The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-28

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the New Lyceum, beginning on or about
May 90
William A. Brady has leased the Audi
/ forum in Chicago for ten years and Is
going to put on grand opera, shakespear-
can reyivalsi and spectaeles there.
It is reported that Richard Golden is to
[ be given the leading role in The Snow
Man when that piece begins fits summer
run at the Lyric Theater in New York.
/ Algernon Charles Swinburne, the poet,
is engaged in writing a new tragedy. the
/ subject Of which is Caesar BoFgia. Swim
burne was seventy years old on April s..
Mrs. Sarah r Post Csarah Truax) was
granted the final decree Of absolute di-
vorce from Guy Bates Post by Justice
Levenuit in the Supreme Court on April
/ 16.
Hattie Williams viii probably appear
next season in "a new play by clyde Fitch,
with music. She will open her season in
"Fhe Little Cherub" and take up the new
play later in the year.
I A dramatizatI0n Of the novel. Brother
Jlm's Bahy." which tells the story OF q
child left upon miners doorstep. viii
/ be made for Wilton Lackaye. He viii APP
pear in the play next season.
I Ed Allen, a wen-known Washington
+ boy, has returned TO the city after sea-
son with the Flaming Arrow Mr. Al
/ len played the part of Snowfall ana acted
/ in the capacity of stage manager.
Mr.. Huntington May. the WclI-knoWH
( Washington basso. Viii De one Of thu
members oil the Aborn opera Company.
which begins the season of summer
opera at The New National on May %.
II was reported last week that Julia
] Sanders0n had been engaged by Charles
/ Frohmau 60 take the leading role IN
/ 'Ihc Dairy Maid. "a new musical COM
/ edy To- be produced in London at an early
/ daJe.
/ Wilson Barretts memory IS to be per
/ petuated 10y d stained glass window in a
/ church near Glasgow, Scotland. which is
/ 10 bear the last words from his play. The
/ Sign OF the Cross, "O, come 20 The light
/ beyond"
Friends of the late Mrs. Craigle John
/ Oliver Hobhesl have formed a plan for d
memorial to her, in the form of portrait
placques III London and some place in the
. United States, and scholarships al Eng
fish and American universities.
IL E..- F.a..r .4r.t.fa.F tt-,. .J-- +4tf-
/ new play boy Charles Klein, which Charles
Dillingham; is 20 produce. viii De 'The
/ Stepchild." Among the players already
/ engaged are Crystal Herne, John Finley
Grace Filklus, and William Sampson.
The last issue Of Greenroom
/ GImpses. the little weekly published
by the New National Theater. came
ont this week The paper. which has
proved q popular theatrical journal
viii be continued next season.
Mr. Reeves-Smith, on behalf of an
American theatrical firm. has secured the
English acting rights in Miss Margaret
Mayos adaptation Of Mrs. Humphrey
| Wards novel, The Marriage of William
Ashe, and there is every probability that
il VIII be shortly seen in London
Fred Peel. the founder and president OF
the Don't Worry" Club has accepted
the management of Joe Weber's stock
company, now on It's annual spring tour
Mr.. Peel viii occupy the same position al
/ Weber's Music Han when the diminutivc
/ comedian and his all-star aggregation re-
turn to Broadway.
THE Serenade." the Smith-Herbcrt
romantic opera. VIII be the second Of
rering of the Ab0rn Opera Compaus-
for their summer season at the New
National Theater The Nikadc" and
/ Chimes of Normandie' viii also be
| given during the first few weeks The
company numbers forty singers.
It was stated last week that Fae Tenn
Ipleton would permanently retire from the
stage at the end of her present season in
..Forty-five Minutes from Broadway"
I Miss TcmpleJon was married last summer
! 10 William Patterson. Of Pittsburg. and
viii make her future home at her hus-
band country place near that city Her
season has four more weeks to run.
Miss Claudia Lasell, the American ac-
t
Ipart in Lady Tatters, the romantic light
opera by Herbert Leonard and Walter
Slaughter. with which the Shaftesbury
Theater VIII reopen on April q Marie
EGeorge. Walter Passmore. Courtice
Pounds. Arthur Playfair and johnny
Danvers are other fine players engaged
for this piece,
Augustus Thomas is hard at work on
another geographical drama which il is
| believed viii follow in the footsteps OF
Alabama" and Arizona" in the matter
of nomenclature and be called by the
name of one of the Wild Western States.
The vogue Of "Salomy Jane" has started
| anew the craze for the mining camp
drama and it wouldn't be strange If a
loud and ringing bull s-eye hit followed
Mr. Thomas next effort.
Although Rallies" has finished its Lon
don run. the play is being given in the
provinces by two touring companies. The
rights have been sold for production in
| virtually every country in Europe The
play was successfully produced in Ham
burg a few weeks back and Nine Rejanc
| VIII presently present it at her new thea
ter in Paris. "Rahies has also beer. ac-
I cepted for production in twelve of the
principal German cities. including Berlin
The Advertising Actors.
Meet me by the old mill at mid
night whispered the villain, hoarsely.
Which one?" queried the subconspira-
tor