The Washington times., 1909-10-29
Greenroon Gossip

~ he New Theater has announced
the cast Of shakespeare's An
tony and Cleopatra with which
the playhouse win open its hrst
season November s.
r. H. sothern wiz play Mark Antony,
a role IN which he has never appeared.
ana Miss Julia MarIowe. Cleopatra, 81
part new to her. A. f. Arson, an Eng
hsh actor viii be the Cctavfus Caesar.
and Rowland Blackstone, the Aemilius
Lepidus. Sextus Pompeius win be
played by Ben Johnson; Domitius Emo
narbus. by william McYay. the Clown.
by Ferdinand GOttschalk. and Enos BY
Charles Balsar. The role OF Cctavia
VIII be assumed by Miss 5eatrice
Professionalism, and that Of ch.,rm-
ian. by Miss Jessie Busley. Iris viii
be impersonated by Leah Bateman-
Hunter. a young English actress.
Others 10 appear AZ the premiere I'M
clude Henry Stanford, Alfred Bruning,
Jacob Wendell. 5r., Pedro de Cordoba,
Lee Baker, Howard Kyle. william
Harris, Harry Melick. Reginald Bar
lowe. Robert Vivian. 9. +. Hannah
Clark and Albert Cross.
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a protest has been fled against the
In play titles. Tim Murphy has de-
elared his unwiningness IN the future
to produce a play whose title IS
combination Of The and another
word: a combination of The" an adj
tective and noun Gas The Easiest Way,
The Third Degree, The Melting Pot,
The Fourth Estate, The Love Cure,
etcJ; the frayed at the edge fOur-Wcrd
group dixie The Man From Home, The
Girl From RectOr's s. The Rose OF AL
geria, The Gentleman From Mississip-
pi, The Men Of the Hour, etc, etc-1.
Mr.. Murphy, cOnfessing 20 having used
all these forms in his repertoire and
he, in common with the public wants
something new.
The Shuberts have engaged the fol-
lowing players for Mrs. Dakon," the
four-act play by Ruth Jordan, which
begins its season next week; Jessie
BOnstelle, Laurette Taylor, F. s. Bar
rett, G. A. ChandOs, Charles Rowan,
ThurlOw Bergen, william Childs. Ann
Warrington, Henry Gibbs, Ethel Mar
tin. Anna Wynne, and Janet Arthur.
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Violet Dale, Mort singers new lead
ing woman in The Flirting Princess.
which opens October 81 at the La Sale
Theater IN Chicago, numbers among her
many accomplishments that OF play
wright. Though she has never produced
any Of her plays up to the present
time. she has written two and has an
other In process OF construction.
What might be regarded as a legacy
Of good will is the fact that the mother
of Clyde Fitch has named John Ener-
son as the stage director Of the Fitch
plays now In the hands Of the Shuberts.
Mr.. Emerson was closely associated
with Mr.. Fitch ia the production OF at
least a dozen Of his plays, and knows
the desires Of the dead author perhaps
better than any living man. The first
play Mr.. Emerson has undertaken IS
THE City"
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When Samuel NJ. Clemens Mark
Twain. Otto II. Kahn. Robert J. Col
Workers applied for the dissolution Of
the Educational Theater of New York
City, the death knell to another in
stitution was sounded.
One reason given is that the public
failed 20 respond. The better reason,
however. is TO be found in the fact
that the manuscripts submitted were
so ridiculOusly bad so obviously value
less, that the projectors OF this tnsu-
tuition closed up shop and wiped the
slate clean
When Mrs. Oscar LewissOhn, formerly
Edna May. arrived IN New York recent
" IL was announced that she came
only for the purpose OF visiting her
family in Syracuse Now, IL IS said
/ that there is a possibility that Miss
/ Nav win return 20 the stage, notwith-
/ standing the fact that the Lewissohns
I are said to be happy, and certainly one
/ OF the sons OF the big copper magnate
1 should not be accused Of the crime or
! poverty. At any rate recently Miss
/ May was in conference with an import
ant American manager, and in add
/ ton IS said to have expressed to an
7 old stage friend the hope that she
/ would very soon again make her ap-