The Washington times., 1906-12-23

3 merstein, husband Of the Baroness Ham
! merstein-Dirken who is soon to appear
: at the Irving Place as a singing SOU
brette." II has kept the American
dammerstein busy explaining that the
, Baron is quite another man.
Also, before leaving the opera credit
should be given TO Dippel, OF the Metro.
politan forces. for saving the perform
ance of ''Lohengufh' Wednesday night.
Burrian, who was singing the part.
broke down at the end Of the second act
and Dippel came TO the rescue and saag
IL for the rest Of the evening. He ac-
quilted himself with great credit in a
task whose difficulty only a musician
can realize,
Frank Wilsbach, head OF the schu-
berts' press forces. asks tearfuny: .Is
/ II any wonder that "a manager should
teel insurgent and revolutionary when
his play is received with wild acclaim
! OF joy on the road. and then comes
into town and IS punched. swatted and
| pulzerized.'
/ Presumably he refers to the fact
/ that The Light Eternal" has proved
/ 10 be a light that failed. IL ba :
lasted Just two weeks at the Majestic
ana ana Is 70 be replaced Monday by Harry
7 ooaIuH ana Brown. OF Harvard. " !
New York VIII be glad to welcome him !
/ asaln' and he ought 10 be tlckled 20 |
DEAN. for, but for the failure OF tn,
Light he would have sDent Christ !
mas considerably more than fortv-five !
/ minutes from Broadway, somewhere an. /
III ONO. Iis an IN wind, !" indeed
Broadway is rapidly making ready for
the mldWinter batch Of productions /
Next Monday Maude Adams comes -
the Empire for five weeks with peter
Tan, and on the same evening Henri
de Nries will be introduced at the Rifou
Iheater IN The Double Life on
CHRISTMAS night Mr.. Savage VIII pro-
'i"e me student King for the pa
irons Of the Garden Thaater an n.
cember 81 Thompson and Dund,, sr.. -
produce "BrewstCT's Millions" az the
New Amsterdam Theater. and on the
same evening William Collier will be
observed ia Caught in ,he Rain ar
The Garrick, where he is 70 follow WI
liam Gillette. On January z Hattie WI
Hams with her Little Cherllb'' will
Withdraw from the Criterion TheaJer.
WRere she has enjoyed ar entirely re-
ihafkable success, dating back 70 the +,
very hottest nights Of our hot summer
When Miss Williams goes away. CLYDE (
titch's new comedy drama ''The Truth
VIII be brought 10 town under the Frob-
man management
Jennie Lamont, who went to London
with Louis Mann and iis Julie RoU
Bon company, is back fun of the story
OF the failure Of The comedy IN London. !
and, as she believes. the inability Of
'he English critics TO 40 it justice.
According 10 her account. after two
weeks nlrN-iprr 10 !
most Of The company started out 10
find the shortest way home 10 the Iand =.
where people had thought better OF the
play. Louis Mann and Clara Lipn.un. q
however. crossed 10 Paris TO study tho !
genuine Partisan.
The enormous advance demand for Z
tickets 10 the Belssco Theater proves a
that the management couldn't change j
the bill at this establishment during the I
Of the season If 1t wished to q
10 so. The Rose of the Rancho" VIII q
5till be blooming in New York when the y
showers Of spring are past and gone. .
md the simmering days and nights OF -
sarly summer are with as once again -
There is no doubling the tremendous
rogue OF Mr.. Belasc0's newest Offering. -
J. Austin Fyncs announces that he vii ],
present Gerhardt Hauptmann's poetic =,
lrama, "Hannele," at a Broadway thea J,
eT, beginning either the first week in -
February or the last week IN January p
-Four matinees are to be given each r.
week. with series of morning perform nI
especially for children. The YER al
ion used viii be that OF Charles Henry q
deltZeT. rather than that OF William X
Archer. ID
'Hannele' is a dramatize ton Of a poor q
yaifs death in a workhouse, with the u
adiant figures of the child's imagina- IN
ion presented to the spectator in con-
rast with actual surroundings To the =
ying child the figure OF the schoolmas-
er becomes transformed into that or
he Christ The appeal Of the drama ~,
) largely religious and visionary. -
1t is said that = NJ. Barrie has already
elivered to Mr.. Charles Frohman the u
lay IN which Miss Maude Adams is 10 ~
ppear In London next spring 1t is a -
omedy as yet unnamed. The predlc- -
on is that Mr. Barrie's latest work Will =,
nord even ampler scope for Miss %
dams versatile genius than does the G'
Die of Peter Pan" the most wonderful IN
Oy that ever was. ab
mi
Little Hip" the baby elephant at the Fl
Iippodrome, is going on q Christmas pi,
isit to Cincinnati, combining business Al
-ith pleasure by appearing that week III
t the Columbia Theater. a vaudeville wi
Ouse owned by Max Anderson. Lee ro7
hubert's partner in the management OF fai
De HippOdrome. tai
Mr.. Anderson has a little nephew six an
ears old in Cincinnati. and. expecting tei
lat the child would come TO New York, dr
G promised him that he should see Lit ne