Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-07
Playhouse Paragraphs.


Olga Nethersole is to play "Ariadne," by
Catulle Mendes, next season.
Paul Gilmore is to have play next sea-
son by George V. Hobart.
George Wilson and Lottie 5Bandy have
combined in a new vaudeville speciality.
Ethel Leveyis in Paris purchasing gowns
to wear in her vaudeville act next season.
William Courtenay is playing leading
parts with Virginia Harmed in ST. Louis.
Alberta Gallatin is to star in play called
Judith Of the Palms. a drama of western
life.
Henry Blossom is writing a play called
Miss Philura. in which Elsie Janis may
star.
Charles E. Mack is winning considera BILE
applause in his new sketch, Come Back
to Erin
Grace Cameron and Papinta were given
the important places in the Keith bill in
Cleveland last week.
Blanche Walsh is reported to be corva-
lescing from serious illness at her coun-
try home on Long Island.
Dorothy Tenant of THE College Widow"
Is announced as one of the new stars to
twinkle next season.
The new play by Augustus Thomas in
which Dustin Farnum is to star is called
The Ranger
Frank Dekum is to be leading man for
Sarah Truax in her starring tour in THE
Spiders Web
The report that Peter Pam is to be
turned into an opera is denied by the
author, ]. NJ. Barrie.
Booth Harrington and Harry L. Wilson,
author of The Spenders,' are working
together on plays.
Mrs. Rida Johnson Young has been en-
gagged by the Shuberts to write them a book
for musical comedy.
Harry Fisher, who has been with Lew
Fields for the past two years, will go back
to vaudeville next season with a monologue
Shore Acres is to be revived by the
Shuberts, with Digby Bell in the leading
role created by the late James A. Herne.
Mary Mannerng will continue next sea-
son In Glorious Betsy" the play on the
life of Betsy Patterson, by Rida Johnson
Young. ~
One of the scenes in THE Merry Widow.
the new Viennese opera. is located in
Maxims, where the people are most frolic-
some.
George Conan is writing a comedy called
KID Burns, Esq. 1t Is intended for Victor
Moore and will be produced in the early
fall.
Tom Jones" one of the new comic
operas which Henry W. Savage will pro-
duce in the autumn, is now at the Apollo
Theater, London.
Miss Eugene Blair Is to make her debut
vaudeville tonight In q
Harlem Opera House in a one-act playJet
After the Matinee"
Herbert Kelley and Fife Shannon are
playing a special engagement in San Fran
cisco They will revive The Moth and the
Flame"
Octavia Broske, a San Francisco girl,
prima donna in 1.-The Sultan of SuIu.'
will have prominent role in THE Prince
of PilSen'' next fall.
Mabel Taliaferro, who lately married
Frederic Thompson. rising young man.
ager of New York, is to star in a play
called Polly of the Circus"
George Lydecker has been engaged to
play an important role next season with the
Rogers Brothers in their new play 1.-The
Rogers Brothers in Panama"
The Prince of Pilsen' Will be translated
into German and produced in LeIpsig under
Central Theater.
William Winter, who is spending the
summer in California. has been for forty-
two years the dramatic critic of the New
York Tribune.
.. Rose stahl, who is playing in Chicago in
me chorus Lady, gave a special matinee
performance in that city to an invited
audience of chorus girls.
Mrs. Edna Wallace Hopper. who has
been i'll for several weeks with a threatened
attack of fever has recovered and is an
pearing in Fifty Miles from Boston" in
Boston,
Henry de Vries. the Dutch actor who
made such a hit in New York, is appearing
In London in the play he used here "A
Case of Arson in which he impersonates
various and varying characters ea
Catherine Countiss known as an actress
ana magazine writer, was married recently
to II. ID. Price. a New York manager. The
couple first met at the actors fund fair
The bride is the daughter of Texas judge
signed with W. B. Watson's "Washington
Society Girls" Mr. Stevens will produce
the burlesque and musical numbers. and
Miss Kelley will play the soubrette parts
Oterita. Spanish dancer will make her
American debut at Hammerstein's New
York. early in August. She has been on the
stage only a few months, but is said to
have created something of a sensation in
Paris
Rudolph Aronson is in Mexico City MAX
ing arrangements for an operate season
next autumn for a company under the d.
rection of the Italian composer Leon
cavallo, producing Leoncavallos works.
James D. Barton is planning to send out
lar aff
the new plays will be Under Suspicion"
by Ramsay Morris, and Through Death
Valley" by Joseph LeBrandt. There will
be two companies playing THE Ninety and
Nine" and The Peddle'' will go on tour
again. Another new play by Ramsay Nor
ris will complete the half dozen
Harry L. Webb has just secured three
one-act plays which he intends to produce
personally in vaudeville next season.
-Stanislaus STANCE and Julian Edwards
have prepared American grand opera
on their own account.
Henry A. Jones, the English dpamatist,
has written a play of modern r-lig ious
life in England, which Messrs klaw &
Erlanger will produce in New YORK
1t is reported from Copenhagen. Den
mark, that Willy Larsen, a Danish actress