The Washington herald., 1907-01-07
ISAW YOUR I'D IN THE HERALD
DOINGS OF STAGE FOLK.

II IS expected that Emma Janvier. who
quit ''The Spring Chicken" here on Friday
last. viii so into vaudeville. Ii is said
her salary with the Richard Carle com
pany was Si25 a week Probably she
would have no difficulty In making more
than this by giving her very funny mon
ologue IN vaudeville. Il is said she and
Richard Carle have had several misun-
deTstandings OF late. There is no doubt
she has more real ability than Carle. She
has returned 10 New York.
There seems 10 be method IN the mad
ness which leads Robert Grau. the New
York theatrical agent and brother Of the
famous Maurice to disappear mysterious
ly AT irregular intervals, and give his
friends and the police a worrisome chase
after him. When he disappeared ten days
ago he was coatless. and his shirt and
trousers were shabby. On Saturday he
reappeared in a spick and span new frock
coat suit and high hat, having evidently
made a raise while in the dark.
Stage people will soon be inclined to 60
back TO tie-counting, rather than risk
their lives and property on railroad trains.
The itinerant thieves have made a
speciality this season Of swiping the be-
| longings Of professionals on tour. Anna
Held and Lillian Russell lost their dia-
monds this way, and now Arthur Hart
mann, the violi1ist, reports he was re
neved OF an $500 Guarnerius violin on
the Southern Pacific the other day.
/ Charles Klein isn't going 70 be able 10
ignore the charge OF play-swiping brought
/ against him by Samuel Schiefman in the
matter Of "The Daughters Of Men"
! Sehieffman is a student at Columbia Uni
versity, In New York. and has as his
counsel firm OF lawyers of high stand
/ ing, whom he convinced there was truth
| IN his charge against Klein before they
would take his case. The close paralleIism
between Schiefman's capital-and-labor
/ play and The Daughters of Men"
couldn't possibly be accidental, it is said.
/ SChieffman declares, moreover. that he
/ viii prove a copy Of his play fell into the
hands of Klein. He does not ask for
money. All he wants is a permanent in
/ junction against the further performance
/ of The Daughters of Men"
For the second time In the history Of
the New York stage, IL is said. an author
will tonight have two new plays produced
simultaneously in that city. The author
/ is Clyde Fitch, and the plays are The
Truth" and The Straight Road" Fortu-
nately, the theaters In which they will be
/ put on are close together, SO that Clyde
/ can get from one to the other quickly
enough to make his speeches, which the
audiences will, of course, demand at the
end of the third act.
Lew Doekstader closed his New York
/ engagement Saturday night and moved on
/ to Boston, with more trunkfuls of money
than he ever before succeeded in getting
away from the easy Broadway crowd. At
/ least, SO Lew says, and he wouldn't lie
about a thing like that
/ There are New York critics who can be
/ severe. Listen to this anent the perform
/ ance of Carmen" at the Metropolitan
Opera House. Saturday afternoon; For
sustained and well-ordered incompetence,
{ for deliberate and admirable inefflciency.
the three who played the three English
women should be awarded the academic
palm"
Lulu Glaser appeared for the first time
in Sydney Rosenfelds ballooniug comedy,
''The Aero Club" at Springfield, Mass.
Saturday night 1t is not q musical
comedy. Lulu gets herself engaged 10 the
son of an aFistocratic family, with whom
she is not at all popular and then makes
an ascension with her lover in his balloon
They stay up IN the clouds all night, and
finally begin TO come down so rapidly