The Washington herald., 1907-03-17

/ At n meeting OF several clergymen in
/ New York last week. Mayor Mcclellan
was roundly abused for permitting Sun
/ day performances.
/ Madge Carr Cooke and a complete
American company will present Mrs.
/ Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch at Terrys
/ Theater, London. in April.
/ The popular English comedian, Lionel
I Brough. who is well known in this coun-
| try, has been dangerously i'll. but, at the
/ latest reports, there were good prospects
! Of his recovery.
/ Miss Clara Tichenor. a Barnard College
/ girl. has been engaged TO sing the popular
/ song, "The Message OF the Violet with
the Yankee Tourist" the new musical
piece in which Raymond Hitchcock is
/ starring
Margaret Anglin. it is said. will not
continue with Henry Miller in The
Great Divide" after this season. She has
/ q strong emotional drama in which she IS
/ to star under the management OF James
/ X. Hackett.
Beerbohm Tree IS TO put on in London
next summer a dramatization of The
Mystery Of Edwin brood" the novel that
Charles Dickens left unfinished, and FOR
which in the play Comyns Carr viii pro
/ vide an ending.
Miss Grace Scott has been engaged by
! Sam Harris 20 play the leading role in
/ George Cohan's new play. Fifty Miles
from Boston" This is the piece originally
written for Lulu CHASER. 1t was then
/ called THE Small Town Gal"
Lawrance D'Orsay produced his new
play Lord Doncaster," al Hartford
/ Conn. the other night. 1t is said that the
/ titlc-role fits him perfectly, and that IN
/ this play he has found peer % his first
/ big success, The Earl of Pawtucket.'
Mr.. Hubert Henry Davies is writing a
new comedy which Nj Charles Froh-
nlsn viii produce in London next winter
! Mr.. Davies has written a new play for
/ Sir Charles Wyndham, in which the lat
/ ter will probably make his next appear
ance on the stage.
George C. Tyler sails for Europe or
I 4
/ He intends to take an automobile "trip
through the Alps and go deep into the
European countries. While abroad he
will confer with Rcstaud over a new play
for Eleanor Robson.
We have had Italian actors. Hebrew
actors, Norwegians. French, English, and
( Russians; now there is coming to this
country one z. Zangenburg. who is said
to be "a famous Danish actor. He comes
under the auspices of the Danish-Ameri-
can Dramatic Association.
Liebler & Co. have signed contract
with Walker Whiteslde whereby he Will
appear under that firms management FOR
a term of years. making his first appear
ance next October. He will play in mod
ern dramas. abandoning for the present
his Shakespearean repertoire.
Yvette Guilbert has made her debut in
a serious and songless part at the Thea
ter ROYAL du Pare. Brussels. She scored
a great success. The play Is by Edmond
Guiraud and Jean de Hinx. and is called
"L'Eau Trouble" Nine Guilbert plays
the part Of great actress with a stormy
past
George Alexander brought out at the
St James Theater in London a new play
by Alfred Sutro. the author of THE
Walls Of Jericho" called John Glayde's
Honor" and it met with considerably
success. Eva Moore, Helen Farrars, ana
Henrietta Watson were the principals in
the company
Oscar Hammerstein has obtained the
exclusive rights to "PeHeas ct Melsande'
and TO Cbarpentier's Louise" an opera
dealing with the street life of Paris. For
the past few years Louise" has been
the most discussed Of modern French
operas. Nile. Mary Garden viii probably
be heard in the title role.
Miss Stella Campbell. daughter Of the
noted English actress. Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, made her debut few days
| ago at Terry's -Theater in London. where
she was received with marked approval.
. Her resemblance to her mother is mark
/ ed Mrs. Patrick Campbell opened an
/ engagement at the Court Theater last
week in the title role of Ibsen's "Hedda
Gabler."
Camille Clinord's press agent is busy
again. Now # is a story to the effect
that her unwilling father-in-law, Lord
Aberdare, Of Duhryn. has been paying
enormous prices in an effort to gather in
all the photographs of Miss Clifford which
depict her as a servant girl. SO much
pains has been taken with the story that
1t must be that Camille Clifford is think
ing Of returning to the stage.