Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28

and presented 10 vaudeville patrons n
Hammerstein's in New York tomorrow
week. The familiar characters arc 10
be retained.
Nesia Tiliey. the well known English
Speciality performer. sailed from Eng
land for New York last Friday undo
contract TO Percy q. Williams. She VIII
begin her engagement at the Colonial
Theater, New York. April =.
Henry Miler's Associated Players in
THE Servant i'm the House had an Idle
Tyrone Power and Edith Wynne Mat
thison. Both had colds and have COM
pletely recovered.
William II. Fowler. treasurer OF the
National Theater. will Join The Washing
ton Base Ball club when the team ar
rives here for the opening game on April
II. Mr.. Fowler will leave with the club
for New York April ~. 10 be succeeded
at the theater by Clarence Jacobson.
Five Paid in Full companies viii
end their seasons simultaneously the night
OF April IL. One company is TO quit out
in Washington state. another down
the gulf coast. a third in the middle
west. fourth i'm eastern Pennsylvania
and the fifth in New York city
Mary Mannering will be the star for
the American production Of The Tru-
ants" the comedy by Wilfred r. Coleby
now being presented by Lena Ashuer at
her kingsway Theater London. Miss
Mannering's rehearsals are now under
way.
The plays OF Tim Murphy's repertoire
seem 10 be much in demand for the Lon
don stage. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall produced
"A Corner in Coffee last fall under the
title of The Whirlpool Sir Charles
Wyndham fs To produce The Carpet
Dagger" and Cyril Maude is negotiating
for Cupid and the Dollar"
David Belasco has secured the rights
to a German comedy by the authors or
AT the White Horse Tavern" The name
chosen by Mr.. Belasco for the English
version is The Open Door, and the
adaptation is 10 be made by Leo Ditrch-
stein. The piece will be presented carly
next season.
Miss Nora Bayes is being featured this
season with THE Follies Of 1905, 9th
ers to be seen this season are Bckel and
Watson. Mile Dazzle. the famous dancer:
Jack Norworth William Powers. Lillian
Lee. Annabelle Whitford. Grace Leigh,
Billy Reeves. Marjorie Bonner and Sey
mour Brown. There are nearly hun
dred players il the cast.
Under an entirely amicable arrangement
the business relations between Annie Rus
sell and Wagenhals & Kemper have
come TO end Miss Russelrs season in
The Stronger Sex terminated last Sat
urday night. She will sail next Wednes-
day for Europe, to be away the greater
part OF the summer. Upon her return
she vii! announce her plans for next sea-
son.
From accounts received the production
of An Englishman's Home" in New
V<vI- l.,e% IL ell
siasm. The conditions are purely British.
create no special interest in America and
evidently the play will not repeat here.
judging from its reception, the furore il
did in England. where il touched n
theme very near the British national
heart.
John r. Binns the operator who saved
the passengers of the sunken steamship
Republic by his work at the key, reached
New York last Monday. Ever since his
exploit Binns has steadily refused all o.
fers to become a vaudeville headliner.
He was besieged all the week by offers
of engagements. but assured the booking
agents that he is going to stick to the
mast.
One of Charles Frohman's early pro-
auctions i'm London will be an adaptation
of NM. de Flers and Caillavet's Lane
du Buridan" c.Buridan's Donkey'). The
piece is said to be one of the most laugh
able comedies presented on the Partisan
stage in a long time. The donkey OF
the title is the elder Buridan's son. a
young man who constantly finds himself
in distressing predicaments.
Walter Damrosch's music library oc-
cupies an enormous room in his housn.
with shelves from floor to ceiling and III
the center. 1t contains almost every
opera from Gluck TO Wagner, and every
symphonic work of note. many of them
bearing fiattering dedications from the
composers! The library is insured for
$1,000. but in case of destruction this
would not compensate for the thousands
of notations expression marks and cor
rections which have been added in ink
or pencil during years Of rehearsals.
The stock managers of the country
have combined and will form a general
organization. The idea of the associa
ton is 10 bring the managers Of stock
companies into closer business and
friendly relations and to lessen the cost
OF play-producing. There will be an Of
flee I'm New York, which will act A
clearing house for the stock managers.
and this Office will deal directly with
owners or authors of plays. guaranteeing
them a season instead of a week mere
and there with individual managers.
Percy c.. Williams is president of the
new corporation. The association has
been chartered in Albany.