The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Among the principals Of the French
Grand Opera Company is Chauncey
Moore, the premier barytone of the COM
pany, who is making his first professional
appearance on his native heath. Mr..
Moore is an Ohioan by birth, his father
being a prominent manufacturer of the
city of Cambridge. About fifteen years
ago he went to Paris to study with Nine
Marchesi and made his debut ten years
ago at the Theater San Carlos, Milan.
Since that time his services have been
greatly in demand everywhere on the
continent, and it was not until this sea-
son. fifteen years after leaving the land
of his birth, that he once more set foot
in America.
Nora Bayes is the most prominent
woman writer of popular songs IN
America. She composes all the tune
full melodies for the Bayes-Norworth
output, Jack Norworth furnishing the
lyrics. Little Miss Fix-It," the new
play in which these two Broadway IA
vorites are appearing in New York has
a number of their latest hits, including
an Irish ballad that recalls Miss Bayes'
Has ANYBODY Here Seen Kelly which
every hand organ in the land was playing
last year.
Mary Mannering. who comes here soon
in "A Mans World" is the proud
mother Of a bright five-year-old daughter
and is always interested in the naive
remarks of children. One story she tells
is of the daughters of an English neigh
Dor, aged three and five, respectively.
Three-year-old Dorothy had been ill, and
in the absence of the nurse the mother
requested Margaret, the elder child, to
bring her the sweet spirits of inter.
Margaret, impatient at being disturbed
from her play. haughtily remarked;
We'll, I trust IL will make Dorothy's
spirits sweeter through the night
The orchestra which accompanies NJ.
Jules Layolle's Grand Opera Company,
from the French Opera House, New Or
leans, comprises fifty picked musicians,
that are recruited from the principal
opera houses in Paris and Vienna. NJ
Layolle is under bond of 100000 to the
United States government TO return this
orchestra to France at the close Of the
present season in America Hence it
could only be heard in this city during
the coming French opera season.
Wallace Clark. in the Terriss Company,
at Chase's next week. first came to this
country in the support of Sir Henry
Irving He plays Marley in '-Scrooge-"
With a corner on a number of most
desirable plays for use in this city dur
ing the coming season of the Columbia
Players, Manager Fred G. Berger is
home again from New York visit.
The Spring Maid with every tune
full number in its Viennese score as
bubbling and joyous as springtime it.
self. is now in its fourth month at the
Liberty Theater, New York. This charm
ing operetta has won first place in the
heart Of every theatergoer who has seen
il, and maintains its wonderful popu-
larity to such an extent as to- insure an
all-year success. Since its first perform
ance, Christmas night, there has not
been song. dance, or bright line which
had to be changed.
Vfvfen Martin. who is only eighteen
years old. has made quite a stir in Fred
eric Thompson's latest play, Trailing
a Rainbow" Miss Martin, in conjunc-
ton with Violet Heming, Edith Talia-
ferro, and Ann Murdoch, figures as the
youngest leading woman upon the stage.
Nine Bernhard has been playing in
Atlanta, Birmingham. and other Southern
by any theatrical attraction Even at
50 a ticket seats have been selling at a
premium.
Bessie Mccoy stopped dancing in The
Echo on Saturday night She says she
longs for a vacation Manager billing
ham will send the piece on tour again in
the fall.
Mime. Nazimova has closed her tour and
Is about to open her country house at
Port Chester.
Henry Woodruff has been welcomed at
the Lambs Club as another one of the
stars whose season has come to an end.
The Genius seems to have had little
excuse for being in Mr.. woodruffs hands,
play were somewhat disheartening. Some
Of the members of the company will be
seen in M. II. Singers summer musical
productions In Chicago and Milwaukee.
Recently clergyman made the state
ment that Boston was the worst city
(morally) in the United States. This
caused the mayor of that village some
uneasiness- His PuritanicaI ideas got the
better of his judgment, and he therefore
closed up The Easiest Way" which had
a whole years run in New York, and Is
one Of the strongest American dramas
ever written.
Connie Ediss, who left the cast of The
Arcadians- in this country to go back
to England, is. as they say in slang. in
soft" She is being featured in The
Girl In the Train at the Vaudeville
rheater in London and made bowling
HIT
Might SQueal Instead.
From The Boston Transcript.