Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23

| Symphony Orchestra concerts TO he heard
| IN Washington. No announcement has yet
| neen made as to the soloist to appear.
1t is now said that John Hare. the Eng
| fish actor, will appear in this county as
| Napoleon in La Belle Marselaise."
The Introductory performance of the
| Mimic and the Maid is to be given at
Northampton. Mass. on Christmas day.
Mile. Sallie." after a checkered career
of exactly two months. closed down for
good last Saturday night in New York.
Porter J. White is starring in Justin
McCarthy's play. The Proud Prince" in
| which E. II. Sothern made such a success.
| Janet Priest. the cap .ivat!ng little MuggsS
of The Maid and the Mummy" has Joined
me company playing His Honor the
! Olga Nethersole is to write a book with
the lengthy title. Twenty. tx Thousand
Miles on Wheels" and treat OF her tour OF
America.
Mr. Drury Underwood was in Washington
the past week attending to the advance de-
tails for the forthcoming engagement OF
The Spring Chicken
Grace Filkns will not go on tour with
The Daughters of Men. She has been
| engaged by Liebler & Co to replace Isabel
| Irving in Eleanor Robson's company.
The Rose of the Atambra." which
comes to the Belasco Tikater tomorrow
night, will be presented at the Casino
Theater, New York in February.
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman closed
their London engagement in Julie Bon
| bon and sailed for home last Wednesday.
! Mr.. Mann saws he will shortly be seen
again in London with a new play.
]
| who recently returned TO London expects
/ to come back to this country next tall
and to appear in Il repertoire of emotional
and classic roles.
Jerome X. Jerome has drlmatized his
! sketches of Tommy" ami tie piece has
! been given in Manchester, England. The
| play was severely criticised for IS unpleas-
| ant "Ibsenesque" ending.
Maxine Elliott, who is playing in San
Francisco in Her Great Match. is the
first dramatic star to make an appearance
| in any of the theaters of that city since
the terrible earthquake of last spring.
| The new theater that has been opened In
| Utica by Jacob and Lee Shubert has been
| named the Sam Shubert Theater by the
| lessees in memory of their brother who
was killed in a railroad wreck two years
! ago.
| w. B. Rapley has returned from Ithaca,
! n. Y, where he is attending Cornell. to
| spend the holiday vacation with his father,
| VIM. H. Raplcy manager of the New Ma
| tional Theater
Excepting that the new play by clyde
| Fitch for Miss Blanche Waishe is one OF
| modern conditions. and that it is said 10
contain a startling surprise, nothing def
| mite has been given out of the nature or
| style of the piece.
At the Duke of York's Theater. London.
Tuesday
vived Peter Pan" for the third time in
that city, its reception being very enthusi-
astic. Pauline Chase is playing the title
role with great success
Georgia Game, who made hit as the lit
tie school girl in The Earl and the Girl
is now appearing in prominent part in
The Spring Chicken Miss Bessie Nc
Coy. sister of Nellie Mccoy, is also a
prominent member of the company
Lawrence Diamond, who was widely
known a minstrel man. died last week
at New Castle. Pa. Mr. Diamond was
before the country for years as an end
man and tenor so4oiSt, and appear in all
the prominent minstrel companies. Sew
eral of his brothers are also minstrel men,
Raymond Hitchcock will resume his tour
in The Galloper'' at Buffalo tomorrow
night. The comedian has been enjoying
vacation of three weeks while certain
undesirable bookings on the other side Of
lapse.
Amy Ricard. who won such promin ncs
as the breezy girl from Butte. Mont. IN
Mary Mannering's production OF Tho
Stubbornness of Geraldine" is 10 have The
leading part in new comedy entitled Ma
tilda," which will be produced in ->ew
York.
A special dispatch from Auburn. n. Y.
says that The Runa ways" has been sold
a a 1elF a
leading woman of the company. The show
left that place for New York. where it will
be strengthened, and take the road again
i'll January.
Marie Noradstrom has taken the place
formerly filled by Carlotta Nillson in the
support of Henry DiXey in the Man on
the Box" Miss Nilsson is now playing the
leading role of THE Three of Us in New
York and has scored a splendid success.
When Mr.. L. S, Willard appears at the
New National Theater the second week in
January he will offer The Man Who
Was - The Professors Love story" "A
Pair of SDectacles," Tom Pinch" David
Garrick, The Middeman, and new plays
yet to be announced.
Miss Maud Howell Smith, who played
Hernia in the Hickman production OF
Midsummer Nights Dream has been en-
gagged by John Kelerd to play the player
queen in his forthcoming production OF
Hamlet"
The spectacular effects in THE Prince of
I India include the thrilling panorama Of
the storm on the BosDhorus, tie reception
of the Emperor Constantine the White
Castle by the Princess Irene and her maid
ems the interior of the Cathedral Sancta
| Sophia, and the battle scene when the walls
| of Const&ntinople fail before the cannon of
! the Sultan Mohammed.
special dispatch from st. Louis says
| that Kate Toncray the actress who played
the designing woman reporter in The
Stolen Story" was granted a divorce last
| Thursday from John 7. Doyle, tae actor
who played the reporter in the sane piece.
Agnes Helene Lackaye. tae sister OF
Wilton Lackaye, and Herbert Johnson
] Rulings were married last Monday at Oak
| land, Cal Mr.. Rulings is the manager
of the Heir to the Hurrah' company, and