Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28

matte competition.
William Hawtrey will end his season
in Dear Old Billy" with an engagement
Of three weeks in Chicago This closes
June l and will end years continuous
run Of this farce.
Both Of David Belasco's famous attrac-
tions. David Warfeld as Peter Grimm"
and The Woman" have passed the two
hundredth performance mark in New
York city.
Nina Melville. who is an accomplished
musician, will lead the orchestra in the
coming production of George M. Cohan's
Fifty Miles From Boston," by the But
terrified Players.
Louise lie Barron. one of the well
known artists of the Aborn English
Grand Opera Company, recently qualified
for an aeroplane pilots license. Miss lie
Barron is considered a skillful aviator.
A. G. Delamater produced last week at
Syracuse. N. Y, dramatization of Free
kles,' a novel of the middle west woods
by Gene Stratton-Porter, author of The
Girl of the Limberlost' and THE Har-
vester.' The play was we'll received.
The death is reported from London of
Bran Stoker. for years associated with
Sir Henry Irving He was the author of
personal "reminiscences of Irving.
When George rockingham appears in
his original role of Friar Tuck in the re-
vival of robin Hood Harry B. Smith
and Reginald De Koven, author and COM
poser of the opera. will present him with
magnificent loving cup.
David Belasco will make in Philadel-
phia the last of this month production
NOV % nv HOY "a 1ad
THE Governors Lady" In the cast are
Emmett Corrgan. Emma Dunn, Robert
McWade, jr., Gladys Hanson and Milton
Stills.
Bernice Holmes. the grand opera con-
tralto. is member of the Holmes
family of Massachusetts,, and has much
literary ability. Her recent article,
Americans in Grand OPERA was wide
ly read and contained many interesting
anecdotes.
At numerous wrestling bouts which
have been staged at the Gayety recently
the audience has overflowed from the
orchestra and several hundred spectators
have been accommodated with chairs on
the stage.
Edythe Skerrett of Washington. daugh-
ter Of Admiral Skerrett. made her theatre
cal debut in Because She Loved Him
So.'' which the Butterfield Players will re-
vive this week. Her first appearance on
any stage was in the National Theater
in this play, in November, 1898.
said to have been among the successful
plays chosen in the recent play contest
at Keith's Bijou Theater in Boston. The
judges were Prof Baker and Francis
Powell of Harvard and Walter Hamp-
den.
1.-The Coming of Columbus" declared the
most remarkable film yet produced in Amer
lea, will be the feature at the Colonial
Theater the week of May q. 1t has been pro-
duced by the Selig company at cost of
10000, and more than 400 people appear
in the various scenes.
Bessie Monaghan, former member of
the Columbia Players, has completed a
successful season on the road and is
spending few days in the city prior to
leaving for Hamilton. Ontario. where she
will begin an engagement with the Clark
Brown Stock Company May ID. She has
adopted Betty harrington as her stage
name.
1.-The Garden of Allah" which opened
at the Century Theater, in New York,
seven months ago, will be continued at
that mammoth playhouse until the carly
part of June. 1t is considered one of the
biggest and most magnificent spectacular
performances ever put upon the stage.
1.-The Cnwritten Law dramatic play
let. was written by Leon Enrol, the gro
performer in this seasons "Follies Of
1911" Mr.. Enrol draws almost as much
royalty from his numerous burlesque
sketches as he does in salary from Flo
REM Ziegfeld, jr.
"Oliver Twist" in it's big-cast revival
has made such a success in New York
that the Liebler Company has decided to
make tour of the country with the
original organization. The company in
Doro as Oliver, Constance Collier as
Nancy and Lynn Harding as Bill Sykes
The mandolin orchestra in the lobby of
Polls Theater is one of the most popular
innovations in Washington theatrical
management. The music Is not too loud
to interfere with conversation. and yet
1T Is a pleasing diversion for those who
are waiting for friends before the play
begins.
Photographs of two members of the
Poll Players are presented to each wom-
an in the audience at the Wednesday and
Thursday matinees. The first pictures in
photographs of Miss Louise Kent and
Graham Velsey. The pictures are artis-
tically arranged in neat gray holders.
One of the Belasco stage effects which
formerly kept an audience guessing has
been introduced here by Everett Butter
field. 1t is the baby spotlight and it's
effect is to illiumine the faces of actors
as they speak. 1t is one of the tricks of
mechanical stage work which has made
many a Beelasco performance effective
without the public knowing just why.
William Faversham has organized an
all-star company for next season to play
chiefly Shakespearean dramas though
some modern plays will be produced. In
the company will probably be Tyrone
Power, E. S. Willard. Frank keenan, and
Fullish Mellish. One of the principal
plays in the repertoire will be Julius
Caesar" in which Mr.. Faversham will
play Mark Antony: Mr.. Powers, Brutus,
and Mr.. keenan,, Cassius.
AS an echo of the past-Izetta Jewel
was the first actress to play "Salome'' in
Oscar Wilde's one-act tragedy OF that
name in the west. Stock work was Miss
Jewels first love. however. and she has
SO systematized her hours Of work and
recreation that she conserves all her en-
ergy. Her first appearance on the stage
was twelve years ago. when as child she
appeared in "Triss'' with a stock COM
pany at Wilmington, N. G. Then she
went to Boston. where she Joined the ia
nous Castle Square stock.
0rientation Of Birds.
From the Strand.
How do birds find their way? So far as