The Washington herald., 1908-02-02
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

The Village Lawyer"
Junle McCree is no longer connected
with The Girl Question"
Eleanor Robson viii appear at the Ma
Gonal soon IN "Salomy Jane
Leo Ditrichstein has begun rehearsals
Of al new comedy OF his own authorship.
George N. Cohan has got back from
London and viii now reheaTse The Maid
/ Servant"
a new play by Alfred Capus was
brought out at the Comedie Francaise in
/ Paris on January 90
James Forbes new play. 10 be produced
By Henry b. Harris. viii go into re-
hearsal next Monday.
John Drew and Billie Burke are sched-
uled for an early engagement at the New
/ National In "My Wife
During her engagement fin Buffalo this
week Amelia Bingham is to revive "The
Frisky Mrs. johnson"
Eugenia Barker. late Of the San Carlos
/ Opera Company, has gone into vaude-
/ vile with an operate sketch.
Jessie Busley has obtained the rights
20 "'rhe Agitator." by Mrs Oscar Barin-
ger. now being played in London.
/ Rehearsals are now under way Of "The
/ Village Lawyer" which Win Cressy will
/ offer In Philadelphia some time this
month
| A new four-act play Les Deux
/ Hommes,7 by Alfred Capus. was pro
/ duced at the Coincide Franchise on Jan
uary %.
VIII Archie, now appearing I'm the sup
port Of Lillian Russell in "Wudire.' was
/ a member Of the original Lilliputians
company.
Camille D'ArvilIe is in New York look
/ ing around for an opera She says the
vaudeville field is an right but II IS too
spasmodie
Mrs. Fiske's present role Of Rebecca
( West in "Rosmersholm" IS the twenty
/ second character she has acted since her
return to the stage.
| Dustin Farnum and Walter Hale are
planning for a motor car trip through
/ Europe, from Spain 10 Norway. They ex-
/ pect TO start on March J.
/ In the production OF "Old Heidelberg
at the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toron-
10 Ida Conquest PLAYED the part of Katie
/ and Edward MaCkay appeared as Helm
rich
George AIDE is writing % comic opera
90 DE presented 10y the Harlequin Club. Of
Purdue University, Lafayette. Ind. this
4. spring. The piece is TO be called THE
/ Fair Co-Ed."
/ Margaret Ellington and the company
now playing "Tbe Thief at the Lyceum
/ Theater will go TO SAN Francisco the lat
/ ter part Of May for q season at the Van
/ Ness Theater.
''The Man with Three Wives" written
/ by the author Of The Merry Widow"
/ had its premiere in Vierna on January
p George Edwardes controls the Eng
/ lish and American rights.
/ Olga Nethersole viii be at the New Ma
tioual during February in repertoire OF
. her most famous plays including The
! Awakening" II PagliaccI." The ENG
! ma. THE submarine and Carmen
Lucy Weston is now featured i'm THE
+ Foilies of 1857. after week with this
/ organization. Mr. Ziegfeld Is arranging
60 take this piece back to New York
with SOME new features. but has not set
/ tied upon the lheater.
Bertha Kalich. in Marta Of the Low
/ lands" who appears at the Belasco The
! ater shortly. opened the Shubert New
/ Thcater ut Joplin. No. last week. The
/ rights receipts We're S7--G0. every seat be-
/ ing sold at a premium
The Paradise Of Mohamet." minia-
/ ture oPeretta by Harry b. and Robert b.
/ Smith, was given trial at the Lyric
Theater I'm Philadelphia last Friday after
noon. with Blanche Ring and jefferson
/ De Angels tn the principal parts.
"The Rose of the Rancho" in which
/ Frances Starr appears at the Belasco
Theatev shortly, takes one TO the Cali
I fornia Of 1S4S. The opening scene. show
/ ing the Old Mission Of San Juan Bautista.
/ is especially beautiful and realistic.
4 Mr.. Harry Rapiey proprietor of the
T New National Theater, Illuminated Broad
way two days last week. Mr. Rapley's
/ visit 20 the metropolis was for the pur-
/ pose Of securing contracts for the balance
of the season at his popular playhouse.
/ Edith Wynn Matthison and her hus-
/ band. II. Ram Kennedy sailed for the
United States last Saturday Miss Mat
thisou is 20 appear under Henry Miller's
/ management I'm two of her husband s
plays.
/ George Broadhurst has completed the
manuscript Of "The Call Of the North.
/ the dramatlzation of Stewart Edward
/ Whites novel "ConjuTers' House" Rob
/ ert Edeson is to have the leading role
when the play is produced by Henry B.
Harris.
One OF the principals supporting JEFF
/ ferson De Angels. Blanche Ring. and
! Alexander Carr in "The Cay White
( Way is Queenie Vassar. whose name
has been familiar to lovers Of musical
! shows all over the country for a number
I of years.
/ Trouble with the electric light plant in
/ Baltimore caused all the theaters to he
in darkness last Monday night. At one or
+ two of the houses the affair was treated
+ in a humorous way Fortunately, the
trouble was overcome after a lapse Of
/ fifteen minutes Of total darkness.
/ The fourth concert by the Philadelphia
/ Orchestra, which takes place at the New
National Tuesday afternoon of this week.