Evening star., 1913-02-02
I'M THE SPOTLIGHT.

Margarct Anslin closed her season last
week.
The long delayed closing of james +.
Powers Two Little Brides" is reported.
AMELIA Summervine has been engaged
for When Dreams Come True
Jean H,tviz is writing Il sketch in which
Marietta Craig will star.
Trixi Friganza is to star in a new
musical comedy entitled THE Bird Girl =
sllie Fisher will he the prima donna of
new opera.
The Water Nymphs'' is a February
booking for Chase's.
Julian Eltinge will show this city u
two-thousand-dollar paradise aigret.
The ten-year- -old-son of Fred Niblo ana
Josephine Cohan IS at d military - huo
in Syracuse.
The Marquis of Queensberry< play.
The Light shines no more on the CO.
temporary stage.
Dorothy Morton has replaced Elizabeth
Murray in Exceeding the Sped limit. -
with Carter De Haven.
Ryan Walker the cartccais-. j. max
ing a tour. his entertainment beng called
Nv -iuN tHluit oi MI DUCK
William Hammerstein is % produce in
vaudeville a play by a Chicago writer.
It's title IS Lead Kindly Light
The Shuberts have the American rights
L" the London DrUry Lane pantomImc of
ills year. 'rhe Sleeping Beauty
Robert Lorraine will close his tour about
tho middle of this month and so hack 10
London 10 look after his interests There.
May Vol<es has been engaged for When
Dreams Come True" which is to he pro-
duced BY Philip Bartholomae in Chicago
Margaret Crawford has been engaged
for the new Victor Herbert operetta.
which Werba & Luescher are TO produce.
Frank Campeau has been ensaaed by
Maurice Campbell for the cast OF The
Ghost Breaker
Mary Shaw has written a play called
The Parrots Cage and I is down for
an early presentation N New York.
What Happened to Mary" will he
produced this week for the first time in
New Haven.
Joseph Medll Patterson is 10 write a
new comedy which Harry Askin will pro-
duce in the spring.
Standing with Ethel Barrymore in vaude-
Vile.
After her limited vaudeville engage
nsent Ethel Barrymore will appear in the
spring in a new FrOhman production
-.An Object Lesson VIII he presented
5y W. II. Thompson =. Chase's this
month.
y r. Woods has cabled Julian FL
tinse that he will come TO this city dur
ing his stars engagement here.
Charles CourtIeigh and Charles LEM,
have been engaged for the cast of The
Iron Door shortly TO be produced IN
Nv York.
Wnford Kane who came to this coun-
try with The Drone." has been asked
% give a series of Irish plays with Il
Selectes company in Chicago
'ieorge Arliss; playing in -Disraeli,'..
has been elected president OF the Actors
Church Alliance of America of which
Eisnop Greer i honorary president.
Julia Marlowe was taken i'll in Chicago
with ptomalnc poisoning and Will not he
DE 10 appear for two weeks. her pnysi-
elan having ordered complete rest.
William Harcourt has joined the east
of The Hundredth Man" which is to he
reduced shortly by the National Fcde-
.ation 81 Theater Clubs.
Geraldine Bonner and Hutchinson Boyd
have written . play called Making a
Man OF Him IN which Eva Lane viii
star.
Eva Tanguay viii make a tour Of sev-
rtal weeks at the head of her own vaude-
vie company and then viii begin pIcpa-
tations for a musical show.
The SEuherts are 10 produce a new
iludern comedy by Booth Harrington
called The other Side" The production
viii probably be made in Chicago.
". y Brady's production OF Frederic
\gnoid Runners play, THE Painted
Woman" j. 10 be made first in Balti-
more about the middle OF this month
one of the moving picture companies has
placed under contract the popular novel
iSt +. Phillips Oppcnheim. To write
scenarios for thrilling picture dramas
Next season Maude Adams will appear
fpr three weeks in New York in Peter
Pan the rest Of her season in that city
being devoted 10 a cycle OF Barrie come
dies.
Charles T. Evans of the odd team oi
Evans and Hocy and Helena Philips
are TO appear in a one-act farce calleC
~ Forgotten Combination" under tn,
direction Of Joseph Hart.
Blanche Walsh has been 50 favorably
Iece.yed in vaudeville with her play
The Countess Nadine that she has &C
cepted offers for tour of forty weeks il
tte one-act drama
William Gillette will make his appear
ance in New York before the season i
over in a role said To be unlike anythin;
he has done since his first success il
The Private Secretary
THE Country Store at the Lyceun
had its big scream last week
unique present in the form OF a tire in
surance policy, a gross of matches.
of gasoline and Il bundle of wood
The Venetian -Four, said to be the fines
strinS quartet in vaudeville, with elab