The Washington herald., 1908-05-10
NOTES OF THE STAGE


NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Helen Hale has been signed by Charles
Frohman for a term Of years.
Eleanor Robson was so III that her date
in Poughkeepsie, n. Y, had to be can
celed.
Herr Conrled has sailed for Europe. and
expects TO be absent from New York all
summer.
Mrs. Thomas Whiffen celebrated her
forty-nfth anniversary on the stage last
Monday.
THE Man of the Hour" has passed It's
125th performance in Boston. and it stiTl
goes on.
Christie Macdonald goes back to the
cast Of Miss Hook of Holland" for its
Chicago season.
Mary Shaw has revived Mrs. warren's
Profession" in San Francisco, and she
was not arrested
Grace CameTon's season has been ex-
tended 10 august 3. She will continue 10
use Little Dolly Dimples'
The shuberts are going to star Anna
Laughlin, so It is said Just when the
announcement did not state.
new sketch by VIII Cressy named
The Call Boy is now in rehearsal by
the Brien-Havel company.
Ezra Kendall has decided TO defer the
presentation Of ''The Land Of Dollars" in
New York until next season.
It is reported that the Henry Miller Az
ISOLATED Players will appear next season
in a new version Of Electra.
Miss Ian Forbes Robertson returned to
England last Wednesday. She says she
will come back to New York IN the fall.
1.-THE Soul Kiss" and "The Yankee
Prince" are to have long runs in Chicago
next season al the Colonial Theater
H Reeves Smith has gone back to Eng
land, where he is 10 play a summer en-
gagement He viii return in August.
Joseph E Howard has completed the
/ score Of a new musical comedy, In which
he viii star next season with his wife,
| Mabel Barrison.
Announcement is made that Charles
/ Frohman intends TO bring Mrs. Dot 10
America. This is the play which Marie
/ TaunpEf fe uefug IN T.oudou
| A W Dingwall, affectionately known
as Sandy" sails for Europe on Wednes-
/ day. Edward Cooke viii go along for
ballast He weighs nearly 200 pounds.
Aubrey Boucicault Joined Henrietta
/ Crosmans company in Cincinnati last
/ night and will continue as her leading
man for the balance Of the season.
/ Edgar selwyn ended his tour yesterday
He may go abroad 10 join his wife, Mar
Parker over his new play, pierre of the
1 Plains"
Margaret Anglin and Henry Miller have
| begun their travels through the North
west on their way to the Pacific Coast
The Great Divide" is doing a phenomenal
/ business.
| Ada Mitchell. who retired from the
stage to become the wife of Charles Ems
ley, has decided to again appear before
the footlights through the medium of the
vaudeville stage.
/ IND x4-hA ill =.
manns Love Tales" at the New National
/ this week. Is a Washington singer who
/ has met with success in many of the best
/ standard opera companies.
/ Washington singers are having their in
nings at the New National. Thus faI
have appeared Mile Murray. Lenna Duer
Irene Dieterieh. Estelle Wentworth, Hunt.
/ ingtOn May. and many others.
Many of the old Bostonians will renew
pleasant Washington memories wher
Robin Hood" the tuneful Smith and
/ de Koven comic opera, is revived by the
/ Aborns the last week of this month.
/ All operas presented by the Aborns this
summer are received through the Wit
mark Music Library, Of New York. The
/ Witmarks have provided all the musical
numbers for the new spectacular produc-
/ ton. Miss Poeahontas, soon to be pro-
duced in Philadelphia.
Thomas Dixon, jr's, novel. "The TraI-
tor" has been dramatized by Claiming
/ Pollock and Mr.. Dixon. Contracts have
/ been signed with George H. Brennan for
the production OF the play, the first per-
/ Torrance of which will be given In Nor
| folk, Va, next September.
/ Anna Held intended closing her success
/ full season last Saturday night. but de-
cided at the last moment to extend II
three additional weeks. Charles A. Bige-
/ low. who created the principal comedy
part in THE Partisan Model" and who
/ was with Miss Held all of last season.
has rejoined the organization.
! Tia Grannon is Kentuekys latest con-
tribution to the ranks Of polite vaudeville.
and the dainty vocalist with name that
/ Is familiar to all who follow the meander-
I ings of the ponies has made Il hit
! that has reverberated all the way from
/ New York back to the walnut hills Of
/ her home State.
There was a sort of reunion OF the
famous old three-star combination in ST
Louis Some years ago jefferson De An
CELLS. Lillian Russell. and Della Fox Gre
ated a furore in The Wedding Day i
/ BY coincidence, all three played IN ST
/ Louis last week. Miss Fox in vaudeville
Mr.. De Angels in The Gay White Way,
and Miss Russell did not play on Sunday
night, so paid visit to her former Co
stars.