Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06

joined the cast to support Miss Elsie Janis
! in The Hoyden.''
! of the boarding mistress daughter In The
| College Widow and made a big hit Is t.,
| play the leading comedy role in Tom
| Jones'"
Barney Klawans for the past eight years
! identified with the box office OF the Colum-
| bia Theater. where he las made MANY
| friends, leaves this city on the 18th instant
to accept a position in commercial life IN
Portland. Ore.
Harry Davenport and Phyllis Rankcn.
who have devoted the past two years Ia
vaudeville. have been added to the cast OF
Fascinating Flora" which is now COM
pieting five-month run in New York.
In mis- lecture on Panama" Dwight e.
mendorf, who comes TO the New National
October IA, will show the actual work OF
digging by means of his telephotograph and
moton-p picture apparatus.
Wtat will evidently be one OF the largest
spectacular productions of recent years will
be The Christian Pilgrim" James Mac
Arthur adaptation OF Bunyan's PHI
grim's Progress Over 100 payers. singers
and special dancers said to support
Henrietta CroSman.
Corinne Malvern. who made hit so bg
child, Trouble, in Madame Butterfly" has
been re-engaged Little Miss Corinne
thinks she ought to have understudy
like the rest of the stars in the cast
Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott
appeared at the Coronet Theater, London.
Monday night in Mice and Men" and were
enthusiastically received. 1t was recently
reported that Mr.. Robertson was too III 10
fill his engagements but at present lie
seems to be in excellent health.
Florence Roberts will close her season in
THE Struggle Everlasting in New York
October =, but will resume playing in the
piece when she makes her annual tour OF
the Pacific coast. Miss Roberts will be
presented in a new American play of mod
ern life in New York early in April.
Charles Klein, author of THE Music Mas
ter" The Auctioneer," THE Lion and
the Mouse" and The Step-sister," will
main in Washington for two weeks from
tomorrow afternoon. During his stay IN
this city he will make his headquarters the
business offices of the New National The
alter.
Klaw & Erlanger will present Eugene
Presbrey's version of Sir Gilbert Parkers
widely read novel, The Right of Way"
next week at His Majesty's Theater in
Montreal. The premiere Of this piece IN
that city should prove suspicious, as the
scenes are laid there and In the old French
parish of Chaudiere, 300 miles away.
Miss Jeanette Bageard, who appears
with Richard earle in The Spring Chick
en- is oldtime New York Casino ia
vorite. She mas also appeared with the
Rogers Brothers, and before joining Mr.
earle was for several seasons in The
Prince of Pilsen." Miss Bageard, as her
name suggs SITS, is French. having been
born and educated In Paris.
Gertrude Coghan vino is now playing
with Edmund Breese in THE Lion and
10 10 1iYaa ,I,., %
of the four Oldest stage families now In
existence. From a family oder than the
Barrymores or the Drews, Mss Coghan
comes by her talent naturally. She is
niece of Rose Coghlan of Sporting Ouch
ess" fame.
Victor Morley, who has one of the leading
roles in The Spring Chicken" is an Eng
liShman. He made his American success
in The Earl and the Girl" After being
ged for the past of Gustave Baborl, he
made a special trip to London to see the
English production of The Spring Chick
en-" in that city, where the piece ran for
two seasons
When Maude Adams comes to the New
National in few weeks she will expe-
Renee of the most unusual occurrences
of her career; 1t was at this same theater
that Miss Adams started in Peter PAN
and her long and successful career in the
title role Will terminate here, as she is soon
to appear in The Testers" under Charles
j
ton will have become to Miss Adams the
beginning and the end of Peter PAN
Lillian Burkhart, the author of the Brad
lee Martin vaudeville sketch, has retired
from the stage. Her first husband was
the comedian William Dickson She d.
vorced him, and several years ago mar
ried a Los Angeles business man, and left
the vaudeville stage. She was far-famed
as a producer of comediettas, many from
her own pen, and was about the first vaude-
VI MIA TO make productions in the
twice-a-day that were as complete In their
way as the more pretentiouS presentations.
While the first act Of The Hurdy Gurdy
Girl was taking place Tuesday night in
New York the leader of the Scrub Girls
chorus lost her balance and fell into the
audiences She was promptly picked up by
a man IN the first row and carefully re-
placed the stage. AS the audience
Seemed to think it part of the per
Torrance, all was WELL and the front row
will probably watch the chorus with ath-
letic readiness.
The latest idea of Mr.. Charles Frohman
is to have theatrical performances given
on ocean voyages, and the Cunard COM
pany has accepted a proposition from the
manager to that effect The Lusitania and
the MMauretania will be the first steamers
to be fitted with sea-going theater, and
Joe Coyne may be the first star to appear
on the oceanic stage. The contracts Will
be held to be made under the laws and
Jurisdiction of the country under whose
flag the steamship Is sailing on the high
seas.