The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

eral hundred submitted for his possible
! use in the fall.
William II. Cranes starring vehicle
The Senator" is announced for the
first week in August at the Columbia
Theater.
The death OF the late sydney Grundy
brings to mind the fact that Whitford
Kane, now in this country, may be seen
this year in a Pair of Spectacles. the
most popular play from the pen OF this
brilliant dramatist Mr.. Kane played
with success throughout England in this
| comedy.
Grace Valentine, late Of Help Want
ed is to have a special engagement Of
two weeks in Denver beginning the first
week in August. Her appearance there
will be in a new play which Is to be tried
out by a Denver stock company and upon
which a New York manager now holds an
option
Holbrook BIinn and his Princess Play
ers are to have an engagement in San
Francisco before beginning their new
season in New York. San Francisco will
see the repertory Of shockers in August
When Chicago sees The Yellow
Ticket" on September 20 at Powers Thea
ter, w l. Abingdon will have the CEN
traI role created by John Mason.
Jack Lait began to write on Thursday
night a play which he announces will
be completed on Tuesday. II he sue
| ceeds he will still be short Of the record
made by Paul Armstrong. who wrote
one of his plays in four days.
When Sir Herbert Tree opens his next
London season late in August it will be
with a stage version OF David Copper
feld'' made for him by Louis n. Parker.
perhaps from the French play which
Mr. Antoine produced at the Odeon some
seasons ago.
Margaret Anglin has a play called The
Divine Friend" for production next
season. though whether with herself in
the cast is not known. 1t is by Charles
Phillips, a newspaper man Of San Fran
cisco.
Two more Broadway plays which set
out to run all summer have closed.
They are The Beauty Shop" in which
Raymond Hitchcock has been starring
and Seven Keys to Baldplate." The
latter. however, had lasted throughout
the entire New York season
The past week has been a busy one with
the Columbia Theater baseball team,
under the management and captaincy OF
Eddie Tolbert. They have played four
games during the week and won three
OF them from prominent amateur teams.
II took fourteen innings to determine the
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winning out with a score of Z to S.
E. NJ Newman, American travel lee
turer, announces that the subjects of
his lectures the coming winter will be
Egypt, Mount Siani to jerusalem, Jerusa-
lem to Beirut. the Italian and French
Rivieras, and Berlin.
Henry Miller, whose producing plans
have been made most secure by the sue
cess of Daddy Long Legs" in Chicago,
has accepted a new play by Austen
Strong. author of the ''Toymaker OF
Nuremberg" and adapter for David Be-
lasco of the Rostands' Good Little
Devil" The new drama is tentatively
called The Besieged" and Is set in
Pekin at the time of the occupation of
that city by the allies. Half dozen
nationalities are included in the list of
characters, and Mr.. Miller plafs to have
them acted by players Of these respective
countries.
Philip Bartholomae will send his sue
cessful musical comedy, When Dreams
Come True" with Joseph Santley again
in the stellar role, on tour the last week
in August, the show being routed to the
Pacific Coast and back to New York
The selwyns have accepted for pro-
duction next season q novelty farce by
Edwin Milton Royle called Peace and
Quiet" which Is said to be worthy Of
the author Of The SQuaw Man" II Is
described as Of "contemporaneous inter-
national interest,"" which Is q phrase
worthy Of the vocabulary Of the late Au-
gustin DAILY.
Mary Ryan will be the heroine Of The
House Of Glass; when cohan q 'HsrTisI