Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

is the only feminine member OF the
company who will admit her age. Heller
Is eight
Sousa soloists this season are MIS-.
Virginia Root, soprano; MISS Marge
Gluck, violiniste. and Mr.. HERBERT II
Clarke. cornetist
The Poll Players will have new lead.
ing man next week, s. q. ron having
engaged Richard Buhler rs the perma
nent head of the Washington company.
oliver Morosco brought out in Los An
reles a play called THE Prodigal Far
emit" by Douglas j. Wood and Guy Boil
ton.
lean Hayez has discovered an Irish
nightingale in a young woman named
Nora FLYNN She Is to appear In vauoe-
Vile in a repertoire OF songs.
Several companies will play within
the Law in the English provinces, and
A. III. Woods has arranged for its pro-
duction in Germany and austria.
Nance O'Nein has been engaged to play
leading roles in a stock company IN
Springfield, Mass, at salary said to be
the largest paid a single artist In stock.
Cyril Keightley. the English actor. has
arrived in New York to appear In Q play
by Cosmo Hamilton. entitled THE
Dukes Son."
The engagement at the Belasco of
Pavlowa. the Russian dancer, has been
postponed one week. She will appear
November "a, 25 and 26.
The top balcony in B. F. Keith's The
alter here has been furnished as hand
somely as the orchestra and is well
patronized by those who And distance
lends enchantment to the view.
Herbert Warren. leading man with
Valerie Bergere. is busily engaged on
new comedy drama for his popular star,
who is playing the b. F. Keith theaters
in "A Bowery Camille"
Ida Brooks Hunt, prima donna, late
of THE Chocolate Soldier" Is appear
ing in vaudeville in THE Singing
Countess" a new operetta by Edgar
Allen Woolf.
William Earskin, chief usher at the
Columbia Theater. has returned from
the west, where he was sent on spe-
cfal mission by the Post Office Depart
ment.
Margaret Newell, who is with Billy
Watson's show at the Gayety this
week. is an expert revolver shot, ana
has done big hunting in the Maine
woods.
.The Innocent Sinner will shortly be
produced in Philadelphia. In the cast
will be Alice Hegeman. Leila Hughes.
James E. Sullivan, Anna Boyd and Diane
De Aubrey.
Henrietta Crosman will appear in New
York this week in a new play called
1.-The Tongues of Men," in which she will
enact the role of prima dona. Frank
Gilmore is her leading man.
Cyril Maude. the favorite London &C
tor supported by his daughter, Margery,
appeared in New York last week in The
Second in Command" and was cordially
received.
w A. Brady recently produced in Will
mington a play called An Angel With
out Wings" his daughter, Alice Brady,
being in the caa The play is comedy
When Maude Adams begins her New
York engagement she will have two
supporting companies. One Is to enable
her to give special performances OF
Barrie plays.
Denman Thompson's 1.-The Old Home
stead" comes to the Columbia Theater
nineteenth engagement In this city In
the twenty-seven years 1t has been be-
fore the public.
Charles Frohman has engaged c. Had
don Chambers the English dramatist. to
write a play of American life from an
Englishman's point of view. Part of
the play will be laid in London among
the American colony and part in Amer
lea.
Liene Carerra will make her American
debut upon the stage next month In New
York in a musical melange. The chier
interest in this announcement hes In the
fact that Mile Carerra. who Is only
eighteen, is the daughter of Anna Held,
and the image of her mother.
new play by Rachel Crothers. en-
titled When 1t Strikes Home was pro-
duced In Providence. r. l.. last week.
The story is that of the regeneration of
a girl of the lower classes who Is sent to
reform school and then adopted by a
wealthy woman.
BY very appropriate arrangement
two of the performances of Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs," which
appeals to children between the ages
of eight and eighty" will be for the
ton Wednesday night and Friday after
noon will be for the benefit of the
Junior Republic.
to be housed at the Harris Theater
New York. since the place went into the
hands of Joseph Bickerton for the New
Era Amusement Company. opened las,
Monday night. 1t is a farce of modern
day life in three acts. Albert Lee, q
magazine writer. is the author. The
Shuberts are the producers.
Manager Peck of the Gayety Theater
is proud of the new electric sign in
q nf hi ri \
street. The street is greatly lightened
by the huge letters made by the cleo
trio bulbs, for the sign Is one-hah the
height Of the building and can be seen
for many blocks.
In order to accommodate parents un-
able to attend with their children at
evening performances. matinees will