Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28

who was married the 18th instant to Miss
Anna MacClanahan in Chicago. will start
with his bride early in December for the
far north to continue his mission WORK
on the Labrador coast.
Planquette's last opera, THE Paradise
Of Mahomet,' which was produced sew
eral months ago by the Shnberts and tenn
porarily discarded on account OF being
improperly cast, is to be brought out III
new form within a month.
Chares Cherry in 1.-The Bachelor is q
November attraction for San francisco
During the same month Girls" and Bill
ly' will open on the Pacific coast, the
ormer In Portland, Ore, the latter In
Seattle.
Ruth ST. Denis. the worlds most IA
| nous exponent of Hindu dances. mas
| never been in India. The knowledge she
possesses of oriental dances was gathereo
from reading books and interviews WIN
Hindus of high caste.
When his latest production, THE Lily
Is launched at the Belasco Theater mere
next week David Belasco will immediate
ly begin operations for the presentation
of Just A Wife" Eugene Walters new
play, in which the authors wife, Char
lotte Walker, will return to the stage.
Billie Burke and her company. now on
tour in Love Watches" was snoWbound
between Billings, Mont. and Minneapolis
and arrived In the latter city thirteen
hours late on Monday. Miss Burke gave
performance to a large audience which
waited to see her
"The Sign OF the Rose in which
George Beban is appearing in vaudeville
is to be expanded into a three-act play
next season. The same general idea will
be retained and will form the ground
work for the second act of the three-act
drama.
Elsie Ferguson's first stellar tour was
begun last week. when she took Such
a Little Queen from the Hackett The
alter, New York, to the Chestnut Street
Theater. Philadelphia. Charming Pollock S
whimsical comedy has had something
more than hundred nights in New York.
Henry w. Savage is now jointly featur-
ing Charles J. Ross and Line Abarbanell
in THE Love Cure Mr.. Ross was for
years one Of the chief comedians in the
Weber-Fields combination, and Miss
Abarbanell won laurels as the Sonia of
The Merry Widow"
F. Ziegfeld. jr. is to establish perma-
nent musical stock house in New York
Mr.. Ziegfeld will make his first stock pro-
duction at the New York Theater follow
ing the run of Raymond Hitchcock In
The Man Who Owns Broadway" One
hundred and fifty people will be en-
ployed.
I'm the Long Run a comedy by Mr..
Archer Jones, will be tried OUT on Fri
day afternoon in the Comedy Theater,
New York. under the auspices of the
Frank Lea Short is president. If the play
is received well it will be sent on the
road.
Sr t>,,;ll
try place in England. She made the
plans herself and will be present next
summer when the masons and carpenters
are at work. She will share this coun-
try place with Forbes Robertson and his
wife, Gertrude Elliott who is Miss Ell
liott's sister.
Montgomery and Stone, accompanied by
Ethel johnson and Alene Crater. left
Washington by automobile at the close
of their engagement at the New National.
They were seen at Laurel, Md, in closl
proximity to a dead horse. It is not
known whether their car hit the horse, or
whether the horse tried to bite the ma
tires.
Three new productions were made in
New York last week, George Arliss ap-
dramatization of w. ]. Locke's novel;
Lew Fields, as star in "O1d Dutch a
musical farce by George " Hobart, Ed
gar Smith and Victor Herbert, and play
of cotemporary New York life. called
His Name on the Door," by Frank Lord,
formerly an assistant district attorney.
Bright Eyes" a new musical comedy
by the author of The Three Twins had
it's first production Thursday night at New
Haven under the direction Of Joseph NJ.
Gates. The leading parts were taken
by Cecil Mclean and Florence Holbrook.
The play turns upon the fate of a mu-
steal comedy written by the hero. and the
events in the plot closely resemble real
facts in the lives Of principal actors.
One of the principal characters in the
farce comedy "Going Some" does not
draw a salary. makes but one appearance
a performance and then sings but part of
song. Yet this performer has special
valet" 1t is a photograph that is used
in the final scene and one of the attaches
of the company is detailed to see that 1t
is always in perfect working order, with
the record ready to be used at the proper
time.
1.-The Melting Pot will be played for
the one hundredth time at the Comedy
Theater. New York. Monday night. when
the performance will be attended by a
theater party, made up of members OF
the Society for the Study of immigration.
Louis Waller has cabled Liebier & Co.
that he will be ready to produce early in
January in London new play by c. NJ.
S. Mcclellan. entitled Judith Zarafne.'
The play will be presented here early
in the new year.
A new play by r. J. Madden, called
1.-The City That David Built" will be pro-
duced by Cohan and Harris about the first
of the year. The scene of the plot is the
failure of a work built on dishonesty The
hero of this play gains a small sum by
dishonest means which sum leads to his
building up his town into city and a
vast fortune for himself, all coming
eventually to ruin from the flaw in It's
foundations, but the catastrophe max
ing instead of marring the man.
The remarkable versatility OF William
Norris is shown by the following partial
list of roles that he has played: Pepi in
Francesca da Rimini''; Adonis the bunch
back in 1.-The Palace of the King: Ba-
yistock a misanthrope, in His Excel
Iency the Governor: Pnchez a character
study, in 1.-THE Children of the Ghetto;
the polite Funatic, in THE Belle Of New
York; Doc F1lkins, rustic philosopher,
Ruffies''; one of the marionettes In Babes
in Toyland"; Benjamin Partridge. an
English yillager, In tom JONES'" and
the devil, In THE Soul Kiss"
The tour of William Collier in THE Pa
triot" will close temporarily at the con-
cluston of the engagement In Baltimore
this week for the purpose of allowing
Mr.. Collier to make the production of q
new play. "A Lucky Star" by Mrs. Elise
Crawford, a new author. As the contract
for the new play called for its production
before the first of the year. the tour OF
THE Patriots" star is interrupted for
4.