The Washington herald., 1909-07-25
BETWEEN SEASONS GOSSIP
News of the Theater and Its People, Gathered from Here
There, and Everywhere.

Coast.
Forrest Hur. late Of the Aborn Opera
Company. has been engaged for THE
Broken IDOL"
Orrin Johnson has surprised his friends
by appearing as an operate hero in THE
Cay HusSars."
An independent theatrical paper, It Is
reported. will soon make its appearances
along Broadway.
Charles wyngate and Robert Cummings
have signed with Louis Nethersole for
Margaret Anglin's company.
Marie Dressler viii take to starring IN
a new musical comedy. just as soon az
she can get satisfactory bookings
Willard Holcomb is going to Columbus.
Ohio. TO stage his play. ST. Elmo" which
is TO be produced there by Vaughn Chaser.
Mrs. A. L. Erlanger. wife Of the thea
trical manager. is president and founder
of home for destitute crippled children.
Gertrude Coghlan, late Of THE Lion
and the Mouse" company. will be leading
lady for Robert Edeson the coming
season.
Miss Lolita Faust. who was offered
chance to be starred IN THE Girl Be
/ hind the Counter" has declined, with
thanks.
George Bernard Shaw has been dubbed
a debated epigrammatist. which viii
/ probably raise a yell from that quarter
ere long.
Miss Florence Roberts. now III IN Cali
fornia. VIII begin her New York en-
! gagement in December. as originally
planned.
/ Europe on the Campania, and Is ready
for the approaching season, which is COM
Ing on with a rush.
Charles Frederic Nirdlinger. author OF
The World and His Wife," has COM
p!eted another play for William Faver-
sham and julie OPP.
Marie NOrdstrom has been re-engaged
for the role Of Portia Perkins with Henry
/ K. Dixey in Mary James Pa" during
the approaching season.
Among the principal artists engaged TO
support Edmund Breese in James Ber-
nard Fagan's latest London success, The
/ Earth" is Helen Macbeth.
Fred NibIo and his wife. Josephine
| Conan, are now on the Riviera. where
/ Niblo IS industriously gathering data for
I his moving DfCfurp talks
Miss Hilda Stowe. a granddaughter OF
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Will be a
member Of William Faveusham's COM
pany presenting '.Herod." =
Elizabeth Brice continues her triumph
ant march 20 success. In 1.-THE Motor
Girl she Is nightly romping home with
half the honors OF the piece.
Anna Boyd has procured her divorce
from Joseph Coyne, and that comedian
viii shortly wed Alexandra Carlisle. MAX
ing England his future home.
Nearly a President" is the title OF
the musical comedy in which Mcintyre
and Heath have already begun re-
hearsals for tho coming season
''The Beauty Spot" is scheduled TO re-
main at the Herald Square Theater. New
I York, until August 4. when Il will go on
/ tour. The Broken Idol" viii replace IT,
The shubert Stock Company. now pro-
| ducing new plays at the Van Curler.
Schenectady. brought out this week THE
Unfinished Sentence" by an English
/ authoreSs.
Ned Wayburn will stage all Of the FIVE
new productions which are TO be made
by Lew Fields The first OF these Will
be the new Hobart piece for Miss
Blanche Ring.
/ Digby Bell and Kathleen Clifford. IN
der the management of James Allison.
will be seen in Margaret. Mayo's THE
Debtors" a dramatization OF Dickens
Little Dorritt"
Maude Lambert has been engaged for
The Midnight Sons" and has begun re-
/ hearsals. Fritz Williams and Blanche
/ Ring both retire from the cast Of this
musical comedy very shortly.
William Morris, president OF the hide
pendent Vaudeville Circuit. has installed
wireless telephony for operation between
\ his chain Of theaters. and does much of
his directing by this medium.
For once John Drew has not spent his
I summer vacation in Europe He has Just
/ finished a transcontinental tour In Jack
/ Straw" and Is resting at his country
home. East Hampton. Long Island
Raymond Hitchcock is playing The
Yankee Consul in Chicago. at Sans
Souci Park. Richard earle, in THE Ten
derfoot," is another revival which the
Windy City theater-goers are enjoying.
Rehearsals for The Yankee Girl" the
/ new Fields production in which Blanche
Ring Will be starred, have been called
/ for August Is. The opening will occur
either at Atlantic City or New Haven.
Owing TO the excellent business at the
| Broadway Theater, where The Midnight
Sons" is running. three extra rows Of
/ seats have been installed. q most unusual
/ departure for a New York theater in the
summer.
Dorothy Donneily will draw a rich plum
in the part OF Madame X, the role
played by Jane Hading in Paris. Henry
/ w Savage is to make the production.
Lena Ashwell is to do the same character
! IN London.
The Usher" who writes breezy gossip
| for the Dramatic Mirror. acknowledges
an error in overlooking the fact that
! W. s. Gilbert was knighted in 1907, which
is characterized as an isolated honor too
! long deferred.
Henry B. Harris announces the engage
] mant OF Ethel Brandon the rrell-knnu-r,