last Day of San Francisco
Dorothy Tenant will play the leading
feminine role of Frances Cunningham in
THE Stolen Story" when that play is pres
sented in Boston early In May.
1.-THE Lion and the Mouse" will be pre-
sented in London with Edmund Breese IN
the leading male role. Margaret Ellington
will probably play the leading female role.
De Wolf Hopper has started in on his
third New York engagement this season In
''Happyiand." The comedian intends to re-
vive Wang and la Captain" during this
engagement
Miss Bessie johnson, daughter of the
famous mayor of Cleveland, has written
two plays, one of which, ''Bettys House
Party" is to be produced by summer
stock company In that city.
Madame Agathe Barsecu, a Roumanian
actress, who has appeared in New York,
IS to make an American tour next season
in an English speaking company. one OF
the plays will be Messalina.'
Madame Bertha Kanoh is to take final
leave of the Yiddsh stage in a series OF
fifteen performances to ba given in New
York. She Will In future 6evote herself to
the English-spealking drama.
Rida johnson Young, whose play, Brown
of Harvard" is one of the successes OF the
New York season, has contracted to write
two plays, one for James X. Hackett and
one for Charles B. Dilling ham
William Collier and his company, who exc
pected TO be on their way to Australia,
quake, and it will be two weeks before
their vessel will be permitted TO sail.
James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering
raised between two and three thousand dol
lars for the San Francisco relief fund by
the performance of 1.-THE Walls of Jericho"
given on Sunday, for which the authorities
gave special license.
Harry T. Bur!eigh the negro composer
and baritone soloist of New York city, VIII
in conjunction with VIII Marion Cook, the
composer OF '.Abyssnia," conduct the over
ture and ensembles during each evening or
the w iuIalI5 anu WdikeT AZ
Washington.
Among the company selected to support
Miss Katherine Kayanaug1 In the forth
coming production of her play, THE VII
lage School" will be Miss Emma Rogers,
Miss Isabel Frame. Thomas Slater, Phillip
Scbillinger, James Walsh John Joyce and
number of well-known young players.
Resale" the new opera by Willard
Spencer, was produced for the first time
this week in Philadelphia The scene OF
the opera is laid in Manchurta during the
late war between Russia and Japan. The
heroine is a Red Cross nurse, American
girl and the practical part of the story is
relieved by the introduction of fairies, in
accordance with the old Japanese tradi-
tions.
The last issue of one OF the San Fran
cisco papers before the earthquake con- .
tanned a dispatch from Seattle relating to
the rescue of Katherine Bell by Blanche
Walsh, ia whose company Miss Bell Is
playing an ingenue part The accident oc-
Cured on a launch which Miss Walsh
was entertaining q party, ana MISS Ben,
leaning over the side of the boat, lost her
balance and fell into the water. MISS
Walsh, who is an expert swimmer. jumped
In after her and held her up until the men
in the launch picked both up. Miss WalsRs
only comment to the unlucky ingenue was:
You idiot you" Miss Bell herself Is
native of San Francisco