The Washington herald., 1911-01-22

is drawing capacity audiences. and is
likely to stay in town many weeks &c
come. 1t is an oUt-and-out Ineodrama
and exploits in a realistic and sensational
way the badger" game. 4 large part OF
the plays success is due to an excep.
tionally fine cast. In, spite of the slang
of thieves and blackmailers. brilliant au.
diences nightly applaud the performance
and call the actors to the footlights over
and over again.
Here Is some gossip of Theater Alley:
Charles Frohman announces that or
January 81 he will produce a farce called
The Zebra" an adaptation from the
French by Paul Potter. The cast is to
include Adelaide Nowak. Vera McCord
Irene Fenwick. Laurance D'Orsay. Ham.
ilton Revelle. Richie Ling, Alexander
Clark. and Alfred Hudson. The Pink
Lady is the title of a musical comedy
by Ivan Caryll and C. NJ. S. Mcclellan
klaw & Granger are to produce it in
February. with Hazard Dawn Alice
Dewey. Frank Lalor. and John E. Young
in the cast William Faversham opene i
at Days Theater Monday night in THE
Faun.' comedy by Edward Knoblanch
Baby Mine" has moved up 20 the Nazi-
nova Theater. The Hen Pecks." mu-
cical play by Glen Marlborough and A.
b. Sloane will be seen at the Broadway
trude Quinlan are to head a long cast.
The New York of 1911 and The Pc.
nander Walk Of 1906 meet nightly a,
historic Wallack's Theater. and the two
have expressed their mutual liking in nc
uncertain tones. AS result the deniZens
Of the little crescent of Queen Anne
houses out Chiswick way have settled
down for a comfortable sojourn on our
principal street, adding another attractive
foreign colony to the cluster that makes
this cosmopolitan city so attractive.
sentimental Sally" David Higgins
masterpiece. is dead, and Manager
Charles Dillingham; has sent it to that
bourne whence no bad play ever
returns. Next Monday Otis Skinner gives
the first performance Of Sire in the
Criterion Theater. Mr.. SINNERS appear
ance here will be a happy event.
o Two leading ladies is the allotment by
Liebler & Co. to George Arliss for Dis
raeli," the new Louis N. Parker comedy.
Elsie Leslie. recently leading woman for
H. B. Warner in Alias Jimmy Valen-
tine" and Margaret Dale, who has been
serving in a similar capacity for w. II.
Crane. are the young women to whom
these posts OF honor in the new play
have been assigned. Mr.. Arliss' support
will also include Courtenay Focte, a
worth in period plays: Alexander Cal
vert, a brother Of Louis Calvert, of the
New Theater. an actor of distinction. who
played Orlando to Julia Nelson's Rosa
lind at the Globe Theater in London. and
leading parts with Tree. ]. l.. Mackay.
Leila Repton. Douglas Godfrey. Con-
stance Kirkman. and Dudley Digges.
THE Last Straw is the title of an
English comedy which Manager Wallace
Monroe Is to produce at an early date.
Rostand's ''Chantecier" will have its first
performance in the Knickerbocker The
alter next Monday. with Maude Adams
as the Cock. In many ways the version
she will use Is different from the Paris
production.
Ferike Beros, a Hungarian actress, has
been engaged by Daniel Frohman to ap-
pear with Charles Cherry in THE Seven
Sisters"
Gustave Amberg reopened the Garden
Theater Monday with Herr Won Possart.
the German actor, in 'Freund Fritz
Amberg has leased the house for four
weeks, and during that time win present
comic opera in German.
Chauncey Olcott was In town Monday
for . couple Of hours on business relat-
ing to his engagement At the Academy Of
Music, where he opens in Barry OF Bal
ignore" January -.
Speaking Of singing Irish comedians. IT
10 announced that Fiske OHara viii pre-
sent wearing Of the Green here In
March.
This week the Broadway and Knicker-
bockae thsateeo ass derk.
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