Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

theater in New York the Booth, in honor
of Edwin Booth. The theater is to be
| opened in September, with Arnold Ben
nett.s play. THE Great Adventure"
Emma Carus has been engaged by
Joe Howard for his new musical play,
"A Broadway Honeymoon" which Will
! open in Chicago the. latter part Of this
| month.
| One of the forthcoming productions of
| the Shuberts is THE Winning Of Ma"
dramatization of the Flickenger Family
stories by Bessie Hoover. which appeared
| in one of the popular periodicals.
A charter has been granted to a sub
| marine film company to make moving
pictures under the water. The head
quarters Of the company will be in Nor
| folk.
| Peggy Ford, who plays an important
part at the Columbia this week. played
| Peggy in "Brewsters Millions in the
road company last season. and more re-
Gently was with the Holyoke stock COM
pany.
| Fred G. Berger, manager Of the Co
lumbia Theater. sailed for Hamburg
! Tuesday accompanied by his wife. They
will spend two-month vacation in
Europe.
One Of the English productions to be
seven on this side is '4Sliza Comes to
Stay" in which Fl. V. Esmond and Eva
Moore will have the leading parts. Mr..
Esmond is the author of "When We
Were Twenty-one."
| Forbes Robertson will begin his New
! York season about the first OF October
| and on it's conclusion will make q tour
| of the Shubert theaters. He will appear
in a repertoire of his famous successes.
this being his farewell engagement.
| The new play in which Raymond
| Hitchcock is to appear under the man
agement of Conan & Harris is called
| 1.-The Beauty Shop" 1t Is by Charming
Pollock. Rennoid Wolf and Charles J.
| Gsbast The piece will be produced late
| in September.
| Poll Players, speaks. writes and reads
French as well as she does English. and
| this made easy her pronunciation OF
French names in last weeks production
| Of IAN Enemy to the King"
Miss Louise Kent, who returns to the
Poll Players this week, was q member of
the original cast In "Brewsters Millions"
She will be seen tomorrow night in the
role she created the night the McCutch-
| con story was launched on the stage in
New York.
Paul McAllister. leading man of the
Poll Players, is newspaper man as
ate editor of the New York News when
that paper was purchased by Frank A.
Munsey, a few years ago, but left the
profession to return to the stage.
Jessie GIendinning's brother, Ernest
| will have an important part in the pro-
duction Of "Prunella" at the Little The
alter, New York. opening October 20. In
! him In the cast Of Her Own Money"
which opens at the Comedy Theater Sep
TENDER 1.
Twelve of the fifteen coming attrac-
| tons at Polls Theater. the MANAGEMENT
asserts, win be given here for the first
time in stock In any city. 'The Shep-
herd King" Excuse Me-" Kindling,"
THE Man Who Owns Broadway" and
the attractions scheduled at Polls that
are mentioned as examples.
harrison Grey Fiske announces that
where Ignorance is Bliss IL the title
decided upon for the American version
of the new Molnar comedy which opens
the latter part Of this month in New
York The Americanixation Of the
T. the the w s,aae S 0e np Of
Locke's "Septimus." In which. under
Mr.. Fiske's direction. George Ariiss first
appeared as a star.
The season Of 1918 at Glen Echo Park
will end with Labor day week. and the
management plans to. make the holiday |
and closing days festive ones. AS the |
stellar irec feature for the entire week |
Nils and Rosa Regnell are announced in |
their high, fancy and double fire-diving
act. Washington il said to be one OF |
the two places in the country 10 see the |
act, as the divers have just reached New
York and leave here for Frisco TO sail |
to australia l