Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

Maude Adams Will appear some time dur
ing the coming season, II called The Le-
gion Of Leonora."
Lewis Waller has the American rights
to q new play by Edward Knoblauch. the
author Of ''Kismet." It Is entitled dis
covering America"
Harry w. Meyer OF Baltimore has been
engaged by Werba d Luescher for the
'Ovef the River"
Marshall Faznum. the brother Of WILL
4 a. woods to head a third company
In The IAttlest Rebel"
Harry O Jarboe has returned 70 Wash
ington to assume his duties as treasurer
at the Gayety. His assistant this season
will be Harry Marshall.
nAmetts Taylor 10 to star under the
mana cement Of onver Morosca IN play
Heart" an Irish comedy.
Mrs. Minnie Tftten Bruno who has
been for some years q favorite In Aus
tralia, has arrived in this country to
play in AN Aztec Romance"
The betrothal of Phyllis Sherwood and
Thomas Nickerson, manager Of the Ha-
verhill Gas Company. Is announced. The
wedding win take place In the autumn.
It is announced that A. q Delamater's
production Of 'Ereckles,' which was
dramatized from the novel by Neil Two
mey, will open In Washington August rs.
Manager Fred @. Berger. accompanied
by Mrs. Berger. closed his desk at the
Columbia Theater Tuesday afternoon
and spent the greater part Of tho week In
a short vacation at the seashore.
Another Chinese play !. to be produced
1.-THE Yellow Jacket 1t is by George
HaNeton. author Of Mistress Nell" and
Manager Schloss OF Glen Echo park
spent the last week in New York securing
acts for the parks new vaudeville fea-
lures and completing arrangements for
the Mardi Gras celebration, which starts
Labor day.
In a new light opera called Frivolous
Geraldine" to be produced about holiday
times by Kaw & Erlanger. Jack Gard
ner is to have the leading masculine role
and Mabel McCane will have the part Of
the heroine.
Joseph NJ Gates has secured an option
Oh inc T1SuCS OIL iii IQ0 WOThS
OF Jacques Futrelle, the author, who was
lost in the wreck OF the Titanic. The man
ager expects to produce four plays from
these works.
Mrs Christian Hemmftk Of this city, 1t
is reported, will stage her pantomime and
dance. 1.-THE Enchanted Stream at Bar
Harbor, Me-, August 10. the cast being
filled by members Of the summer colony
at that resort.
Oliver p. Newman q Washington news
paper man, has completed his dramatiza-
ton of his story THE Fortunes Of the
Sum- which appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post Cohan & Harris may pro-
duce it this fall
Blanche Hall il to become leading wom-
an of the Princess Stock Company. which
opens in Des Moines. Iowa. August 70.
During the early part OF tho summer she
was leading woman in q stock company
at Bridgeport, Conn.
''Old materials in a new dress. more
than mildly diverting. and with a story
dict on Lee Arthur and Frank Hatch's
new play, "Putting It Over" Franklin
Richie is In the cast.
Mrs F1ske WILL appear IN Chicago in
October in q new play. as yet unnamed.
which is said to offer her a role of much
dramatic and psychological interest. Ed
ward Sheldon, who wrote salvation
Nell" is the playwright.
Arnold DAILY is to apear under the man.
agement of H. H Frazee for two years.
The actor will appear in a number of new
plays. the first being Tho Wedding
Journey" by John T. Mcintyre. Phila-
delphia newspaper man.
While chief interest naturally centers
In the New Chase Theater opening next
Monday afternoon, Manager Peck OF the
Gayety says that the SIS. 700 spent on his
playhouse will make the interior OF the
burlesque home look very spick and span.
Henry Miller presented Ruth Chatter
ton and company in Susan's Gentle
man." a new comedy. by Kate Jordan. at
Chatterton's role a slangy East Side girl
was declared unsuited to her by one OF
the critics.
The Nationalist. Louis base ball game
will be reproduced in all its details on
special sooreboards at the National and
Columbia theaters this afternoon. Both
theaters announce that the score OF the
Detroit Boston game will be announced
by innings.
The paintings, antiques and other art
objects collected by the late Augustln
Daily to ornament the foyer anu 81 coii
room Of his theater in New York, and
purchased after his death by klaw q
Erlanger, are to be sold at auction early
in the winter.
Bessie Abbott appeared last week in At.
lantic City, singing the role OF Malo
Marion in the revival Of robin Hood.
She received an enthusiastic welcome
Next season Miss Abbott will have new
opera by Robert w. Chambers and Reg1-
maid De Koven.
Manager A. c.. Mayer Of the Lyceun
Theater has gone on a ten-day vacation
during which he will visit New York to
see the Empire Circuit Company's shows
in rehearsal. Mrs. Mayer accompanies
him on the trip. which includes Niagara
Falls and the Thousand Islands.
'-The Girl From Montmartre" is de-
cIared by one Of the critics "a rather
pleasing mixture of continental materi'
ais" but disappointing to the expecta-
ton of something refreshing in its nov.
city. something different. 1t is Richard
Carrie and Hattie Williams new vehicle
He1en Byron, who played q brief en-
pa aernent in WASHINGTON this spring az