Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-11

citation of the United States and Canada
viii be held at the Belasco Theater in the
near future
Drfna De Wolfe who appeared here as
porting w II. Thompson in The Bishop"
Woman Who Pays" by Will A. Page.
Miss Florence Roberts produced for the
first time any stage an emotionai
drama entitled Pauline darcy. at Den.
yer, February 20. Mrs. DR.. Smith ana
Lucien Henderson are the authors me
piece is reported to have scored a success
Mr. Daniel Frohman has secured the
American rights to A. w. Pinero's new
play. His House in Order" produced
with so much success In London recently,
and will present 1t in this country next
season
"Imcky Miss Dean" was presented In
America for the first time at the Madison
Square Theater, New York. last Monday
night and was well received Sidney Bow
kett Is its author and Helen GRAVITY had
the star role.
Olga Nethersole has arranged for one OF
the longest Jumps" on record. She Is to
open in London next autumn, after which
she is booked to appear in San Francisco.
She will sail around the Horn in a steamer
from Southampton to Ban Francisco.
The new Gayety Theater in Baltimore.
which opened last Monday night. was built
in fifty-five days and belongs to the eastern
end of the Columbia Amusement Company.
William Ballouf, at one time manager at
Kernan's Lyceum, this city. is looking after
the new house.
1.-THE Prince of India" J. L c. Clarke's
dramatization OF Gen. Lew Wallace
novel. was given its first stage production
in Chicago last Monday night 1t was
staged in prologue and five acts, and en-
ploys over 400 people. J. e. Dodson played
the title part.
George Tyler is not satisfied with Flea
nor Robsons success in "The Girl Who
Has Everything" but will shortly put
forward another new play by Jerome K.
Jerome, entitled The Dovecote. Miss
Robson will be seen in repertoire OF sew
eral plays next season.
Mr. NJ. Hamilton Revelle. leading man
for Olga Nethersole will become a star
next season under the management OF
prominent stage producer. probably Be
lasco. The contracts have been signed,
though MIR. Revelle says he is not at
liberty to give out details.
George Learock, veteran actor. leading
man in bygone days for such noted celeb
rifles as Booth, Keene and Madame
Jauausehek, and who during a lifetime de-
voted solely to the drama memorized and
interpreted with widespread success more
than l 600 different roles, died In Philadel-
phia last Thursday of consumption.
The Triangle Club of Princeton will pre-
sent it's new musical comedy, "Tobasco-
Land" in Washington, May 3. Tobaseo,
Central America, is the scene where Ameri-
can financiers, Mexican alcadeS French
aeronauts. the United States navy, gold
miners and Carmenclta, the aleads ward
come into close complications.
William A Brady has obtained the
rights from Rupert Hughes for a new
American play entitled The Richest Girl
in the World" in which Grace George
will enact the heroine. The play will be
given its trial production with The Mar
Louis March 0.
Charles Ross and Mabel Fenton will be
seen in a new version of The Winning
Girl" which is soon to take the road Thls
piece had a brief career early this sea-
son under the management of Frank FER
ley, and was called in for repairs about
Christmas time. Joe Herbert is rewrit-
ing the book and Gus Kerker is whipping
new melodies into shape for the piece.
The Trancoso Trail" play of north
ern Mexico, by Frances Hastings and
Henry Fitch Taylor, was produced this
week in Rochester and was well received.
It has a strong cast, including Mabel
Taliafarro, who made an immediate hit;
Marie Wainwright, Henry Jewett and
Tyrone Power.
The London success. MIR. Hopkinson"
fresh from it's 300 nights run in the Eng
lsh metropolis, was given Tor the nrsl
time in this country at New Haven last
Thursday night by the English company
imported by James X. Hackett and Frank
Curzon The critics agreed that the plot
was cleverly constructed and the lines
bright and snappy Mr.. Hophnson'' is
three-act farce by r. C. Carton, author of
Lord and Lady Algy."
An international copyright agency is to
be established. with offices in New York
and London, for the purpose of securing
American and English copyrights which
will protect plays in both countries. The
enterprise will be started by the English
actor Charles Cartwright, who has been
visiting this country, and who will at
tend in London to the details of the per-
formances which the English law re-
quires for the perfecting of copyright
protection in that country.