Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-15


Olga Nethersoie Is to appear In a drama
tixation OF Gertrude Atherton's work. "A
Daughter Of the Vine"
Louise Cunning is TO play the title role In
"Veronique" In the production OF that piece
by the Shuberts next season.
The Prince Chap" is to be played In
London. and plans are being made for an
extended tour Of the provinces In the play.
Bubert Henry Davis is the author of the
pay The Moilusc.' In which Sir Charles
don.
Mrs. Fiske. who is in California, will be-
gin her season In The New York Idea in
tho west and later will bring the piece to
New York.
playing In London and the English prov
inces. Louise Beaudet has returned to the
country.
Violet Dale is to play the ingenue role In
"A Strenuous Life" which Joseph Weber
Is to produce. with William Norris in the
leading role.
an Old Kentucky" begins Its fourteenth
consecutive season early in August with
an entirely new production and a strong
cast.
A new play is to be produced in Paris
stated
whether 1t is a dramatization of the Os-
ler;an theory
FRITZ Scheff is to pay a short visit dur
ing her vacation to her mother In Vienna
Frau Anna Scheff Is prima donna In
Wagnerian roles.
Boston may have three permanent stock
companies next season. with Lillian Law
renee. who is a favorite In tsat city as the
leading lady of one Of the stocks.
1t is said that Henry Woodruff. who 10
under three years contract with tho
Henry Miller company. is to be seen in the
near future In a biblical play.
A sketch by Augustus Thomas is shortly
to be produced in Chicago. 1t is entitled
The Music Box. and William Courtenay
Is to be one of the cast.
George Fawsett has been playing the title
role In THE Middleman' in his stock COM
pany in st. Louis where business has been
very good
Mcpherson Turnbull, one of the authors
OF Told In the Hills" has completed a
play which is to be brought out by the
Shpmans early in the fall.
A new military play to be produced the
coming season is by Rida Johnson Young.
the author of Brown of Harvard" and Is
entitled THE Boys OF Company b.
Charlotte Walker has signed a contract
with Edward e. Braden to play the leading
female role In play of the civil war by
Louis Evan Shipnan. entitled ION Parole"
Ben Greet has received the original idea
OF producing a series of plays at the
Jamestown exposition by English and
American authors from the colonial period
to the present time.
Charles Klein's new play THE Daugh-
ters of Men," will be presented first in
Hartford about the middle of September.
Later 1t will be given In New York and
Boston.
Popularity Is the name of George NJ
Cchans play. in which Thomas Ross will
be starred The play was written for Nat
Goodwin. but was thought to be better
adapted to Ross.
A new play by Henry Arthur Jones' Tho
Hypocrites." viii be produced In New York
in September. j. H. Barnes, Arthur Lewis.
H. Glendenning and Jesse Millward will be
in the cast
Frank Daniels. whose season will begin
in Boston. September 10. is expected back
at his summer home at Rye. n. Y, about
the first OF August. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniels
are now in the highlands of Scotland.
Miss Nelia Webb, who has been engaged
by Alfred L. Aarons to play leading part
in His Honor the Mayor" is a native of
Georgia. She was with Lulu CHASER last
winter in Dolly Dollars"
The San Carlo Opera Company, which is
to tour this country next winter under the
management of Henry Russell Will open
its season late In October in Pittsburg.
Nine. Nordica is to be the principal star.
H. Reeves Smith, an English actor. who
last season supported Grace George in "Ths
Marriage of William Ashe," WILL the COM
ing season. be the leading with Lillian
Russell in "Barbara's Millions"
Robert ManfeII fs ~ ada m hts ranartatra
for the coming season w. s. Gilberts
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," the
dramatist's burlesque Hamlet" Mr..
ManteH will play the role of King Claudius
Richard Carries musical show for next
season will be named The Hurdy Gurdy
Girl" earle will write the iibretto and II.
l. Hearth, who wrote THE Tenderfoot'
music. will supply the musical setting Of
tho new play.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will not make an
American tour. as expected. owing to her
engagement to play the heroine in the
Decentralization of Hall Gaines novel, Tho
Bondman." which is to be produced in
London in the autumn.
Harrison Grey Fiske has Leonard Shep-
herd as an additional member of the Man
haitian company TO support Mrs Fiske next
see son In Langdon MitchelPs new comedy.
''The New York Idea" Mr.. Shepherd at
tracted notice by his acting with Bertha
kalich in Norma Wanna"
Bertha Shalek has signed a three year
contract with John Cort to sing the leading
contralto with the Stewart Opera Company.
The repertoire is to include "Babette,"
Two Roses" "Fatanitza" and Dorothy"
Miss Shalek was the prma donna OF THE
Dolly Warden company and last season
was in the ''Happyland' organization.
John Hare has been engaged to play Ma
poieon In the English version of Berton's
play, La Belle Marsellaise," which has
been pronounced a success In Paris. Ar
rangements have been made for a London
season of the play and tour Of the prov
fnces. and It Is also probable that # will
be given another trial in this country.
French Actors In London.
From the London Chronicle