The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-28
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Getting hurt in auto accidents Is now
fad with the profesh."
Amelia Bingham began her tour in ''The
Lilac Room" at Norfolk, Va. last night.
Beerbohm Tree has acquired the Eng
lish rights 20 The Girl of the Golden
West"
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman are % BE-
made happy in the spring by an engage
ment at the Waldorf Theater, London.
Nance O'Neil opened her season at Nor
witch. Conn, last week ia "The Sorceress.''
which she expects TO use for a couple OF
years.
The Owls is the name OF a new theat-
rical order just founded way out IN Walla
Walia, Wash "Hoot Mont IS the pass
word.
Every week brings its stories of disaster
to auical enterprises that yCntured on
the road without an adequate equipment
Of merit and money.
John Griffith. said to be a hot favorito
with lovers OF tragedy on the cotton belt
and alkal circuits, is TO appear in New
York shortly in Saul of TaTsus"
According TO Forbes Robertson. George
Bernard Shaw's Antony and Cleo
patra." Ia which he appears in New York
There are hints that negotiations ara
under way to wrest Mrs. Langtrv from
vaudeville and restore her 70 the Iegiti-
mate, under the management OF the
Shuberts.
Emily Soldene- long a light opera
favorite here and in Great Britain is 70
have benefit in London on November
Is, and win retire to Australia to spend
her remaining days.
1t will surprise a lot of non-theatriesI
people in this region 20 learn that stock
companies arc doing business in New
Haven. Conn.,, Rochester, n Y, salt
Lake City, Kansas City, Oakland. Cal,
Omaha, and Detroit, as we'll as in New
Orleans and Boston.
There is u little discrepancy OF 500 a
week ebtween the statements OF the Gatti
brothers and Edna May as 10 the amount
of weekly salary the Gattis paid Edna
while she was with them 81 the London
Vaudeville. Edna says her salary was
81. goo week. the Gattis say Il was $50;
and there you are.
District Attorney Jerome has put his
interdict on the production Of THE DAY
Before, at the Berkeley Theater, in New
York. The piece deals with the ThaW-
White tragedy and gives Thaw the best Of
II. The district attorney took the ground
that the production OF the play would ex-
cite sympathy for Thaw
An old observer of things thea tricaI in
New York and throughout the country
asserts in the Philadelphia Press: New
York runs arc no longer Of any impor-
lance in giving plays "a boom in other
cities. Philadelphia. Boston. and Chicago
arc Centers which have their own stand
ards. y dozen years ago managers
would stu keep a play running in New
York while they We're losing money, in
order TO advertise it for the road Now
adays they know better"
Bran Stoker in his Personal Rem
iniscences OF Henry Irving" tells how
the lord chamberlain, the British stage
censor. cheated the world out or seeing
the great actor in two historic roles thar
would have given fine scope TO his genius
Hall Cainc was at work for Irving on a
play based on the career of AIahomet
and the actor was gathering enthusiasm
over 1t when the official request came
equivalent 10 a command. that the pres
entauon should not be undertaken
Britain. with her 100000 Of Mahometan
subIects-so the chanceliors argument
ran-did not wish and could not afford
to offend their sensibnities Cor the sake
of a stage play. Irving submitted grace
fully, as he did on another occasion
when the acuteness Of the Irish question
led 10 the introduction by the lord cham
berlain OF his appearance IS Robert En-
met.