Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.


summer in Australia
| Maude Lillian Berri has Joined the cast
| of ''Hanky Panky' in Chicago.
The Littlest Rebel has arrived at the
dignity OF being burlesqued.
Marie DRESSER is playing her fifth New
York enga cement in Titles Nightmare -
Dorothy Russell is to appear in a play
| let called Ambition in Atlantic City
| this week.
George c. Dougherty the father of
Grace George, died at his home in New
York last week.
Harry Fisher has been cast for an i'm
portant role in Peggy" now at the
Casino, New York.
Louis y. Parker, author of ''Disraeli."
is to dramatize Charles kingsley's "Hy-
patla for early production.
Marie Cahill made the first production
of her new piece, The Opera Ball." in
Utica last week.
Mrs Stuart Robson. with her own COM
pany, is presenting a playlet called Mrs.
Honeys honeymoon
Mr.. L. Blanden. who plays John Laurie
in Silver Threads" was for years at the
head of his own companies.
After the holidays the Shuberts will
produce a new musical comedy, entitled
The Man With Three Wives
1t is said that Weber & Fields are will
ing to come together again If business
details can be satisfactorily arranged
Francis Wilson will postpone the pro-
duction of his new play, The Spiritual
ist," and continue in A Bachelors
Baby"
Cosmo Gordon Lennox will make an
adaptation of the late Clyde Fitch's play
The Girl With the Green Eyes Tor
use in London.
The Pearl Maiden is to have its first
production in Rochester Christmas night
jefferson De Angels will have the prin-
cipal comedy role.
Frank Sheridan, Malcolm Williams and
Muriel Starr have been engaged for the
company supporting Wilton Lackaye in
The Stranger"
The Press Club of San Francisco is to
tender Anna Held the honor of entertain
ing her some time during her engage
ment in that city.
Fay Banter of the "Jacinta' company
is now paying her first visit to the east,
but i'll the west is well known as a ia
vorite stock star.
Arnold DAILY arrived in New York from
London last week The Daly-George
Bernard Shaw combination in London
did not last long
Maclyn Arbuckle and Edgar Guest are
the authors of The Reform Candidate"
1t is slated for elaboration into a longer
comedy next season.
The Nora Bayes-Jack Norworth Musical
Company possesses the distinction of
presenting the longest act ever in polite
vaudeville. 1t occupies an hour.
a magistrate in an Illinois town fined
students who made a row in a local the
alter 500 each, and some of them had to
go to Jail because they couldn't pay.
Audrey Maple, who last was seen in
THE Arcadians." will take the title role
Of Peggy" at the Casino Theater, New
York, tomorrow night
Louise Closer Hale. wife of Walter
Hale, and herself a fine actress, is going
to give up the stage and devote herself
to literature. as she has won much sue
cess as an author.
The Woman has passed its one hun
dredth performance IN New York, and
Mr.. Belasco is going TO organize a sec
ond company TO present the play in Chi
cago and other large cities.
Rose Melville is planning to take isis
Hopkins to Europe The play has had
thirteen seasons of success, and has been
played in almost every city, town and
village.
Joseph Medill Patterson is making a
play out of the late o. Henry's stories.
The World and the Door and Cabbages
and Kings" Charles Waldron will have
the leading role of the play
I'm Old Kentucky is now playing its
fourteenth transcontinental tour. For the
first time on its way to California this
year the drama was given with success
in several Canadian towns.
The treadmills used for the staging of
the horse race in The Futurity Winner |
at the Gayety this week are built upon |
the same principle those used in the |
chariot race scene in Ben Hur."
Hurtig and Seamon declare that they
are doing more 10 solve the problem of
the ''unemployed' than any other bur
lesque managers Their Ginger Girls
is composed of ninety people.
Herbert Hall Winslow. the author of
THE Right Girl" is one Of the best
known veteran playwrights. and is chiefly
celebrated as the author of Natural
Cas-" long played by Donnelly and
iirard.
Grace Avery is TO appear this week at
eth a. Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater,
New York, in d sketch by John +. Hen
shaw, entitled Strangers in a Strange
Flat" Mr.. Henshaw also has a role In
the playlet.
Mabel Fenton has received congratula-
tons from Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son
Of the famous author. on the way she has
been playing Nancy Sykes in a vaude-
Vile version of ''Oliver Twist"
The Irish Players now in New York,
added another one-act play to their rep
ertoire at Thursday nights performance,
giving Synges THE Shadow OF the Glen"
which has been produced some time since
by Frank Keenan,.
John Mason in LAS a Nan Thinks has
entered into his second month at the
Lyric Theater. Chicago. After his en-
.agement there he will play in Boston,
Philadelphia and other eastern cities, with
1 tour OF the west to follow. {
There is a rumor that next season the
New Theater in New York. now rechris-
tened the Century Theater. will be used
for grand opera. The rumor. however, is {
not confirmed. Ldebler & Co. have the
present lease of the house. {
An ordinance has been passed by the
New York aldermen to revive the former |
custom of permitting theaters to sell I
standing room for several rows back of I
he seats. The ordinance must have !
Nayor Gaynors approval to become a |