Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26

cipals in ",The Belle of New York" will
| be given away free at the National Thea
ter August s.
The New National Theater will be in the
hands of painters and decorators during
| the few weeks that the theater is closed.
Millie Murray, the Washington singer
with the Aboln Company here, will APP
pear as Vaninka. in THE Fortune Teller"
Miss Murray will be one of the three
local girls who will have speaking
parts The other two are Lenna Duer
and Marjorie Ramey
William II. Rapley, proprietor of the
National Theater, will arrange for the
production of several French plays here
next season.
Marjorie Ramey. the diminutive AL
exandria. Va, girl who has met with
such signal success in the Aborn Opera
Company here. will this week have an
other speaking part in The Fortune
Teller" Miss Ramey will appear as Etel-
ka pupil of the ballet school
The after-performance receptions held
by Edith Bradford at the New National
Theater for the past two weeks have been
discontinued 1t is estimated that during
the two receptions the popular singer has
met more than 800 Washington school
children. Many of the little ones brought
fans for her autograph
1.-The Fortune Teller will be the third
Victor Herbert opera produced at the Ma
| tional Theater this summer. Four of the
remaining eleven operas thus far pro-
duced have been by American authors
| and composers. The last production of
| the season-"The Belle of New York'-is
also an American composition.
Huntington May, Harry Davies and
/ Homer Lind of this city will be among
the singers in the new Aborn American
/ Grand Opera Company, an organization
| now being formed for the advancement of
grand opera by American singers. Edith
! Bradford and Blanc he Morrison will also
| appear.
William Collier has just closed most
successful western tour in Caught in the
Rain"
A revival of 1.-THE Prisoner of Zenda''
| is promised by James X. Hackett for next
| season
Choruses of sheath -gowned girls are
proving attractions In musical comedies
| in the west.
Chorus girls throughout the country
are getting some newspaper notice by
forming rival Taft and Bryan clubs.
Julia Hernc has closed her season IN
vaudeville.
Capt. Marshall author of IA Royal
i Family" has finished new play called
THE Outsider" Z
| Mrs. Florence Miller, d society leader of
| Pittsburg, has completed a new play which
Maxine Elliott is considering.
In the course of a year or so Laura
Hope Crews is to be starred by Henry
| Miller in a new play called 1.-The Queen
| Garden.
Charlotte Walker will succeed Ida Con-
quest in the leading role of Eugene Wal
ter's play. 1.-The Wolf
Max Figman is to star in a new play
by Beulah Dix and Evelyn Greeneaf
Sutherland the title of which is The
| Substitute"
Helen of Troy is the title of q new
play by Matt OFT who has selected Troy.
| n. Y. the abode of his particular
| Helen.
William T. Hodge viii open at the A as!.
| Theater. New York. August H. in 1.-The
Man from Home. I'm which he has been
/ SO successful i'm the west.
| 1enna Duer. who has been for the past
| season under the management of the
| Aborn Opera Company. will appear In
vaudeville in sketch called school
Days"
Miss Phoebe Davis has gone to Los An
geles. where she will stage her dra ma tia
ton OF Bret Harte's story Two Men OF
Sandy Bar. When she returns to New
| York she will begin prepa rations for the