Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19

Lillian Russell has gone for short trip
TO Europe.
Doris Mitchell will be Norman Hackett's
leading lady in Classmates"
George Broadhurst has written q new
play, called IAN International Marriage"
A dramatization of David Copperfeld'
MAY be produced in Paris the coming
season.
A revival of THE Country Girl" is
planned by Miss Henrietta Crossman.
Frank Mcintyre and Gertrude Coghlan
are to have the chief roles in The TRAY
cling Salesman"
Louis Harrison and Louis Cassavant
have been engaged for sthe company to
support Grace Van Studdiford.
Ward and Vokes. with their wives.
Margery Daily and Lucy Daily, will again
join forces next season.
Of Australia, China, Japan and other
far-On regions.
Max Figman is to star in THE Sub
stitute,' a new play by Beulah Dix and
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland.
vaudeville act entitled School Days"
is to be worked over into q three-act
opera, to be produced next season.
Rose stahl will begin her third season In
THE Chorus Lady" at the Grand Opera
House, New York, September Z.
Cyril Maude, the English actor. may
appear in THE Flag Lieutenant in Paris
under the management of Charles Froh-
man.
Stella Tracey, who played q prominent
part in THE Soul KISS" has left that
company. and is scoring a success with
THE Three Twins"
Miss Florence Lester has been engaged
as leading woman for Mr. Chauncey o.
colt next season in his new play, Ragged
Robin"
Countess Nancy" is the title of the
play which Booth Harrington and Harry
l.. Wilson have written for Eleanor Rob-
son.
Among the musical comedies to be pro-
duced next season is one entitled Jet"
in which Manette Comstock will play the
leading role.
Bruce Wallace is dramatizing the novel
IF David Knew" written by Miss
Frances A. Matthew's The play viii
be produced next season.
Miss Laura Russell, in private life Mrs.
Robert Manteil, has been Ill in Los An
geles. CAL, but has now recovered suffi-
GENTLY to make the trip east.
Marie Tempest was one of the guests
at an entertainment given in London by
Mrs Martin. the aunt of the Countess of
Craven, In the latter's honor.
Frederick Lewis. who is we'll known in
this city. has been engaged to support
Isabel Irving in her tour under Henry
Miller's management
The Askin-Singer Company will have
three companies on tour PLAYING ''The
Girl Question" and will produce a new
musical play called Honeymoon Trail
Miss Marian Chapman. a Baltimore girl.
who has made gratifying success on
genue role in one of the Man of the
Hour companies for the following sea-
son.
Harold Blake will rejoin the Henry w.
Savage forces next season to assume his
former role In the western Merry Wild
ow" company. Prior to the new season
Mr.. Blake will spend three weeks in rest
at his summer cottage in the Adiron-
dacks.
Our Pleasant SINS" a play by a Lon
don journalist who hides his identity I'M
der the nom de plume of "a. Crichton,''
has been purchased for American produc-
ton Dy Mr.. Frank Worthington, acting
for William Brady.
Miss Ida Conquest, who has been play
ing the leading feminine role in 1.-The
Wolf, which closes for the season next
Saturday night in New York, win be seen
In new play next season.
Next Monday paid in Full will be
given its two-hundredth performance at
the Aston Theater. New York. and July
26 the one-hundredth performance Of the
same play will be given at the Grand
Opera House. Chicago.
Mr.. Charles Frohman. who has been
abroad looking after things theatrical,
will return to American shores Fri
day. and according to report will bring
a number of new foreign plays. Appar-
emily Mr.. Frohman does not depend large.
ly on the American product
Francis Wilson is to star in "The Flag
Lieutenant" a comedy which has been
very successful in London. It Is said to
be much nearer legitimate comedy than
farce. though the hero's part admits of
plenty of the latter.
Ellis Ryse. a retired operate singer and
actor, died last week at his home in New
York. aged seventy-two years. He was
q member of the famous Casino Company
under Col. McCaull and Rudolph Aronson,
and sang here in series of popular
operas. The late heat spell fastened his
death.
George v. Hobart and George Broad
hurst have revised "Wildfire," in which
Miss Lillian Russell starred last season,
SO as to bring 1t in harmony with the
present New York racing laws.
Mr.. William T. Hodge. who has been
playing for almost a year in Chicago in
1.-The Man From Home will begin an
engagement in the Aston Theater August
II. Mr.. Hodge will leave kokomo. Ind.
this week In an automobile and endeavor
to make a record between that city and
New York.
Mr.. Richard earle, now playing at the
New York Theater in ''Mary's Lamb"
closed his engagement last night, and the
theater will be dark for two weeks In
order to permit of the annual houseclean-
ing. August the New York will open for
the season with Messrs. Conan and Har-
ris' minstrels, headed by Mr.. George
Evans.
Three consecutive weeks on the local
stage have brought George B. Frothing-
ham, the veteran Bostonian comedian. be-
period than ever before. He Is doubtless
the most popular comedian Of the entire
Aborn aggregation. and his every appear
anee on the stage is greeted with pro-
longed applause.