Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05

| in their seats promptly at S:10 o CLOCK
for the evening performances and at 2:1o
| o'clock for the Thursday and Saturday
matineeS.
Virginia Harmed is still at Reno. New.
awaiting developments. She may play
| stock engagement, but that has not been
settled.
Three Million Dollars is the title Of
a piece by Edgar Allen Woolf, which Will
have its premiere in Boston August
next.
George Arlis will appear in the fall in
"NVhen We Two Write History" with the
play changed somewhat for its improve
ment.
A bill is in the New York legislature to
make the selling of tickets on the side
walk a misdemeanor. 1t has passed one
house.
The Shuberts will make a production of
the new Broadhurst play and of plays by
Eugene Walter, including Boots and Sad
dies.
Francis Wilson has enjoyed a twenty
twO-week run in THE Bachelors Baby
right on Broadway. The run comes to an
end June IL.
The revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's
'Mikado" in New York was orlllant
one FRITZ Scheff made a special hit Is
Yum Yum.
Jane Marbury has been engaged by
Henry 3. Harris for Bobby Burnt, in
which Wallace Eddinger is featured in the
title role.
Bronson Towards play "Aristocracy"
has been revived in Chicago. with cast
including J. III. Gilmour, John Westly and
Frank Gilmore.
James X. Hackett announces that he
controls the rights to three new plays.
The first production will probably be
THE Wings of Peace
William Morris returned from Europe
last week with many vaudeville novelties
up his managerial sleeve. Nine. ReJane
is one of his possibilities.
Charles j. Ross will play the title role
in the musical burlesque of "Chanti-
cleer." Stella Mayhem and Billie Taylor
will also be in the company.
Henry B. Harris has engaged Forrest
Winaut to play the leading role in The
Country Boy" by Edgar Selwyn, which
will be produced early in September.
William Norris, the well known come
dian, who is starring in My Cinderella
Girl" was married last week in Chicago
to Miss Mabel Mardaunt, his leading lady.
William II. Crane, in extensive in
terview recently, eulogized the late Jo-
seph jefferson. He said the second act of
rip Van Winkle'' was the perfection of
art.
Next season David Belasco will make
an all-star revival of 1.-The Merry Wives
Of Windsor" and will also star David
Warfield as Shylock In THE Merchant Of
Venice
Janet Beecher has been engaged by
David Belasco for the leading feminine
part in THE Concert. - She will play the
mart of the wife of Hungarian piano
virtuoso.
Apropos Of the success of the lighter
forms Of entertainment lately, the New
York Review points out that even Shake
speare and Moliere did not disdain to
write farces.
by William A. Brady and the Shuberts
will be made in Chicago next week. 1t
will be BAY Mine.' q comedy by Mar
garet Mayo.
David Warfield is playing his farewell
week in New York In THE Music Mas
ter which has been running continuously
for five years. He is to appear in a new
play next season.
Nazinlova will spend the summer at her
country place at Portchester. The present
! run of Little Eyolf," however, bids fair
TO be prolonged beyond the usual time for
beginning vacations.
Fred Terry. the English actor, is to play
in this country in October, appearing in
1.-THE Scarlet Pimpernef' and Henry OF
Navarro" both of which have been very
successful in London.
Charles Frohman is to give another
thief" play next winter "A Thief in the
Night" will be its title. and it is an adap-
tation of play now running at the Vau-
deville Theater, Paris.
Maurice Campbell says Henrietta Cross
mans new play "Anti-Matrimony," by
Percy Mackaye, is the biggest thing She
ever had. not excepting Mistress Nell"
and that It's receipts in the west have
| been enormous.
George p. Huntley. the English actor.
who has been playing in the all-star re-
vival of Caste in New York. Is slightly
i'll with typhoid fever. and has been
obliged to retire from the cast. His place
has been taken by Percival Aylmer.
Martin Beck, general manager of the
Orpheum circuit. IS to build theater es-
pecially designed to try out vaudeville
acts and actors in private. 1t will have
fully equipped stage, but only small
space to accommodate auditors.
Nazimova had narrow escape recently
| in a runaway accident The horse she
was driving became frightened and was
| on the point of plunging over steep en-
| bankment when a plucky man who was
nearby caught the animal and checked his
| flight.
| W A. Brady will add to his list of
stars James X. Hackett. Amelia Bingham,
Henry f. Dixey. Virginia Harmed, Andrew
| Mack, Guy Bates Post and Arnold DAILY.
! Hackett will be presented in repertoire
| Of romantic plays, including some of his
old successes. Daily will also have a
repertoire which will include the Shaw
| plays, in which he was SO successful.
| Mrs Julia Ward Howe, who is now
| eighty-one, says she is anxious to see on
the boards her play. The Worlds Own
which she wrote for T.. l.. Davenport, and
in which it was intended Edwin Booth
and Charlotte Cuslman should have the
leading roles. play of hers, 'Hippoly-
tus' written for Matilda Heron and the
elder Sothern, was once produced.