Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04
GREEN ROOM TALK
AND TATTLE

Moore theater offered the Burns-John-
son fight pictures. then swung back
with the equally but differently sensa-
tional Servant in the House" the sun
day after.
King edward celebrated his birthday
by comforting knighthood upon Beer
bohm Tree and A. w. Pinero.
Maude Adams has been requested
by the Fairgrounds association of
Washington, to play Peter Pan Oh
the White House lawn.
Owing To the illness of William Col
lier. 1.-The Man from Mexico" abruptly
ended its New York engagement last
week.
Some of the new plays to be seen
next season are: Maughams THE
. Noble Spaniard," in which Robert Ede-
son and Gertrude Coghlan are to act;
Charming PoIlock's "Such a Little
Queen" in which Elsie Ferguson Will
become a star: Kellet Chambers AN
American Widow" DIR. Leopold
Kampf's "On the Eve" James Bernard
Fagan's 1.-THE Earth" in which Ed
mund Breese will star and William
Anthony McGuire's THE Heights,
with Frank Keenan, as the principal
nlayer; IAN American Girl from
France" by Harriet Ford and Caro-
line Kin Duer; 1.-The Commuters" a
comedy by James Forbes; THE Ghost
Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles
w. Goddard; 1.-THE Barbarians. by
Edgar Selwyn and Thomas Mallard;
"The Natural Law" by Howard Han;
"The Children of Destiny" by Sidney
Rosenfeld, and a new and unnamed
play by Elmer Harris, the author
of "Sham." Rose Stahl will continue
10 nlay 'The Chorus Lady," Frank
Mcintyre will retain THE travelling
Salesman" and several companies viii
play 1.-The Third Degree and THE
Lion and the Mouse"
Mrs. Annie Yeamans. who is the
suffragette in "The Candy Shop" now
playing in Chicago, will be 7S Novem-
ber 10.
George Arliss will star next year in
a dr--latization of w. ]. Locke's novel
"Septimus," under Harrison Grey
F'iske's management.
Clay Clement, who has been playing
the Drain Man in 1.-The Servant in the
House" has been engaged for the New
York cast of "The Dollar Mark"
San Francscans gave royal well
come to II lbrook Blinns Jim Platt in
"SaIvation Nell" Mr.. Blinn is ma
tive Californian and a Leland Stanford
man.
Mrs. Annie Adams, mother of Maude
Adams, is acting in Salt Lake City
stock company.
Harrison Grey Fiske sailed June 23.
for England.
The company of the noted Art the
ater in Moscow are contemplating an
American tour.
Writing in Midland, Robert I. Carter
SAYS: Mrs. Fiske is constantly called
an intellectual actress. L hate the
words. Mrs. Fiske is at heart an
emotionalist and a poet. salvation
Nelr is the newest proof of Mrs. Fiske's
splendid courage; it tells of struggle
in which the victory comes at the very
end to the lowly the weak and the
despised."
To celebrate the two hundredth per-
formance of "The Golden Grip at the
Princess theater, Chicago, the manage
ment Friday night presented silver
dollar to each woman patron who was
accompanied by. male escort
Mrs. Fiskes receipts for the seven
local performances of salvation Nell"
at the Auditorium may be judged by
the fact, as officially announced by
Harrison Grey Fske's news bulletin,
that her final Saturday matinee drew
a S2S39 house In Seattle, July 12 Mrs.
Fiske will dedicate the new Alhambra
theater Her present tour closes in
Minneapolis August 4. She will re-
sune in salvation Nell" i'm October.
Next February she will appear in a
new play at Dalys theater, New York.
''The Alaskan" Harry Girard's mu-
steal play, completed an eleven weeks
engagement at the Great Northern
theater, Chicago, last night
The Producing Managers associa-
tion met in New York last week, and,
with the exception Of Ben Giroux and
Jaseph Brooks, it's members declared
themselves unqualifiedly in faver of the
"Open Door" policy, inaugurated in the
wes.. Henry w Savage, the retiring
president of the association, and Henry
r. Harris, the newly elected president,
both declared that they would book
their attractions in whatever territory
seemed best to them.
The authorities of the Royal opera
house in Berlin last week accepted for
production a grand opera in three acts
entitled "Poia," the libretto of which
is by Randolph Hartley, and the music