Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06

FRS Theater. New York. Miss Russelrs
managers believe the end is not yet in
light.
The opening performance of 1.-The
Girls OF Gottenburg' at the New National
Theater. December II. will be for tho
benefit of the Resident Nurse Fund Farm
tngton Society.
Mrs. Leslie Carter is Withholding in
lorna ton relative to her new play to be
presented in Washington early In Janu-
airy. The actress is personally selecting
the members OF her company
The Hengler sisters. English dancers
and singers, have forsaken musical
comedy, in which they have been ap-
pearing under Charles Frohmans man
ascment. and are in vaudeville.
The corner stone of the much-heralded
new theater in New York will be laid
December IL. The ceremony. which will
be most formal will be presided over by
the mayor.
Louis Mann's New York run in The
Man Who Stood Still ended last night
road This piece is by Jules Eckert
Goodman author of The Test
Eugenia That's I.awton has been
gagged by Henry Miller as leading woman
In The Great Divide" and made her
nrst appearance with the company i'll
Boston during the past week
Announcement is made by John Cort
that following her tour of the world i'll
concert next spring Emma Calve will re-
turn TO America in the autumn to head
grand opera company singing Car
men.
\ Iarg. party of Washing,onians have
arranged to go over to Baltimore Mon
day night to witness the premier of Roy
l.. McCardelrs new comedy. Tho Gay
LIFE" at the Auditorium Theater. Mr.
McCardeu is native Marylander and
has many friends in Washington.
Miss Georgia Strauss the leading con-
tralto of the Abramson Italian Grand
Opera Company, is a native OF Erie. Pa
Her splendid work during the engage
ment of the Abramson Company at the
American Theater. New York. was highly
praised.
Miss Diamond Donner one of the
sopranos of the AbramSon Italian Grand
Opera Company. is a graduate of must
cyl comedy where she appeared with
Thomas Seabrooke in THE Millionaire
and Henry W. Savage's first Prince of
Filsen.
The law under which theatrical licenses
are granted in London has been amended
as to place greater restriction upon
tine giving of Sunday entertainments.
The amendments are aimed primarily at
music hall and other performances. and
will have little effect upon the regular
theaters.
The furniture used in 1.-The Test" in
watch Blanche Walsh will be seen. comes
from the actress summer home al WOODS
Hole Mass Miss Walsh found that the
enyirons in which the scenes of THE
laiI led cXtr30rQl-
rarv furniture, and she decided to take IL
from her own home.
Sheppard Friedman. business manager
for Blanche Walsh. was formerly a de-
t-ctive in Texas. He was one of the trio
of sleuths who ran down and captured
II. II. Holmes, who was hanged In Phlla-
dalphia after having confessed that he
committed more than twenty-one muir
ders.
Miss Margaret Ellington for two years
the star in 1.-The Thief and the season
before that leading lady for John Drew.
according to statement made last
Wednesday night in New York by Daniel
Frohman, her husband has retired from
the stage for good. Ill-health is given as
the cause.
Charles klein's play. THE Third De-
gree" came into notice by playing at
five minutes notice Blanche Bates role
of Cigarette in Under Two Flags Miss
Bates having been taken Ill. On the
strength of that performance Miss Ware
was engaged for the part Of Mauame AL
Sarez with Robert Edeson, in The Sol
der of Fortune
Annie Russell and her company. now
playing in 1.-The Stronger Sex at Weber's
Theater New York. are likely to make q
trip to Australia. Negotiations are now
Miss Russell's managers, and j. G. VII
Hanson for the disposal to the latter Of
the Australian rights OF 1.-THE Stronger
Sex.
An important new production of last
week in New York was 1.-The Winter
feast" by Charles Ram Kennedy. the
author of The Servant I'm the House. It
IL story of early Iceland and the tale
deals with elemental life and passions
Like it's predecessor. II carries on the
action continuously. and is full of re-
venge and bloodshed.
In the cast of Through Death Valley"
Is Dark Cloud A genuine. full-blooded
Sioux Indian said TO be- the most per-
fcctly formed Indian in the world. He
has posed before artists and sculptors for
the larger share of statues and portraits
Of the American Indian which are seen In
so many art stores at the present time.
The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" can
celed its dates last week and went into
rehearsal for it's opening In New York to-
morrow night. When this widely discuss
ed musical play is ushered into the Circle
Theater. New York. tomorrow night Rich
ard F. Carroll will be found in the role of
the principal comedian in place of VIII
liam Courtegh.
cablegram from London says that
Somerset Vaughan has delivered 10
Charles Frohman the manuscript of a
new play TO be produced in London at
the Comedy Theater, when the same au-
thor'S Mrs Dot has ceased to attract.
The piece is light comedy in three acts.
at present named Penelope" the scenes
being laid in London. The leading role,
that of young wife. is specially de-
signed for Marie Tempest.
Last Monday night at the Belasco, Miss
Amelia Stone the prlrna donna of 1.-THE