The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-08
Small Talks Of the Stage.

Small Talks OF the Stage.
Charles Frohman il to produce another
Barrie playlet called The Little Po-
liceman."
George Ariiss has passed the 100
mark in his appearance N Beaconsfield
In '.Disraeli.''
Forbes. in which May Robson Is to star.
is called THE Clever Woman"
William Farnum has returned to vsude-
VILE.
zone Hour for Life" Is the name Of
Grace Georges new play.
THE Poor Little Rich Girl is meeting
with success In London.
LADY Change" 10 the name of q new
play to be produced by Charles Dflling-
ham.
Philip Bartholomae proposes to make a
musical comedy star Of May Vokes next
season.
1t is said George Ariiss will revive The
Darling Of the Gods during his London
engagement next summer.
The latest from London IL that Mar
tina Hedman has scored q big success in
The Attack" produced by George Al
exander.
Eugene VOTERS play. THE Plain Wom-
an" Is to have its first production In
Cleveland at the end of this month.
Louis Mann is again in vaudeville, his
latest play, Children Of Today" having
panned out successfully.
tant role in "The Sunshine Girl" was
Providence.
The present theatrical season Is said
to be the worst in the last seventy
years.
The scarcity OF talented chorus girls is
attributed to the movies" Many of
the motion picture leading women are
former choristers-
Charlotte Walker will be starred next
season in a dramatization Of Jack Lon
dons story, THE Valley of the Moon"
the author collaborating with Eugene
Walter in preparing the stage version.
Anna Held, who eighteen months ago
severed her business and matrimonial
connection with F. Ziegfeld. jr., Is again !
under the producers managerial wing. |
Prior to her opening in New York In a
big musical play Miss Held will devote |
six weeks to vaudeville.
william Makepeace Thackeray wrote !,
in one Of his own 'Recollections' that |
ITO write a really human, vital story, |
one must tabulate ones own life his |
tory" Thus the popularity Of Alexan-
der Dumas Camille II not surprising. |
as in that story the younger Dumas de- |
scribes the most interesting period of
his life as a young man in Paris in the |
early forties.
Omar Khayyam will take up his abode |
at the Booth Theater, the new Winthrop |
Ames' playhouse on West Forty-fifth
street. New York. tomorrow evening.
Ian Maciaren. leading man with Marga-
ret Anglin, returned to New York last
week to inspect a new country home he |
has recently purchased. Miss Ansiin will |
open her Boston season next week, and
the company is this week resting.
Maude Leslie will play her first Ibsen
role in NeV York within fortnight.
She is to play Regina Engstrom in
Ghosts" when the all-star cast per-
Torrance of that play is produced.
c. M: 8. Mcclellan, well known as the
author Of 1.-THE Pink Lady" and q num-
Der of other popular successes. has COM
pleted . one-act play called THE Foun-
tain" It will be produced At the Prin-
cess Theater, New York.
So great has been the success with
which Cyril Maude has met on his Ameri-
can tour that he has signed q contract
with the Liebler company to remain in
the United States until April and to re-
turn to America next season.
A number of important productions are
to be made by William A. Brady before
the present theatrical season IL ended.