The Washington herald., 1913-09-28
Small Talk of the Stage.

Indian Summer" the new play by
Augustus Thomas. will open in Buffalo
n. Y, this week. with John Mason in
the stellar role.
The tour of The Poor Little Rich
Girl" produced by KIaw and Erlanger,
will have its commencement at the
Grand Opera House, New York, tomor-
row evening.
The Madcap Duchess is promised an
opening at the Lyreum Theater in
Rochester. y. Y. on October Is preIim-
mary to its run in Boston.
Winthrop Ames will have young wonr-
en- to serve ticket sellers in his new
theater in New York City. He has named
the playhouse for Edwin Booth
The recent advent of John Drew Colt
will defer the opening Of Miss Barry
more.s season in 'Tantc' until Octo-
ber i.
April showers is the title Of a musi-
cal comedy announced by Philip Bar
. thOlomae as "A forthcoming work from
his pen.
The Messrs. Shubert and William A
Brady announce that one of their forth
coming productions at the Manhattan
Opera House will be Sealed Orders"
the new melodrama recently produced in
London at Drury Lane by Cecil Raleigh
and Henry Hamilton.
Evelyn Thaw will be exploited in
new musical comedy called ''Mariette''
at the West End Theater in, New York
this week.
Fair Play will be given its initial
production in Baltimore this week by A.
H. Woods and Selwyn & Co, who ex-
pect to take the piece to New York the
latter part of October for long run.
Bought and Paid For" that great win
,ner among American plays, is being pre-
scented throughout the land, six companies
visiting every part of the country.
"Oh, Oh! Delphine'' has started on its
travels with the original cast identified
with it during the seasons run in New
York last year. There will not be a
second or a third company of this Nc
Lcllan-Caryll play
Sydney RosenfeId. who as sort OF
stormy petrol Of the theater, lectures
about plays oftener than he writes them,
has sold a drama 10 W. 4. Brady. II i:s
now entitled The Woman Who Couldn't
Say No"
w A Br1ON'S act
ing and singing daughter. and Lucille
Watson, who is the most satisfactory of
the actresses in the manner OF the late
Clara BlOodgood, will be in the cast of
THE Bird Cage" a play which Philip
Barthoiomae will produce. II is not OF
his writing. however, hut il is the work
OF Austin Adams, new corner among the
5ramatists.
Maude Adams hopes 10 use for her new
piay man" of the actors now appearing
with her in Peter Pan-only The Le-
Eend OF Lenora" calls for about half as
many characters as those assigned to
the different parts in Peter Pan
George Monroe. the player of fat and
facetious females. has left the cast Of
Lew Fields An Aboard without war;
ing to the management and is en- route
10 London. Mr.. Fields threatens to have
the law on MIN.
=. c. Whitney will undertake the man
ageuent this season of Mime. Bertha Ha-
Itch in a new play called Her Sons
WIFE BY Edward Eugene Ritter. Later
LIN The season she will appear in The
Daughter OF Jorio." and probably in
rePortory Of plays.
It il not betraying 6 confidence TO state
that Mr.. Hodges IS playing Ihe ROAD TO
Happiness before audience which repre-
sent Sl2DC0 Or hereabout a week-which
means that il exceeds in popularity that
othc- incarnation of fat dividends, THE
Man from Hoine."
JOHN " Cope. vino apecializes in
"rouGil'' characters; L. H. Robins, former
leading man Of the Columbia Players, and
John Miitern. who was SO good as the art
loving thief in the Chicago run of of
6cer 0c6' will be in the east of "On
the INSIDE the play OF Jail life by Ro-
land B. MolineauX. which David Belasco
will stage in November So also will LII
fi2n Freeman, most recent of Mr.. Be
lascos discoveries"
g TIE American author who, above all
k others, Sir James NJ. Barrie has been
eager TO meet. Is George Ade Finally
Charles Fru5man brought about meet