The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
NOTES OF TIE STAGE.

Florence Roberts has acquired the
rights to 8lra for certain part of the
| country.
I Ezra Kendall is booked to appear In a
new George Ade play in the fall 50 says
his manager. Harry Askin.
! Veterans do not always lag superfiu-
Gus on the stage. Lillian Russell made
her first regular theater appearance in
1850.
Ellis Jeffreys has been engaged by Mr.
Tree TO play the leading female part In
his coming revival Of a Woman OF No
| Importance.
! David Belasco has engaged Charlotte
Walker for the leading part in his dram
atization Of Friday the 18th. Frank
| keenan, will be the leading man.
/ Ellen Terry received big ovation on
! her arrival In London, and she sent card
of thanks through the Associated Press
to her friends in America for their ex-
preston Of good will upon her third mar
rlage.
Daniel Frohman has completed the cast
for Mr. Wakes Patient" in which Mar
garet Ellington will appear as Il star at
/ the Lyceum Theater, commencing Sep
! tember !.
In another year Charles Frohman IS
likely to invade Paris with several Of his
/ London companies He spent a week
there recently with the view Of securing
la theater.
! A curious statement to make concern
/ ing comic opera composer who IS not
particular where he gets his melodies IS
that he is going TO steal away for a few
weeks rest this summer"
/ Charles Frohman has arranged in Lon
don with George Ade TO write a new play
for W H. Crane which will be an Ameri-
can comedy dealing with Western life.
The play must be ready by September,
/ When a great movement begins there
is no telling where It may end. This re-
/ yival of interest in Shakespeare has
| brought out the statement that James
J. Corbett will appear as the Moor in
/ "Othello"
! Play-wrlting in time may do consider
able toward paying the salary of the
l Librarian Of Congress. Nearly 200 differ
ent stage works were copyrighted one
month recently, and it was not an extra
good month for Them either.
Mr.. Ed S. Allen. a Washington boy.
who made such good impression with
the PurneU company during their short
stay has poined the Arden stock company
at the Belasco. Mr. z. S. James, OF the
Purnell. will be seen in the cast of
the Columbia.
Edward Mackav who last year ap-
/ peared in The Light Eternal and play
ed Orlando with Miss Crosman in AS
You Like It." has been engaged for the
leading juvenile part in Henrietta Cros-
mans production Of "The Christian Pill
grim" next year.
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis has Just
contracted with Mr.. Charles Frohman 10
write for him a new comedy. to be pro-
duced at a London West End theater
during the autumn season. by company
Of English actors. The scenes Of the play
will be laid in London and New York.
Donald Maclarens indian drama, THE
Last Of His Race" which has already
been played with some success in this
country. has Just been produced az DTury
Lane TEeater. in London. as a spring
experiment There, as here. the principal
character is played by II. Reeves-Smith.
A striking contrast presents itself by
a glance at the records OF the National
Theater just thirty years ago. To-mor-
row night at this playhouse, when the
summer opera season is 10 he inaugUrated
Just thirty years ago Mary Anderson.
Louis James, and George G. Boniface
were scheduled 70 appear in Macbeth"
At one of the French theaters in Mon
trea play was performed which the
Catholic archbishop condemned. The
manager withdrew it, and now there is
talk in that city both among the English
and French speaking people OF creating
a regular censorship TO pass on stage pro-
ductions.
How fortune can change in the show
! -fr.iA fe cd hr.+ la "a 81.
now officiating as a chorus girl in The
Orchhid'' was once an imported French
star in famous New York music hall
She then got $3.50 week. while now her
stipend is SIS. Such at least. is the story
told by The Billboard Of Marietta d Dio,
who created considerable interest at
Roster & Balls in 1894
4 deep student Of amusement chances
and needs who is behind the footlishts
says he never tells the same set of Jokes
in different cities. He has a special lot
for each place. Thus in Boston he turns
them on art. beans, and seasickness; New
York, domestic troubles. policemen. and
gay times; Philadelphia. mofher-in-law.
love, graft, and history; Pittsburg divorce
and hardware; Chicago. hard luck.
! swindles, and the blues and so on.
/ In New Yorks legislature a bill has
been introduced making It a crime to
produce an impure or immoral play
Little can hardly be expected of it, even
should ii become a law. It is as hard
with the varying views Of people these
DAYS to define what constitutes immO-
rality or impurity on the stage as where
noise ends and some forms of grand
opera begin. Many would condemn Uncle
Toms Cabin almos. equally with "Zaza"
or "SaphO.
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