Evening star., 1913-02-02

Blanche Ring had to miss her Detroit
engagement last week on account of i'll
ness. her understudy playing her part in
/ The Wall Street Girl Her ailment.
acute tonsiIi;is. kept her in bed all the
: week.
May ITwin's first performance in Wash
in@ton tomorrow night in her new play
Widow by Proxy" will be given for the
benefit of the Noel Settlement House, a
fact that is OF deep interest to workers
for that worthy benevolent institution.
Pictures showing the characters in the
l-s New York success. The Yellow
Jacket" have been placed in the lobby
Of the Columbia Theater. foreshadowing
the early appearance of the play at that
house.
The success of the Minneapolis SYM
phony orchestra this year. according to
reports from the west is even more pro-
| rounced than ever before. Emil Ober-
! hoffer's mastery Of the organization is
BEING warmly commended.
There will lie no Sunday night concert
at PoE'S this Week as the theater was
placed in the hands of decorators and
TenCvateTS last night Immediately after
the last vaudeville patron had left the
house
When ]. NJ. Barrie's satire on the mod
eTn problem play. A Slice of Life" was
first played in New York. Ethel Barry
Interpolation in The Girl From Mont
n2arte' the cast will include Hattie Will
ii2mS and Richard Garlic
1t seldom happens that an actor gives
up the stage for the priesthood. but
Michael J. Byrne. one of the celebrated
Byrne Brothers of Eight Bells fame,
will be ordained a priest in June at st.
Francis Academy. Loretta, near AL
toona. Pa
The Merry Countess after The
Painted Woman, announced by the
Belasco Theater management does not
point the way to sensation to scan
dal. hut simply fOretells the coming of
an attraction that will doubtless interest
Washington theatergoers.
King Manuel. the deposed monarch of
Portugal. was cabled offer of s., 800
week 10 appear as interOcutor of the
Honey Boy m!nstrels by George
Honey Boy Evans. one day when he
had some spare time on his hands. No
answer has been received as yet.
Charles b. Hanford will be given a
rous,ng reception On the occasion of the
engagement of his all-star company in
classic drama at the Columbia Theater
the latter part of this month. A move
ment to this end is already on foot in
some of the local schools.
Although she will retire from the stage
at the end OF her present tour. Rose
Sydell Will not sever all connection with
the theateTs. She will become produc-
ing manaSeress next Year. starring
Johnny Weber now her leading comedian
in The Rising Son..
1t was made known in New York last
Thursday that the new play in which
Mabel and Edith Taliaferro are to ap-
pear will be produced early in May in
stead of next fall. as originally planned.
Joseph Brooks has the management of
these actresses, and for their medium
has acquired the rights of a play by
With the business management of the
local engagements of. the Chicago Grand
Opera Company. with TetraZzini and
Mary Garden; the Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra, the Philharmonic Society of
New York, the FlOnZaley Quartet. Mime.
Julia Culp and others ON his hands, T.
Arthur Smith is one of our busiest of inn
presarios.
Maude Gilbert. who will he the leading
woman at Polls for two weeks. will make
her Washington debut in feminine garb
tomorrow night. pom the occasion of
Miss Gilbert's former appearance here,
as leading woman with Guy Bates Post.
she enacted a role which demanded cow
! boy costume
August Van Biene, the actor musician,
who made tour of this country In his
own piece. The Broken Melody. died
suddenly last week at the end of his
performance in Brighton. England. The
audience thought his death part of the
play. but those on the stage. seeing some
thing VAS wrong, had the curtain rung
down and rushed To his side to find him
dead
y chorus girl of The Fascinating
Widow" company was pursued by
wealthy New York broker all the way
to Europe, back again and across the
continent to San Francisco, where the
girl accepted him and resigned from the
show. His parents objected. however,
the wedding failed to come off and the
girl is again in the chorus. Think of
that,
The four Armstrong;. who are al the
Lyceum this week with the Folies
BerSere, are Washinstonians. who have
| Won many laurelS at the old bicycle track
/ on the Conduit road. They are also We'll
/ known in the amateur base ball league.
/ having played on the champion base ball
nine. the famous Baltimore and Ohio
| Stars. which had its field back of the
| Baltimore and Ohio station in the old
, day.
| Messrs Shubert and William A. Brady
! announce the engagement of the Gilbert
x sulliyan Opera Gompany in resivais OF
/ and THE Pirates OF Penzance." for an
| early appearance at the Belasco Theater.
| AuDns the well known artists allied
! with this organization are De Wolf HOP
per. Blanche Duffield. Eugene CoWles.
! George MacFarlane. Kate Condor. Arthur
! AldridSe. Arthur Cunningham, Viola Gill
! lette. Alice Brady and Louise Barthei.
HIS DISTANCE.
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