Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-13
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sousa will tour Australia with his band
next season.
Dorothy Donnelly may be among the stars
next season.
Frank Daniels is playing In Sergeant
Brue" in Montreal.
John Barrymore will be one of the Froh-
man stars next season.
Nat Goodwin has been playing In the role
of The Model In Cleveland.
OF Ibsen and Sudermann plays at Toronto.
Roselle Knott is making quite a hit in
Canada in When Knighthood Was in
Flower"
Fay Davis is to play the role of Lily
Bart In the dramatization OF The House
of Mirth."
A new comic opera, 1.-THE Alcayde," is to
be produced under the direction of James
K. Hackett.
The Shuberts are to have a new and
handsome theater in Philadelphia. TO be
opened in the fall.
Following her London run. Edna May
will appear in Paris, Brussels and Vienna,
using The Belle of Mayfair"
Jeffries from the stage on the occasion of
her marriage Is announced.
FRITZ Scheffs engagement In New York
will end about the middle of the month.
She will reopen in that city in September.
Gretchen Lyons is to play an engagement
IN the Rosina Vokes comedies in Canada
and some Of the cities Of New York state.
Herbert Kelley and Efle Shannon have
been engaged by Henry B. Harris for the
production of Charles Klein's new play.
Arnold Daily now wishes to play Hamlet.
In the event of his realizing this ambition
Miss Chrystal Herne will appear as Ophe-
la
Hope Booth made her re-entry on the
stage in vaudeville in one-act piece called
THE Little Blond Lady which scored a.
hit.
''The Lion and the Mouse" will celebrate
the 200th performance of It's run at the
Lyceum Theater, New York, next Thurs
day night.
Henry B. Harris has commissioned Stan
islaus STANCE to write a play of modern
American life which he will produce next
season with a special cast
a new musical comedy to be produced in
London by the author of THE Three Lit
land"
w. II. Thompson will shortly conclude his
tour in Money Talks" for the present
season, and will open again next Septem-
Der.
The shuberts intend to star Marguerite
Clark In a new play, She made hit in
the De Wolf Hopper Company in Happy
land"
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the month for England. as she intends
spending the summer in her cottage in
Cumberland.
In Miss Rida Johnson Young's play, Brown
of Harvard" with Henry Woodward as the
star, has been re-engaged for next season.
Henry B. irving, son Of the late Sir Henry
Irving Is booked for an engagement in
"Mauricette" in this country in the autumn
He IS to bring his own company with him.
Maud Fealy is to start on a long starring
tour next season, beginning in September
when she will appear in a comedy by
Martha Morton, entitled The Illusion of
Beatrice
Now that Margaret Anglin has proved her
ability as an emotional actress, 1t is said
she wishes to earn laurels in the light
comedy field, and will try pieces of that
character.
Z. II. Sothern and Julia Marlowe have
bought play by Gabriel DAnnunzio en-
titled The Daughter of Jorfo." The theme
relates to the superstitions of the Italian
peaSantry.
Vesta Tiley. the English music hail en-
tertainer. who began a six weeks engage
ment at the Colonial Theater New York,
last Monday. receives SO for every minute
her act continues.
Two new plays to be produced in this
country next fall are being written for
Charles Frohman by Cecil Raleigh, the
author of a number of successful Drury
Lane melodramas.
Next fall second company will be on
the road in THE Vanderbilt Cup" with
Miss Virginia Glynden In the title role,
now played by Elsie Janis. Miss GIynden's
limitations are said to be clever.
Some rules for the chorus girls OF srrhe
Social Whiri" have been given out one of
which is that no girl in the chorus Will be
permitted to marry millionaire without
the written consent of the press agent. An
other Is that the chorus ladies Will not be
allowed to keep their automobiles In their
dressing rooms.
A one-act play by Robert Edeson. entitled
AN Honest Moment" and founded on
Bret Harte's story of Brown of Cayal-
eras." is to be presented at the Pittgb,lry
benefit for the California sufferers.
1t is the intention of Charles Frohuan
TO present Peter Pan" Sherlock Holmes. =,
with Robert Gillette In the title role and
Edna May In Paris. 1t is not yet decided
whether Maude Adams viii play the first
named.
a new faree-eomedy to be produced in
New York Is called Mistakes WIN Han
PEN They will. indeed and farce come
dies are sometimes among them, with no
reflection on the merits Of this particular
one with the apologize name.
The will of the late Mrs. Florence, Ieay-
ing her property. valued at 100000, to her
two daughters, is likely to be disputed by
her second husband. an Englishman by the