Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

Is to appear in this country this season IN
| Inc shulamite." will sail from London
next week.
ROBERT Mantell and II. b. Irving. II is
announced. will join forces during the conn
| Ing season In order to apnear in q series or
othello' matinees.
olga Nethersole. who is at present IN
farls, Is preparing a new version of ..Adri-.
| S 6ne LecouVreur, on of the plays i'm Nine
| bernhardts repertoire.
The Marine Band Will play its winter con-
TITS Ts TINS season in the National Theater
| Ihere Will be eight concerts four before
, New Years and four after
Gladys Claire, who played the part Of
Lady Gwendolyn In the Molly Moonshine',
Ecompany. is to enter the cast of Maria
Cahiils new play Marrying Mary"
| looking after the press work al lima parL
mas joined the executive forces of MIR VIM
H. Rapiey at the New National Theater.
| Nance ONeill has acquired the rights to
| Sardous Sorceress." and il is expected
| that she will devote most of her energies
'NiS season 10 presentation of this play.
Madame schumann- Henk. who has been
a a since early in the summer and who
mas been singing at the Wagner festivals
at Bayreuth and Munich has returned 10
| this country. ~
William H. Crane and Ellis Jerfrevs ara
| 10 star Jointly in a revival of She Stoons
TO Conquer" The tour will begin about
.he middle OF next month and will include
| the large cities.
Miss Josephine Teller Smart. who claims
TO be descendant of Sir Francis Drake,
| Is to join Lawrence DOrsays company i'm
| The Embassy Ball" She will take Draka
| for her stage name.
! Following the close of Luna Park We'd
| nesday October 3, The Greater Washing
| ton Band" will be heard in a series of SIM
DAY night concerts in one of the principal
theaters of Washington.
| ben Hur" will begin its eighth season
at the Olympic Theater in st. Louis Sep
| TENDER "A. the same date on which its com
| panion drama. THE Prince of India" will
receive its New York premier.
Edward A Braden has arranged, through
Holbrook Blinn, for the rights of a new
| comedy entitled Amos judd 1t is new
| dramatization of the novel of the same
oame by j. W. Mitchell, editor of Life.
1t is announced that Frank Mills, young
american actor who went to England a
few years ago. Will be Olga Nethersole's
| leading man. He played Jean in "Sapho''
with Miss Nethersole at the Adelphi Thea
| ter in London.
| 1t Is said that Mrs. Langtry is to receive
| 5000 week during her vaudeville engage
m 11,s in New York. Graham HIS sketch.
between the Night and the Light" in
which she will appear takes twenty minutes
| for its presentation.
w. c. Whitney will have ten companies
| on the road during the coming season
| one OF the principal productions will be
| John +. Henshaw in romantic comic
| opera by Clifton Crawford and R. Melville
| Baker, Captain Careless"
| Charles Kleins latest play THE Daugh-
] tiers of Men had its first presentation at
| Springfield, Mass, last week. Ellie shan
| non, Orrin Johnson. Herbert Kelley Grace
Fflkins and Dorothy Donnelly have the
principal roles in the play, which deals
with the labor problem.
THE Girl from Keith's," a farce comedy
| by Julian LaRose Harris of Atlanta. son Of
| by Nixon and Zimmerman and will be fr62
| duced this fall. The play is an elaboration
| OF one-act curtain-raiser. The Divorce
| written in 1898 by Mr. Harris.
drama founded on the romantic story
| or Pocahontas' is to be a feature of the
| jamestown Exposition. The play is bv
| George Frederick Welt and tells of the
| colonial history of Virginia of that time.
1t Will probably be taken on a tour later
The stage version of Mrs. Edith Ubar-
| tons novel, THE House of Mirth." had
Its first performance in Detroit last Nom
| day and was well received. The dramati-
cation was made by Clyde Fitch and fol-
| lows the main outlines of the story very
| closely.
Mr.. Fuller Mellish, who was a prominent
member of the Odette Tyler Stock COM
pany at the Belasco Theater this summer
has the role of Pisanic in Viola Aliens pro-
ouctlon OF Cymbeline,' which viii be
given its first production on any staA at
the New National Monday, October 1.
Marie Tempest has been persuaded to
| make brief excursion into vaudeville and
| is to appear in London under the manage
ment of Alfred Butts. AS she is under con-
tract to appear under the Frohman manage
| ment in a new Sutro comedy later in the
season, her stay in vaudeville will be tenn
porary only.
Rudolph Aronson has signed with Messrs.
Wagenhals & Kemper for series of inter
national popular concerts on the lines of
| the London ballad and promenade concerts
| at the Astor Theater beginning November
| IL, when four of Mr.. Aronson's European
artists will make their initial appearance
| In New York.
darcy of the Guard" which was writ
| ten for Henry Miller by Louis Evan Ship
man, has been accepted by George Alexan-
der, the English actor, and the play is soon
to be produced at the st. James Theater in
London "On Parole" Mr. Shipman's new
play, which played at the New Ma
tional Theater last week. was given copy
right performance in London last week I'M
der the supervision of Frank Mills.
When E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
finish their season IN this country they will
play at the Waldorf Theater In London for
ten weeks. presenting Shakespearean and
modern plays. They will appear for one
night each in Paris, Brussels Rome, Vienna
and Berlin, and will close their tour with a
performance of Hamlet" in the town of
Elsinore in Denmark, the scene of the i'm
mortal tragedy.
Mrs. Kate Meek, who will be at the New
National Theater this week with Miss Hem
rietta Crosman, was a favorite with WASH
ington play-goers of a generation ago,
when she was leading woman of Ford's
Stock Company in this city. She was for
fourteen years with Charles Frohman's COM
panies playing with Maude Adams, Will
liam Gillett John Drew and other stars
until she left that management to join Miss
CroSOan