Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Playhouse Paragraphs.


Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Conan. the parents OF
George NJ. Conan. are reviving their former
success Running for Office"
The Shuberts have added Henry E. Dixey
in The Man on the Box to their list OF
attractions by arrangement with Walter
Lawrence.
David Belasco has obtained the dramatic
rights to Harris Dickson's novel. She That
HesItates" Belasco Is now engaged in
working out Its dramatic possibilities.
The College Widow" which seems to
have a perennial youth opened the season
at Plainfield, n. J., August IA, and has been
very successful so far this fall.
In Classmates" Robert Blossoms new
play. the actor is a military hero of brass
buttons, which Is quite a change from the
Indian role Strongheart.
Louise DRESSER has scored a hit In the
new musical comedy. The Girl Behind the
Counter" with three songs that were writ
ten especially for her.
The Belasco play, Rose of the Rancho
with Miss Frances Starr, whic hclosed to
give the players vacation, mas resumed
its season.
A dramatization of the popular book. The
Regeneration of Aunt Mary" is to be play
ed this season by May Robson. opening the
first week in October.
Miss Phoebe Davis, after having to play
the role in "Way Down East" for twelve
seasons, has declared that she Is going to
turn her attention to some other play.
Otis Skinner will appear this season in a
new play, the translation from the French,
entitled The Honor of the Family" The
central character is the creation of Honore
de BalZac.
Francis Wilson's new farce, When
knights Were Bold" is a variation of Mark
Twains story. "A Connecticut Yankee at
the Court of King Arthur"
The Silver Girl to be produced by Klaw
& Erlanger is expected to be one of the
spectacular productions of this season
Mary Shaw. who spent the summer in
the hills of New Hampshire, has been de-
voting her time to reading plays. She ex-
poets to star this season under the manage
ment of Ernest Shipman.
The Great White Way is the title Of
the new musical comedy in which Jefferson
De Angels Blanche Ring and Alexander
Carr will shortly make their debut for the
season.
Frank Worthing is to make his bow as a
star the latter part Of the season. The
play that has been selected for his stellar
appearance is Give a Dog Bad Name
Digby Bell has been elected president of
the Siasconset Golf Club, Nantucket Island.
and recently organized a big entertainment
for the benefit of the organization. with
the proceeds of which an automobile grass
cutter and roller was purchased
When Minnie Dupree was a very little
girl in San Francisco, she heard that the
tiny maiden who played the boys part in
"Balfager' at the Grand Opera House was
sick. On dare she applied for and got the
place, and has been on the stage ever
since.
One of the early productions to be made
by David Beiasco is the dramatization of
Thomas w. Lawson's story. Friday, the
Thirteenth" Charlotte Walker, recently at
the Columbia and Beasco in this city. is to
have the leading role in the piece.
The Movers" a new play by Martha
Morton which recently opened in New
York is a play of New York life, the prin-
cipal characters being taken from certain
class of social climbers. 1t Is play with
serious motif, but treated satirically.
Anna Held. who has been spending the
summer in Paris, sailed for this country
during the past week, and upon her arrival
in New York the rehearsals of THE Pa
risan Model will begin. the season open
ing the 23d of this month.
Richard Golden appeared last week in
New York in The Other House., by Ed
ward and Henry Paulton, the authors of
.'Erminie" Katherine Florence, Adelaide
Manola, William Humphreys and Sarah
McVicker are to be in the supporting COM
pany. The piece is a comedy showing
the idea of Faust adapted to modern
complications.
Both play brokers as well as individual
actors are making great rush for the
plays I'm which Richard Mansfield was so
successful 1t Is expected that Beau
Brummel,' THE Partisan Romance and
others of the successful plays that have
never been leased to stock companies will
bring very large sums and the contest be-
tween the various asprants will probably
be warm one.