Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

produced by the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany next year. is called Twilight
Next season Joe Howard is to appear
i'm vaudeville in the principal scene of
The Goddess of Liberty" with twelve
people.
Among the melodramas which A. II.
Woods will have on the road next season
is one called THE Secrets of the Police"
One of the REVEALS of the hour is that
of Across the Atlantic piece familiar
Lima Abarbanell and Elizabeth Murray
will again be with Madame Sherry next
season.
Ethel Barrymore may appear in the
London success, Counsel for the De-
Tense" according to rumor
Fred Niblo. after short summer en-
gagement in vaudeville. will again play
the stellar role in THE Fortune Hunter
Mary Garden has sailed for Europe. but
will return in the fall. While abroad she
will sing in opera in Paris.
Jane oaker has been selected by Henry
w. Savage TO head the second Every
Woman" company that is to go on tour.
Edith Bradford. prima donna of the
.Aborn English Grand Opera Company.
spends her afternoons in motoring
Israel Zangwill began his career as a
teacher. subsequently, taking up jour
nalism and editing the Ariel.
President Taft occupied a box at the
Columbia Theater Wednesday evening,
with Mrs. Taft and party of friends.
THE Lady from Oklahoma with Her
bert Kelley and Effie Shannon in the
leading roles. will be brought on; in Chi
cago July !.
1t is said Anna Held will make an
other American tour under the dire tion
of r. Ziegfeld. il. in a piece 10y the au-
thors Of The Pink Lady
Jane Cowl has received an offer of
leading role in new play by Henri Bat
raillo, the play dealing with the adven-
lures of an American girl in Paris.
The musical comedy that was to have
followed The Melting Pot at the CO.
lumbia has been postponed for a society
comedy.
May Robson. who had intended to pro-
long her season until the middle of July,
has changed her mind and closed her
tour in San Francisco on account Of her
health, which demanded rest.
r'oy IS to have the coming season. has
been renamed The Girl From the Folies
Bergere." 1t was first called THE Sleep
ing Car Conductor.
Jerry j. Cohan and his son. George. re-
ce:ved an ovation in Providence when the
Friars produced their Frolic there The
city is the birthplace of the younger Co.
han.
Percy Haswell will be the leading lady
Of the Farnum Brothers in The Littiest
Rebel. and others of the company will
be William Mack, George Thatcher and
Juliet Shelby.
Flora Zabelle. in private life Mrs Ray
mond Hitchcock. has gene TO CONSTANT
nople with ler sister. it is announced. to
claim wills on the Bosptorus left them
b! their grandfather.
Mrs. Wheatcroft. now with the stock
company ut the Belasco Theater will
appear next season IN an important role
With Daniel Frohman's production If
The Seven Sisters
Fuller Mellish was seen i'm America
for the first time in 1884. with Sir
Henry 1rving's company. as Sebastian
to Ellen Terry's V<o.a in Twelfth
Night.
Clara i-ipman is to star next season un-
der the direction OF We:Da K Luescher in
. play called 1t Depends on the Wom-
an" The play is by Miss Lipman herself
and Samuel Shipman and is story of the
sage.
Ruth Mayclihe, Carrie Perkins and
James f.. Sullivan have been re-engaged
for 1.-THE Fascinating Widow next sea-
son. The star. Julian Eltinse, will wear
in the title role five dresses which the
management asserts cost $1,000
Lionel Belmore. the stage director of
The Vagabonds at the Belasco. was
during the last fifteen years Of his life
Mr.. Belmore was al Sir Henry's bedside
when he died at the Midland Hotel,
Bradford. October 13. 1905.
Percy Standing. a son Of Herbert
Standing, who will make his first ap-
pearance with the Belasco Theater
stock company this week, was last sea
son a member OF Henry Miller's com
pany in "A Servant in the House. ap-
pearing as the Drain Man.
1t is said plays OF the orient will be the
fashion the coming season. The most
pretentious OF these SO far is THE Gar
den of Allah,' which will have Mary An
derson Navarro as co-adapter. sand
storm in the desert and several native
Arabians in the cast.
Aphie James is to go out next season in
the PLAY by Mrs. Burnett recently tried in
Boston, called Judy O'Hara. The play
is a romantic comedy. and the star role
is that of a gay and mischievOus Irish
girl Of quality, who masquerades in one
part as a highwayman.
Bertha Shalek of the Aborn company
has just finished a vaudeville sketch
called Tonga" 1t deals with life in
Japan. and has several pretty songs in
it. The sketch will probabl be seen
In Washington during the coming sea-
SON.
Marie Louise Rogers of the Aborn
company. at the New National Theater,
is at work on a novel which she ex-
poets to publish in the fall. The book
deals with the life of a young Ameri-
can girl who is studying for grand
opera in Paris.
Constance Collier will take part i'm the
gala coronation performance before King
George Queen Mary and the visiting roy
alties Later she will go to Stratford-on-
Avon for the Shakespeare festival. The
coming season she will play the title role |
of That's in Paul Wilstach's version i'm |
this country.
Lillian Russell will star next season in |
a new comic opera under the direction OF |
Werba and Luesclier. a number CT books !
and scores have been Submitted to hrr Cor |
her choice Of medium. II is said her