The Alaska citizen., 1913-08-25
Interesting Items
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John Drew Is booked for London 10 appear as Beuedick in Much Ado About Nothing"
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 The Great Raymond" known in vaudeville as q magician but who is in private life Morris R Saunders. confessed to Judge FocH in Chicago rha, hi~ talents we're unavailine To retain the affections of hs wife. Mrs Martha l.. Saunders He was granted divorce. Saunders told the court that his wife left him on Oct. h, 1@1e, while they were playing at Genoa. Italy.
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 pavd Warfield is in san Francis co on a long risit r his mother Nex, season he VII revive The Auetfoneer." the first comedy in which his genius as character actor Was revealed
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 George Thatcher another one of the old guard Of negro ministrelsy the ranks of which have been sadly depleted of late. has ne to his final rest The old black face come | an died June 25, al the home of his nephew, Joseph NJ Thatcher. of Glenwaod Avenue Orange. x |. from a cancer in the back O, the neck
 The incidental music for the stage version f ~Eyaueeliue." To ho pradac cd bg A Hopkins. has been written by William Furst. already kn VII as one of the best writers of incidental music in this country. Several of his numbers for the new production have ben heard already. He wrote the music for "The Rose of the Rancho. The Daring. of the Gods" The Daughter ef Heaven" among others also the score for The Isle of Champagne' and The Little Trooper"
 Ef@seline" aill be given af the Park theater in New York on Mon day, Aug. 29. with Edna Goodrich in the titlerole
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 A. II Woods has C mpleted the east for his production of Potash and Perlmutter." which has been made into a three-act comedy from Montague Glass,s stories. The play CTS engaged include Alexander Carr. Barney Bernard. Joseph Kleour. Lee kokmar. Louise Dresser. Elta Proc. tor Otis and thirty others. The I5ay is to open in the George NJ. Cohan theater this month
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 George Mooser. a San Francisco theatrical manager, has begun suit in the Federal District court against Abraham l., E,rlanger and Mare klaw I r S&9,7oo for alleged breach of contract Mooser says in his com plaint that having the exclusive control of Ching Ling Foo and his Chinese troupe he contracted with the defendants on Dec. 26 1912. for the emplc yment of Ching Ling Foo his wife and daughter Chee Toy. and four other Orientals for forty seven weeks al $1 ,450 a week.
 He also alleges that on May 3l klaw and Erlanger refused to employ the Chinese performers or Leon Mooser, If Shanghai. their manager and that consequently, as they had no opportunity to make other con tracts. George Mooser lost money.
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 Maude Fealy, whose first TahnhoG- ser starring vehicle King Rene's Daughter has just been released. will next be seen in Little Dorrt." a three-reel adatation of Dickens story. In the earlier stages of the play. Little Dorrt is depicted by the ThanhouSer.' kidlet
 Another Thanhouser threereeler is "Tannhauser," after the opera. Mar guerite Snow and James Cruze are featured in this
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 Theodore" a phOtoplav in three parts. that is said to have cost s100,- GOO, is being handled by Warmers Features. It was adapted from Victorien Sardous novel and 5000 people were engaged in the produc- ton. Sahary-Djeli acted the title role
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 In the powerful character of Jean Val Jean. the convict in The Bis hops Candlesticks," James K. Hac- kett will make his second flight into filmland, concluding a contract enter ed into with Ernest Shipman and his business associates in the Gold en State Motion Picture company of California, which was made last October.
 The pronounced success of "The Prisoner of Zenda" has decided the directors of the Golden State com pany to release this subject at once. which, duly protected by copyright as the Hackett acting version wilI