The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

| large Western cities.
It is possible that Henry W Savage
may take Madam Butterfly" to London
for a run at Covent Garden after its
American season closes.
A stock company has been playing IN
a tent at Houston, Tex, for eleven weeks
When # rains real hard during perform
ances the audience is supplied with una
brellas-
THE Flower Girl in which Louis
Harrison and Louise Cunning have been
on tour, is among the recent additions 20
the list Of pieces that closed the season
prematurely.
The governor OF Utah has caused "a
panic among theater managers in the
State by recommending the passage OF
law prohibiting Sunday performance.
Sunday is the best day In Utah.
Richard earle finds his work in The
Spring Chicken" so dead easy that he has
kept his giant intellect busy Of late writ
ing two summer musical skits. one of
them is called The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl"
Nelly Neil" the musical comedy in
which Edna May is said to be driving the
London Johnnles dafy. seems 10 De a
sort Of revised version OF The Belle OF
New York" the work of the same author.
G. ri. 5. Mcclellan.
They are raising a fund for Henry
Clay Barnabee. known and loved the
country over for his delightful comedy
work through many seasons with the
Boston Ideal Opera Company later the
BostOnians. The fund has passed the
S40J mark Barnabee is tn poor circum-
stances and feeble.
There is a woman I'm New York. re-
Gently arrived from Europe. who claims
TO be Nine. Calve. and declares she is
shortly 10 appear IN grand opera. But it
appears if she is Caive she forgot to bring
her voice from Europe with her. 4 re-
porter who trapped her into warbling for
him SAYS he has heard verse, but not
much
Before starting on prolonged trip
about the classic and snowy shores Of
the deep blue Mediterranean. Manager
Henry B. Harris ran over to Washington
yesterday to say hOwdy and au revoir 20
his star. Robert Edeson. Mr.. Harris sails
away from New York on Monday, and
won't be- back iii OveTCoats are comfort
able o nights on Broadway.
VIII A. Page who once did newspaper
work IN Washington, bat is now a theatre
cal press agent Ia New York, has drama
tzed Miss Americansky." Archibald
Clavering Gunter's latest mess Of words
and taneie OF Incidents The piece Will be
produced in some New England town
shortly. The scenes Of the piece are laid
in Japan and Manchuria during the late
Russo-Japanese war.
Twenty years ago there were few more
popular actors coming TO Washington
than Frank C. Bangs He is stiu re-
membered here very pleasantly by hun
dreds of people, who will regret 10 learn
that the accident which befeu him in
New York last September has left him
"a permanent cripple. Like most members /
of the profession. he has failed 10 accu-
mulate competence, and his friends are
organizing benefit for him. to take .
place February I9
+. H. Sothern has acquired the Ameri- 1
can rights TO CauIle Mendes' drama. Ga /
Verge d'Avila." ia which Bernhardt is /!
now appearing at her Paris theater The
play is founded on the story Of St. The
resa. II was first produced in Paris on /
November 10. and IL looks as if its run /
would be indefinite The role of ST /
Theresa is one that would suit Julia Mar 4
lowe admirably, it Is believed and the
play viii no doubt soon be added TO the
Sothern-M arlowe repertoire.
That alert young man. William Il FOw-
Ter who deals out tickets and rakes I'm .
the change at the National Theater in his
as treasurer, has PARKWAY lool,
IN his eyes these days. He is wondering
how the balmy breezes from the Gulf Of !
Mexico will feel when he gets down to
Galveston shortly 20 watch the training
Of the Washington baseball team. OF
which he is also treasurer. While Mr..
Fowler is away his place Will be filed by
Mr.. Clarence Jacobsen, his assistant
When Gael meets Gael. then comes the
Z
attempt OF Brooklyn professional Irish
men 10 break up the performance Of the
Russell Brothers at the Orpheum Theater
IS the fact that in every move they made
they ran against other Irishmen bent
IN defending the freedom of the stage.
especially from rotten-egg consoring. The /,
policemen who made the arrests Of the
'gg throwers, the judge before whom the
rioters were hailed. and the manager OF
.he theater who prosecuted them were all
rishmen.
Just watch the 'Saiome" craze spread
through the burIesque world. The bur
esque magnate is ever alive to oppor-
unities Of this sort. The publicity given
he character of Salome affords the bur
esque producer just the inspiration he
equires. Edwin F.. Rush is the first Of
he impresarios in this field to work upon
he idea. With q sheet of mosquito net
ing to represent the Seven Wells. he VS.
lard in pursuit yesterday Of a dan ser
Of a wriggle sufficiently en-
icing to draw Herod from his perch ana 1
,oor Johns COCO into her salver.-Nevy
fork Telegraph. II
It's extraordinary the way Richard
Mansfield is figuring in the magazines !
# late a leading article of the Times
Magazine for February is by Montrose J.
Hoses, who writes OF Manshelds Peer
iynt with portraits of the actor him
elf and quotations from the score Of J
iriegs Peer Gynt" suite. Appleton's
Magazine Is advertising, as the leading
eature Of the March number, an article
W John Colvin on Mansfield as the
Greatest English-speaking Actor" The
dareh edition Of the Reader Magazine,
he Theatre, lie Theatre (of Paris). and