Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10

q WashingtOnian. Mr.. LIND has sung in
many of the most famous grand operas.
w Harryman Rapley. proprietor of the
New National. will spend the latter part
OF this week at Ithaca, n. Y. visiting
his son. Bachelor. student at Cornell
University.
Martin Sabine is having his first ex-
perience in stock productions In America.
although he made a reputation for him
self in this line of work abroad in. the
past five years.
Arnold Kiralfy. the youngest of the IA
NOUS Kiralfy brothers. died this week at
the home of his sister in New York. He
was one of the most famous dancers of
his time and had staged some well-known
performances.
Percy F. Leech. whose stage direction
contributed SO substantially to the sue
cess of The Prince of Parchessi." will
have the stage management of the Page
stock company at the Nixon Theater in
Pittsburg this summer.
Although the first reports from London
failure. the piece has been going along
all right ever since and drawing big
houses. All the London critics speak
highly of The College Widow
Harry Lane. the baritone of "a Yankee
Tourist" is considering an offer to star
in Irish play next season. Negotia-
lions with Whitehead. the Irish play
wright, have resulted in securing drama
which has been success In Dublin.
Robert Edeson, appearing in Glass
mates" will discard railroad trains on
his Forthcoming New England tour and
will make the eighteen cities In which
he is to appear in his new forty horse
power automobile.
Edrupd Rreese the original John
Burkett Ryder of THE Lion and the
Mouse will be seen next season in
1.-THE Nebraskan." a new play by Edith
Ellis. and under the direction of Henry
The chorus Of the Aborn Opera Com
pany will attend the base ball game at
American League Park next Tuesday
afternoon. The girls will leave the New
National Theater in special automo-
biles.
In addition to having appeared in al
most every state in the Union, MISS Doro-
thy Hammond. Guy Standings leading
woman at the Belasco Theater. has visit
ed all Of the European capitals. and dur
ing her stage career has travelled over
10000 miles.
The Columbia Theater doesn't have to
care how 1t spells repertoire On the
Hackett posters. If without the final
"e' the house is damned. what would
have happened if the word had been
spread on the billboards in all its
natural majestic length?
Eva Whitford Washington girl. re-
mains under contract with David Belasco
for next season. In her first season under
Setsu. in 1.-The Darling of the Gods.
She will have a part in one of the new
productions Mr.. Belasco contemplates.
C..->. 49, ahoroctar oofor of
the Guy Standing company. made his
debut at the age of three years, when he
was carried on the stage OF the Boston
Theater as the baby in The Silver
King" AS he got through the perform
ance without crying. he was given
permanent engagement.
Tn another prominent box were the
members of the Loyal Legion, who are
soldiers wearing the congressional
medal for exceptional bravery" says
Acton Davies in the New York Evening
Sur. without his explanation some per-
so1D might never have known exactly
what the Loyal Legion is.
Dorothy Hammond, leading woman for
Guy Standing at the Belasco Theater
made her first appearance In this country
as leading woman to Richard Mansfield
in Julius Caesar" She Is the only lead
ing woman who ever remained In MI
Mansfeld's company for more than sin
gle season.
III. Thompson, the veteran character
actor has bought from the Irving estate
the production of the one-act play, a
terloo, as presented in London by Henry
Irving for over a year. All the scenery
and costumes of the original piece VIII
be shipped to Mr.. Thompson who Will
make his first appearance IN waterloo
shout December I.
Ralph Kellard. now playing Tom Dab
ney in THE Warrens of Virginia at
the Stuyvesant Theater. New York. has
been engaged to play the Juvenile roles
in the stock company at the Belasco
during the engagement OF Charlotte
Walker this summer. Mr.. kellards last
appearance in Washington was as the
Young lover Beverly Cruger in The
Music Master" with David Warfield.
Charlotte Grosvenor. who made her OPP
cratic debut in New York last week as
Violetta in La Traviata" and who will
sing Marguerite in Faust" this week.
is a niece of former Representative Gros-
venor. She comes from Pomfret Conn.,
q picturesque village near the Massachu-
setts line where several Washington
people have country places. Her father
was proprietor Of the Ben-Grosvenor Ho-
tel. in the village.
new star in the musical comedy field
next season will be Frank Labor. who Tor
the past season has been the prlnclpa
comedian of Comm through the rye
.I.he Rork company has decided to pro-
mote Labor. and at the Park Theater
Boston, Labor day, they will oner MIN
to the public in a musical COMEDY 10
which title has not yet been given
Tom Waters will replace Lalor in Com
in Through the Rye" which will be sent
on tour again next fall, as usual
Marie George. who was brought to this
country several years ago by klaw d En-
LANCER to play the Beauty in The
Beauty and the Beast" but who never ap-
peared on account of a quarrel with the
state manager Is to be a star next sea-
son In this country under the manage
ment of Joseph Brooks. Mrs Brooks has
secured the rights to a comic opera called
Victoria" by Victor Herbert and George
V. Hobart and Miss George will have the
leading role in the new piece
The appearance of local music critic
at the New National Theater recently has
been the subject of paragraph and edi-
torial comment In most of the principal
newspapers of the country. 1t was one of
the best theater stories of recent years
and has Aage T. Worms Sothern and
Mrs. Pat Campbell yarns hurrying to catch
Up. 1t also shows that If the theater's press
agent, Robert E. Long, doesn't find any
news handy, he gets busy and creates
same.
STORIES OF THE OPERA.