Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24


| April !. AS the name indicates, the scenes
and people are taken from the picturesque
| Lone Star state. 1t is replete with stirring
action and melodrama, relieved by back
ground of picturesque romance.
Playhouse Paragraphs.
| Kendall.
WinchelI Smith is to collaborate with
| William Gillette in new comedy.
| The first production of THE Orchid" in
| which Eddie Foy is to star. has been post
poned.
Robert Hickman has been appointed to
| chair of oratory at George Washington
| University.
! ]. Fred Zimmerman has secured from
George Broadhurst the rights to The Lady
| From Lanes"
| 1t is said that Margaret Anglin will go
EFT next season.
Stone will celebrate his twentieth year on
the stage next Wednesday.
| Augustus Thomas has returned from
| Mexico, where he went to get local color
for play he is to write for Dustin Far
mum.
| Nance O'Neill who has been playing in
| the west, is scheduled to reach New York
| in few days and to begin her rehearsals
! for Cleo"
David Warfield who appeared at the
Academy of Music, New York, for four
weeks beginning February =, played to
gross receipts of S9S, 96I.50.
| in London, where she purposes TO remain
| for three months Her Offering will be an
| original play by Henry V. Esmond.
Amelia Bingham is to begin her engage
ment In Webers Theater in THE Lilac
Room April instead of April l. as pre-
viously announced.
In an address before the Celtic Club of
New York lately William A. Brady declared
that the Irish had supplied most of the
brains of the stage.
The producing rights to Ramsay Morris
new melodrama have been secured by
James D. Barton & Co The play is to be
brought out in the fall.
George AIDES play founded on his famous
character, ''Arte," is nearing completion.
AS soon as the "Artie" play is off his
hands he is to write one for w. IL. Crane.
John Drew, retailing fancy ties and lat
est spring shirtings at a forgery booth, will
be one of the attractions at the actors
fund fair in the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, May to H.
Comic opera in repertoire will be played
In New Haven, Conn, this summer under
direction Of Mr.. S. u. Poll owner of a cir
cult of vaudeville theaters in New Eng
land.
Wells Hawks has been elected president
of THE Friars. organization with
headquarters in New York, comprising the
cntnfa fiNrnS fhn liant rfna htS
ness.
Thomas W. Broadhurst's biblical play.
1.-The Holy City" based on the events of
the time of the crucifixion, Is being pre-
scented as late Lenten attraction in New
York.
Gertrude Hoffman, wife of Max Hoff-
man, the orchestra leader, with the Rogers
Brothers, is to be George Cohan's leading
lady this summer during the New York
season.
Ermete Noveili. the Italian actor. scored
a marked success in his initial appearance
in New York. Jean Aicards four-act COM
edy, Papa Leonard was selected for the
Introductory Offering
Nathan Straus has donated for sale at the
actors fund fair, the week of May o,
gold statuette of Maud Adams. over $40
COO worth of original paintings have already
been pledged for the fair
d.
have organized the Lee-Rod Amusement
Company, principally for the purpose of
producing Noah s Ark" with Harry Bull
ger in the character of Bre'r Noah.
William Pruette, the bass singer, will
be added to the cast Of THE Tattooed
Man tomorrow night in New FORK. Mr..
Pruette was a member of the FRITZ Scheff
company, which ended its season in Mon
treal last night.
The dramatic organization of Princeton
University, the Triangle Club" which was
SO successful here last year in the musical
comedy, "Tabasco Land" will give a single
performance of a new play, The Mummy
Monarch" at the Belasco Theater In April.
Miss Viola Clayton formerly of the "Pin,
Paf, Pour" company and other choruses,
was married recently to Royal c. Lnthi-
cum Of New York, diamond dealer. The
ceremony was performed In Baltimore.
where the pair will reside.
Seven companies will be sent out in
"Brewster's Millions' this coming season.
They will visit five countries and the play
will be done in four languages. There will
be two companies doing It In this country.
two in England, one In Germany and the
others in France and Italy.
When Cecilia Lotus stras under the d.
rection of Henry Miller her vehicle will be
comedy drama, in which she Will introduce
her limitations and In which other spe-
cialties by members Of the company will
have a chance, thus uniting straight drama
with vaudeville.
John w. Albaugh, Jr., was made the de-
PENDANT in a suit for absolute divorce I'm
Baltimore last week. Mrs. Marie Cashier
Albaugh through her attorneys, charges
that her husband deserted her on March
f. 1904 and has never returned to her. The
Albaughs were married at Long Branch in
1883.
Alfred E. Aarons manager Of His Honor
@1a haa adj cd nf AM
in order that discipline may be maintained
in the company. All the fines are turned
over to a committee Of the players and at
the end of the season the total collection
will be donated to q theatrical charity to
be selected by a vote of the organization.
On account Of an indisposition which con-
slant rehearsals have served to exaggerate,
Grace Filkins has resigned from the cast
of 1.-The Ambitious Mrs. Aloott." Wagon
halls & Kemper have engaged Dorothy Dorr
to replace her. Miss Dorr will play the title
role when the piece is produced for the
first time In New York, April 1.