Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18

play in English. With the rest of the com
pany playing in German. Mr.. Won Pos
s9rt will play in German to Julia Mar
loves POrtia.
Grace Filkins has taken the role %
the adventures in Drifting. which
plays an engagement in New York, open
ing "Wednesday.
Wilton Lackaye and Lena Ashwell ar
to be co-stars i'm judith Zaraine.' al
intensely dramatic play of the Pennsyl
Nania mill workers, by &. NJ. S. McClel
Ian. author of "Iepah Kleshua.'' Mis-:
Ashwell will take the title role, that o.
leader of the striking millworkers, anc
MI Lackaye that of the millowner. wht
comes to the town. ostenSibly as re-
porter. in order to study the situation "a
first hand.
Maria Davis. who has prominent part
in Marriage a la Carte has stage
experience of twenty-eight years, and III
that time had but four managers. She
was four years with Tom Robertson.
seven years with George EdwardeS, seven
years with Sir Charles Wyndham. and
ten years with David Belasco. She came
To- the United States for single season.
playing with Mrs. Leslie Carter and
David Belasco. Instead of remaining
only one season. she has STAYED ten.
The Yale University Dramatic Associa-
ton has in preparation a performance of
III Ventaglo.' a famous Italian comedy
ny Goldoni, which will be seen in Wash
ington this month. \ translation of the
play has been made for the Use of the
college men by Prof. Kenneth Mckenzie
of Yale This will be the second visit of
the Yale players To this city, where they
scored a success last winter in London
Assurance"
Laura Hope Crews. Henry Miller's lead
ing woman for THE Havoc has appear
ed in Washington four times as Polly
in The Great Divide" She was Otis
SINNERS leading woman at the Column
bia Theater a number of years ago when
he presented His Grace de Grammont'
here for the first time. She has been on
the stage since she was four wears old,
with an interval of eight years, which
she spent in school and college and was
starred at the age of five in 'Editha 5
Burglar"
DR. John c. Bowker, the noted traveller,
whose travelogue on The Passion Play
will he presented at Chase's this week, an
nounces that he will do no more globe
trotting. For twenty years and more he
has been delving into hooks and crannies
OF the world, and now he is weary of it.
He has visited seventy-five countries, has
been on every continent on the globe has
made three pilgrimages to Oberammer-
gau to see the Passion Play" and only
recently returned from visit to San
Marino. the smallest and in many ways
the most remarkable republic in the
world.
Two New York producing firms paid
options on Henry Mille,'s new play, THE
Havoc, before it reached Mr.. Miller S
hands. Both firms permitted their options
to expire because CT their inability TO en-
gage an actor who could play the big
role, upon which the fate of the play
depends. A Chicago critic, who heard of
the difficulty, suggested the possibility
that Henry Miller would accept the play
and appear in the leading role. and the
tip proved a good one. MIR. Miller &C
cepted THE Havoc within twenty-four
hours after the manuscript reached his
office.
Chases bill for next week announces
the Broadway extravaganza favoriteS
Bert kalmar and Jessie Brown in char
acteristic blends of dance and song
George b. Reno and company's ludicrous
martial burlesque is called 1.-The Misfit
Army because of it's characterization
ong-and-short-of-it, high privates of the
rear rank. Among the attractions are
Charles +. Semon, that narrer Teller" !:
Herr Herzog's eight Trakhene horses
from the imperial German stables, in
wonderful riding and drilling maneuvers:
Edwards, Van and Tierney, a trio of
comic singers and comedians; Harry Fox
and the Millership sisters in Artistic
Oddities; Fred st. Onge and company
with an eccentric travesty and the pic
torial farce "A Honeymoon Trip From
Canada to HOngkong