The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-08

Harry G. Lonsdale, who will be remembered for his excellent charar- ter work With the Frawley company 1 in Fairbanks some four seasons ago. 1 is now member of the Selig Chi. cago studio stock and will be seen in pictures at both Dick Thorne's l Orpheum and Pete LorentZen's Eagle hall shows. Mr. lonsdalc halls from London and was form ] erly a member of the famous opera Comique in that city and later i'll l America supported such stars as Richard Mansfield. Nat Goodwin and l Willard.
 i Oscar Hammerstein has sold his London Opera House to E. A. V Stanley, who is the chairman of the company which leased the theater last November. He is grandson of the late Lord Taunton and d wellknown sportsman. Mir Stanley proclaims himself the sole owner of the big house now
 The building cost Mir. Hammer stein nearly s750,O00 Report had 1t. some months ago. that he had declined an offer of s90O,0OO. z. :. :.
 According to Boston advices, Mar gart Anglin will step to the forefront of producing managers next seeason She will mount four plays of Shake. speare, and will be the first in the United States to stage Shakespeare. or any ether playwright for that matter after the new ways of Ger many. To design the setting and costumes of Antony and Cleopatra, The Tanning of the Shrew," Twelfth Night" and AS You Like It." Miss Angln n has engaged Livingston Platt. who has been working miracles on i the tiny stage of the Toy Theater, Boston, these two yeears, and who made the notable productisn of The Comedy of Errors" at the Castle Square recently.
 Anna May, said to be the smallest elephant in captivity, is at the Selig studio in Chicago She is of dwarf species and Is not expected to grow At present she Is between two and three years of age and stands about as high as Newfoundland dog. Anna May ha,ls from the Hagenbeck headquarters at Hamburg, Germany What is conceded to be the oldest ship aflcat was used by Director Os- car c. Apfel for the convict ship scenes in the Reliance tworeel feature. Half a Chance" from the novel by Frederick Isham dramatiz- ed for pictures through special ar. rangement made by Manager J. V. Ritchey with the Bobbs Merrill com pany. The Success is made of teak wood and contains the same timbers throughout that were originally laid down at Moulmain, British India,
 where the ship was launched in the year 179O.
 John Cort will enter the vaudeville
 field on a large scale next seas Il
 and handle only expensive produc,
 tions in the two-a-day houses. Speak.
 ing of his plans recently, he said:
 T am going to cut out the emo
 tional stars and go in for $2 vaude
 ville." I am organizing two all-star vaudeville companies for next season and will be interested in the success : of several others. All of them will
 play the g legitimate theaters.
 Lillian Russell will be the head
 liner of one of my vaudeville com panies, and Anna Held will top the other. Gaby Deslys. Harry Lauder Eva Tanguay. and an all-star English : aggregation. will be other vaudeville compan es to play in the first-class theaters. including those in the West
 in which I am interested. There vii
 be eight acts on each bill and al : most every one of the performer. lwill be those who have appeared a.
 individual stars In regular attrac | tons.