Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

summer stock season of the
Rutterfield Players has come 70
close. Inability to keep the company
intact. because of other contracts ana
vacation plans of the players. and the
impracticabilty of engaging new
players are the reasons announced.
For their many excellent perform
ances and many hours of real enjoy
ment furnished their admirers VIII
hold them in pleasant remembrance ana
be ready to accord them warm wei
come when they return. which, MT.
Butterfield promises, shall he next
year and for a longer season.
Wild rumors about this and that In
the stock companies have excited sur
prise and Indignation in some quar-
tiers and emphatic denials In others
but close observers of the real sftua-
tion are aware that Washington APP
preciates the enterprise that IS 1ur-
niShing it's playgoers splenoid thedtrl-
cal entertainment at less taan nail
the regular seasons charges ana Will
continue the support necessary 10
warrant it, And. on the other hand,
the managers better than anybody else
realize what has brought their com
ndnieS success anu are llul at a. iifA0A'
10 do foolish things This is the dec
laration Of Manager Berger of the Co
lumbia Players and Manager Thatcher
OF the Poli Players. and they ought to
know
David Belasco paid a flying visit to
the CITY recently and before he left
ne said and did things to make the
local stock companies feel proud. His
commentator of Miss Izetta Jewels
work in The Chorus Lady" was cor
dial and pronounced. and the Columbia
PLAYERS will doubtless furnish him
with four recruits for his productions
the coming season.
Edward Haas Robins has long been
a favorite with Mr. Belasco and APP
peared in his productions, but Miss
Frances Nelson. George W. Barber
and Carrie Thatcher will probably en-
Joy the distinction for the first time
when the leaves begin TO fall next
October
ARTHUR'S RED LEMON learned
early in my career in stock said Arthur
Richie of the Columbia Players the other
day. that in order to keep ones mind
ton almost absorbs ones mentality. it Is
necessary to have a fad and sometimes
two or three of them.
My latest fad is a red lemon. Don't
laugh stranger things have been accom-
plished. Do YOU recall Dumas famous
story of the black tulip? Yes? Well.
there are others equally astonishing In
hybridism in the world of plants and
flowers. Blood oranges are quite COM
mon. Why not red lemons?
Yes, / am convinced red lemon Is
possible and ! have been experimenting
10 produce one for nearly two years
How? Well. I'd rather not tell that.
But I think ! am going to be successful.
for news from my home tells me that one
Of my lemon trees seems 10 be actually
developing a red lemon. If I could break
away from my work here for few days
Id chase off TO my conservatory ana
watch the development. ] feel almost
dead certain success is not far away.
And he dashed off up stage.
Mrs. Richie, who Is a quiet. domestic
little woman and thoroughly in sympa-
tiny with her young husband amoition
along all lines. smiled as Arthur disap-
peared with a look OF supreme conf
dence on his Pace.
II hope it is really So" she said, But
still have my doubts. Our gardener is
very resourceful in aiming for quick re-
suits.
Last fall we caught him in the act
of injecting aniiine dye Into the skin OF
a poor lone lemon on one OF our trees
that Arthur had watched from Its baby
hood for weeks with the most intense in
terest When Arthur demanded to know
why he did II. he calmly replied:
Lord love you. Mr.. Ritchie, was just
helping nature to take its course.
4 DARING THREAT.-George NJ. Co
han. whose success in the theatrical
world. financially at least. entities his
opinions and promises TO some atten-
ton. is nothing IL not daring. This Is
his latest threat according to his gen
erous press agent
Grand opera is just musical melodrama
gone mad at Delmonico prices ana the
taste for the crazy stuff does not De-
come rampant until man has harness
ed up his first million or so. IN the
meantime | gather in his small change
feeding the budding Croesus with homeo-
pathic doses of melodramatic musical
comedies
Some of these days I'm going to un.
derwrite one of those highbrow yodeis
that they pull off at the Metropolitan at
$40 a plate. I'll Turn il into ragtime
doings with localized situations. and then
lust YOU watch the diamond horseshoe
trail a my tepee.'