The Washington herald., 1906-11-25
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

/ Willard Simms. who is now playing over
/ the Keith circuit in Flinders Flat has
/ been booked 10 play at the Palace. IN
+ London, commencing the early part Of
April.
/ Minnie Seligan and William Harcourt
/ will soon appear In a vaudeville playet. It
will be called "A Dakota Widow" They
will make their debut al Hyde and Beh-
man's, in Brooklyn.
Joe Beymer, who is ahead OF the sue
CeSsful racing drama Ruled Of tho
Turf" was in town last week for short
/ stay, to see his old friend, John Lyons.
manager Of the Academy.
/ Nat Goodwin has begun the rehearsal
Of a new play which has the title, What
a Gentleman Would Do" II VIII be no
/ trouble at all for Nat to solve the sug-
{ gested problem Of that title
/ Lew Nichols is in Washington. after
/ closing a successful season vita the Fore
paugh & Sells circus and will return 10
vaudeville with his singing mule and his
new sketch. entitled "A Day With the
! Circus"
( That Mrs. Patrick Campbell has aban-
/ doned her contemplated American tour
I for this season Is the unconfrmed report
/ circulated by way of New York If true,
/ this viii be a keen disappointment 10 Mrs.
/ Campbelrs many American friends.
/ Barnum & BaiIey's greater shows
closed in Richmond and spent a few
+ hours IN Washington last Sunday, look
Ing around at the points Of interest be
/ fore leaving for their winter quarters in
Bridgeport, Coma
/ Cissie LOTUS has ambitions to break
/ into the class OF Carmcncita and Otero.
and has induced Victor Herbert 20 COM
I pose for her a fetching dance. which she
/ viii spring on New York when she ap-
T pears there under the chapeTonaEe Of Joe
+ Weber. Il is said 20 be d hummer
( Richard Mansfield has extended his Chi
+ CaCo engagement 10 the end OF the
month In order 70 give the people there
all they want Of Ibseu's Peer Gynt."
( Richard viii appear iu no other play ex-
| cept ar the Thanksgiving matinee. when
he VIII rest Up ia Beau BrummeL"
+ David Warfeld's manager is giving out
broad hints that THE Music Master is
/ likely TO repeat during its present PhHa-
I deIphia engagement the great financial
success it made in Boston Warfeld, by
the way, is % have his portrait painted
I in character as seen in The Music Mas
ter by John s. Sargent
AT the White House" Is the title Of
/ a one-act play 90 be produced shortly in
I the vaudeville houses by Benjamin Cha
pin. Il will have President Lincoln as its
principal character. Mr.. CEapin is said
I 10 have made a life study Of the great
+ war President, and has already imperson-
ated him IN d more ambitious play than
[ the one he is soon 20 produce.
David Belasco does not think himself
( too great TO yield 20 the common super
stition of actors and theatrical people
generally. He has a cat as a mascot at
his New York house, and took it to Bos-
ton for luck when his latest play. The
Rose OF the Rancho was produced there
This statement IS made on the authority
/ OF Belasc0's own press agent
The Chicago critic who said Anna
Held's performance wasn't exactly the
proper thing for really nice people to see
/ is under suspicion Of dealings with Anna s
/ press agent Two hours after the crlti-
! cism appeared IN print. it Is said the
string OF ChiaagoaUs CIamorinE 20 shove
] their money at the man in the box office
was SO long it reached nearly around the
block
/ Olga Nethersole diagnoses the anment
f from which the English legitimate stage
suffers as an excess Of musical comedy
/ in its system. The trouble, she said the
other day, lay in a dearth OF good plays
and that is due 20 the chilling tyranny
F of musicnl comedy. the success and the
demand Tor which is taking the heart out
Of the dramatic author We have got
/ quite as heavy a dose Of musical comedy
/ in our theatrical system as the English,
apparently, but there are few symptoms
/ Of loss of heart by our dramatic au-
/ thors.
/ It is just possible Richard Mansfield
wouldn't enjoy the suggestion that the
| lover Of vaudeville will find what he seeks
/ in Peer Gynt," which suggestion is put
out by one Of Richards Chicago admirers
( At one extreme Of appreciation we have
+ the devOtee Of musical comedy and spec
tacUlar fable. says this writer, and at
/ the other we have the lover Of poetry
( and the seeker after ethical truth. and
/ both may find in Peer Gynt' something
of their affair For those whose dramatic
l ideal is found in "The Wizard Of o."
/ there is the giant pig, and the ugly
urchin. and the dance of the Arabian
maidens and the gorgeous scene at the
court of the Old Man OF the Mountains
What better sport than this could the
most frivolous ask7
/ The New York Times. under the cap
ton, Not improved by professional" ="
/ speaking Of Cora Maynard's play, The
/ Measure Of a Man. said; THE fact that
Miss Florence Huntington's clever por-
trayal Of the leading character Of Ruth
at the first production of this play by the
students Of the American Academy Of
/ Dramatic Arts last season at the Empire
Theater in New York, led Mr.. Henry w
/ Savage to engage her for the leading role,
/ Jane Witherspoon. in one of his College
/ Widow companies to succeed Dorothy
Tenant. speaks well for her talent"
/ Miss Huntington was formerly Miss Flor
ence Thayer Wood, of Washington, and
/ her phenomenal success in the theatrical
world will be read with much pleasure by
: her many friends in this city
!
PrOds from n Prima Donna.
! Camille D'Arville is a philosopher as
well as an artist She thinks and writes
almost as well as she sings. But some
of the things she says are not as fiat
tering to our vanity as her high notes