Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22

| The Dictator is TO De producea All
London. with Seymour Hicks IN VIII
liam Golfers former role.
Jerome X. Jerome and Clyde Fitch are
both to write plays for Grace George, il
| which she will appear next season.
Eddie Foy is to produce John D. Gill
bert's musical comedy, The Wild ane
| Woolly Way
| With the withdrawal of THE Education
of Mr.. Pipp'' and .'Shore Acres Digby
Bell will return to vaudeville.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Rapley return
I ed Friday from their four weeks trip t.
Havana, Palm Beach and st. Augustine.
| Miss Lottie Blair Parker. author OF
| "Under Southern Skies. spent Monday
and Tuesday in this city. She is also the
author of Way Down East.
| Carlotta Nilsson who has been starring
play called Failing Leaves 1t is
founded on an Italian drama.
A new American playwright has been
| discovered in a merchant in Cincinnati
| who has written a play called ''The Way
of an Aristocrat"
1t was rumored in New York last week
| that Josie Sadler. who has made the com
edy hit of "A Waltz Dream will be the
star Of the new erbert-McDonough comic
opera to be produced next fall
William Collier is hard at work upon
the manuscript of a new play. to be done
in COLA boration with Haddon Chambers
and shortly due for final consideration by
Charles Frohman.
Marie Doro has persuaded Charles Froh-
man to let her appear in America next
sea son in THE Morals Of Marcus in or
der that cities which she has not visited
this year may have an opportunity to see
the play before the withdrawal for the
London season.
Marie Dresser concluded her vaudeville
engaxements in London last Saturday. and
her next appearance will be in musical
comedy. Miss DRESSER has gone to Monte
Carlo.
Will NJ Greasy ard Miss Blanche Dayne.
who have been appearing In The village
Lawyer" closed the show in New York
last night, and will return 10 vaudeville
in Chicago tomorrow night
The contract between May Irwin and
the vaudeville syndicate has run out. and
the actress quietly slipped out OF New
York last week for a visit to London and
Paris. looking for a comedy or farce III
which she can star next season.
In "Three Twins" the new musical com
edy now running in Chicago, fully
equipped merry-go-round is introduced at
the end Of the first act One of the big
gest individual hits of the piece is made
by Bessie Mccoy.
Henrietta Crosman is returning to roper
tory. She will appear in the old comedy,
"The Country Girl" and in 1.-THE Tanning
OF the Shrew'' and LAS You Like It."
She may also revive Madame Sans
Gene"
Harvard's famous Hasty Pudding Club
is busy with it's annual theatriea.s. The
Fate Fakirs' is the name of the two-a";
musical comedy now in rehearsal. 1t
was written by G. L. Hay. 10. of Wash
ington. and r. l.. Sweet, 'Os, of Co:ccs
Bobby Barry, with His Homo the
Mayor is the son Of the senior member
Of the old team of Irish comedians. barry
and Fay. while Hugh Fay, with the same
company. IL the son of the other III arl:, IT.
Harry Kelly, the leading comedian, is
the son Of John T. Kelly.
Last Thursday night Marguerite Sylvia
made successful debut in grand opera
at Berne. Switzerland, appearing as
calls after each act, and after the final
curtain was called out ten times. Miss
Sylvia was we'll known in this country a
few years ago as comic opera star.
Henry b. Harris has obtained from
Edith Ellis a four-act play entitled 1.-The
Nebraskan." which he will present next
September, with Edmund Breese in the
chief role. Mr.. Breese was the original
Ryder Of 1.-The Lion and the Mouse
part in which he has appeared since 1905.
Ralph G. Herr, who Is playing in 1.-The
Soul Kiss" is of English parentage and
came to this country as leading man for
Mrs. Patrick Campbell. For two seasons
he was with Lulu CHASER and last year
they were married. He may be starred in
q play written especially for him.
Springfield Mass is William Faver-
sham's "hoodoo'' town. On four different
sham has been billed In that city and
each time iilness has prevented his APP
pearance. Last week he was to have APP
peared in THE Squaw Man" but the
grip prevented him.
On the heels of the report that Edna
Goodrich, Nat Goodwin's leading woman,
is to be married to ]. II. Mcmillan comes
another that her mother, Nellie King.
will shortly wed George Weldon, MIR.
Goodwin's business manager. When Miss
Goodrich was one of the ''Florofcra"
sextet her mother was in the chorus.
THE Hotel Clerk a musical comedy
by Robert Smith and Alfred E Aaron..
will be given it's first performance April
20 In Philadelphia. Harry Fisher has
been engaged for the title role, ard Elfie
Fay Is to be the leading woman. the
piece was originally called Hotel Noise,
but has been entirely rewritten.
The engagement of Mrs. Robert Bar
clay Mcpherson to Francis NJ. Livingston
was announced last week in New York
the wedding to take place April 8. Mrs
Mcpherson was Marie Burroughs. who
made her last appearance on the stage as
co-star with Maurice Barrymore in "A
Battle Of the Strong"
The subscription sale of seats for the
Guy Standing Stock Company at the Be-
opening play, 1.-THE Mummy and the Hum
ming Bird" will be presented May 4. VIII
A. Page announces that Mr. Standing will
be supported by one of the best groups OF
PLAYERS eyer seen in this city during a
summer engagement
Two more members of the original COM
pany have been corralled to take part
in the London production of THE Col
lexe Widow" They are Frances Ring and
Thomas Meighan, both of whom have re-
signed from 1.-The Man Of the Hour COM
pany In order to resume their former roles
as the original Billy, Bolton and Miss
Ring as Jane Witherspoon.
Sir John Hare has been persuaded by
Arthur Bourchier to undertake a sea
son I'm London at the Garrick Theater the