Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16


Miss Hattie Fox. who is with Gay
New York at the Majestic this week is
Washington girl and lived in this city
until a year ago. This is her first Sc ason
on the stage.
Margaret Wycherly starts in tomorrow
night as the leading lady of the Castle
Square Stock Company in Boston and
will be seen in repertoire for the next
three months at least.
A report comes form New York to tho
effect that Henrietta Crosman has been
left fortune of more than S100.O00 in
India by a relative and will go TO that
country TO secure possession OF It.
Edith Wynne Matthison is touring New
England in THE Great Divide" having
taken Margaret Anglins place. Miss An
glin opens in THE Awakening OF Helena
Richie" at Providence tomorrow night
Sousa was Frustrated by ptomaine poi
scnng at Milwaukee November %. 1907.
Just nine years before to the very day
he was FRUSTRATED by typhoid-pneumonia
in the same city and hotel.
THE Boy and the Girl" Richard Carries
latest musical comedy has been tried in
Boston. Mr.. earle closed the tour of "A
Spring Chicken" so that he could super
wise the first performances of the piece
Henry of Lancaster is the name of
the new play which Gladys Unger has
written for Ellen Terry, who will produce
it about the 2Sth of this month. The
piece deals with the period of Richard III.
Olga Nethersole will present Carmen"
and THE Enigma" during her forthcom-
ing engagement at the New National.
She Is this season reciting a prologue at
every performance. appearing dressed in
the costume of Pierrot
George Evans, the honey boy of the
vaudeville stage, is to head a minstrel
company under the management of Conan
* Harris. Evans has signed a fve-year
contract with this firm, and the tour
starts in about the first of August.
George N. Conan and his bride, who
was Agnes Merrill. are visitors in WASH
ington. Mr.. and Mrs. Cohan will attend
the opening performance Of Mile. Mod
iste" at the New National tomorrow night
as the guests OF Nine. Scheff.
James X. Hackett announced last week
in New York that he had made arrange
ments with Mrs. Elinor Glyn for the
dramatiZation Of her novel, Three
Weeks" and that the play would be
presented this season.
Ada Lewis and Sam Edwards NJ Tho
Fascinating Flora company which 70.
Gently closed. have been added to the
cast OF Nearly Hero" In which Sam
Bernard is starring. Miss Lewis replaces
Daisy Green.
Next season Grace Van Studdiford will
star in a light opera now being written
Tor nef by Harry b. Smith and Reginald
De hoven. The scenes of the opera will
be laid in Budapest and the principal
characters will be Hungarian.
ToI,o
soprano from the Metropolitan Opera
company, New York, will be the special
soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Tuesday afternoon. February 25 at the
New National This will be the last con-
cert of the season
Margaret Ellington at the close OF her
engagement in The THIEF in June will
pay In one or two modern pieces under
tha management of Daniel Frohman, who
will then star her in Shakespearean plays
including Macbeth and Romeo and
Juliet
a special from Boston says that Julia
Marlowe is to appear i'm new role in the
course of her engagement at the Majestic
Theater in that city. The young women
in the audience will be permitted to ask
questions regarding stage career, to all
OF which the actress will reply.
Little Edith Taliaferro has been called
in of the road and placed in a Fashionable
private school in New York. She has
understudied her sister, Mabel in the
leading part of Polly of the Circus"
and in case Of necessity will assume that
role on moments notice
Otis Skinner in his New York engage
ment will call the attention of the audi
ence to the rise of the curtain on each
act by the historic French method OF
sounding three loud raps of a club upon
the floor of the STAGE Just before the cur
tain is to ascend.
Jack Standing. leading man for Mrs.
Leslie Carter last season. has been en-
gagged by Miss Olga Nethersole to play
round of important parts in her roper
tore His engagement will begin tomor-
row evening in Days Theater, New
York. in ''Adrienne Lecouvreur"
William Faversham will be his own
manager next season and will produce
three plays-"The Explorers" by Lang
don Mitchell, a story of army life in In
dia: drama of New York life by Mar
tina Morton. and The World and His
Wife" by Charles f. Nirdlinger.
Henry B. Harris has retained Miss
Grace Eliston as a leading woman for
Dustin Farnum i'm The Rector's Garden"
which will be produced in New York to-
morrow night. William Courtenay and
cast
Last Thursday Eddie Foy the come
dian, complet ted negotiations whereby he
becomes the owner of twenty-room
house and nine acres of land. on the
outskirts of White Plains New York,
The place overlooks the Knollwood Coun-
try Club and is said to have cost $22-
Ou0.
At Ann Arbor. Mich, Robert Edeson
resigned the title role in Classmates"
to Frank Mcintyre. who plays a promi-
nent part I'm the piece, because Mr. Me-
Intyre is a graduate of Ann Arbor Uni
versity and had a large number of friends
in the place who were anxious to see
him.
The reception given to the first per-
Torrance of THE Woman of kronstadt"
in London last Saturday night was not
one to promise a long run of the play
adapted by Max Pemberton and George
Fleming from Pembertons book. There
was a fierce outburst of boo-ing at the
final curtain.
Thomas w. Ross. whom Henry B. Har-
ris viii present in James Forbes new
play, THE Travelling Salesman" at the
Theater March 16 made his
debut at the Boston Museum in 1892. Mr..