Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

the Columbia Theater for the week of
February !.
Forbes Robertson's repertoire this season
includes Caesar and Cleopatra, ham
let. "Thc Merchant of Venice and Mice
and Mon.
Clara Iipnlau is to appear as an indie
pendent star under the management of the
Shuberts The name of the play she will
present has not been announced.
J Hartley. Manners new play The girl
in Waiting" is to have its first presenta-
ton ID Worcester next week. Florence
Reed, it daughter of the late Roland Reed.
and Malcolm Williams will have the leading
roles
Joseph Tuohy. who recently closed with
the Matilda" company, has been engaged
by VIII }. Block for one of the leading
parts i'm Glen McDcn0uEh's Too Near
Home" which is now playing IN PhiladeI-
phia.
After a run of six months in New York
preparations are being made to withdraw
The HypoCrites'' from the Hudson Thea
ter, in that city. and send the piece on "a
tour of the larger cities The HypocriteS
was one of the first hits of this season In
Gotham.
In tie Shift of business managers and ad-
vance agents tNdt mas bt'l III pI'S4tHS
lately Frank Daniels secured Sam Myers
to look out for the business end OF ms or
gauizatiou. Mr.. Myers has served as a
sort of confidential manager OF Maude
Adams companies and resigned that posi-
tiou fortnight ago.
Tho Shubcrts have secured the rights for
The Girl Behind tho Counter" one of the
biggest musical successes that England
has known for years. The author IS How
ard talbot who wrote The Chinese Hon
eymoon." Julian Mitchell has been Sc
cured to stage the piece. The production
will probably be made ny Lew Fields ana
his company.
1t is announced by the management of the
Belasto ThCatcr that the engagement OF the
"Musi. Master surpassed all records as
to local receipts. To Washington belongs
the distinction of having given the Narheld
play the biggest week that il has had In ITS
entire history. The Boston record was re-
gardrd as the highest possible limit, but
this city has gone beyond.
Dorothy Hunting will retire from the cast
of George Washington jr.. for the pur-
poses the dispatches say, "of anneXing
husband. Her place in the company Will
he taken by LeOna Anderson. Though
George VI. Cohen, the author of the play.
will withdraw from it al the end of the sea-
SON the piece is not to be shelved, but will
be sent out with Carter De Haven and his
wifi. Flora Parker, in the leading roles.
Emma Janvier has made the vaudeville
plunge and her original monologue, which
she gave in The Spring Chicken" is max
ing "a Init. The management of THE Spring
Chicken" threatened injunctions against
Miss Janvier. but nothing tangible has
been effected to date, On the other hand
Miss Janvier has estopped her successor in
'The Spring Chicken from using the
former condolences monologue, which was
OF her fashionlng and belonged 10 her.
There is a strong possibility that The
Man Who Won the Pool the one-act
sketch that was presented recently by
Robert billiard at the Lambs gambol, in
New York. will be given in a series of spe-
cial matiuees by Mr. Hlliard and Mile
Dazzle. formerly lie Domino Rouge who Is
now the premiere dauseuse at Hammer
STEMS. New York and who has in prepa-
ration a series of one-act plays in -panto-
mime. The sketch was dramatized by Mr..
billiard from Arthur Cosslet Smiths story,
How 1t Really Happened