The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-29

/ all sorts of Sunday performances is
about to open I'm New York. For months.
it is said, the agents of the Sabbath
/ Observance Association have been gath
ering evidence. This they have now sub
mItted TO the corporation counseTs office
supported 10y afdavits. Oscar Hammer
stein viii probably be the first manager
to be attacked on the score Of the sun
day evening performances given At his
Victoria Theater.
Willard Holcomb, formerly Of Washing
ton. is said TO have resumed his old post
.of manager 10 Paula Edwardes.
Both Of Milwaukee's frst-class theaters
We're closed last week. but they will be
occupied this week by the Sothcrn-
Marlowe company and Otis Skinner in
The Duel"
a philosophical Philadelphia council
man Is trying to get a bin through the
council 10 prevent theater ticket-scaIping.
but il has been held up at the behest Of
certain unnamed eminent citizens" The
bill provides that all agencies outside of
the theaters for the sale of tickets must
be under the control Of the theater man
ayers that ticket sales on the streets
must stop, and that the prices Of all
tickets must be printed on them.
Paderewski Cancelled his engagements
for a series OF concerts with the Boston
symphony Orchestra in January. because
he was SO absorbed in finishing and revis-
ing his new symphony that he could take
no time for piano practice, which he has
entirely neglected since last spring. This
is what Nine Paderewsi writes a Bos-
ton friend. He will be here for tour
next October.
Olga Nethersole didn't enjoy her Christ
mas dinner. She was about 20 sit down
to it as her private car pulled out OF
Waco for San Antonio. Tex. Tuesday
when the Christmas decorations in her
itinerant home caught fire. Instantly the
interior Of the car was ablaze, the train
was stopped, the Waco fire department
came to the rescue, and after a brief
struggle the flames were subdued The
car was only slightly damaged, but in the
rough-hoGse proceedings some thief
swiped the fat, nicely Drowned turkey
from the dining table. The dainty Neither
sole appetite had to appease itself on side
dishes.
EsteIle Wentworth, seen here earlier in
the season as prima donna with THE
Girl and the Governor" has Joined Anna
Held's company. doing THE Partisan
Model at the Broadway Theater. New
York II is said the engagement is only
and that Miss Wentworth viii
go back to THE Girl and the Governor"
as soon as that piece can get into some
theater in New York. It Is now resting.
Mrs. Leslie Carter has not been lost to /
the stage forever because of her break
with David Belasco. After long delay. /
and so many promises that people ceased
TO pay much attention to them, Mrs Car
ter has at last actually begun rehearsals /
Of Cleo" and viii appear in it on Janu- |
airy p.
Clyde Fitch modestly admits he has so I
many enthusiastic admirers in New York
he no longer thinks It wise TO produce his /
new plays there. He takes them out of /
town for their premieres. in order to get /
q judgment that isn't beneVOIentIv 4
biased. The outlook for American PLAYS /
and American playwrights,' says Mr.. /
Fitch, sis brighter now than at any time /
in our history"
Eva Fallon. Of THE Student King" /
company, made the fortune Of a little
newsboy at Forty-second and Broadway /
Christmas Eve. The child was crying. be
cause the hUrrying crowd of shoppers /
wouldn't buy his papers, when Miss FaI- /
on came along. She took his bundle IN
Ter her arm, boldly dove into the crowd
gave every one who patronized her a
5eaming smile. but no change, and 1T the
md Of half an hour turned over TO the
1ewildered and almost speechlessIy happy
lewsy about S95.
At the annual "gamboT' Of the Lambs
Club in New York Sunday night, Wilton
Lackaye viii be the collie" The affair
viii be a sort Of welcome home to Lack
Aye, who returned to Broadway last week
lfter a long tour of the West in his new
play, The Law and the Man" d dra-
Of Victor Hugo's Les Mis-
srables." By the way. there Is general
agreement among the metropolitan crit
cs that Lackaye the playwright. isn't
n the slightest danger Of making the
public forget Lackaye the actor.