Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09

Harry Buyers season VIII pegln the
latter part of August
Isadore Duncan. the dancer. is to make
an American tour next season.
"Pinafore" has been revived in London
and is being played to crowded houses.
A new attraction is going to try to riva
the Salome furore with an Apache dance
William Collier has delivered a new
play, called The Patriot to Charles
Frohman.
Eben Plympton may again play his orig
inal part OF the Russian grand duke lr
1.-The Man From Home
Hilda Spong will leave vaudeville to re-
enter the dramatic field in play by Cec1
De Mile and Witter Bynner.
Elsie Janis has returned from Europe
with the proud distinction Of having con
tracted mumps from a French bulldog.
Henry E. Dixey denies the story that
he is going to play with Robert Mantel
in The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Phoebe Davies, SO long associated with
WAY Down East" will be joint star in
q new play with London actor-manager
Wright Lorimer returns to the manage
ment of William A. Brady, and will tour
in The Shepherd King.
George Broadhurst is working on a new
play for Brady and Grismer 1t is expect
ed in time for late, spring production.
Negotiations are pending for the pro-
Guction of The Chorus Lady in Ger
many, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Den
mark.
t1yo1S MT DC
season 1t is said she contemplates de-
voting her time to German dramatic
translations.
Frances Ring is to succeed Charlotte
Walker in the Chicago company playing
the woman's part.
Since royalty in England is patronizing
the dances Of Isadore Duncan they ought.
In some quarters at least to have great
vogue on this side.
Both Blanche Bates and Frances Starr
are announced to appear in new plays.
under the management OF David BelaSco,
the coming season.
Genevieve Haines. the wife Of Robert T.
Haines, is to write a play. for Florence
Robert. in which that actress Twill, be
starred by John Cort.
One of the new productions Of the sea-
son in New York will be THE Likes o
Me-" by Wilfred r. Colby, with Boris
keane in the principal role.
Robert Milton. who will have charge of
the stage production Of THE Devil next
season. has sailed for Europe to study the
piece as it Is played on the other side.
Henry Savage has decided to change the
n n - "a
Devil" which is q literal translation of
Der Teufel," the Viennese title of the
play.
This season. it is said. Charles F>roh-
man is to bring more foreign stars to
America than have heretofore been gath
cred under the banner OF any manager
in this country.
The Washington and Chicago ball teams
the New Academy next Friday night.
when they will occupy boxes to witness
Taylor Granville in The Star Bout
A fantastic comedy called THE New
Zealander" will be tried out in the course
of the season by Brady and Grismer. 1t
is the work Of Caroline B. Patten Of Phil
adelphia.
Charles Frohman will have twenty-five
to thirty companies to manage this sea-
SON. He has under contract to write plays
for him August Thomas, Clyde Fitch. ].
M. Barrie. w. s. Vaughan, A. w. Pinero,
Henry A. Jones and Henri Bernstein.
1t is said that since Henry w Savage
produced THE Merry Widow" he has re-
ceived no less than eighty-seyen manu-
scripts of plays and opera librettos in
which the central character is q widow.
either grass or sod.
Herr Karl Schmidt's grand opera. THE
Lady of the Lake. based on Sir Walter
alton by the directors OF the Berlin Royal
Opera for an early production in the Ger
man capital.
Maude Adams has arrived in London.
the first stage In the journey she is to
undertake through the principal capitals
of Europe. The only certainty in Miss
Adams travelling schedule is that she
will hear the Ring at the Bayreuth festi-
val
Marie Doro. Ethel Barrymore and Will
liam H. Crane. the first in Scotland. the
second with her brother. Lionel. in Paris.
and the third at Carlsbad. are among the
est stay in Europe, without as yet giving
signs of return to America
After William Gillette makes his appear
anCe IN samson ne Will give over uts
days to writing his new play. While Mr.:
Gillette was playing In Secret Service
he made his dramatization OF Sherlock
Holmes" between Los Angeles and his ap-
pearance in 'Clarice" in Boston.
Ralph Kellard. who played Juvenile roles
with the stock company at the Belasco
this summer, during the engagement OF
Charlotte Walker. has been re-engaged
by Belasco to play the role OF Tom Dab
ney in 1.-The Warrens of Virginia" The
play will be seen here during the coming
season, at the Belasco Theater.
Among the many we'll known celebrities
Of the prize ring who are said to have
acted as .supers'' in the prize ring scene
in the third act of Taylor Granville's
The Star Bout which is the attraction
at the New Academy this week. during
it's twenty-four- week-run in New York.
are Bob Fitzsimmons. Kid Mccoy, Tom
Sharkey, Harry Harris. Joe bernstein,
Willie Lewis. Tommy Murphy, Kid Broad.
Jack Goodman. Young Otto and such well
known members Of the theatrical profes-
sion as Ted Marks. Lee Harrison sam
Bernard, Fred Mace and Jules Won Iiyer
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