The Washington herald., 1909-06-20
PLAYS AND PLAYFOLK.

: AoE next season
Thomas A Wise has been reelected
president OF the Actors Society.
John Drew will have a new play next
season by w Somerset Vaughan.
Lucy Weston has been engaged for the
role Of the widow in The Candy Shop"
Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott
will make an American tour next season.
Eva fanguay is going to try TO wake
up London. and win shortly appear there
in the 'alls.
Charlotte Walker and Nine. Nazimova
are each TO have a play by Eugene Wal
ter next season
Violet vanbrugh is appearing in London
in Blanche Walsh's role in The Woman
IN the Case, - by Clyde Fitch.
Jacques Kruger has succeeded W. H.
Denny as Lecocq in The Beauty Spot"
at the Herald Square Theater.
Marguerite Sylvia has been engaged by
Oscar Hammerstein to sing at the Man
haitian Opera House next season.
Frank keenan, has signed a contract
with Henry B. Harris to appear in The
Heights by William Anthony MCGUIRE
Lotta Faust is the latest musical COM
edy artist who announces that she will
shortly forsake that field for the legiIi-
mate
Charles Frohman has secured from
Joseph Weber the English rights to The
Climax" and viii shortly produce It in
London.
Edna Wallace Hopper has been playing
her original role Of Lady Holyrood in
'Florodora. at Sans Souci Park. in Chi
cago.
Eddie Leonard the minstrel. and his
bride. are honeymooning through the
South. Mrs. Leonard was formerly Mabel
Russell
Sir Charles wyndham has secured the
rights 20 The Blind Passenger" which
he viii produce next season at his Lon
don theater.
Frances Starr is to write a book about
her impressions Of Europe. for which
Mecca Of theatrical people she viii sail
in a few days.
Lydia Lipkowska. called the Russian
Tetrazzini." has been engaged by Direc-
tor Henry Russell for the new Boston
Opera Company.
Laura Nelson Hail has been engaged
for the leading role in The Sins OF So
ciety." the big melodrama 10 be seen in
New York in the fall
Daniel Frohman arrived in New York
last week. and Will begin arrangements
for the production Of the new Pinero
play. The Thunderer."
Patti recently sang at the Mansion
House. London. for a charity She is re-
ported 10 be in marvellous voice. IN spite
Of her declining years.
Klaw & Erlanger have arranged 70 pro-
duce ''Rebecea Of Sunnybrook Farm by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and Charles Thomp-
son. early the coming season.
Pauline Chase. as the star OF the Eng
lish Peter Pan" Company, under Charles
Frohman's management. is playing her
second engagement in Paris.
Dion Boucicault, general stage director
for Charles Frohman in England. Is now
preparing a revival Of Peter Pan" for
the vaudeville theater in Paris.
Lillian Russell viii spend her vacation
in Paris, returning TO New York IN Au-
gust to begin rehearsal Of Edmund DAYS
new play, The Widows Might"
The Fires Of Fate" is the title Of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's play. which is
shortly TO be produced in London, and
IL is described as a morality play
Bernard Shaw's play. Arms and the
Man. has been unearthed IN Germany
under the disguise OF a comic opera. the
music Of which is by Oscar Strauss.
Ella Hugh Wood has been engaged for
one Of the prominent parts in support Of
Robert EdesOn. in W. Somerset AIaugh-
ans comedy, The Noble Spaniard.'
Henry B. Harris and Augustus Thomas.
the playwrights. were once employed al
Pope's Theater, in st. Louis-Nr. Harris
as a programme boy and Mr.. Thomas as
treasurer.
In the fourth century actors received. IN
many instances, enormous salaries. It is
reported that Polus. an Athenian. received
one talent about Sl.2o0 for two days per-
foFmances-
A special matinee Of The Man from
Mexico" was given by William Collier in
New York last week In honor OF Sir
Charles Wyndham. the English actor, now
playing at the Empire Theater-
Alexander the Great carried Greek act
ing companies with him to India. as even
on his war expeditions he did not wish to
dispense with the enjoyment Of this noble
art, which he appreciated so highly at
home.
The New York Dramatic Mirror prints
the statement that Maud Adams has been
requested by the Washington Fairgrounds
Association to give an outdoor perform
ance Of Peter Pan" on the lawn south
OF the White House.
Mcintyre and Heath have deserted
vaudeville. and will appear in a musical
comedy by John J. McNally and William
Jerome The production viii be on an
elaborate scale. with a company number
ing more than a hundred.
Another recruit from the German stage
to the English this coming season VIII be
Carl Sauermann. who has achieved con-
siderable renown. both in Germany and
America Mr.. Sauermann viii be seen in
a prominent part in Claiming POllOck's
new play Such Little Queen
On the occasion of the final perform
ance Of "a Dawn OF a Tomorrow" az
the I.Nceurn Theater Nar York last