Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

Emma Dunn mas mace d piS NJ III .N
latest Belasco production. The Gov
ernor : Lady.
Fannie Ward will star under the man
agement of Charles B. Dillingham TOT
the next three years.
Ed Gallagher and Al Shean, now with
THE Rose Maid are to be starred next
season by Werba & Luescher.
engagement in San Francisco, in Green
Stockings
George Evans is to reopen in vaude-
Vile. Evans Minstrels will go on the
road after the election.
Two English compares will present the
London success. .'Milestones, in New
York and Chicago next season
Ray Samuels. we'll known to vaudeville
patrons. has been engaged for the cast
of "A Winsome Widow
Augustus Thomas has changed the
name of his latest play from When III
Comes Home to The Model.
Leo Dithrichstein is to adapt German
play which David Belasco will produce
next season.
Arthur Deagan and Craig Campbell
have been engaged for the opera being
written for Nine. Trentini
MARY James Pa is underlined to fol-
low The Sign of the Cross by the CO.
lumba Players. with little Helen Hayes
in the cast.
Ethel Kelly. who is with "A Winsome
Widow" has changed her name to
Amorita. to avoid confusion with other
Ethel kellys.
Henry E. Dixey is to appear next sea
Harris. in new farce by Frances
Nordstrom, called Room Al
Charles Majors romantic story or
Indiana in the early thirties was sue
cessfully produced in dramatized form Dy
stock company in Evanston, H.
Frances Starr has closed her long tour
in THE Case of Becky" She will begin
her engagement in New York in the play
in October.
Emmett Corrigan Is to fill an engage
ment of a few weeks in summer vaude-
VILE in a dramatization of one of Jack
London 81 stories.
Mrs Fiske will go to Europe for a
summer vacation Edward Sheldon Is
writing a play for her in which she ex-
poets to star next season.
Helen Ware made success in "A Trial
MARRIAGE by Elmer Harris. in Cincin-
natl last week. Harrison Hunter and
George Barnum were in the cast.
Frank Mckee and William Harris will
have musical stock company Of a per-
manent nature in New York. Clifton
Crawford will head the company.
IN
THE Merry Widow is to be starred
in new musical piece, now making a hit
in Berlin.
Louise Cunning is to appear in a new
production next season. Her long tour
in The Balkan Princess will end this
month.
George Bronson Howard has had play
accepted by David Belasco, another by
Joseph Brooks. and the book of musical
comedy by the Shuberts.
The May carnival given at the Columbia
Theater Wednesday by the pupils of Mrs
Marion Mattingiy will be repeated at Con
zaga Hall this week for the benefit of
Gonzaga College
An autographed photograph of A. H.
Van Buren,, leading man of the Poll Play
ers. is to be given to every woman at
tending the Wednesday or Thursday mat
inee al Polls this week.
The lobby of Polls Theater presented a
rejuvenated appearance last week. as new
ferns and palms and fragrant oak
branches replaced the decorations used
for the opening
Winona Shannon. a sister of Effie Shan
non has been engaged to play the leading
role In the first company which will
present "A Butterfly on the Wheel" on
tour next season
The belated product, on of Franz Lee
hairs opera THE Man With Three
Wives is promised for next fall. The
American rights are held ny the
ShubertS.
Harry Conor appeared 300 times in the
role of Weiand Strong. He is now
playing in ~ Winsome Widow. VIII CHI
is revised edition of A Trip to China
town.
Charles Fisher. who plays the part OF
the winking banker in The Fortune
Hunter" computes that during the last
three years he has drank three barrels of
soda water on the stage He has to
drink one glass AT every performance.
With the business management of his
company taken off his hands by Manager
l.. Stoddard Taylor of the Belasco Thea
ter, and the stage uiTeCtlOu Oh his pro-
auctions assumed by Brigham Royce
Everett Butterfield says life seems a
pleasant dream these days.
Marie Louise Rogers, contralto. with
the Aborn Opera Company, can sing her
roles in six languages. Miss Rogers is
a New York girl. After being educated
in the metropolis she went to Paris, later
TO Rome. and then to Vienna, TO study
vocal culture and languages.
| Mark Kent is one of the two or three
actors in America who work ffty-two
| weeks in the year. For the last seven
years Mr. Kent has not had a vacation
! of more than two weeks al any one time
| He has made stock work his speciality,
and is never seen in touring organizations
Herbert Waterous. basso with the
Aborn Opera Company. has a fad for
postcards, and owns one Of the largest
! private collections of postcards in this
country AS Mr.. Waterous has travelled
much the collect.o on includes views from
Europe. as well this country and
Canada.
! George Abrams and Hamilton Bell. will