Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

after her engagement in the all-star COM
pany presenting Caste" In New York.
Margaret Anslin has started rehearsals
Of "Antigone," which she Is to give at
Harvard.
A benefit is to be given in New York
the first day of May for the mother of
the late Lolita Faust.
Louise Dresser has been engaged to
support De Wolf Hopper in THE Mat
inee Idol
Otis harlan will star in a farce by
George Bfoadhurst, under the manage
ment of w. A. Brady.
Thurstons company numbers twenty
odd members, who assist in the working
of his hundred or more tricks.
A new comedy by Anthony Hope and
Cosmo Gordon Lennox is called "Helen's
PATH" and is a story of English coun-
try life.
John Galsworthy's play. Justice"
| which will be given next season in New
York, Is an attack on the English prison
| system.
Blanche Ring is to take her first sum
ner rest In two years. All last summer
she played continuously I'm The Midnight
Sons"
Two additional companies will be organ
lied to present The Spendthrift' on tour
This is the play seen in Baltimore under
the name Of Waste.
Henrietta Crosman is rehearsing new
| play by Percy Mackaye, which Will be
| produced during her engagement in the
west
| Homer Lind, Chase's operate star next
| week is a Washingtonian, but his must
| cal career has kept him away from here
! for years at time.
Bertha Kalich has three new plays. one
| by German author. another by Rus
| sian and the third by an American. All
Of these plays have for subject modern
| conditions Of life.
Counting from next Monday. May 2,
Chase's has but three weeks to run be-
fore the close Of the season. Beginning
May o commandments and amateur en-
tertainments will reign.
W. ]. ersuson is the only surviving
actor in active service who was in the
company presenting Our American
Cousin at Fords Theater the night Pres
ident Lincoln was assassinated.
Francis Wilson has legally adopted the
child, Baby Davis, who appears with him
as little Martha in his play. 1.-THE Bache-
Ior's Baby Baby Davis is. however. not
a girl. but boy He will take the name
Of Wilson in addition to his own.
Miss Amy Lesser, who for four years
was Miss Rose Stahl's understudy in
'''rhe Chorus Lady" and never had
chance to play the part, will be seen at
the New National this week in the new
Forbes comedy. 1.-The Commuters
day acquired by cable from Frank Curzon
of London the American rights to The
Naked Truth comedy which has just
been produced at Wyndham's Theater,
London. by Charles Hawtrey.
Hattie Williams is said to display un-
expected emotional ability in Alfred
Sutro's one-act play. "A Maker of Men,
with her new farce. 1.-The Girl He
Couldn't Leave Behind Him.
That the members of "The Dollar Prin-
cess" company may have rest Mr..
Charles Frohman announced yesterday
that the musical comedy would end It's
long run at the Knickerbocker Theater.
New York, May IA and reopen the house
in August.
In the Ziegfeld company of players to
assist Katherine Kavanagh in her new
play, The Wayfarer." will be Thomas
Slater. George Darrell. Francis r. Sum
mers. Lillian Rommel. Catherine Hilton
and Margaret De Grammont.
The cast for Mile. Modiste" has been
submitted to Victor Herbert, its COM
poser. and has been approved by him.
his contract with the Aborns for produc-
ing the opera at the New National pro- (
viding that the singers chosen to interpret
the favorite composition satisfy him in
every respect
Gladys Moore. the toe dancer in 1.-THE
Midnight Sons" who initiates Genee. used
to dance in the chorus of various musi- |
cal comedies 1t was while The Mimic
World" was playing in Philadelphia that
Miss Moore was called upon to do q solo
dance Ever since she has been drawing
the salary Of principal.
Sarah Bernhardt, October %. 1910, VIII
have reached her sixty-sixth year. Oc-
enth tour Of the United States, or, to
use her own words: Il am sorry to say,
1t will be my last visit to America" Her
repertoire during her engagements will
consist Of fifteen plays
Julliette Dika has been engaged to play
the proprietress In 1.-THE Florist Shop"
musical version. Charles Meakins, who |
has been singing the role Of the Prince
in 1.-The Merry Widow" and Sophie Bar
nard. who has been playing Natalie in
the same piece. have been transferred to !
the Chicago company Of 1.-THE Gay Hus-
ears"
j. Sheldon Landon, the advance repre- |
sentative of rs Matrimony Failure?"
was a base ball reporter and travelled |
with the New York team in the early |
nineties. In visiting washington with |
this team he first met Charles T. K |
Miller, who was the secretary and official
scorer of the local team. By a coinci- |
dence, Mr. Laf1don and Mr.. Miller are |
now engaged ny the same company.
The professions are well represented in
''Is Matrimony a Failure?" William |
Morris is a lawyer, and formerly prac |
ticed law in Boston; James Bradbury |
is a mining engineer: F. Newton Lindo |
studied for the church, and eked out an |
existence as an underpaid curate in an |
English village until he got weary of |
the struggle; Frank Worthing studied
medicine, and Robert Rogers was a SOL
der.
Advantages of Strap-Hanging.