Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

A new vaudeville sketch is called
"Alias Irish Bessie"
George Parsons will be leading man
for Elsie Janis.
play.
Sidney Booth is to be leading man in
Her Son.
1.-The Midnight Sons is to go back to
Chicago next month for run.
Josephine Brown is to be the leading
lady with William Gillettes company.
Osborne searle is playing in Madame
Sherry" in Chicago.
The rumor is revived. according to
the New York Review. that Ada Rehan
will return to the stage.
Lillian Nordica and Melba will be
among the stars Of the season Of the
Chicago Grand Opera Company.
Frances Cartwright. an English ac-
tress. has arrived in New York to Join
Joseph Weber's company.
Harry Woodruff has just closed a sea-
son Of forty-three weeks in THE Prin-
cess Of Tonight"
Billie Burke will make a tour the COM
Ing season south and west. which will
cover L.. 600 miles. Her play will be Mrs.
Dot
Phyllis Sherwood and Grace Sherwood
will be again In the cast at the Columbia
Theater this week.
Thomas Ross In Chicago and John
Barrymore in New York have both
Hnntprp
nate vehicle.
Frank Mills is to be the leading man
with Elsie Ferguson in "A Matter of
Money" This play is to be produced
early In September.
Jane Marbury. who IL to be leading
lady with Wallace Eddinger in Bobby
Burnt" is playing in a Connecticut
stock company this summer.
When William Gillette goes on his
starring tour he will revive his civil
war successes-"secret Service" and
Held by the Enemy"
Weldon Grossmith has made hit In
"Billy's Bargain" in London. He ex-
poets to appear in the play in this coun-
try later.
"At the Mercy OF Tiberus." which has
been tried by the Vaughn-Glaser Com
ing the regular season
Frederic Thompson has reorganized a
company to go to the Pacific coast in
THE Spendthrift." 1t is headed by Doris
Mitchell and Lionel Adams.
Gustave Frohman. brother of Charles
and Daniel, will have theater in Seat
tie. with n conservatory OF music and a
school Of acting attached.
Henry W. Savage has SECURED the
American rights in English to the new
Puccini opera. The Girl of the Golden
West"
Pauline Chase will be the leading Iady
of the London success, Our Miss Gibbs
when it is presented in New York late
next month,
Word comes from Saranae Lake that
Manager Fred G. Berger will probably
he back at his desk at the Columbia this
week.
Eugene Walter revived his first play,
Sergeant James," renamed it Boots
and Saddles" and had it produced in ST
Louis, where it received severe critical
treatment
Maude Adams has gone abroad and will
rest near Dublin until October She will
step In London on her way to Ireland
play which he Is to write for her
1t is said the Earl of Yarmouth has
returned to the stage and resumed his
former stage name of Eric Hone. He has
written a musical comedy ior himself
called 1.-THE Pigeon House."
George Rex Wilson has pestpaaed his
prospective visit to his home in London
until September because of the Indefinite
extension of the seaso. of the Columbia
Players at the Columbia Theater.
Bessie Mccoy is to 9iay the leading
feminine role in 1.-The E no" opening in
New York about the riddle of next
month, under the mana ges lent of Charles
Dillingham;, In the suppo ting company
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