Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-09

Edith Taliaferro appeared with great
success in Boston In "Rebecca of Sunny
| brook Farm.
Lewis Waller. the London actor-man-
| ager Is inviting the submission to him
of romantic play.
Miss Annie Russell is to appear at the
| New Theater. New York, in 1.-THE School
| for Scandal" as Lady Teazle.
The Roundup" is making its first
| Then it will go to the Pacific coast.
George Arliss has resumed his place in
| the title role Of "Septimus." The play is
| to be given on tour.
Fanny Ward is shortly to make her
debut in vaudeville in New York. She
| will use a condensed version Of her play,
ivan Aliens Wife,
Charles Dillingham's new theater, the
Globe, in New York, will open next Mon
day with Montgomery and Stone in 1.-The
Old Town"
Peter, 1.-The chimpanzee with the human
at Chase's last week. The genus homo
| will have to look to its histrionic laurels.
Bessie Tannihin has been engaged for
one Of the principal roles in THE King
of Cadonia." formerly played by Zelda
Sears. The play will open at Days The
alter Monday evening.
Daniel Frohman the foreign rights OF
Burt Theodore Sayre's play, 1.-THE Com
manding Officer" now being presented in
the Savoy Theater. New York.
Ethel Barrymore and her company to
play Pinero's "Midchanner' will begin
rehearsals Monday. Messrs. Charles Dali
| ton and H. Reeves Smith have been en-
gagged.
Mayme Gehrue has taken Bessie Nc
Coys place in Three Twins Miss
| Mccoy writes friend that she intends
| remaining in Jamaica until the middle
! of April.
| In Syracuse last Monday night Henry
| b. Harris produced for the first time a
called A Mans Man." by Anna Steese
Richardson and Henry Leslie Fridenberg.
From Chicago there comes the news
that Vera Michelena is to replace Violet
cess Miss Dale rendered her resigna-
ton to Mort II. Singer several days ago.
| Theodore Mitchell. business manager OF
Lillian Russell's tour. has arranged with
Curly Brown. manager of the race track
| at Jacksonville. Fla, to run a Lillian
Russell handicap January II, the day that
Miss Russell appears in that city.
Grace George is to return to the New
| York Theater to appear as Beatrice in
Much Ado About Nothing" She will
| also appear as Lady Teazle and Beatrice
| In London in a revival of the plays by
Beerbohm Tree.
| John T. Kelly was engaged last week
by Messrs. Lebler & Co. to play one of
| the comedy roles in "A Certain Party"
| a new comedy by Edward Townsend and
| Frank Ward O'Malley, In which Mabel
Hite is to have the leading role.
Charles Frohman has purchased from
Francis Wilson the rights to produce
1.-The Bachelors Baby in London and
on the continent. The play will be given
/ by the Duke Of York's comedy company
| in London, with no person starred.
| A musical farce called THE Taxi Girl
will be produced this week at New Haven
and thence will go to Chicago. In the
company are Carter de Haven. Jessie
Millward. Adele Richie. Frederick Bond.
John Glendenning, Jeanette Bageards
Max Freeman and Morgan Conan.
Charles y. Bigelow. who left the Mise
Innocence company in Chicago a few
days ago on account of difference with
r ziegfeld. jr., will return to the com.
| pduy again dS lDc SOtOIIdI 1neat0T, chi.
cago. The differences have been recon
ciled.
The opening performance of The
Prince Of Bohemia. in which Andrew
Mack is starring. will be given at the
Hackett Theater Thursday evening, Jan.
uary Ii. Mr.. Mack IL supported by
Christie Macdonald and a company OF
| seventy.
| H. Denman Thompson. who appeared
for years In his own play. 1.-THE Old
| Homestead" will begin a vaudeville en-
gagement January 81 In New York in a
sketch called Joshua Whitcomb," named
after the character he impersonated In
1.-The Old Homestead"
! Wife" in which David Belasco will star
| Charlotte Walker, will have its first per-
Torrance at Cleveland January II. In
the company to support her are Edmund
Breeze. Ernest Glendenning. Frederick
/ Burton and Amelia Gardner.
According TO reports at Liebler & CO.,
office Ezra Kendall's tour in The Vinegar
Buyer came to an end last Tuesda,
night. Kendall was playing on the Pacific
coast The company probably will b'
taken directly back to New York city
without hating at q single "open door.
Salvation Nell' until February She
will then start rehearsals In a new pro.
duction, which Mr.. Fiske IL to make
opening in Chicago and to be seen in New
York Easter Monday. Gertrude Anterior
the novelist, Is writing a play for Mrs
F1ske.
1t has been computed that Walter
Damrosch In his twenty-five years as
conductor has taken his orchestra q
distance to equal six times around the
world. This distance. about 10000
miles. has been traVersed entirely within
the borders Of the United States.
I The first New York performance OF
Madame X" will take place at the New
Amsterdam Theater, Wednesday. Febru
airy 2. This is the emotional drama b,
Alexandra Bison, which attracted much
attention last season in Paris with Nine