The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
Small Talk of the Stage.

An important announcement came by
cable Saturday from Mr.. George C Tyler.
pany. to the effect that he had engaged
Phyllis Nelson Terry, daughter OF Fred
Terry and niece OF Ellen Terry. Miss
Terry, besides having the combined and
rare attributes of great beauty and
youth, Is said to have also inherited dra-
matte gifts of the Terry family.
Frances Starr is to have a new play by
Edward Knoblauch. author of ''Kismet"
and My Lady's Dress" She will play
for the first ten weeks OF the season to
Henri Bernstein's The Secret"
A production announced for the fall is
called "A Million Dollar DOLL
Mizzi Hajos, who ts- a Ssri in Henry
W. Savage's productions OF the operetta
of that name. has written to the Savage
office from Budapest that she Is coming
back with a new dance she believes So
ciety will take up enthusiastically next
winter. She found II among the Hungar-
ian peasants.
Wallis Clark, the English actor and
stage director, is to join B. Iden Payne
at the Little Theater in Philadelphia next
season.
Orrin johnson has been added to cast
Of Richard Harding Davis The Trap"
for which both TuIly Marshall and
Charles Richman have been announced
as engaged.
Eugene Brieux's early play of lie Robe
Rouge" which for nearly twenty years
has been standard in the Continental
theaters and was long ago acted in Lon
don by Arthur Bourchier. is at length
to be given in this country in an adapta-
ton by Ada Sterling Klaw Erlanger
are to produce it under the name OF THE
Judges Robe" The play has TO do with
the potential abuses Of the French judi
cial system.
Clare Weldon is to play the principal
character role in THE Dummy during
its extended run in Chicago next season.
The part was originated by Ada Dwyer.
she having been succeeded by Jane
Oaker. who will remain with the Eastern
company.
Frank keenan, is spending the summer
at his summer home on Long Island.
Next year he returns to the dramatic
field. while his daughter. Hilda Keenan,.
plays an important role in The Sala-
mander"
Charles Daley and Daniel Hennessy are
two eminently unknown performers who
will next season replace Fred Stone and
his associate in The Lady of the Slip
per-"
Ada Lewis and Herbert Corthell are to
be in the cast of The Dancing Duchess"
musical play that impends in New
York.
Edgar Selwyn has written a comedy |
called Rolling Stones"
Five Washington men will form the |
committee that will decide the winners |
Of the dance competition to be held at |
Glen Echo Park. Four Of these have al |
ready been selected. These four are Tom |
Moore, proprietor of the Garden Theater; |
George A. Coulon. representative Of a |
New York mercantile house; Prof Har- |
rington and George Wylie.
The New York Symphony Orchestra will |
probably play a series of concerts in this |
city the coming season.
The Man from Mexico" next weeks |
offering by the Poll Players, Is one of the !
few American plays that have been util- |
lied as starring vehicles by two famous |
stars. The comedy gave William Collier |
his first success as a star. Three years |
ago an adaptation OF the play as a musi- |
cal comedy under the title of "Over the |
River" was produced as a starring vehi- |
Gle by Eddie Foy.
Litigation is threatened by the re-
spective producers OF The Beauty |
Shop and High Jinks" because songs |
from the two pieces have been put into /
a musical comedy recently produced in |
Los Angeles. It Is THE Money Get
ters," by wsldemar Young, who writes
entertainingly about the drama for one
of the San Francisco newspapers. The
songs in question are Raymond Hitch
cocks "All Dressed Up" and '"Ting-a-
from High Jinks."
Henry w. Savage will have two of
his successes in Boston at the begin
ming of the season. ''Sari." the Hun
garian operetta, will reopen the Co
lonial Theater August "a, and Along
Came Ruth" Holman Days New EnGs