Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

Harriet Burt is to enter vaudeville il
songs and dances.
Dustin Farnum is playing Cameo Kir,
By" through the south.
George Fawcett appeared last week IL
Detroit in his new play. THE Fighter
John Z. Kellard is 20 be the leading
man OF 1.-The White Squaw" company.
Dukes Cnderstudy." with Sam Bernard.
The Penalty is booked to follow
New York; at the Columbia Theater.
Mary Mannering, who was recently op
Grated on for appendicitis. is now out O.
danger.
October attractions at the New Ma
tional
The latest reports have II that Charlotte
Walker will appear in The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine
Billie Burke resumed her tour last week
in Toledo In Mrs. Dot" Later in the
season she will be seen in a new play.
Lillian Russell is to open her season in
Chicago in her new play. I'm Search of
a Sinner" From there she will go to the
Pacific coast.
Blanche Bates is considering a new
play. In the meantime she is starring
under the Belasco management in THE
Fighting Hope"
Mabel Bardine has new playlet which
she will use In vaudeville. called AN Ex-
pertinent in Humor." 1t is by Keith
Wakeman.
Vera Michelina has been engaged for
he lnod fpc ok IN ha m 10
Train" by Charles Dillingham;, in place of
Sallie Fisher.
1.-The Family" by Robert Davis. which
Henry Miller produced last season in Chi
cago, is to be revived. Mabel Burt and
Sam Edwards will be in the cast
The original company in alias Jimmy
Valentine" will remain in New York and
the Liebler Company will organize an
other company for road tour.
Pamela Gaythorne, an English actress.
has been engaged by the Shuberts for a
prominent role in Butler Davenport
play, Keeping Up Appearances
..The Genius" in which Nat Goodwin
once starred. is to be turned into mu-
steal comedy for Henry Woodruff, under
the direction of Mort Singer.
Nazimova opened her engagement i'll
Chicago in THE Fairy Tale, and VII
appear in a repertoire of four plays dur
ing her stay in that city
Sidney r. Ellis is to produce play next
month in Hartford called THE Iron
King" by Cosme Hamilton. The play
deals with industrial themes. and its
scenes are laid in Pittsburg.
THE Wedding Journey was produced
in Atlantic City by Arnold DAILY, who told
the audience in speech from the stage
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ing manager than an actor in future.
Edward Abeles has retired from the
cast of THE Aviator" and the author,
James Montgomery, who is also san actor,
assumed the principal role. He Will con-
tinue in the part for the rest of the sea-
son.
Gladys Hulette, a girl of fifteen, is to
take Marguerite Clark's place in the New
Theater production of THE Blue Bird
Miss Clark herself suggested a child for
the role as she did not think she could
play It herself well.
Mrs. Marie B. Schrader. who is general
press representative of Joe Weber's at
fractions and formerly of this city, mas
written a novel called Just Like An Ac-
tress.' which is to appear serlally In a
popular magazine.
Alexander Bison. author of Madame
X" has written a new comedy, which is
having a success in Paris. The piece will
be produced In this country by the Amer
lean Dramatic Guild under the title of
Some Are Born Great
Fred Terry and Julia Nelson are TO
make a ten-week tour of this country,
arriving from London next month. They
will be under the management of Klaw
& Erlanger. and will appear in The Scar
let Pimpernell" and Henry of Navarro"
r; Mo he 70 in Na
Goodwin will impersonate a globetrotter
and clubman, who has been an officer in
the National Guard. He impersonates
regular officer who was the hero of the
march to Picking in the Boxer uprising.
Cathrine Courtiss has found immediate
acceptance as emotional star of mag
netic personality and the tear-compelling
gift Stair & Havlin have sent her on
tour as Margaret Anglin's successor in
The Awakening of Helena Richie
Douglas Flattery. president of a COM
pany that is building theater In Cam
bridge. has written a romantic play about
the story of Annie Laurie. 1t will be pro-
duced early in October, with Lillian
Bacon, an Australian actress, in the title
role.
The Shuberrs will some time during the
present season produce three plays by Eu-
gene Walter. One is Boots and Saddles, a
sassin." a psychological drama. and THE
Trait Cnspeakable. based on the white
slave trade.
The new production. Madame Trouba-
dour." has eight principals. but no cho-
rus. The company will comprise Grace La
Rue. Georgia Caine. Van Rensselaer,
Wheeler Charles Angelo. Martin Brown,
Edgar Norton. Doris Goodwin and Anna
Wheaton.
Liebler & Co. will produce "a. the New
Theater New York, in November Mas
cagni's latest grand opera, "Ysobel," with
Miss Bessie Abott in the title role.
supported by the Bessie Abott Grand
opera Company and Signor Mascagni
conducting ut all performances.
The Land OF the Free by William G.
DeMille. author OF ''Strongheart." has is
story woven around the case o, young
Italian who, after laboring and saving
for fi-c years 10 bring his wife and child
to this country, had the latter ordered
deported on frivolous grounds. The idea
Of the play is criticism of immigrant in
spection.
E III. Sothern, who has been abroad for
three months returned to New York last
week on the steamship Hamburg. He
announces that he and Miss Marlowe will
begin their season in Boston in october
and will appear in New York about holi-