The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-05


me to sign the contract, for 1 don't
think l will ever live TO fulfill it."
He got his twenty-five.
STAGE NOTES.
Helen Bertram has been engaged
for the prima donna role in "Ha-
vana," in the special company which
will play the George Edwardes mu-
steal piece to the Pacific coast The
opening takes place in Atlantic City
Labor Day.
George Mack, who has followed
James T. Powers in San Toy and
other musical plays, will be the Sam
uel Nix in the special company pre-
senting Havana"
Havana" with James T. Powers,
Edith Decker and the other fayOrites,
continues to excellent business at the
Casino. The George Edwardes mu-
steal play will not take to the road
! until October, when 1t will be shown
in all of the larger cities. The original
cast, with the exception of Eva Dav-
export and Clara Paln1eb will be
| seen.
John Philip Sousa, in a letter to a
| friend, pleads guilty to resorting 10
the Indian custom Of taking back that
| which he has given. Sousa has writ
ten a song for the use of Mss Blanche
Ring in The Yankee Girl In lieu
| of a 1910 march, the composer says
| that he is going to borrow Hiss Rings
song and use it instead.
The Paradise of Mahonet," Plan
| ouette's last opera, viii begin it's sea-
son in Hartford next week The cast
| will include Ralph Herr, Eva Daven-
| port, Vera Michelena and one hun
! dred others. The play will not be
shown in New York before the cool
weather.
The Sam S. Shubert Booking Co.
has been incorporated in California
with a capital stock OF $4,000. The
incorporatOrs are H. o. CoughiaD,
Thomas F. Barrett and James NJ.
| Woods.
For once the cable dispatches failed
| to give "alI Of the news" From
| Marienbad comes the RpOTt that
| King Edward smiled on" Miss Max
| inc Elliott. His interest in the
| American actress is avowedly deep
so deep, in fact, that it wSuld call for
an expression more intimate than
smile on" Miss Elliott in writing
| to Mr.. Lee Shubert gives the most
/! delightful account of her acquaintance
with royalty, among o.her things
saying: THAT the king inquired
anxiously over my venture as a man
ageress and implied that he should
like to drop in at my new English
villa in HertfoTdshire. where, by tie
way, my sister Gertrude and her hus-
band, Forbes Robertson, are making
their home"
At the Lyric, In Philadelphia, Labor
Day, Fred Whitney will bring out
musical play called The Chocolate
Soldier" which is based on George
Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man"
Strauss, the famous composer. has
written the music and Stanlius
STANCE the book The cast will in
clude Ida Brooks Hunt, William
Pruette, Jack Gardner, Flavia Arcara
and others.
Sam Bernard opened his season
Wednesday night in Hartford IN The
Girl and the Wizard" the J. Hartley
Manners comedy with music. Julian
Edwards wrote the music, while Ned
Wayburn staged the play. Mr.. Ber-
nard opens at the Majestic Theatre,
Boston, Monday night for a two
weeks engagement, with Providence
and New York to follow.
The original blue Mouse" COM
pany opened its season last Monday
at the Savoy, Atlantic City. In the
cast are Mabel BarTiSOn, Harry COnor,
Jameson Lee Finney, Zelda Sears and
Joseph Howard. By special arrange
ment with the author, Mr.. Howard
will fnterpolate an original song of
his own composition in the second act
of the farce.
The recent attempt of a manager
to decry the services of Nora Bayes
and Jack NorwOTth, who had been
sued on contract, has evidently been
ignored by Lew Fields, who has just
put both of them under his own
management for one of his new
pieces. Their joint salary is said to
be considerably in excess of that re-
ce:ved in vaudeville.
Elsa Ryan, always a favorite in
Broadway musical productions, will
leave the cast of THE Blue Mouse, -
in which company she has been play
ing the title part for fourteen months,
to become a member of Frank DAN
ieIs' company. Blanche Deyo will sue
coed Miss Ryan as THE Mouse"
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