Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
Playhouse Paragraphs

May Blaney is to appear in 1.-The Little
Stranger
Cheridah Simpson is to star again in
Red Feather"
William Lamp has been added to Wilton
Lackaye's company.
Nella Bergen is to be the prima donna in
1.-The Free Lance" company.
Owen Wister is making a dramatization
of his latest novel. Lady Baltimore"
Hallett Thompson is to be leading man
with Florence Gale in Loves Victory
Doris Keane has been engaged by Charles
Frohman for the part of Rachel in 1.-The
Hypocrites.''
Maurice Campbell has deferred the pro-
duction of Pilgrims Progress" until next
spring
Giles Shine has been engaged for Rose
Stahls company in the production of THE
Chorus Lady,"
Margaret Anglin is to open her season in
William Vaughan Moody"s play, THE
Great Divide
James ]. Corbett is to appear in Philadel-
phia about the middle of September in THE
Burglar and the Lady"
Florence ROnGrtS mas a play from the
Spanish called Marie Rosa" by the au-
thor of Marta of the Lowlands."
Ernest stallard, an English actor, has
been engaged to support Henrietta Cros-
man in "All-of-a-Sudden Peggy"
Charles E. Blaney has a new star in
Vivian Prescott and her play is called
wild Nell" a child of the regiment
Robert Hiliard is to star under the man.
agement of E. A. Braden in play of New
York life entitled THE Turn of the Tide"
Dion Boucicault is directing the rehear-
sails of Arthur Wing Pinero's play. His
House in Order" in which John Drew is to
star.
Gertrude Wolfe is to be seen in the in
genue role of Mooshla and Elizabeth Ken
nedy as Esther in the biblical play, Mlz-
pah."
woman with John Drew, will be leading
lady in w. H. Cranes new play. The Price
of Money
gins in October, her repertoire is to in
clude .'Twixt Nightfall and Night" by
Graham Hill.
Ellis Jeffrey's new play is not to be en-
titled ''Haviland Brooks Wife, as was at
first intended. but is to be named THE
Dear Unfair Sex
1.-THE Specimen" is the rather ambiguous
title of a new play by Frederick Donaghey,
which is to be produced by VIM. A. Brady
in the near future.
Miss Alice Fisher will make her first ap-
pearance in a new play, Honor Bright"
early in October in Chicago, under the man.
agement of Will Block.
Robert Drouet, E. H. M. Holland and
Mary Hall have been engaged for the
principal roles In Cora Maynards play,
THE Measure of Man."
Jessie Maclachlan, the Scottish prima
donna, is to return to the United States
early in the fall with specially selected
company of Scottish artists.
Eugene That's Lawton. Louisville girl.
who has been hailed as a discovery. is
to be the leading woman in the Boston
Castle Square Stock Company.
Kathleen Kerrigan has been engaged as
leading woman supporting Clay Clement in
the company to present the new drama of
the southwest, Sam Houston"
James K Hackett has obtained from
Maeterlinck the English and American
rights to his new drama, of which Mr..
Hackett will make a production.
Edward r. Martindell. basso, and Marie
Keller, soprano, have been engaged by
Henry W. Savage for the forthcoming pro-
duction of 1.-THE Man From Now"
Miss Grace George is to open her season
in a new play by Charming Pollock and
on Miss George is to be seen in Rupert
IJ,0has' comedy 1.-THE Richest Girl re-