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and will Introduce some new songs In

vaudeville.
week whereby John c. Slavin Is to pass
under the management of Frank Mckee
and star in a new musical comedy by
Harry B. Smith. with score by Raymond
Hubbell- The production will be launched
In March.
The vitality Of 1.-The Old Homestead
continues to astound managers: critics and
the public alike. Although in the twenty
third year OF continuous exhibition people
were turned away from the Columbia
Theater at several Of the performances
during the past week.
White Whittlesey, who is Julia Mar
loves leading man this season in The
Goddess of Reason" was last seen here
In 1.-THE Road to Yesterday" Mr.. Whit
tlesey is a local favorite, having been
identified with one of the summer stock
companies some years ago.
Miss Percy Haswell, now appearing with
Otis Skinner in 1.-THE Honor Of the Fam
lily" was for several seasons prominent
in Washington stock companies. She will
be extensively entertained here during
her forthcoming engagement at the New
National Theater.
Alfred F. Aarons has for two weeks
been rehearsing company In new play
in New York. bearing the striking title
OF Money" The piece Is by Stanislaus
STANCE and tells in melodramatic fashion
of Washington life in which Treasury
Department detective and a secret serV-
ice officer hunt for a counterfeiter.
James Forbes comedy. 1.-The Travelling
Salesman" rounded out Its two-hundredth
performance last Thursday night at I'M, ,l
Gaiety Theater, New York. The remark
able feature of the run is that there has
not been a change in the company nor
has any member been out OF the cast for
single performance.
The first complete and authoritative vita
graph views Of the earthquake scenes in
Sicily will be shown at Chase's the week
of February 8. Charles Lovenburg. the
producer of the six American Dancers. the
LADY of the green veil,' Juggling DE
Lisle" and other vaudeville headliners,
also Is responsible for La Petite Revue.
Rehearsals of F. Marion Crawford's
THE White Sister," in which Viola Allen
is to appear. have been going on daily In
New York for the past two weeks. Inc
first performance will be given February
8. In the company are Minna Gale
Haines Frank Gilmore Charles A. Ste
venson, Fannie Addison Pitt and julius
McVicker.
The rite of 1.-The Republican Marriage.
which is referred to in Julia Marlowe's
new play. 1.-THE Goddess of Reason was
q favorite method of disposing of eide
II
luton. The method consisted in bind
ing a man and a woman heart to heart
and limb to limb and then casting the VIC
Tins into the river Loire to drown
The tour Of Checkers" came to an end
in Brooklyn last Saturday night. The
piece has been almost continuously be-
fore the public for six years and has
Robert has been acting the title role ever
since Thomas W. Ross abandoned 1t.
The comedy will be sent on tour again
next season.
Klaw & Erianger and Joseph Brooks
have found a successor to THE Round
Up for Maclyn Arbuckle in dramatl-
cation of the novel entitled esquire Finn,
In dramatic form this story will be called
The Circus Man" The new piece will
be produced at McVickers Theater, chi
caso, in September.
benefit organized by Augustus
Thomas the playwright, is to be given for
the widow of Lester Wallack. Mrs. Wal
lack. who has been living for years In
seclusion. and who at the time Of her
husbands death was we'll off. has been
reduced greatly In means of late years.
She is in her eightieth year. Millet. the
great French artist. was her brother.
Following 1.-The Red Mill at the New
National Theater. this playhouse will Of
fer exclusively dramatic attractions until
inauguration week, when the original
Henry w. Savage 1.-THE Merry Widow"
organization. including Donald Brian and
others of the initial cast, will be the of
fering. THE Merry Widow" will remain
at the New National for two weeks-six-
teen performances.
Ada Lewis, who was a popular member
of the famous Harrigan and Hart Com
pany years ago and who has since scored
a personal hit in every production in
1Nnoo n
star under the direction of Liebler and
Company very shortly. This firm has Sc
cured for Miss Lewis debut play by
Edward W. Townsend to be called The
Head of the House"
Rose Stahl has enacted the character
OF Patricia O'Brien 300 times during the
career of the vaudeville sketch and play
and has never missed performance in
five years. She recently issued neat
pamphlet giving a number OF "don'ts'
for stage-struck young girls and copy
IS mailed out to every one who writes to
the star asking her advice as to stage
career.
So successful has been the present sea-
son of Burton Holmes travelogues at the
new Auditorium that the management
has been induced to extend the series
with five additional lectures to be de
livered by Mr.. Wright Kramer. the fell
Iow-traveler of Mr.. Holmes. who in the
unable to appear in. The subjects of this
additional course will be Fee, Berlin,
Vienna, Paris and London.
The Shuberts have accepted. for Mary
Mannering new play by Langdon Mitch
ell. author of Becky Sharp" and THE
New York Idea. The new play is en-
titled step by Step in which Miss
Mannering will make a radical departure
from all previous productions in which
She has appeared by assuming the role
OF q working girl. The drama deals with
contemporaneouS conditions in America
G p. Huntley. the we'll known London
comedian. appeared last Monday night in
New York under the auspices OF Charles
Frohman in Kitty Grey" the musical
piece which has been called his greatest
London success. The play is in three
acts. The music is by Paul Rubens,
Lionel MoHckton and Howard Talbot and
the book has been adapted from the
French by ]. W. Pigott. Mr.. Huntley
and the piece are reported to have
pleased.
Seventeen years with the late Richard
Mansfield seven years with Sir Henry
IRVING. five years with Charles Hawtrey
in addition to engagements with the old
Haymarket Stock Company under Buck
stone. and with Barry Sullivan. Creswick.
Genevieve Ward. John Mccullough. Will
liam j. Florence and many other actors
of q past generation-such Is the remark
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