Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-07
In the Spotlight.

| Nat G. Goodwin will make a southern
| tour in his new play. ''The Master Hand.
Robert Mantell has added Romeo and
Juliet and Louis XII to his extensive
repertoire.
! William Faversham has arranged with
| the Shuberts for the production of new
! play next September.
| Jefferson de Angels is to be seen in
April in new musical comedy entitled
| The Beauty Spot.
| When The Girl From Rector's'' was
produced in New York the police attended
the show. but nothing was done.
! E. H. Sothern made his first appearance
| in "Richelieu" at the Van Ness Theater,
| San Francisco. January 70.
Louise Cunning, in the comic opera
"Marcelee," is announced for the BelaSco
| Theater, week beginning February -.
Miss Billie Burke will appear in Wash
| ington in Love Watches before going
| abroad for her special London season.
| When THE Merry Widow comes to the
New National it will be for engage
ment of two weeks. sixteen performances.
Rose King of THE American Idea"
on the stage, measuring five feet eleven
inches in height.
One of the musical comedies booked to
appear at the Academy in the near future
Is George Sidneys rollicking musical
farce, Busy Izzy's Doodle"
Marie Booth Russell (Mrs. Robert Man
telD will appear as Shakespeare's heroines
during the Mantell engagement at the
New National.
Maude Raymond, widow OF Gus Rogers,
is to be starred next season. She is at
present playing in Mr.. Hamlet OF Broad
way"
| Much sincere sympathy is expressed for
| G. II. Dikeman, the treasurer of the New
| Lyceum Theater, whose infant son, aged
| two years, died last week.
Julia Marlowe's engagement In New
York at Days Theater begins Monday
evening, Immediately following her en-
gagement at the Belasco next week.
| Henry W. Savage has decided to aban-
don all mail and telephone orders for seats
: for THE Merry Widow" during the en-
gagement at the New National Inaugural
| ton week.
| Robert Edgar Long. press representative
at the National Theater. left Washington
| Mrs. Long Uenna Duer), a member of
| the Little Memo company.
William Gillette will make a tour of
Australia at the head OF picked COM
pany as stage director in a repertoire OF
| comedies and dramas. Constance Col
| lier will be the leading woman.
| Thomas Dickinson. a professor in the
| University of Wisconsin, has written a
MI allied ''ThQ J'nhrOkpn Road ~ which
Harrison Grey Fiske has secured for the
use of Nine. Bertha kalisch.
William Faversham is now one Of the
stars who wants his own theater in New
York and from the latest reports from
Gotham stands a good chance of having
1t next season.
Carlotta Nillson is said to have a sue
cess in her new play. This Woman
and This Man." which was produced in
Philadelphia last week. The play is by
Avery HopwoOd.
Arrangements have been completed by
Manager Fred Berger for a return en-
gagement at the Columbia Theater March
II of Adela Verne, the English Bavarian
pianist.
In his play paid in Full which the
Wagenhals and Kemper Company will
present at the Columbia Theater the
week OF feDrudry -, Eugene w aIIeT mas
introduced only seven persons.
Charles Atkinson of Boston is going to
New York in March with a dramatiza-
ton of Meyer & Sons novel, which
he hopes to produce Mr.. Atkinson will
be remembered for Quincy Adams Saw
YER and Miss Petticoats.
The new musical piece in which Ray
mond Hitchcock is TO star Will be writ
ten by George Cohan This much was
settled last Wednesday at a conference
between the comedian and his managers
in New York
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Selwyn (Margaret
Mayo sailed from New York yesterday
on the Deutschland for a trip to Egypt.
Botn members of the family will devote
much of their time while abroad to work
on new plays.
tiously termed by THE Wizard of o.
company THE Stable. He keeps a
small bale of hay in one corner Of the
room, with which he stuffs the rents in
his scarecrow raiment.
Mrs Edwin Arden. the president of the
Twelfth Night Club, las started a move
ment In New York through that organiza-
ton to give a benefit for Clara Morris,
who has been very Ill Daniel Frohman
is to give help in the enterprise.
George Beban is to be starred by Cohan
& Harris next season. The play will
probably be The Barrier" which was
originally intended for Guy Standing and
Thee Roberts. 1t is dramatization of
the Rex Beach story.