Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-25

Ethel Barrymore will devote the frs
dozen weeks of her season to vaude
Vile tour in the one-act comedy, "Tht
Underground Lock" She will then b,
seen in a new production.
"The Model" by Augustine Thomas
is to have its first production In New
York the last Of the month. The
scenes are laid in the Bohemian section
Of that city.
At Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater ir
New York tomorrow JEFF De Angels viii
make his vaudeville debut The skit Sc
lected by the comedian for his purpose
is a farce called IAN at Sea-
F. C. Whitney has engaged Marguerite
Wright for the prima donna role In The
Little Friend" Miss Wright had the
part OF Angelo in THE Pink Lady" las
season.
S. T. Poll, proprietor Of the Poll Play
ers, came to Washington last Monday
to attend the opening of the new Chase
Theater. He was accompanied by Mrs
Poll.
The thirty chorus girls and men who
will be seen in Little Johnny Jones'
at Polls this week. were more than q
month on tour in the Poll theaters OF
New England.
A great advance over the old-time
insanitary carpet Is noted at the new
Gayety where the floor covering is a
sound-absorbent. sailors linoleum, laid
in small pieces like mosaic work.
Will West Is to have the leading
comedy role In 1.-The Sunshine Girl" in
which Julia Sanderson will appear
later in the season. Both will appear
earlier with Donald Brian in THE
Siren"
A new farce adapted from the Ger
man by Ferdinand Gottschalk was
produced in New Haven last week for
the first time, with Willette kershaw
in the leading role. The piece is called
Whom Does Helen Belong To?"
One of the novelties in lover the
River" in which Eddie Foy will star
under the management of Werba &
Luescher, IL to be cabaret scene In
the first act. for which European
vaudeville acts have been secured.
VILLA Holt Wakefield. coming to Chase's
next week. has been a long time absent
from polite vaudeville. Her spoken
songs this time include "A Common Lit
tie Girl" He's My PAR and Stay in
Your Own Back Yard
With half hundred players in his
supporting company, Tom Lewis. star
ring this season in George NJ. Cohan S
musical comedy, 1.-The Yankee Prince.
will be the offering at the Columbia The
alter the week of September 16.
Manager Berger has arranged for the
operation of the Columbia Theater score
board for the games between the Wash
ington and Detroit club Sunday. Septem-
Der Is. and the one with the Chicago club
week later. Then for the world
series!
Frank keenan, has completed his tour
in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. and
after a brief camping trip in the Colorado
Rockies will return to New York for re-
hearsals for William Favershams all
star production of Julius Caesar" in
which he will play Cassius.
BY special train yesterday the Clifton
Crawford Company left New York for
Cleveland. where tomorrow night the first
performance of the new musical play,
my Best Girl will be given. Magnates
William Harris and Frank Mckee were
with the organization.
Neil Twomey, whose dramatization OF
Gene Stratton-Porter novel, "Freckles.
is to be offered at the Academy this
week, is now at work preparing plays
from Stratton-Porter's other works, The
Girl of the Limberlost'' and 1.-The Har-
vester'
The National Federation of Theater
Clubs will produce it's first play. The
Higher Court by Henry Irving Dodge,
in New York in October. Mary Shaw
is a member of the reading committee
by which the play was selected, the Cd
ject of the federation being to encour-
age new authors and the native drama.
Some Of the song numbers to be heard
by the audiences at the Gayety this
week are 'CloudIand," italian Romeo.
I'D Do AS Much for You," Drama of
R0ek EHes IN co Rassm Me With
the Man in the Moon" and the Lucia
Sextet' in ragtime.
Charles Dillingham's first bold stroke
Of the season will be the production of
a musical play entitled 1.-The Lady of
the Slipper The piece is by Anna Cald-
we'll and Lawrence McCarty. the lyrics
by James O'Dea and the mus'c by Victor
Herbert. Montgomery and stone, Elsie
Janis and Joseph Cawthorn Will act the
principal parts.
I'm the two musical shows presented
by the Poll Players. it has fallen to the
lot of Gertrude Bondhill to assume the
roles played in the original companies
by two of the finest dancers on the
American stage. In Three Twins Miss
Bondhill had the Bessie Mccoy role and
in Little Johnny Jones' she will be
ntrusted with the Ethel Levy part
The Liebler Company have a special
train of twenty-siX cars, in which five
Of their productions will leave New York
this week for the west. THE Garden
Of Allah will open in Chicago the last
Of the month, and requires seven bag
gage cars to transport its scenery. Other
are ''Oliver Twist THE
New Sin,' alias Jimmy Valentine" and
'Pomander Walk
To open the regular season at the
Columbia, September 8, Manager Sidney
R. Ellis will present AL H. Williams the
singing German dialect comedian. in
he new song-adorned comedy, st Hap
,ened in Potsdam." Mr.. Wilson's new
songs include Loves Me-Loves Me
Not" MY Lady Fair" Loves of Bygone
Days" and 1.-The Twilight Call" Mr..
Wilson'S character is that of an &C.
German who adopts peculiar
Methods in counting young American
girl from Virginia.
Room for Sword Play.