The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-17
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

ness everywhere.
Mr.. Huntley, who appears here in the
English musical comedy, kitty Grey" I,
the owner of quite a racing stable on the
other side" His racing colors are clarei
and apple green. He selected these t.
give the others a pain In their little
( Mary" Inartistic colors. but original
en- on his last visit 10 the race course
at Pennington he did not pick up 3
Oct until the last race. A friend. after
the second race. referring to the book
makers, asked Huntey, How are they
treating you. old top?" "They are not
treating me at all. old fellow" replied
Huntley; II am paying for myself. in
deed. indeed I am"
"old Dutch" the play in which Lew
Fields starts this season. is the story o.
a Viennese inventor who, while visiting
in the Austrian Tyrol, attempts 10 hide
| MS Identity. The music Is bv Victor
Herbert, book by Edgar Smith. and lyrics
by George V. Hobart. Ned Wayburn will
stage the production.
Miss Marie Dressier has returned from
her summer home at Windsor. VT. to
New York. to begin active rehearsals in
a musical play. TITLES Nightmare. IN
which she is TO star this season under
the management OF Lew Fields. The
1 opening date is not yet announced. but
VIII probably be early in November.
Victor Herbert wound up his summer
al Lake Placid on September % and re-
turned with his family to their New
/ York home. During the summer Mr..
! Herbert often INDUCED IN fast motor
boat riding In HIS son CIifford's racer.
the swiftest on Lake Placid. After reach
! ing New York he made a bee line for
The Rose OF Algeria" running at Lew
Fields Herald Square Theater
sixty-eight chorus girls and thirty-two
chorus men are in active rehearsal in
New York at the present time for Lew
Fields midwinter review, 20 be called
The jolly Bachelors" the book Of which
was written by Glen MacDonough and
the music by Raymond Hubbeu. authors
OF The Midnight Sons The production
is being made by Ned Wayburn, who also
staged 'The Midnight Sons" which is
enjoying the most prosperous run I'm the
history OF the Broadway Theater. New
York.
The late J. X. Emmett on his nnaI tour
in the season OF 1SS7-Ss used a play called
Fritz in Ireland" As in all the EN-
NETT vehicles. children were regarded as
Important properties" for II was in the
scenes in which he played with and sang
to the little folk that Emmett always
gripped his public One OF the young
sters on that tour was known IA the bills
as Baby Spencer. She was then fourteen
months old. and was carried on the stage
by Emmett himself when responding 10
encores OF his famous Cuckoo song.
She is now Miss Lillian Sinnott. an ac-
complished soubrette and iugenue. and IS
a member OF Mr. Louis Mann's companv
In The Man Who Stood still" This bit
OF theatrical archaeology may not be
very interesting of itself. but II becomes
so, perhaps. when IL IS added that on that
tour Mr.. Mann himself was Emmett's
leading man
When Mr.. Andrew Mack makes his ap-
pearance as a star under the manage
ment OF Lew Fields II win be in a comedy
with music. book by J. Hartley Manners.
music by A. Baldwin Sloane. and viii be
called THE Prince OF Bohemia" Mr..
Mack will portray a character altogether
new 20 him on the stage. that OF a young
college man who meets with various ad-
ventures abroad and on a transatlantic
steamer.
Otis Skinner confidently assures himself
that I'm the role OF the tender-bearted.
somewhat famboysnt but delightfully."- hui
man and dramatically powerful role
written for him by Booth Harrington
and II. I. Wilson I'm Your Humble Sery-
ant" he has secured another Masks ana
Faces The Harrington and Wilson
comedy-drama, shrewdly. intimately. and
most forcefully depicting life behind the
scenes, is easily comparable in human
ness and effectiveness TO the famous
Charles Reade comedy written about the
life Of Peg Wellington.
It is announced from the Frohman Off
ces that the musical idyl now running in
London. "The Arcadians." by Mark Am
bent and A. n. Thompson, which Charles
Frohman intended TO produce at the
knickerbocker Theater. New York. IN
december. following the season Of "The
Dollar Princess has been temporarily
abandoned because OF the unexpectedlv
emphatic success Of the present attrac-
ton al that theater.
Charles Frohman announces that the
cast for Augustus Thomas new plav.
The Harvest Moon" which is 20 be pro
dUced at the Garrick Theater. New York.
beginning October IS. will include the fol-
lowing players: George Nash, J. G. Sa-
Vile, Lionel Adams. Thomas Russell.
brother OF Miss Annie Russell and who
returns 70 the stage after an absence Of
some years; Stanley Wright the Misses !
Jennie Eustace, Adelaide Nowak. Mar
garet Sayres. and Helena De Kay.
Early Shubert openings are: Bertha !
Galland in THE Return OF Eve" Mary /
Mannering in a four-act comedy by Ra- /
chel Crothers, Florence Roberts IN Mrs
Dakon," Marguerite Clarke in The
Wishing Ring" William Norris in "The
King OF Cadonia," new edition OF '.Tba /
Paradise Of Mahomet," TO be called THE
Widows Paradise Maxine Elliott In I
''The Chaperon." and Nazimova in THE /
Passion Flower"
Charles Richman, who this week retfres
from 1.-THE Revelers" to become leading
man with Mary Mannering. will remain
in support OF this star but a short time
The Shuberts. who have Mr.. Richn,an
under contract, are considering the pro-
ducing Of play by Edith Ellis, in which
Mr.. Richman will be featured
Blanche Ring in THE Yankee Girl has
broken the preseDt seasor's raco-a e.