The Washington herald., 1906-10-28
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Getting hurt in auto accidents is uon-
q fad with the profesh."
Amelia Bingham began her tour in The
Lilac Room" at Norfolk. Va. last night
Beerbohm Tree has acquired the Eng
lish rights 10 The Girl of the Golden
West"
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman are 10 be-
made happy in the spring by an engage
ment at the Waldorf Theater, London.
Nance O'NeilI opened her season at Nor
witch. Conn, last week In THE SorCcress.
which she expects 10 use for a couple OF
years.
The owls is the name OF "a new theat-
Tical order just founded way out in Walla
WalIa, Wash. Hoot AIon.' is the pass
word.
Every week brings its stories Of disaster
20 theatrical enterprises that veutured ou
the road without an adequate equipment
Of merit and money
John Griffith said TO be a hot favorite
with lovers OF tragedy on the cotton belt
and alkali circuits. IS to appear in New
York shortly in saul of Tarsus"
According TO Forbes Robertson. George
Bernard Shaw-s Antony and Cleo
patra" in which he appears in New York
this week, isn't comedy and isn't tragedy.
There are hints that negotiations are
under way 10 WTest Mrs. Laugtry from
vaudeville and restore her TO the legiti-
mate, under the management Of the
Shuberts.
Emily Soldene long a light opera
favorite here and in Great Britain, is g.
have "a benefit in London on November
IS and will retire 10 Australia 10 spend
her remaining days.
II will surprise a LOT OF non-thcatricaT
people in this region 70 learn that stock
companies are doing business in New
Haven. Conn. Rochester. \. Y, Salt
Lake City. Kansas City Oakland. Cal.
Omaha, and Detroit, as we'll as in New
Orleans and Boston.
There is a little discrepancy OF SGD
week cbtween the statements of the Gatu
brothers and Edna May as 70 the amount
OF weekly salary the Gattis paid Edna
while she was with them at the London
Vaudeville. Edna says her salary was
Si.o00 d week. the Gattis say it was $780,
and there sou are
District Attorney jerome has put his
interdict on the production Of The Day
Before, at the Berkeley Theater. in New
York. The piece deals with the Thaw
| White tragedy and gives Thaw the best Of
it. The district attorney took the ground
that the production of the play would eX-
cite sympathy for Thaw.
An old observer Of things theatrical in
New York and throughout the country
asserts in the Philadelphia Press: New
York runs are no longer OF any impOr-
lance in giving plays a boom in other
cities. Philadelphia, Boston. and Chicago
are centers which have their own stand
ards. \ dozen years ago managers
would still keep u play running in New
York while they We're losing money. ia
order 10 advertise il FOR the road Now
adays they know better.
Bran Stoker in his Personal Rem
! inisccnces Of Henry Irving tells how
the lord chamberlain the British stag
/ censor. cheated the world out Of seeing
/ the great actor in two historic roles tnat
would have given fine scope to his genius.
Hall Cainc was al work for Irving on "A
play based Oh the career of Mahomet.
aud the actor was gathering enthusiasm
over il whom the official request came.
equivalent 10 a command, that thc pres
entatiop should not be undertaken
Britain. with her 70d00.0ol OF Mahomctan
subjects-so the chancellor argument
ran-aid NOT wish aud could not afford
to offend their sensibiliues i0r the sake
OF a stage play. Irving submitted grace
1 fully. as h. did on another occasion.
when tbs acuteness Of the Irish question
I led 10 the introduction by the lord cham
berlsin o: his appearance Is Robert En-
met.