Evening star., 1912-09-29

| other western drama will be shown, for
| farewell week. of a popular stock COM
pany is as big a drawing card as any
| play.
Ruth Chatterton. who made her stage
I debut in Washington three years ago as
| Who returns tomorrow night to the Co
| lumbfa, has q very big circle of friends
in the capital A series of entertain
| ments is being planned in her honor by
| her Washington girl friends.
George NJ. Cohan appeared in New York
last week in his new play. broadway
jones'" and made his usual hit. The
piece is straight farce without either
dancing or music. and tells the tale of a
young man infatuated with the glare of
broadway, to be cured later and return
| chastened to his own home town. The
the Cohan ia ashion
| Manager Thatcher of Polls has invited
Henry Miller to attend one of the matinee
performances of 1.-The Great Divide this
| week This was the play in which Mr..
Miller won the greatest success of his
notable career and 1t is a happy coin
cidence which brings him to Washington
stock. Mr.. Miller will be playing at the
Columbia in ''The Rainbow
An unusual cast for a popular priced
house will be noted in the array of talent
| gathered at the Academy of Music this
week Miss Virginia Pearson was Robert
! Hiii1ard's leading woman last season.
| and Is always in big demand. Others in
clude Charlotte Granville. an English
actress: Charles G. Nurnham, Sheldon
| Lewis. William V. Mong and Burnette
Radcliffe.
| Charles Frohman's next musical comedy
| production will be 'The Marriage Mar
ket, with Donald Brian as the star, and
for which a number of foreign actors are
being engaged. Ivan Caryll, the COM
poser. will come from Europe for the
rehearsals. George Edwardes. the Lon
don manager, who has obtained ''The
Marriage Market" for London, Is coming
to -Jew York for the first time in years
ance.
Crowded houses are the all sufficient
reason for the beginning of John Drew's S
second month at the Empire Iheater.
New York. in the new Sutro suffragette
comedy. The Perplexed Husband" Not
in the last ten years, it is said, has a
John Drew play, so early in the season.
attracted the TYPICAL fashionable Drew
audiences. nor so consistently filled the
Empire Theater from gallery to orches-
ira. even with the addition of extra We'd
nesday matinees.
Gaby Deslys has not only learned to
than che possessed on her first appear
ance at the Winter Garden a few months
ago, but it is said by a New York critic
she has acquired the vivacity demanded
by the local stage, She dances with
spirit and enthusiasm. and has so far de-
ferred to local taste as to learn an Amer
ican clog, which is very difficult achieve
ment for a foreign trained dancer. She
| always seems to want to do her best
John Mason made another success when
he appeared in New York last week as
the hero of 1.-THE Attack" by Henry
Bernstein. author OF The Thief This
hero is q man Of middle age. who has
made a career for himself as a states
man and is in love with a much younger
woman. when a violent newspaper at
tack on an early chapter Of his history
imperils both his career and his love. The
Swedish actress, made a very favorable
impression.
"The Great Divide which is to be
seen In Washington this week, enjoys the
distinction of being the only play which
was ever brought to Washington for
single performance in compliment to
Congress. During the plays long and
prosperous run at the Princess Theater,
New York. Henry Miller brought it to
Washington for Monday evening per-
formance at the Belasco Theater during
the final week of a congressional session.
hurried back to New York and the in
terrupted run resumed.
First-night reviews Of the following plays
are briefly given: "Milestones," attracts
by it's oddity. a success: THE Attack.
a good play written around a weak idea;
Broadway JONES'" IF George Cohan
could write play up to the level of the
first act he would have q wonderfully
clever comedy" ''The Countess Nadine"
vivid bit Of a drama within the limit
allowed vaudeville act "Moonshine."
very clever bit Of work excellently
acted by w. s. Hart and Roy Fairchild:
1.-The Diamond Necklace story Of ex-
pert thievery. with plot ingenious and
interesting; ''The Trained Nurse" music
has some attractive ragtime numbers.
but is not novel. and occasionally some
bright lines; 1.-The Yellow Peril" opening
is identical with a scene in THE Ty-
phoon," merging into straight melo-
drama; author shows dramatic instinct
that ought to e put to better use: '"The
Love Wager fmusical version of '.The
Seven Sisters'o, beautiful and original
music. encored time and again not since
days Of Mile. Modiste'' has FRITZ Scheff
shown with such luster or sparkled with
such vim: great success; THE New Sn,"
an odd but powerfully constructed play.