Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-27

use a new sketch called ''The Dance Of
the Assassin
There will be no closing of the doors
of the Columbia Theater again this sea-
son, the summer stock merging into the
fall and winter season early in Septem-
Der.
Bransby Williams. the English protean
artist, will next season make an Amerl-
can tour, and Chase's has q contract
with him for a weeks stay in Washing
ton.
tracts, including one for Chase's early in
the new season, the management reports.
She will have a large supporting COM
pany.
Frank Metzerott, president Of the CO.
lumbia Theater Company, who has been
travelling in Europe with his nephew,
Kirk Metzerott. will sail for home the
latter part OF this week.
Among the principal actors in '.The
Whip" the English racing melodrama, to
be produced here by w. A. Brady, are
Herbert Sheath and Mrs. Cecil Raleigh.
wife OF the author.
A new play by Catherine Chisholm Cut
ting. author of THE Real Thing" was
tried out recently by a stock company in
Hartford. The title Of the play is Taken
for Granted"
Henry Kolker, in conjunction with Will
liam Vaughn Petit, has written a play
called THE Survivor in which he will
appear in Los Angeles under the direction
Of Oliver Morosco.
1.-THE Marriage Market with Donald
Brian in the chief part, is to have its
first production in Baltimore about the
middle Of September.
Henry w. Savage is to make the pro-
duction the coming season OF an extrav-
Hans Flath and DR.. Margaret Crosse, the
latter OF San Francisco, and as its name
implies, has its scenes laid in Holland.
manent stock company in Detroit, it's
feature being the visiting star system.
The first star will be James X. Hackett.
Other stars to follow will be Amelia
Bingham. Cecilia LOTUS. Louise Cunning
and equally prominent ones.
Richard Bennett has obtained the rights
to Maternity" by Eugene Brieux. The
play was announced for production at the
Fine Arts Theater, Chicago. under the
auspices of the Chicago Theater Society,
by Louise Randolph. when she conduct
ed the Marlowe players In that city.
Airline Pretty. who was to have had a
part in "a Contented Woman" at the
Columbia last week. was compelled to
surrender the part at the last moment
on account of illness. She is rapidly re-
covering.
Robert Cain, the new leading man at
Polls, has claimed Washington as his
home for several years. as he spent his
summers here. following his winter en-
g.
and "The Spendthrift," as well as 1.-The
Deep Purple
Mark Kent is congratulating himself
that he will require no sunburn makeup
for the role of Candy. the ranchman. in
ARIZONA" this week. He acquired a
healthy tan during his three weeks on
the Maine coast where he fished and en-
joyed the surf every day.
So great was the success of Madame
Sherry that Manager Thatcher has been
urged to present another musical play at
an early date. THE Man Who Owns
Broadway" will probably come later in
the season.
Bertan Churchill. who replaced Tyrone
Power in Faversham's Julius Caesar"
last season. has arranged to appear IN
tons after the manner of the Reinhardt
plays In Germany. Chase's has booked
the Offering.
Edwin Curtis. stage director at Polls.
inserted an advertisement In the Wash
ington papers Wednesday to this effect:
"Wanted-25 men for Arizona Apply.
Polls Theater." Early Thursday MORN
ing a middle-aged man, carrying a
please don t-let-it-rain paper suit case. ap-
piled at the box office to know how he
could be selected as one OF the twenty
five men to take a trip to Arizona. Steve
Coster, the treasurer, had hard time ex-
planning the proposition.
A London production by Charles Haw-
trey and in Paris at the Palais Royal
of an American farce-coniedy entitled
Forty eight Hours" by William Semple
Of this city. are among the results of his
summer trip abroad announced by Rich
ard Bennett Bennett bought the rights
to this farce the day he sailed for Eu-
rope in June, and he has announced his
intention to make an American produce
ton early in the season.
Eugenics. social hygiene and the neces-
sity for protection of unborn generations
will be presented to the youth of Amer
lea through a series of lectures which
Eugene Brieux. French author, who wrote
Damaged Goods" will give to the stu
dents Of the larger universities OF the
United States.
Rrieux will arrive In New York early In
August, and the itinerary he has arranged
includes Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Co
lumbia, Cornell, Syracuse. Ann Arbor.
University of Chicago. Knox, Stanford
and the most important state colleges.
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