Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

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Charles Frohman will produce new
play by Augustus Thomas next year.
! Julian Eltinge has closed remarkably
successful ten-week season in Chicago.
Rupert Hughes has made dramatiza-
ton of Karl Harriman's novel, Sadie. .
Wilton Lackaye and his wife have gone
abroad to witness the English coronation.
| Edgar Selwyn has had a new play pro-
duced in Los Angeles called THE Arab. :
| Ellen Terry is to cover the English
| speaking world In her lecture tour.
| Liebler Company will have a dramati-
zation made of David Graham Phillips
| novel, white Magic"
| Frances Demarest of Merry Widow
and Madame Sherry fame will be cast
in 'Dr. De Luke" in Boston.
Rida johnson Young's play. in which
Helen Lowell is to star, is a play of west
ern life and is called Next"
| David Belasco is reading a new play
| for Francis Starr, to be produced next
| season under his management.
| willette Kershaw will be Frank Nc
| Intyre's leading woman In George Bron-
| son Towards comedy. The Snobs.
Katherine Emmett will be the leading
woman with Lawrence D'Orsay in the
revival of The Earl of Pawtucket'
| Klaw & Erlanger have arranged for a
| London production of THE Pink Lady
\ which has met with such favor in New
York.
| Emma Trentini has sailed for Europe.
and on her return. in September, will
begin her second season in Naughty
| Marietta"
Beatrice Noyes has been engaged for
an important part in ''The Cave Man,
| by Gelett Burgess, in which Robert EIDE
son is to star.
The rehearsal of the choruses for
I"Forty-fve Minutes from Broadway
have been under way for week at the
columbia Theater.
| George Barber of the Columbia Players
played all the past week with a sprained
| wrist, the result of an accident in crank
| ing his automobile.
| John M. Kline whose work during the
past few weeks has attracted attention,
has been engaged as a permanent member
of the Columbia Players.
1.-THE Price" in which Helen Ware is
| to star, will open in September in New
York. Jesse Ralph has been engaged for
one of the prominent parts.
"Forty-flve Minutes From Broadway.
| George NJ. Cohan's breezy musical COM
edy, will be the first musical. offering
ever attempted by the Columbia Players.
old BARLEY Campbell melodrama. 1.-The
White Slave in P1ttsburg early in Au-
gust. The company will be sent on tour.
| New York.
Baron Trenck." the book by Frederick
Schraeder and the music by Felix Albni.
| has made hit In London under the di-
rection Of F. c. Whitney.
| 'Disrael.' with George Arliss in the
| title role, which has been making a sue
cess in Chicago. is to be one Of the open
| Ing attractions of the coming season in
| The famous German talking dog is to
| be an attraction in New York the coming
summer. 1t is said the dog distinctly
articulates words of one, two and some
polysyllables.
| Mrs. Leslie Carter is to make a Eu-
ropean trip at the close OF her season.
| Next year she is to go west in 1.-TWO
Women" and may also appear in Ham
let" and La Tosca."
| H. B. Warner at the conclusion of an
arduous season in the title role of Alias
| JIMMY NaIeDIlne. VIII recuDefdte at
Bass Rock a summer place near GIouces-
| ter, Mass.
| More people attended the Columbia
| Theater the past week to witness the
performance OF The Girl Of the Golden
West than ever patronized a play at
| that house in the same period of time
| before.
George V. Hobart. whose 'Everywife'
made q great impression at the Lambs
gambol is to write the book for Ziegfeld s
. 'Follies of 1911" Everywife.' which was
suggested by "Everywoman." will proba-
bly, have a regular production.
The New Theater in New York is to he
| renamed the Century by the Lebler CcFn-
| pany- The first play to be produced under
the direction of George G. Tyler man
| aging director of the Iiebler Company
will be the characterization of Robert
| Hutchins' Garden of Allah.
new play by the author Of Marriage
la Carte 1.-The Affair in the Bar
| racks" will he acted for the first time
| In this country about October l next. il
Chicago. c. NJ. S. Mcclellan acknow-
| lodges Indebtedness to a German original
Twill o. the Wisp.'' comic opera by
Alfred Robyns. was produced last week
| In Chicago. Walter Percival author OF
the book, playing the leading part Of q
| f1eluciDeT8 otNtTS III tne cas-
were Bertha Holly. Josie Sadler, Ignaci,
Martinette and Richie Ling.
Now Chicago Is planning a theater or
the lines Of the New Theater in New
York. only the western experiment will
profit by the mistakes Of its eastern mod
ell. A fine company will be assembled
and the native playwright will be en-
cou-aged. the classics, in the meantime
not being neglected.
Lillian Russell Is to return to her frs
love, comic opera. and next season will
appear In Viennese opera under the d
rection Of Werba & Luescher, with whom
she has signed contract for five years
George Marion. the noted stage director
will be starred by the same firm in 9TH.
jolly Peasants
| The success of the Columbia Players
this year has brought Managers Metz
croft and Berger many propositions from
producing managers who desire to try
out new plays. but in every instance the
offers have been declined. The policy OF
presenting only we'll established successe.
will he adhered to.
During the past week an oil painting
Of Heinrich Hammer the conductor OF
the Washington Symphony Orchestra
} was added to the group which adorns