Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18


Elsie Ferguson is playing a return en-
gagement in New York in THE First
Lady of the Land
. 1t is said that "The Enchantress" with
Kitty Gordon in the title role, is break
ding records on its road tour.
THE Fatted Calf" by Arthur Hopkins,
was produced in Albany last week with
Cyril Scott in the leading role.
Margaret Ellington has made arrange
ments in play an extended engagement
in Chicago in "Kindling.''
Herbert Beerbohm Tree wants a week
ly wage of $500 to appear in this coun-
try in vaudeville.
John NJ. Kline has come to this city for
a short vacation prior to resuming his
work with the Columbia Players
Louis Mann has been doing a big bust
ness III New York in the play of his wife,
Clara Lipman, "Elevating a Husband
vile in his sketch The Serpent of the
Nile
The summers of the FlonZaley Quartet
are given up to constant rehearsals in
a poetic retreat near Lausanne, Switzer-
and.
Martin Beck has arranged for Bertha
kaiish IL begin a tour on the Orpheum
Circuit in he spring in "A Light From
st. Agnes
The ocean gambling play by Paul Arm
strong and Wilson Miner THE Grey
hound, is to be presented in New York
mis- week
Ruth Stevens. the leading woman with
The Vanity Fair Company, is the
Daughter of an Italian sculptor. She has
sung in Milan.
The Heinrich Hammer String Quartet
has been booked for an hour of music at
the Columbia Theater Sunday afternoon,
March ., at ) O'Clock.
next season. Egypt by Edward Shell
don. author of Salvation Nell" The
heroine of this play is gypsy girl.
a company of Ave in a playlet by Edgar
Allen Woolf. Among the other artists
returning to vaudeville is Adelaide keim
1t is said that "Officer &C., which is
now an established success in New York.
was rejected by a number, OF managers
before it was accepted by Cohan &
Harris.
After the New York obsequies of 1.-THE
Red Widow at the Astor Theater. New
York, next Saturday night Miss Sophye
Barnard will leave the company TO ap--
pear in vaudeville.
Preliminary work incident to the open
ing of the season of the Columbia Play
ers March Is is already under way
Within few days the chief scenic artist
will be on the grour@
In the cast of The Common Law"
Bayard Veiller's dramatization of the
novel of that name, George O'Ramey and
Maidel Turner will have the leading
roles.
Frank Morse was renewing his old
friendships at the Press Club during the
past week. He arrived in the city in the
interest of the forthcoming engagement
of Henry Miller at the Columbia.
Sarah Bernhard is to receive for her
American vaudeville season of twelve
weeks. $1,000 per week, exclusive Of the
pay of her company of sixteen, and is to
be provided besides with private car
Edgar Selwyn and Margaret Mayo have
both finished plays which will be ready
for next season. The former is known as
the author of 1.-The Arab" and 1.-The
Country Boy" and the latter as the au-
thor of Baby Mine
The tour of Lawrence D'Orsay in 1.-The
Earl of Pawtucket'' has come tO' an end.
Mr.. D'Orsay has been appearing this
season under the management of John
Cort. The end came in st. Louis last
Saturday night.
Henri Bernstein's play, 1.-THE On
slaught," deals with the anti-semitic per-
secution of a French senator, and has
suggestion of the persecution suffered by
the dramatist himself in the attack in
Paris on his play, 'Apres Moi
Louis Waller. the English actor, who
has been appearing in New York in "The
Garden of Alah,' is to become an actor
manager in this country. He will be seen
in Monsieur Beaucaire." 1.-The Three
Musketeers' and 1.-The Explorers
For his new production at the Moulin
Rouge in New York, F. Ziegfeld has en-
gagged Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook.
the stars of Bright Eyes The latter
attraction will suspend operations at the
end of the month after two prosperous
years.
Mildred Johnson will play the leading
role in In Old Kentucky" again this
season. Bert G. Clark, who has appear
ed in the part of the colonel in I'm Old
Kentucky for many seasons. will again
be seen in this congenial role.
Bruno Granichstaedten. the Viennese
composer. was in Washington last week
and paid a visit to the Austrian embassy.
The composer comes to superintend pre-
parations for the performance in America
of his opera Bud Oder Maedel" to be
presented here as THE Rose Maid" un-
der the direction of Werba and Leuscher
Fletcher Harvey. president of the Mid
land Valley trolley lines in 'Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford," is the only actor
requirements of his role. He has played
seventeen parts with various fashions of
beard
Jessie Millward and John 'Glendenning
are presenting in vaudeville a one-act
drama called "Reaping the Whrlyind y
Mr. Glendenning was the original Taffy
IN Trllby, and Miss MilIward was
prominent in the production of 1.-The
Hypocrites.
This seems to be the era of Pacific
Island entertainments. New York is at
present finding pleasure in being trans
ported nightly to the Hawaiian Islands
in The Bird of Paradise" while Wash
ington this week will find that a similar
locale is revealed in Suffering Suffra-
gettes' at the Gayety.
The comedy qualifications of De Wolf
Hopper, who plays Dick Deadeye in the
all-star cast revival of "Pfnafore," were
discovered and DEVELOPED by the late
famous impresario. Col. McCaull, who
saw him playing the rather serious role
of Pitticus Green in the Madison Square
Theater production Of Hazel Kirke."
Frederic Mckay has secured the last