The Washington herald., 1912-06-23

The Butterheld Players closed their
season at The Belasco Theater last night.
Manager Thatcher. of Polls Theater,
has demanded that the Dramatic Mirror
print a categorical denial OF the absurd
''runor' published last week 10 the eff
i feet that A. H. Van Buren expected to
retire from the Poll Players in a few
weeks. Mr.. Van Buren, Is as indignant
over the canard as is the Poll manage
ment.
Alan Dale is in Europe looking over the
| new plays en- the Continent.
Letters Of the composer Gluck, auc-
toned in Berlin on June 10 for S2,0I5, and
his oficaI appointment as German court
composer, brought SIS. A Beethoven
manuscript score fetched S1s7; two letters
OF his, S2ss, and eight letters OF Hans
Won Bulow, $55.
No play that has been offered this sum-
mer calls for such elaborate gowning as
The Climbers" which will be presented
by the Columbia Players this week.
The Court of Appeals last week dis
missed the suit of Joseph w. Jacobs
against Henry B. Sire, to recover $4,000
which Lee shubert paid to the defendant
in 1872 for a years lease OF the Casino
Theater. Jacobs represented Shubert In
the action.
Elsie Ferguson has gone to Paris for
/ her summer vacation. When she returns
she will begin rehearsals in the new play
provided for her by KlAw and Erlanger.
Louis Haines will play Red Jocelyn.
the converted crook and bank watchman,
in Alias Jimmy Valentine" this week.
1t is the first big comedy role Mr.. Haines
has had in several weeks.
Eugene Walter is going TO try his very
best to ft Robert Edeson with new
play, for, heaven knows, Mr.. Edeson
has been sadly in need Of one for several
years In fact, since the ''Strongheart
days he has never had what you might
call a real success.
The "oliver Twist fever has broken
out in London. The play was revived at
His Majesty's Theater on June H. with
Constance Collier as Nancy, and Beer
bohm Tree as Fagin. Mr.. Tree had 70
make a speech, and said he was glad
to have Miss Collier with him after her
big success in the role in America.
Massenet's new opera Roma" which is
to be produced in Chicago and Philadel-
phia next season. continues 10 draw well
at the Paris Opera.
Maude Adams, Blanche Bates, Mizzi
Hajos and Henrietta Crosman seem 70
be the principal stars in the West and
Northwest TO keep the season going.
| ,t r,,5,r.t,, ,,roruo of The
Butterheld Players sails shortly for
! A supreme court jury last week award
ed $500 damages to Vlasta Novotny,
Russian dancer. in her suit against Man.
ager Theodore Kosloff, for breach OF con-
tract.
During his trip abroad Loudon Charl-
ton spent a day at the home Of Nine.
Gadski in Berlin. The prima donna is
resting after her long American season
but will return to this country the last
Of September, as her concert tour is @
| begin unusually early.
Louis NethersoIe returns to New York
this week.
Mark Kent. who will play the detec-
\ Polls Theater this week, has played the
same part on four previous occasions.
Anna Pavlova gave a garden party tC
dedicate her new home near Hampstead
England, on June 13 The hostess danced
on the lawn with eight Of her girl pu'
pills, and the guests included many Of
the nobility.
y1-,,,i-. = S,t,,.o,, % r,,1.J,,oro b,,
bequeathed his 10000 collection Of IA
nous violins to the Metropolitan Mu,
senm OF Art in New York.
Next season will bring forth a new
producer in the person OF Adolph Vein,
er, who has purchased the rights and
original production of Seven Days" and
will produce 1t at the Astor Theater
Mr.. weiner has engaged Jesse Well as
manager and is now engaging the cast
The Climbers will restore Edward
Hass Robins, of the Columbia Play
ers, to a position of prominence again
this week. Mr.. Robins had a vacation
last week, while Stanley James was
strengthening his Washington popular
ity in the big role OF The House Next
! Door
/
in within the law" which opens the
Julian Eltinge Theater. in Forty-second
Street, late IN August. Florence Nash
and William B. Mack will have other
/ important parts.
George W. Lederer will produce at the
! Studebaker Theater, Chicago, in August
a new musical comedy, THE Charity
| Girl" book by Edward Peple and mu-
sic by Victor Hollaender. Marie Finn.
who has been with Madame Sherry
on the road. Is announced for the title
role.
| Julian Eltinge opened his new minia-
ture theater at Fort Salonga, Long Is
! land on Sunday with a housewarming.
| He and his mother entertained Mr.. and
| Mrs. H. A. Woods, Homer Howard,
Gene Schwartz, Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie
Garvie, Percy Wenrich. Dustin and
| William Farnum, Dolly DonnelIy, Kath-
ryn Osterman, and Louis Simon.
William Cullison, producing manager
for the Lubln Motion Picture Company,
| is spending a two-weeks' vacation in
| Washington. His friend, James Thatch-
| er, manager OF Polls, has persuaded
him to join the Poll organization and
play the part OF the Lieutenant Gov
ernor in Alias Jimmy Valentine"