Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
Playhouse aragraphs

Emma Janvier has given up a starring
engagement To support Anna Held in
Miss Innocence"
A son of William Pruette appeared last
week In Algeria" under the name of
Harold lie Roy.
Robert 7. Haines has been engaged for
the company to support Margaret Wych-
erly in new play by Bayard WELLER, en-
titled, Her Other Self.
Edith Ellis has nearly completed the
manuscript of her new play. The Ne
braskan. in which Edmund Breese will
appear later in the season
Mary Shaw is playing in The Revela-
ton" sociological drama by Henry
Knott. She is under the management OF
Martin 4 Emory, the Chicago managers.
To replace Lillian Albertson. who does
not wish to go on tour, Wagenthals &
Remper have engaged Julia Dean for
the leading role in Paid in Full"
Bjou Fernandez has made a big hit
with Wilton Lackaye in The Battle
Her character is that of a slum girl, and
she has one big scene.
Bertha Galland will appear this season
in New York. beginning Christmas week.
in new comedy by l.. W. Dodd, called
The Return of Eve
Two Wall street men have collaborated
On opera called The Monarch of Mil
lions Of course, ii is a Wall street
subject. 1t is TO he produced in New York
after the holidays.
new Niennese opera. The Dollar
Princess; THE Marriage Of a Star" by
Mr. Alexander Bisson. and The Happy
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produced by Charles Frohman next
month.
Mort Singer. the Chicago manager. has
engaged Countess Won Hartfeldt for the
leading part in The Girl at the Helm.
soon to be brought out in the Windy
city. The countess last appeared In The
Gay Musician"
1.-The Lion and the Mouse" will be
played in YiddiSh, contracts having been
signed last week between Mr.. Henry B.
Harris. owner Of the play. and Mr.. David
Kessler, who will translate 1t into his
own language.
Olga Nethersole has engaged Will A.
Page as the business manager OF her
promised American tour. Mr.. Page occu-
pied an executive position on her staff
three years ago Miss Nethersole is due
to arrive in New York the 21st of next
month.
Henry Dixey. after another week as
the devil i'm the Garden Theater, New
York. will appear under Mr.. Henry w.
Savage's mana cement in a new American
comedy by Edith Mills entitled Mary
James Pa which will he produced in the
Garden Theater tomorrow night week
George Thompson. Chase's scenic artist.
has added to the property equipment or
the theater a fireplace piece of immense
height, with tall columns having semi
Ionic capitals, and modelled upon the
lines of the fireplaces of the period OF the
first Napoleon. the Little corpora.
is a most effective and picturesque prop
erty.
Illness In THE Time, the Place and
the Girl company has nearly brought
the tour of the organization to IA halt In
Pittsburg. where II was showing last
week. Arthur Dunn. Violet Mcmillan and
Eulalie Jensen were the principals nm
der the physician's care and reports from
the Smoky city Friday said that all were
on the mend.
John c. Slavin, co-star with May Vokes
in "A Knight for Day" left that organ
ization last night and will soon head his
own company under the management OF
Frank Mckee. in a new musical play by
Harry b. Smith and Raymond HubbeN
Frank DeShon. the veteran comic opera
comedian takes Slavin's place in "A
knight FOR Day.
Miss Martha Morton has returned to
New York from "A Six-month Sojourn in
Europe where she made English YER
sion Of DR. Leopold Kampf's sociological;
play, "On the Eve" It will be produced
by Mr.. Henry p. Harris after Mr..
Charles Nlein's new play. The Third
Degree" has been brought out in Allan
tic City tomorrow night
Martin & Emery. Chicago theatrical
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mar the character comedian of the La
Sale Theater of that city. to head
company for them. They have placed
Mr. Kohlmar urder Il contract for "A term
OF years. ard will present him in comedy
on the Warfield order. Mr.. kohlmar
was for three seasons in The Music
Master.
r. c. Herr las not retired permanently
from "The Soul Kiss" now running in
New York. his retirement two weeks ago
being on account; OF illness that did not
prove serious. William Norris replaced
Mr.. Herr and 1t was believed at the time
hat the change would be permanent. A
report from New York says that Mr..
Norris has been engaged to succeed
George Grossmith. jr. in Fluffy Ruff
fles.' because of the latter's enforced re-
turn to London.
And now It is 1.-THE Knight of the Cue"
in vaudeville. Willie Hoppe. the cham.
MON billtariSt, mas been engaged Dy VIII
liam Morris for his circuit Of houses, and
will appear for the first time tomorrow
night at the Fulton Theater. Brooklyn.
MIR. Hoppe will give an exhibition OF HIS
skill explaining each play, initiating tho
spectatprs into the mysteries of the halk.
line game and ending with some fancy
shots.
Ono Of the ShubertS' midwinter at
fractions will be Godfrey Stein as the
star of play written by himself and
George c. Hazelton. Mr. Hazelton is
best known as the author of Mistress
Nell" Mr.. Stein is at present a mem
per of Louis Mann's company. playing