The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-09
Small Talk of the Stage

! London and are unable to obtain trans
portation back.
The regular season at William A.
Brady's Playhouse, New York, will be-
gin on tomorrow evening" with Sylvia
Runs Away as the opening play. This
Is the work Of Robert Housum, dramatic
editor of the Cleveland Leader. and it
was produced In Boston at the end of
last season.
Leonore Harris is marooned in Paris.
where she was assembling a respondent
wardrobe for the new Brady melodrama,
Life" when the war broke out. Unless
Miss Harris manages TO escape, the pro-
duction will be postponed, as she has one
Of the most important roles in the play.
devised especially for her by the author,
Thompson Buchanan.
A movement has been inaugurated to
erect a memorial to Lawrence Irving
and his wife, Mabel Hackney, who lost
their lives in the wreck OF the Empress
Of ireland. Among those who have al
ready promised subscriptions are: ST.
Squire Bancroft, Sir Charles wyndham,
Sir John Hare Sir Herbert Tree, Sir
George Alexander. Mr.. Cyril Maude, Mr.
]. E. Vedrenne, Hr. Louis Meyer, and
Mr.. Dennis Eadie.
Richard Bennett has announced that
upon his return from a visit to Eugene
Brieux In France he will set about the
establishment Of a playhouse in New
York for a purpose drama, whence he
will extend his work to the largest Amer
lean cities. Mr.. Bennett will not produce
Damaged Goods" IN dramatic form next
season. 1t is also understood that he will
not personally appear in the proposed
production of Maternity" for which he
controls the stage rights.
Thomas Ross will succeed Douglas
Fairbanks in the role Of BERTHE in The
New Henrietta" when 1t opens in Chi
cago in the fall
Harry James Smith, author of Mrs.
Bumpstead-Leigh, in which Mrs. Fiske
appeared so successfully, has just COM
Little Mustang"
Rose Stahl who recently concluded her
third season in Maggie Pepper" win
have a new play next season.
Charles B. Dillingham; has settled upon
Around the Clock as the title for the
new Montgomery and Stone show.
Lew Dockstader has decided to travel
partner. George H. Primrose, will take
q long rest.
Lennox Pawle who has acted in Mar
rage a la Carte" "Pomander Walk"
and THE Money-Moon," has withdrawn
from Cyril Maude's support in Grumpy"
and will be seen as wilkins Micawber in
the Liebler company's production OF THE
of Life" which is Louis N.
Parker's dramatiEation of David Cop
perfield."
After the white slave plays of last
year, the crook plays of the year be-
fore and the drama of crooked politics |
previous to that, the early season an
Of the producing man /
ayers point to the lighter forms of |
the coming season David |
Belasco is one OF the first in the field |
with The Vanishing Bride" a farce, |
while ten other comedies and farces are |
already announced for August production |
n New York. /
Julian EItinge, who has been touring !
Europe, arrived in New York July q !
IN the steamer Kronprinzessen Cecile.
He is now on his Farm at Fort Salonga,
where he will remain until the call for
'ehearsals of The Crinoline Girl"
England has sent representative to
he United States to study our stock
They cannot understand how
/ new play can be produced each week
md done with such care and with such
results. After arriving in
lew York the first company visited was
he Hudson Theater, across the river on 4
he Jersey side from New York, where II
suzanne Jackson is the bright IumInary. \
lie saw Miss Jackson in Ready Money
nd ''Fine Feathers" and announced that II
My in the United States could such ex-
client results be obtained in so short
time. He declared that the idea is to
e developed in England next season.
The repertoire company to be establish
d in Philadelphia under the direction OF
J., Iden Payne. now the producer at the
iaiety Theater, Manchester, England,
yin embrace a season of more than
wenty weeks. during which period there
'ill be produced plays by American, Eng
sh, and continental dramatists, many
which being played for the first time
n an English speaking stage