Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05

Mrs. Mary Cahill. mother of Marie Cabin,
died at her home on Long Island last week.
Maude Fealy has been appearing In Den
yer in The Little Minister" as Lady Bah
bic.
Josiah Allen and his wife are to be dram
affixed, and the play Is TO be called "Sa-
mantha-"
Theodore Hamilton will be In Oscar
Danes company, playing "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. HYDE
Robert Edeson is to begin his season in
strongheart' In Newark. N. j.. early In
September.
Edwin A. Stevens who made hit as
the Colonel In Sweet Kitty Bellairs," may
be starred in a new play
..- Jefferson De Angels has great hopes OF
appear the coming season.
A new musical sketch is called Not Yet.
But Soon" which Is nothing In the way OF
prophecy IL not enismaticaL
George Alexander the English actor, is
to have a new play by Alfred Sutro. the
author of The Walls OF Jericho"
]. Z Dodson has been engaged for a part
in the new play by Clyde Fitch. in which
Clara Bioodgood viii also have role
Henry Arthur Jones' new play The
Hypocrites." is to be brought out at the
Hudson Theater the latter part OF August
Melbourne Mcdowell VIII play Javert in
Wilton Lackaye's play, THE Law and the
Man." dramatization OF Les Miserables.'
James o'Neill has new play called
The Voice OF the Mighty" which is the
work of James Slavin, young California
author.
James Forbes is putting the finishing
touches on his new play The Chorus
Lady in which Henry b. Harris is to star
Rose stahl.
Viola Allen will open her season at the
National Theater in this city October 2
when she will be seen Imogene In
''Cymbeline"
One of the features of THE Vanderbilt
Cup which generally arouses the enthu-
siasm of the audience is spectacular au-
tomobile race.
Joseph Hall Chase OF this city has been
engaged TO play role in "Suppressing the
Press" which opens at Procter's sd Street
Theater tomorrow night.
Edith wynne Mathison is to play the
leading role in Poetical play by Comyns
Carr Tristan and Iseult." when the piece
is produced next month In London.
Roy Atwell. who took the part of a
foolish sort OF lord last season with Marie
Cahill. will play important part In Miss
Cahilrs new piece. Marrying Mary"
Sherlock Holmes" is to be presented in
French this autumn at the Ambigu Thea
ter in Paris. and Peter Pan" Is among
the plays that are to be tried in Australia
Bertha Kalich is to appear in a new
drama of which the title has not been made
known. Mrs. Fiske's season In THE New
York Idea" will begin later in the autumn.
More than twelve hundred chorus girls.
it is said, VIII be required by the Shuberts
ba n
comedy companies and at the New York
Hippodrome.
Jessie Busley has made a contract for
five years to star under the management
of the Leibler company. The first play in
which she will appear will be In the Bish-
ops Carriage"
Helen Ware has been engaged by Wagon
halls and Kemper to play Titania in the
production OF "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" with which Annie Russell IS to
open the Astor Theater August 30.
Leo DietrichsteIn, the actor and play
wright, had a fall from his automobile
down an embankment and was painfully
injured The mishap occurred near his
summer home in Stamford, Conn.
The principals engaged TO support LII
liam Russell in ''Barbara's Millions" in
clude II. Reeves Smith. Herbert Standing.
Frederick Tiden, Ernest Elton, Catherine
Countess, Irene Perry and Matte Fergu-
son.
Henrietta Crossman's plans for the com
ing season have been changed, and instead
of appearing. as announced, in a dramatiza-
ton of Pilgrims Progress" she viii use
the London success, "Al OF a Sudden
Peggy"
''The Prince of Pilsen" has had nearly
1000 performances In this country, IL will
soon enter its third season In the English
provinces, has had one season in South
Africa and will be produced In Paris in
December.
Janet Priest. the clever little actress who
has been Identified with The Maid and
the Mummy" has declined a re-engage-
ment with that organization and will APP
pear in vaudeville in a sketch called "A
One-horSe Town."
Robert Mantell is to add Brutus and Shy
lock to his list of Shakespearean charac-
tiers. Two revivals he contemplates in the
future are Measure for Measure" and
king Richard H." Marie Booth Russell
will continue as his leading lady.
Louis Eva Shipman. the playwright, was
recently told that if he had written John
Ermine of the Yellowstone three years
later he would have made his fortune II
was written FIVE years ago, and was the
first of the frontier plays: Mr. Shipman's
latest play, ION Parole" is war play
written from the confederate standpoint
Edward A. Brady will produce the play
about the middle OF september. ana VIM
cent Serrano will have a role in the piece.
Charles Frohman has secured new plays
by Augustus Thomas, George Ade, Clyde
Fitch the De Mile brothers, George H
Broadhurst, c. T. Darcy, J. M Barrie.
Robert Marshall, H. v. Esmond. Henri
Lavedan. Pierre Berton, Pierre Wolf, Fred
eric De Crosset Anthony Mars: musical
PLAYS BY Charles Mcclellan and Ivan Caryll,
Tristan Bernard as Cessna Hamilton, Sey-
rnour Hicks, Paul Potter, Harry B. Smith
and Ludwig Englander. besides numerous
musical successes now running In Lon
don.
A Town With q Record