Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

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Israel Zangwill will shortly publish
| The Melting Pot" in book form. 1t will
be dedicated To President Roosevelt.
Ella Herbert. the daughter of Victor
Herbert. gave party Wednesday III
honor ot her nineteenth birthday.
Otis Skinner is to have a play by Jo-
sephine Preston Peabody, a we'll known
literary woman.
Jessie Milward has been engaged TO
play a promirents role in Lady Freder-
lex with Ethel Barrymore's company
tract calling for 10 per cent of the gross
receipts of the Weber show.
If Sam Bernard cannot get a new and
satisfactory play he says he will try
vaudeville for twenty weeks.
In another week Joseph Coyne and Alex
andra Carlisle will terminate their en-
gagement with The Mullosc' and return
to London.
George Beban. who is playing the prin-
cipal part in The American Idea" will
be starred next year in a new comedy
drama.
will open in New York for run No
yember 23. following paid in Full at
Weber's Theater
Jameson Lee F.nney is to appear under
the Shubert management in a prominent
part in The Blue Mouse as adapted by
Clyde Fitch
George Broadhursts latest play. AN
Interna tional Marriage" with Digby Bell
in the cast. was produced for the first
time at Hartford last Monday night.
Following the close Of the two years
run of Paid in Full' at Webars Thea
ter, New York the company will go into
Philadelphia for run.
Nine. Emma Calve has been making
a study of the American vocal pupil and
says she only reproach American
singers In that they have sacrificed dra-
| matte to vocal art.
Sailor, cowboy. soldier. newspaperman
and actor is the record of Leo Donnelly.
who is in the Chase bill this week. He 10
a member of the famous Pen and Pencil
Club of Philadelphia.
Reports have reached this city that IN
order to avoid ticket speculation Lew,
Dockstader will absolutely refuse to sell
more than 200 tickets for any one per-
formance to any one person.
Conan & Harris announce that George
Evans will remain the star of the Cohan
e. Harris Ministries next season when
they will star Julian Eltinge in drama
tization of '.Mademoiselle de Maupin."
Clara Lpman. the wife OF Louis
Mann is to have new play by Nine. !;
de Gresac, the author of The Marriagg'
; OF Kitty in the original French and e.
Cora" in which Bertha Kalich Is to stag.
Mary Mannering made her appearances
! in Providence last week in the new play
called THE Struggle by Edwin Tilton.
| The star role calls for considerable emo
tional work Miss Mannering has an
| entirely new company.
| Jesse l.. Lasky is to enter the field
of musical comedy and. in conjunction
| with Henry B. Harris, is to launch a
big show. Mr.. Lasky's AT the Country
| Club at ChaSeS last week scored a
! notable success.
E. II. O'Conner of this city is meeting
| with success in THE Millinery Shop"
musical comedy in condensed form for
| vaudeville. He has a breezy, up-to-date
| character. which he handles i'm way
| that is winning him recognition as one OF
| the rising comedians Of the day.
| Dan Smith, late OF the New York Her
aid staff. made a flying trip TO Washing
ton during the week in the interest OF
| Algeria Following the engagement
here the company jumps 10 Chicago for
a run at the Chicago Opera House.
L The Apacnp dance. introduced IN lie
| Mimic World by Bert French and Miss
| Alice Els is a picture of the dancing in
| the lower haunts of Paris. An Apache
| is the term descriptive of French DULLES
visiting the night quarters of the French
| capital.
Whippet fanciers will be interested in
the coming of Anna Field. who has the
censor in Mrs. wigs of the Cabba ee
Patch" Miss Field. who is an English
girl. is expert in whippet racing. and
carries with her two of the best bred
and fastest dogs ever brought from Great
Britain.
Miss Corsaire a young French actress,
made her American debut in The Band
box at Chases last week. She has been
| considering a number of offers from
American managers who feature the style
Of work she does the French maid In
Mrs. Schraders comedy.
William H. Crane has just closed nego-
tiations with firm of publishers to
write his stage memoirs. which will be
complied under the title of Forty Years
on the Stage" His stage "reminiscences
start from the time he made his debut
a member of a comic opera company.
1.-The Submarine" will be presented in
vaudeville by Mr.. Thomas w. Ryley at
i the Colonial Theater. New York, tomorrow
night The playlet was originally pro-
i duced i'm the Grand Guignol, in Paris.
where it ran for several months to
/ crowded houses.
i De Wolf Hopper has so far recovered
i from his recent injury as TO begin rehear-
sails of revision of the play which he
i was appearing in when hurt. The title
has been changed from What Happened
Then to The Pied Piper" The book
and company have also been changed.
Il
| Alfred kappeler of Lasky's ."rhe Love
Waltz called The Merry Widow OF
Vaudeville" is Washingtonian. men,
her of the Columbia Athletic Club. the
Kappa Sigma and the Theta Nu Epsilon
fraternities. AS a boy he was page in
the Senate.
| Blanche Walsh and company OF more
than usual strength produced Jules Eek
art Goodman's bird dramatic offering,
1.-THE Test at Atlantic City last week.
and is credited with a success. The
| story deals with settlement worker
| in New York who falls in love with
woman of the slums with past history.
Franz Molnar the brilliant author OF
| The Devil der TeufeD the triumphant
| comedy which Henry w. Savage Is pre-
sentinR. is a leading Journalist of Buda-
pest and also one of the best known
publicists in Hungary. AS writer on
| physiological topics he holds high posi-
ton, and he is also noted public speak
| er. Herr Molnar is not yet thirty-five
years old.