Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

in TIE Or OIIlOIIIs
William Courtenay may star next sea-
son in Ready Money"
Frank Gilmore will again he leading
man with Nazimova next season.
James T. Powers is writing history
Of Jig music in England and America.
Jessie Bonstelle will produce in Buffalo
a new play. called let Sarah Do tt
]. f. Dodson's comedy. The House
Next Door will shortly be produced by
the Columbia Players.
Klaw & Granger have the rights TO
lola Montez," the new play by Preston
Gibson.
The shuberts will next season send
three companies on tour in "A Butterfly
on the Wheel
Charles Frohman next season will pre-
sent noted Swedish actress named Mar
tina Hedman.
Felice Morris. daughter of the late Fe
lix Morris, is being featured by Jesse
Laskey in 1893
The Boston Press Club entertained II.
entne," last week.
Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook have
written a musical comedy which they
may produce in Chicago.
Cohan & Harris will send 1.-THE Little
millionaire" on tour with Charles King
and Lila Rhodes in the leading parts.
Violet Heming will be seen as Ste
phanus. boy. in THE Sign of the Cross"
tomorrow night.
Montgomery & Stone are already re-
hearsing the new musical play which
they will produce late in the summer.
Crete Wiesenthal, who created the role
of Sumurun. is having a mimo-opera
written for her by DR.. Richard Strauss.
Nat Goodwin will make a starring tour
next season as Fagin. in a revival of
.'Oliver Twist"
Blanche Bates is to have a new play
and will continue under the management
of David Belasco.
Excuse Me- the farce by Rupert
Hughes. is to be presented in several Eu-
ropean capitals.
Lew Dockstader will do a speciality in
one of the scenes in "Mama's Baby Boy"
in New York
San Francisco is to have a mi. ion-doll
opera house and Tetrazzin has agreed to
open It when il is ready.
Louise Kent will have her first heavy
part when she appears as the Countess
Chiaramonte in THE White Sister"
Mizzi Hajos will star in a new musical
play Under the management OF Werba &
T he jc Sin in "a
Spring Maid"
JamestMontgomery. the author of Ready
Money will adapt for the American
stage, for A. Fl. Woods. the Niennese
opera THE Woman Haters' Club"
David Belasco has announced that he
will produce new play a his own the
alter in New York Christmas day. but
will tell nothing further about it
The theatrical policies of the late Henry
B. Harris, who was drowned on the IL
tanic, will be continued by his widow and
father.
Gaby Deslys will return to this country
in September. playing in New York for sew
eral weeks. and then opening for her road
tour in Boston.
Ada Meade of the Aborn English Grand
Opera Company will spend part of her
summer in France. and is to sing in Paris
at the summer operate carnival.
George NJ. Cohan, who is now playing
in ''Forty-ive Minutes From Broadway"
is writing a play, which he viii produce
next season.
Forbes Robertson Will make number
OF Shakespearean revivals in London next
spring. His wife. Gertrude Elliott. will
be in his company.
The Billboard says: predictions are
freely made that the revival of ro-
mantle and historical drama will be the
logical thing to expect in the near flu
ture."
Glen Marlborough and Raymond Hub
bell have collaboratsd on musical play
called American Extravaganza Abroad.
klaw & Erlanger will produce the piece
next fall.
Rida johnson Young and Paul West
have written the book for musical COM
edy for the Shuberts. Jerome Kern is the
composer. The piece Will be produced
next month.
Following The Second in Command"
and THE Prisoner Of Zenda,' the But
terfield Players will present The way 10
Win Woman" q comedy by Jerome n
Jerome. originally played by T. H.
COIneTn.
It is said Anna Held viii appear IN
vaudeville next season at fabulous sal
airy. She will present a sketch called IN
the Wee sIrstli Hours" by the author OF
Madame x.
Conan 6 Harris are going TO produce
Officer 6f3' III London next season. An
other London production OF an American
play viii be .'Rebecca of sunny brook
Farm" with Edith Taliaferro and the
original company.
James 4. Hackett will fill summer
enga cement in san Francisco. where he
will produce three new plays by Louis
Evan Shipman Next season ne VIII asaln
I,se "A Grain of Dust" which has proved
very profitable to him.
Henry w Savage will produce Every
woman in London at the Drury Lane
Theater. famed as the home of spectacu-
lar melodrama. In this Mr.. Savage has