Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-02

Owen Johnson. the playwright arrived
| in New ork recently and announced that
| farewell tour in 1910. She will then
be SO years old.
Felix Haney. whose excellent work as
| Alderman Phelan in Man of the Hour
company has attracted much attention,
| has been engaged for the same role
in the western company next season.
rope to select her gowns for the pro-
duction of THE Stronger Sex" which
will be produced under the direction of
| Wagenhals & Kempler early in October.
new musical comedy is called THE
Girl at the Helm" 1t is to be hoped,
| says a wit, she will steer her musical
bark upon the high seas to the port of
| financial success
Cyril Scott will play for the next five
weeks under the management of Joseph
r. Grismer. Under Grismer and w. A.
Brady he will star the coming season in
a play by George Broadhurst.
Wagenhals & Kemper will have a num-
Der OF companies playing Paid in Full. 4"
They have arranged to shift the players
of the various casts from one company
to another as occasion requires.
San Francisco has approved New York
verdict ABOUT The Servant in the House
and the Henry Miller associated players.
The reception of the play in San Fran
cisco is said to have been all that could
be desired
Thomas A. Wise becomes a Brady star
after he has finished with Miss Hook of
Holland" for Charles Frohman. He
sissippi." written by himself and Harri-
son Rhodes
Mr.. DIPPED is negotiating with Nine
Ida Heidler for brief engagement in
New York Nine Heidler bears the title
of Kammersangerin court singer and
has been a leading member of the Royal
Opera House in Berlin for years.
Sir Charles Wyndham will produce an
adapt alton of play at the New Theater
in New ork which has met with great
success in Vienna. 1t is entitled The
Blue Mouse" and is the work Of Walter
Engle and julius Horste.
Billie Burke. who last year was John
Drews leading woman, is to become a
st At. Announcement was made at Charles
Frohman's office that the manaser would
provide her with new play called Love
Matches"
Miss Eva TanSuay announces Salome
dance. She has been engaged by Mr.
Percy Williams for a period of three
months and she will be seen first at the
Alhambra Theater, August g. She will
wear a costume said to COS, $1,000.
Geraldine Farrar has been engaged for
the Opera Comique in Paris. Engage
ments from both the Opera and the OPP
era Comiaue were offered her. but she Sc
lected the house where Carmen" and
Louise were first produced.
Among the foreign concert attractions
that will be heard in America this fall is
Midaglio and his band. an organization
that has. under the direction of its con-
ductor. Joseph Misaglio. made a name in
Italy and the cities of the old w Id.
The New National Theater will be the
starting point in the career of several
new plays the coming season. This will
mean that Washington will witness sew
eral important first nights" before the
new season is well under way.
The future of "Greenroom Glimpses,
the New National Theater's weekly jour-
nal. is in the balance. 1t has been ru-
mored that the weekly will appear next
season as an all-theater publication. COW
ering the entire theatrical field in Wash
ingtOn.
Maxine Elliott has engaged Julian
LEstrange. young actor of the roman
tic school. for her forthcoming autumn
season. He is the husband of Constance
Collier who is shortly to appear in New
York in William Gillette's version of
Henry Bernstein's Samson"
Helene L. Warde has signed with Dan
Su.ly as leading woman for next season.
She IS at present enjoying a pleasant
vacation at her sisters home in Toronto,
Canada. Her husband j. j. Kennedy,
has also signed with Mr.. Sully for the