The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

ing role IN new Scolch comedy that Il
be produced in New York next October
The play has not yet been named.
/ "MiIestones." which made SO pro.
/ nounced an impression in this city last
year, will return to the Columbia The,
ater at an early date.
/ George Le Guere. who is playing thc
juvenile role OF Dick Engan in support
of David Warfield in The Auctioneer. "
might be classed as a Washington boy
/ for he spent five years at Georgetown
/ University. He is one of the youngest
| masters of art ever graduated from that
institution. hHying taken his bachelor
and masters degree at twenty-one.
| T. Arthur Smith. is already planning
| for the FlonzaIey Quartet returning to
Washington next season. Its last con-
cert of the current season will be at the
| New Masonic Auditorium Saturday after
noon. March H. at 40 O'Clock.
James Finlayson. who plays 'Rab" in
| ''Bunty Pulls the Strings" is an expert
sword dancer, and has recently received
\ beautiful gold medal, the first prize,
| from the New York Caledonian Society,
| being declared the victor from among
sixty-five competitors in the sword dance
on their field day in New York last oc-
tober.
| Adele Ritchie, Harry Tighe and COM
| pany. and the Six American Dancers, are
among the leading attractions for the B.
F. Keith Theater bill March % week.
Jack Shoemaker, advance man for
Robie's Beauty Show. is one of the vet
Grams in the theatrical world. For many
years he was manager for jefferson dan
CELLS. and has seen burlesque and legiti-
mate drama in America almost from
their conception.
In recent letters to friends in this city
Julia Dean has expressed a desire to
again visit Washington and the host of
friends she made here when she was
leading lady of the Columbia Players.
One Of the scenes in The Pleasure
Seekers which will be seen at the Be-
lasco next week, in which the three
comedians, Max Rogers, Bobby North,
and Harry Cooper are forced to occupy
a hall bedroom in Paris and the three re-
tire in one bed, is said to be particularly
ludicrous; with Rogers attired in a suit
of child's pajamas, North in a full con-
vict gsrb, and Cooper in a feminine night
robe with baby blue ribbons.
William Lennox, the elongated Scotch
comedian, who plays "weelum'' In
"Bunty Pulls the Strings" was born in
Calcutta. He is the son OF a Scotch min
lister attached to the English army.
/. Edward ii. Curtis, stage director for the
Poll Players. spent three days last week
at the establishment of the biggest cos
tuning company in Philadelphia. arrang-
ing for this weeks production of When
Knighthood Was in Flower"
THE New Henrietta" with William II.
Crane, Douglas Fairbanks, Amelia Bing-
ham. and Patricia Collinge. together with
an all-star cast, will be the attraction at
the Columbia Theater the week of March
-
Many Of the ballads popular in the time
of the civil war are revived in THE Call
OF the Sixties" at B. F. Keith's Theater
next week.
The Ghost Breaker one of last sea-
sons greatest successes. will be produced
at Polls this month. This melodramatic
farce. in which II. B. Warner Is still ap-
pearing In Western cities. ran seven
months last year at the Lyceum Theater
in New York.
During his farewell engagement in
Washington at the Belasco Theater the
week of March 16. Forbes Robertson will
give local playgoers an opportunity to
see, alas! for the last time, several of his
greatest impersonations. On Monday and
Saturday nights and Wednesday after
noon he will be seen as Hamlet. and on
Tuesday and Friday nights as Dick Hell
dar In The Light that Failed" Passing
of the Third Floor Back" and The Sac
rament of Judas will be played on We'd |
ncsday night and the former play only
At the Saturday matinee HhiIa -a1fi.a