The Washington herald., 1913-02-09

Word has reached the city that Edwin
II. Curtis, the popular and capable
stage director of the Columbia Players
for several seasons past, has sue
cumbed TO the wiles of the ingenue OF
a company with which he was iden-
tified, and was married January 81 in
Omaha, to Ollie Cooper. Mr.. Curtis has
since taken charge of the stage for the
Harry Davis Company. in Pittsburg,
where Frances Nelson is also playing.
Robert B. MantelI comes to the Be
lasco Theater the week Of March 10.
Mr.. Mantelrs repertoire will be chosen
from the following list of plays:
Julius Caesar" king Lear" Ham
let" "Othello." Macbeth" The Mer-
chant OF Venice" Richard Ill" "Ro-
meo and Juliet" As You Like It,"
"RicheIieu," and Louis XI."
The Balkan war is of great interest
to Flora zabelle C"The Red widow'D.
Miss Zabelle Is an Armenian by birth.
Her real name. let me whisper to you,
is Mangarsarian-all Armenian names
end in 'arian." She was named Zabelle
after Queen Zabelle, who ruled over Ar
menia when It was a flourishIng king
dom with its capital located in the ro-
mantle city of Trebizond. She is the
only Armenian prima donna on the
american stage.
The final concert of the season by the
Flonzaley Quartet is scheduled for Sat-
urdsy afternoon. March !. at the New
Willard ballroom AS heretofore, T.
Arthur Smith will manage the event.
The splendid acting of Miss Fay wal
lace. taken IN connection with her
fragile beauty and her Paris gowns,
make her one OF the features Of the
cast of Ready Money" the satiric
comedy which II. II. Frazee presents
at the Belasco this week
An announcement that is sure to
please local playgoers is the forthcom-
ing engagement at the Academy of the
American play, In Old Kentucky"
Ethel barrymore played her second
vaudeville engagement in New York
City last week. The vaudeville mana
gers ar" trying TO induce Frohman to
forego his claims upon her for the
present season at least.
I.esky's new production. The An
tiquc Girl" is reported TO have made
an emphatic hit. 1t Is booked for
Chasc's.
Z. NJ. Newman. who will present the
Balkan war at the Columbia Theater
this afternoon at 3 o'clock. has elimi-
mated the sickcning scenes his photog-
raphcr secured.
Charles II. Hantord. II. n. MacLean.
Odette Tyler. and Marie Drofnah will
come to the Columbia Theater the week
OF February 81 In classic repertoire.
In London when an actress makes a |
big hit singing some song. they have |
way of nicknaming her after the title of
the song. That explains the rather curl !
Gus title Of PineTo's newest comedy that |
Miss Billie Burke brings to the National |
the week of March ,.
John King and Sam Lee. the funny end
men with George Evans Honey Boy"
Ministries, who appear at the Columbia
this week. are both sons Of Dixie. The
former calls Dallas. Tex, his home, while
the latter registers from Lexington, Ky.
Theodore Martin. leading tenor in sup
port of RAYMOND Hitchcock. is n Ca
madam and served in the late Boer war.
When he returned from Africa he was
appointed tenor soloist at Calvary Bap-
tist Church, New York, which position
he held until he made his theatrical de-
hut with The Red Widow last season.
The long-popular vaudeville comedy |
alliance of Howard and North has been !
dissolved, and Frank North is heading |
his own company in Back to Welllng-
Ton" which will be seen at Chase's |
next week.
THE Merry Countess" with the en- |
tire original cast and ensemble. direct
from the historic Casino Theater. New
York. comes to the Belasco, following
The Painted Woman"
George Honey Boy" Evans. singer
Of songs and composer of them. has
arranged the incidental mu-
sic and written most of the melodies
ADJUSTMENTS.