Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11

waltz" by Leo Fall, composer of 1.-THE
| Dollar Princess" is soon to be presented
| in vaudeville.
| 1t is said that Catherine Proctor, who
| is now playing Frances Starts role In
| ''The Easiest Way" is to be future
| Belasco star.
| Paul Armstrong will make his one-act
| play, "A Romance of the Underworld,
into three-act play, and Catherine Cal
vert will play the leading role.
Martin Harvey is to make tour of this
country in the "Oedipus Rex of Sopho-
cles." translated by Gilbert Murray. Mr..
Harvey is producing the play in London.
| werba and Luescher have engaged J.
Humbird Duffey for the leading tenor
| role in their coming production, The
Rose Maid"
| Lottie Williams has sketch called
Good bye, Fierrot," by Rose Stahl
| which she is shortly to produce in vaude-
Vile.
Zangwilrs play, THE Next Religion, "
| which was prohibited by the London
| censor. will not be produced in this coun-
try until next season.
The Quaker Girl,I with Clifton Craw-
| ford as the star, Is in it's fifteenth week
| in New York, and will probably finish
the season there.
Henry Miller has a new play by A. E.
| Thomas called THE Rainbow 1t is a
comedy, with it's scenes laid in New York
and the Riviera.
J. X. Murray. Clara Lane and Harry
| Davies are singing in an opera company
at Lynn, Mass, and are making popu-
lar and financial success.
Philip Bartholomew, author of lover
Night will have his new comedy. Lit
tie Miss Brown, produced by w. A.
Brady.
'sThe Glassblower' is the title of a
lyrical comedy by John Phillip Sousa.
which will have its premier at New
Haven, Conn, within two months.
Thomas A. Wise, who was with Doug
las Fairbanks in "A Gentleman From
Mississippi" is to enter vaudeville with
Block" by Byron Ongley.
THE Right to Be Happy is the name
of new play by Kellett Chambers,
which will be presented by Henry B.
Harris February %. Dorothy Donnelly
will play the leading role.
At the end of the present season. as
announced. Chauncey Olcott will leave
Pitou will take as his Irish star Fiske
Hara. at present starring in Loves
Young Dream
who employs a press representative to
travel in advance. Nora Bayes and Jack
Norworth have publicity man, too, but
then they are two.
Eddie Leonard is to appear in a melo-
drama of the south in which he can
dance and sing. He will write his own
songs and arrange the musical special
ties and the incidental dancing His
leading woman will be Mabel Russell.
Mabel Taliaferro will make a vaude-
vile tour in a sketch by Edward Peple.
called Taken on Credit In this she
enacts the role of waff led by circum-
stances to become a thief. In the fall
Miss TaIaferro will begin tour in
new ri@y.
Houdini, the stellar feature at the Gay
ETY. this week, expects to be SO busy fill
ing engagements in prison cells and
jumping off bridges that he has engaged
big five-passenger touring car to be at
his call day and night during his visit.
'Polly of the Circus" comes to the
Academy the latter part of the month.
Gustave Luders has written the score
for James T. Powers new musical COM
edy from German source.
The dramatization Of Little Women"
which has just been produced by. William
A. Brady, was made by Marian de For
est, Buffalo, N. Y, dramatic critic
Of the vaudeville comedy in which Thomas
Wise, late star of 1.-THE Gentleman From
Mississippi" will be seen here.
oL
Sunnybrook Farm are two of the recent
successful offerings which will be seen
soon at the National Theater.
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe are
preparing King Lear" and "Cymbeline''
for production next season, and they will
also revive much Ado About Nothing"
1.-The Curious Conduct of Judge LIE
Garde," in which Wilton Lackaye will ap-
pear at the Columbia Theater the week
Of February 26, will receive its first Amer
lean production at Atlantic City the
previous week.
Robert Edeson has affixed his name to
a contract with Chase's, under which he
will appear here March IL week with a
company of fourteen actors in a con-
densed version of "Strongheart"
Madge Titheradge, who has made hit
in "A Butterfly On the Wheel" has
Cancelled her English contracts. which
called for an early appearance in Aus
traiia, and will remain in America this
and next season.
With one exception the cast of Get
Rich-Quick Wallingford," which will be
seen at the National. will be the same as
that of the original company. This one
exception is a Washington boy, William
H. Boyd. who will take the role of
"Blackie" Daw.
A mammoth production of Balfe's opera,
THE Bohemian Girl comes to the Be
Iasco Theater for the week of February
%. More than 40 people are to be en-
plOyed, including a full grand opera COM
plement of soloists, chorus. corps de bal
let. and incidentally to lend realism to the
five great scenes, trained horses, bands
of gypsies and whirlwind acrobats.
Houdini has the distinction of being the
only performer who ever received an hon.
orary public apology from an imperial
police department in Europe. The apol-
ogy was made by the police of Cologne
They slanderously libeled Houdini. and
he answered by suing for AN honorary
public pardon. The police lost the case in
the three highest courts in Germany.
Grace Atwell, who is this season ap-
pearing as Lisa in "The White Slave
has for a number of years been leading
woman of many of the best stock COM
panies in the country Miss Atwell has
appeared in more than a thousand parts
during her stage experience, which be-
gan at the Boston Museum when she was
a little girl.
The Columbia PLAYERS will inaugllrate