The Washington herald., 1908-09-06
NOTES OF THE STAGE

W. LIZ VI LIE = L ASzE.
ChrystaI Herne is stin on the sick list
although in convalescent state.
.Ben-Bur' will be given for It's z5ootb
performance in Elmira on October
Clara Palmer has retired from The
Top O. The World TO join Marie CahHL
Amy Ricard has returned to the cast o.
I '-Cirls-' She has recovered from her re-
cent illness.
VIII West. Walter Lawrence. and Irene
( Bentley have been engaged by the Sha-
berts for next summers revew at the
/ Casino
Edc-r selwyn's new play. Father and
Son which has been acquired By the
shuberts. win have a production some
time in November
Adeline Genee is booked TO san for
I New York on September 3 and as soon
/ as she arrives the tor OF The Soul
Kiss" viii com1Ience-
Gus Edwards new play. School
Days" met with the approval OF the
critics IN Atlantic City last Tuesday
night Many Of the honors fell to Janet
/ Priest
Ethel Barrymore has arrived from
abroad and started rehearsaIs yesterday
/ in Lady Frederick" Her season begins
I IN Utica at the Majestic Theater on Sen
/ tember 16.
I Edna May spooner has been eseaeed
by Klaw & ErIanger 10 play the leading
feminine roe in a Mountain Boy" .
play Of Kentucky. by Marion Short and
Pauline Phelps
Marion Stanley. Josie Barrovs. VIII
I lam Edmund. Eineen Sheridan. George
I Lydecker. and Alexander Kleiunan have
I been signed by the Rogers Brothers for
: The Rogers Brothers in Panama"
John J McNaHy has. completed the
book OF The Bonnie Belle OF Scotland"
for Alice Lloyd, and George II Cohan is
at work on the music Miss LLOYD IS due
20 return from England in a few weeks.
Frederic Thompson. who is now in
ChieaEo, has c.sJsged jls date of ~Ticey'
20 September :. al the CHICAGO Ooara
House. so as not 10 conflict with new
play which VIII be offered on Septem-
Der G.
The title Of Charles Klein's new play.
formerly announced as The Mischief
Makers" has been changed 70 The
Third Degree" Il viii be offered bv
Henry B. Harris in Boston toward the
latter part Of November
Vincent Serrano is 20 appear in q
dranisstization OF The Brass Bowl
which is 10 be offered IT the TsvIor On
.~a ETr--ea =r-
The book viii be put 20 stage by Winch
ell smith and Joseph Vance.
The many local friends OF Tunis Dean
viii be glad to learn that he VIII again
be the business manager for Blanche
Bates this season il her new stellar ve-
nicle, The Fighting Hope AIr. Dean
arrived in town yesterday with AIr Be
lasco- Miss Bates. and her comuary-
Charles Emmerson Cook. the general
press representative for David Belasco-s
attractions. has been in tovn for several
days booming the premiere performance
tomorrow night at the Belasco Thesrar
or Miss Blanche Bates IN The Fighting
Hope AIr. Cook viii remain 70 watch
the performance with SIr Belasco
There was nothing surprising in the
anaouncement thai FRITZ Schef was go
Ing 20 marry again. because John Fox.
Jr-- her future husband las been q de-
voted slitor for long time M Fox Is
vei-known novelist who MADE his
mark several years aco. He saws Miss
>cleH viii continue her professional ca
7esr for the present
Another dramatic actress has made
lift in polite vaudeville she IS anne
Blaucke. eX-wffe OF James NeI. and
comedien1e Of wide experience Miss
blancNe last made her debut IN q sketch
written and staged by Bob HiIIiard. and
is reported 70 have Won instantaneous
success Mss Bls1cke has been booked
for Chass's this season.
Virginia Harmed and her couranv were
the chief attraction at the opening Of
the Brooklyn Orpheum last week. and
the actress was the occasion OF tbe
gathering Of the greatest audience il
the history OF the theater- She produced
her new cne-sct play. written bv herself
70 which she has given the name OF
The IDOL Of the Hour II Is a plav Of
the stage and il is kiIJed thai Mass
Harmed Is herself the reaI-Iife heroine
upon whose career the sketch is built
Miss Harmed comes 10 Chase-s Ssote1l-
ber q
Marie CahilTs press agent has been
working overtime s1d Sundays evidently
IN planting interviews with his fair
star in which she calls upon all the pow
ers that De and beant 10 stop The rapid
iecadence and degenerecy of the modern
stage. both dramatic and vaudeville bv
the -Salome" dancers She claims thar
t is really only a polite presentation Of
ne lorrorS or nnuchee. which in davS
gone by was confined 10 variety houses
and midways- Advocates Of the modern
Salome' thing admit that there IS
TriEsle concealed IL IT, but they enter a
general and specific denial as 70 the
louchees-