The Washington herald., 1907-03-31
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Sarah Truax is to star next season in
a play called THE Alaskan.
George NJ. Cohan's new vehicle for next
season viii be called Young Napoleon"
An Irish play. called a Bit O. Barney"
had a trial in Newburyport, Mass. last
Monday night
]. Z. Dodson is shortly to enter vaude-
Vile with a new sketch which NJ. S.
/ Bentham is booking.
AIaeterlinck's new play, The Blue
Bird, " is to be given production in Eng
/ lish in New York next season.
Miss Marie Booth Russell has COM
/ pleted a stage arrangement Of Ibsen's
Brand which will be included in Robert
Msnteils repertoire.
Valeska surstt retired from The Belle
of Mayfair" on Saturday night, and re-
turns to vaudeville on April /. with VIII
lam Gould. in a sketch.
/ Thomas Q. seabrooke has Joined The
Man on the BOX" company for TIE bal
| anee Of the season. He takes the part
vacated by Henry Dixey.
A new musical play. called '-The Flower
Of the Ranch" is TO be used next season
/ by Joseph T. Howard and Mabel Barri-
son. who are 10 be starred BY Harry
Askin.
It is estimated that at least five English
and American playwrights receive over
$4,000 annually in royalties on plays pre-
sented by stock companies in the United
States.
Clyde Fitch has gone to England to
superintend the staging Of a number Of
his plays in London. He expects to spend
the summer at country place near
Munich.
New Workers do not admire Ben Greets
ungarbed Shakespearean performances
The actor has PLAYED to almost empty
/ benches at the Garden Theater New
/ York Is nothing If not 1sshy.
Belle Bohn. Of Mrs. Fiske's Manhattan
company, is daughter of Rear Admiral
J. L. Howell, L. S. N. retired. who COM
manded the North Atlantic Squadron dur
ing the Spanish-Americsn war.
Owing to Grace Filklns' i'll health the
part assigned 10 her in THE Ambitious
Mrs. Alcott' will be played by Dorothy
Dorr, whose previous engagement was at
the same theater with Blanche Walsh.
Olga Nethersole has been creating a
sensation throughout the West by her
staircase scene in "Sapho." Miss Neither
sole is also playing in The Awakening, %
THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray," and Car
men,
During the big fair for the actors fund
at the Metropolitan Opera House. New
York, May TO II. a daily paper will be
published, with leading dramatic critics
from the principal cities among it's con
tributors.
Henry Arthur Jones. author of THE
Hypocrites," is to write a play for Otis
Skinner. After finishing his tour in THE
Duel" Mr. Skinner will join Mr. Jones
in Europe, where the scenes Of the play
viii be laid.
Harry Bulger, recently seen here in
THE Man from Now" will finish the
present season in a new play. entitled
''Noah's Ark" It is likely that Mr.. Bull
ger viii reach Washington before the
close of this season.
Gertrude Hoffman is 10 be leading wom-
an in George N. Cohan's new musical
play. Fifty Miles from Boston" which
opens in Baltimore Wednesday, April 3.
Mr.. Cohan will be playing at the New
National but he will go over to Balti-
more with a party of local newspaper
men,
George NJ. Cohan will give a special
professional matinee during the Thurs
day afternoon of his engagement in
Washington. Many prominent players
who will be in the city that week. in
cluding Charlotte Walker, Vincent Ser
lrano. Ellis Jefreys. and William H. Crane.
will be the guests Of the Yankee Doodle"
comedian.
Mrs. Sol Smith celebrated her fiftieth
anniversary as an actress the other day.
A reception was rendered to her by her
friends last Tuesday night prior to her
departure for England with the Sothern-
Marlowe company ON Saturday Mrs.
Smith is still In vigorous health. and
says she expects to appear in many new
productions before her theatrical career
comes TO an end.
The White Chrysanthemum. a musi-
cal play in three acts, which was made
known in Philadelphia last week at the
Garrick Theater after a trial OUT of town,
has Edna Wallace Hopper featured and
Dave Lewis. Edward Garvie, the Eight
Vassar Girls, Augusta Close, Lawrence
Grossmith. Henry V. Donnely, and Van
i Rensselaer, Wheeler. of the Belle OF
Mayfair. in the east.
James Carew, who is leading man with
Miss Ellen Terry. is the American actor
who for the last TWO years has made
quite name in London playing in Ber-
nard shaw's Man and Superman, cap
tain Brassbound's Conversion "The Lit
tie Stranger Her Own Way" sc. and
was selected by Miss Terry for this i'm
portant position solely on account of his
conspicuous abilities as ah actor. which
he proved himself to possess by his per.
j formanees IN these plays.