Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-28

Torrance. in whihc many we'll known PEG.
pie will participate.
The two stars. Marceline ana the trick
mule are regarded as too temperamentai
To get on As co-workers.
A statistician figures that for every
garment that Gertrude HOFFMAN leaves
off she gets her name on the program at
least once
The Belascos new curtain Is credited
to the Law Studio II looks rather a. IL
ii might have been produced In a law Of
ice-where they make contracts-
With the exception of the play written
twelve years ago for a stock company In
Spokane, THE Master Mind" Is the first
dramatic effort of Daniai d. Carter.
Frank ] wilstach. who is co-work;ng
with the Sothern- NARROW company for
the dissemination of knowledge OF Shake
speare. was in Washington last week
William Riley Hatch. who viii be seen
at the Columbia in support OF Edmond
Breese in The Master Mind" played
the same role-Captain Williamson Pad
in Full' 9S4 times
In Her Little Highness." werba n
Luescher have introduced q tango"
which is said to be distinct novelty In
ACTIVITY. ildSfnuCn AS IL IL
performed by a gentleman with three
youns lady partners.
Olga Nethersoe Is TO present a tabloid
American vaudeville under the auspices
of b. +. Keith.
Wallace Eddinger has sufficiently re.
covered from his recent accident to as
sumo the leading part in Seven Keys TO
Baldpate."
It is rumored again that Anna Held
and her former husband and manager.
f. Ziegfeld, have become reconciied and
viii be remarked shortly.
"The Madcap Duchess" with Ann
Swinburne in the title part. Will have It's
production about the middle OF next
month IN Rochester.
after Five" is rehearsing in New York
at the Berkeley Theater II IS the rev
comedy by William and Cecil re vale.
which Wagenhals & ken!per VII present
George Cohan IS at work on a comedy
for Victor Moore Moore was IN the
original cast OF Cohan's "Forty-Five Min
utes from Broadway"
Texas Cooper. who has long been q
feature with the klaw & Granger The
Round Up will this season essay the
David Bispham is to be starred by Wer-
ba & Luescher in an adaptation OF an ops
eretta called THE Merry Peasant the
score by Leo Fall. The composer will
write six new numbers 70 rthe piece
The Adolph Phillip Company has dis
posed of the English rights to The Md
night Girl" to the Shuberts and the piece
will be produoe at the New York Casino
on or about December -.
Edgar Selwyn. who is a stage director
of note as well as a writer OF plays and
a popular leading man. has personaliY
staged Rida Johnson Young's new COM
edy of base ball life. entitled Fair Play
Among the attractions at the Academy
this season announced for an cary date
is Klaw & Erlanger's scenic production,
THE Round Up, carrying three carloads
of scenery and fifty people.
Nora Bayes J. Francis Dooley and
Corinne Sales and Mrs. Gene Hughes
and company will he the three principal
offerings this afternoon at O'Clock ana
tonight at e. L. Keiths Theater. Leo
Garlic. Paul Keist and other figures
in the program of the past week viii
also appear.
r D. MacLean, who was seen in Wash
ngt9n last season as s sossar w Ta
reT ert oire. will appear again this season
as othello In 'othello." Brutus In
Julius Caesar and Mel Quito in Romeo
and Ju let in William FaSersham's all
star cas-.
Dona Brian opened his season last
week in New York. play ng the star role
IN The Marriage Market three-act
musical comedy now running I'm London
The scenes are laid in and near SAN
Francisco.
The principal actors in Klaw & Fran
gers new musical coined The Merry
Martyr" are Macyn Arbuckle. Alice
Dewey, Edith Decker, John III. Colds
worthy. Gertrude Vanderbilt and George
Moore.
James Forbes presented II the Futon
/ Theater, New York. last week, new
play by Dion Clayton 1aithorpe grand
son OF Dion Boucicauit and tosno Cor
don Lennox. ca led Swallowed IL Is a
comedy drama IL the criminal world.
David higgins who starred in rural
plays and Roland Blackstone long assoc
ciated with +. II sothern- have been en-
gagged by J. X. Hackett for his third sea
son in the Grain OF Dust" and Will be
featured in the company.
one of the new productions in New
York last week was Her own Money"
by Mark T. Swan. with Julia Dean ami
sydney Booth in the leading roles OF .
Young couple between whom arc inan-
cha, difficulties.
The mayor of Boston recently called
conference at his office of the theatrical
men of his city, to warn them that the
sort of play which has Just attracted Ill"
attention of the grand jury in New York
would not be permitted on the Boston
stage.
II plans which are now unGer way are
perfected moving picture shows will be
given on all the big ocean liners leaving
New York. Fred Block and Maurice
Strauss and several others have submitted
a proposition TO the officials TO work tho
scheme on a percentage proposition.
Josephine Conan, who in private life Is
Mrs Fred Niblo, has left New York 10
join her husband in Australia, where they
will remain for some time Mrs. Niblo
has been paying a visit TO her parents
and brother and young son. who Is at
military school near New York.
Among the plays controlled by l.. H.
Frazee are Babes in the Wood" mod
ern drama by Catherine Chisholm Cut
ting: THE Soul I'm the Attic" by Francis