The Washington herald., 1912-09-22
NOTES OF THE STAGE

Prof Dudley Allan Sargeant,-of Har
ward University, chose Annette Keller
mann from 10000 applicants as the mode
for the statue and poster THE Spirit ol
the West for the Panama Exposition
at San Francisco, describing her as 'the
most perfect woman in the world"
AN Aztec Romance" was produced in
New York last week. with Robert War
wick. Edwin Arden. George Probert
Charles B. Hanford, r. D. Mclean, and
Minnie Titteu Bruno in the cast. The
play is by Orestes U. Bean, and was pu,
on with fine spectacular effect.
E. H. sothern and Julia Marlowe open
ed their season last week in Scranton,
Pa, with Romeo and Juliet"
A Saturday afternoon in early October
has been selected by the Liebler- Com
pany for the first performance of The
Daughter of Heaven at the Century
the policy started when The Garden
of Allah" was put on at this same theater
last fall.
William Faversham has enlisted the
cooperation of several other prominent
actor-managers in a plan whereby each
of them is TO devote at least twelve
weeks every season to an exclusive tour
of Canaaa playing all the important
cities in the Dominion from St Johns,
n. B. straight across the continent to
Victoria, B. c.
In letter to an American friend Jean
de Reszke confirms that friends impress
sion that the singer (now a teacher) does
not intend to appear again on the operatic
stage in this country or any other.
his present engagement-the role of John
Brand in Fine Feathers" current at the
Cort Theater. Chicago, and the report
is that he will soon leave the cast In
New York they say he will enact the part
of DR.. Isaacson in Bella Donna" when
Nine. Nazimova comes forth in the Hich-
ems play.
Linnel Belmore, late of the Drama
Players is back from England. full of
Shakespearean data to be used in con-
nection with William Faversham's "Ju-
Illus Caesar" of which he is the stage
director.
Werba & Luescher are to star Lionel
Walsh in a piece called Mr.. Popple," by
Paul A. Rubens. The piece will be pro-
duced in the winter.
The New Sin." hailed as a remarkable
lean production IN Chicago. It is by Ba-
sil Macdonald Hastings. and is said to
be the first play with an exclusively male
cast 1t was produced on his personal
account by George C. Tyler, managing
director Of the Liebler Company.
Augustus Thomas The Model" has not
Jared much better in New York than II
did in Chicago, where 1t was presented
Iae II.
and it will soon be withdrawn from the
Harris Theater. Edward Knoblauch's
Discovering America" is another Broad
way failure, and Lewis Waller will dis
card 1t, probably to make a revival of
Shakespeare's Henry "" In that play
he was acclaimed in London.
George NJ. Cohan again bestowed the
boon of his presence as a stage perform
er on his countrymen on Monday, ap-
pearing in a comedy by himself called
broadway Jones'" The scene of this
henefaction was Hartford. Conn. and
those assisting were Mr.. Cohan's father
and mother, George Parsons. Miss Ada
Gilman. Miss Myrtle Tannehill. William
Ealcott. and Russell Pincus The piece
goes into New York tomorrow evening.
Edith wynne Matthison and Ricbard
Bennett have been engaged by Henry w |
in the Margaret TurnbuIl play which will
be brought out in Montreal late In Octo-
Der.
Ruth Chatterton, who is still playing |
the role OF the daughter in The Rain |
bow" is the youngest leading woman on |
the American stage. Under the tuition |
of Mr.. Miller she became a celebrity
last year during THE Rainbow's" New
York run before she was eighteen years
Of age.
James T. Powers vii! inaugurate his
second season In 1.-TWO Little Brides"
the musical comedy in which he attained /
q noteworthy New York success East l
spring. at the Shubert Theater. New
ark, tomorrow evening.
Augustin McHugh author OF "Onicer
SEC. is .r London attempting to arrange
70; production of play he has made /
Pf part of Thackarey's "Esmond." He
calls 1t The Kings Master"
The composer of "The Love Wager"
Charles J. Hambitzer, is a native of
Hungary, and FRITZ Scheff is said te |,
have discovered him while, playing