The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
NOTES OF THE STAGE

What has become of Nora Bayes, like
wise Jack Norworth? Since they were
enjoined by the courts from appearing
under any other management but Flor
enz Ziegfeld they have been exceeding
ly quiet
'.Mr. Bill' is the name of the new play
intended for Robert Edeson. 1t will not
be produced until next year.
At the Belasco Theater Sunday, Janu-
ary %, Mr.. Ben Greet will deliver a lee
ture on the Passion Play of Ober-
ammersau. Mr.. Greet spent sew
e-al weeks last summer in per-
sonally witnessing this world-fa-
NOUS play. and will describe it from
the viewpoint of an actor and stage
director, which will naturally mean a
lecture on the Passion Play not before
! dwelt upon by lecture travellers. Mr..
Greets lecture will be amply illustrated
with slides taken by his own photogra-
pher.
The White Rats have received permis-
sion from the Supreme Court to change
their name to the White Rats Actors
Union Of America. The change will take
effect on February ).
Prof. Gamers researches in monkey
life have made him world famous. For
years at a time he has lived in the
African forests. spending days and nights
in cage near monkey haunts, that he
might study their habits and language
as they grew accustomed to his pres
ence. Phonograph records of monkey
talk have aided his study.
The Authors Producing Company will
put into rehearsal within a week new
drama by Margaret Mayo.
Frank ]. Could says the story that he
is to build a theater in New York is
idiotic. He is going back TO Europe in
few weeks.
Bob" Long, Chase's new treasurer. but
longtime attache, has an entirely new
corps of assistants in ticket dispensing.
Peter Pan" has been revived in Lon
don, with Pauline Chase in the title role.
and il will again bring a large reward
to Charles Frohman.
Beatrice Forbes Robertson has gone on
a lecture tour on the woman suffrage
question with visit through Pennsyl-
vania.
H. Reeves Smith is to be Margaret
Anglin's leading man in Green Stock
ingS. Other engagements include Charles
Garry. Lewis Howard. Ivan F. Simpson.
and Crosby Little.
Chicago likes THE Country Boy and
Henry B. Harris is happy.
The National Theater will be turned
into a vast picture gallery Thursday aft
ernoon. January 19, when Dwight Elmen-
dorf presents for the second time this
season his lecture. Famous paintings"
The first presentation of this subject met
with great success, and it is in response
to many requests that he has decided to
repeat it While there is much merit in
all of Elmendorf's travel talks, this feast
of pictures is one of the most enjoyable
in his entire repertoire.
Victor H. Sn1alley. the author of Valerie
Bergere's Judgment" who died recently
in New Orleans. was at one time Wash
ington newspaper man.
1t is said that Amy Leslie, the we'll
known dramatic critic of the Chicago
Daily News, is seriously ill with pneu-
monia at her home in Rogers Park. Two
physicians have been in constant attend
snce upon her.
When Mrs Carter goes on tour. Walter
Hale. late of ''DriftinG.' will join her
company. taking the place of Robert
Warwick who succeeds Charles Cherry
The Sweetest Girl in Paris is about
to celebrate its o00th performance in Chi
cago.
Some industrious person has discovered
that there isn't any such town as Yel-
low Dog. Mont. although Booth Tark
ington and Harry Leon Wilson put it in
the play in which May Irwin is starring,
and in which she will be seen here.
Booth Harrington wrote chapter about
a yellow dog in his story, '.The Conquest
of Canaan. Perhaps that gave him the
idea. Or was it Medicine Hat?
Henry Arthur Jones occupied box at
the Nazimova Theater, New York. with
Joseph H Choate. the ex-Ambassador to
England. at the premiere performance of
Mr.. Jones' new play, We Can't Be as
Bad as All That
Prof Garner says that the natives in
the Congo country took but a mild in
terest in his experiments. believing that
he was training his apes to act as house.
hold servants, which suggests a solution
of the servant problem, which may or
may not appeal to the American house
wife.
]. Hartley Manners is to write q new
play for Charlotte Granville.
Sixteen year-old Way Down East re-
Gently broke all records for big business
at McVickers Theater, Chicago.
Manager l.. S. Taylor. of the EelaSco
Theater. reports that the advance sale for
the Sothern-Marlowe engagement at that
house week Of February will be the
greatest those noted stars have ever had
in this city. Though only mail orders
are received at this time, every mail |
brings in a load of orders, and the en-
saSement promises to be record breaker |
in every respect. In this respect Mr.. |
Sam Freedman. OF the Sothern- Marlowe |
company, wrote Mr.. Taylor a couple of |
DAYS ago from Philadelphia, in which he
stated that the first weeks receipts of |
mail orders only amounted to nearly |
A5.0C0. |
"A Waltz Dream" has been revived at |
Daly's Theater, in London, by George |
EdwardeS. |
]. R Scheyer. formerly on the staff Of |
several Washington papers. was in the |
city last week renewing old acquaint- |
ances while heralding the coming of |
The Travelling Salesman
theaterS in Toronto have been held up |
by the authorities because of a stricter 1
fire law and an increase in the yearly 4
taxation.