Evening star., 1908-01-26

ton didn't hear about it until the sing
ing comedian had left the city.
Mabel Fairfax Brown of "The Orchid
company is a resident of Washington.
Nina Poe Bellman will appear IL
Romeo and Juliet" in Sothern's com
pany.
Estelle Taylor of this city has gone te
New York to join the Russell Brother:
company in THE Hired Girls Millions"
Irwin Pridgeon. recently with The
Man of the Hour" will enter vaudeville
in a sketch. when Kitty Sleeps" by j
y. Curtin.
William Barry. who plays the wizard
in 1.-The Wizard of Or" this season, is
the son of the late William Barry or the
team Of Barry and Fay.
George Broadhurst author OF "The Mar
of the Hour 'Why Smith Left Home
and other plays. wrote "Wildfire' for LII
liam Russell.
Albert Garcia Andrews. for fifteen years
the chief support of the late Richaro
Mansfield, is now appearing with Otis
Skinner in The Honor of the Family.
The members of the Georgetown basket
ball team who defeated Fordham last
Saturday evening, were given poA
party at the Majestic Wednesday even
ing by Manager Weston.
Most of the girls in the Teddy-girl
chorus. one of the features OF A yam
kee Tourist have been with Savage ioi
some years. They are regarded as the
leaders on his show-girl pay roll.
DR.. Carl Muck will resign from the con-
ductorship of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra at the end of the present season
owing to orders from the German kaiser
to return to the Royal Opera of Berlin
Ethel Barrymore has ended her success
full engagement at the Hudson Theater,
New York, and will make brief tour OF
the principal cities in Her Sister," the
play she is using this season.
Flayia Arcaro, who succeeded Trixic
Friganza in the character of Caroline
yokins in THE Orchid, is said to be a
musical comedy find" resembling Marie
DreSsler.
A number of the girls who were in the
chorus of the Aborn Opera Company dur
Ing it's season at the New National last
summer are now i'll FRITZ Scheff's Mile.
ModiSte' company.
Lew DocRstader will entertain some four
hundred orphans and waits at the
Wednesday matinee at the New National
this week St Johns Orphanage, Wash
ington City Asylum, Working Boys Home
and the Noel House will be represented.
Miss Percy Haswell. for several seasons
leading woman of various Washington
stock companies. is now appearing In the
support of Otis Skinner in ''The Honor OF
the Family" Miss Haswell last appeared
here as Yo-San i'll THE Darling of the
Gods
Neil O'Brien, with Lew Dockstaders
MINISTRIES, is said to be the only black
face impersonator on the stage today who
writes all of his own mono o'ogues. COM
poses his songs and writes his one-act
plays. He has been associated with Dock
stader for the past six years.
There are 200 theatrical organizations
travelling i'll the United States, and be-
tween e5,O00 and 10000 people are en-
ployed in the theatrical business. ac-
Cordinglto a statement made Friday night
by Presi sident Burnham at the dinner Of
the Theatrical Managers Association.
Little Helen Pullman. the noted child
actress who created a sensation during the
long New York run of ''The Prince Chap,
has been advanced from the role of First
Claudiap to that of Second Claudia" In
other Words. she now appears in the sec
ond and third acts of the play instead of
the fyst act.
Denis O'Sullivan the Irish actor and
singer, owing to his starring tour in
Peggy Machree," has been obliged to
decline the invitation of the Catholic
Dramatic Oratorio Society of New York
TO appear as soloist at Carnegie Hall
in February. when the oratorio of 1.-The
Nativity" by Stuart. will be sung.
Florenz Ziegfeld's new review, "The
Cox.I L icS. at fhn r
nut Street Opera House in Philadelphia
last Monday evening, and next Tuesday
will open at the New York Theater in
New York The Philadelphia newspapers
credit it with being hit. and praise the
Danish dancer. Genee. who Is the fea-
ture of the production.
.'The Career of Lew Dockstader" was
one of the interesting articles in the New
Nationals little weekly publication.
"Greenroom Glimpses." last week. Dock
|. stader's correct name is George Clapp,
but the minstrel had it changed, for stage
purposes. 10 Lew Dockstader, by which
name he has been known for the past
thirty-fve years.
Mrs. George Gould reappeared on the
stage in amateur theatricals at a society
event in New York last week and made q
brilliant success. recalling her old days of
triumph as the beautiful Edith Kingdom of
Days company. kyrle Bellew played the
entitled Mrs. Van Nechten's Divorce
Dance"
The courts of Sew York have sustained
the absolute rights in the United States Of
Henry w Savage in his application for a
permanent injunction against the produc-
tlon of a German version of 1.-THE Merry
Widow. The firm of managers who have
been making the production have arranged
10 continue. paying Mr.. Savage a royalty
and announcing that the production Is
with his permission. Mr.. Savage will now
proceed against the stars and companies
giving the original Merry Widow" score
or waltz either as an imitation or bur
iesque. without his permission.
Herbert Cawthorn, who was taken
down with typhoid-pneumonia while "A
Yankee Tourist company was PLAYING
in Holyoke, Mass, and had to be left in a
hospital there, has now entirely recoy-
cred from his illness and will rejoin the
company when it opens here tomorrow.
His wife. Susie Forester Cawthorn who
had also left the company to aid in
nursing him back to health, went back
to her old position in "A Yankee Tour
ist, In Macon, Ga. last Monday night
Helen Hale, who has been resting in the
south. will also rejoin the company here.
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