Evening star., 1914-04-12

ScoSOH.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw says she is going
TO leave the stage and enter the moving
picture field. where she will not have to
meet the public.
The Gliding OMesras spent all last
summer at Newport and Narragansett
pier teaching the 400 how to tango
and hesitate.
Catherine Tower. the Mary Turner Of
one of the Within the Law" companies.
was leading lady of Paul Armstrong 8
Blue Grass company when she was
only sixteen years of age.
Elaine Hammerstein. the daughter o.
Arthur Hammerstein, is TO appear next
season in The Apex by Richard Hard
ing Davis and Jules Eckert Goodman.
under the direction OF her father.
1t is said that Margaret Anglin Viola
Allen and even Maude Adams are men
toned for vaudeville. as the managers
i'll that field are very anxious to get them
and the offers to big stars are enormous
Johnny Hyams and Leila Mcintyre in
their new vaudeville version of THE
Quakeress" viii be the principal at
traction the last week this month at
the b. F. Keith Theater.
.'Bunty Pulls the Strings viii be
early Offering of the Columbia PLAYERS
at the Columbia Theater. and John
Drew's memorable play Rosemary is
to follow Tine Runaway"
Margaret Mayo, author OF "Baoy
Mine has finished a dramatization of
Edward Salisbury Fields story, Twin
Beds. Miss Mayos husband. Edgar
Selwyn. has also finished q play. called
Rolling Stones.'
Edgar Bixley. comedian { the Gayety
: This week. has many FORMER school
mates here. His record with Wash
iHston school teachers, however. is
said to have been the very means of
ois making his real fortune.
Selwyn & Co. are to offer Within the
Law for a return visit at the Be
lasco Theater the week beginning
Tuesday. May >. The cast is headed by
hat sterling star. Helen Ware. whose
Mary Turner is well remembered by
those who saw the performance earlier
in the season.
Miss Francis Nelson will end her
special enga cement as leading woman of
the Poll Players this week. She has
made many friends in the ranks Of the
Poll patrons. who hope she may be in
duced to return to the company some
time in the future to renew her acquant-
ance with Washington theatergoers.
Manager Peck of the Gayety InauGu-
rated tango dancing evening at the
theater last Wednesday night. There
is a great deal of amateur compe tition
tour dancers are welcomed 20 the com
petitions at the Gayety many couples
have urged that the event become d
weekly feature.
De Wolf Hopper was at one time-a
very short une-a theatrical producer.
He starred Ada Gilman il. The Hun |
dred wives, which was a lurid melo- ,
drama with Mormonism as the basis !
Georgia Drew Barrymore was a MEM !
ber of the company and Mr.. Hopper
also plaeyd a small part. The venture |
tailed.
Oliver Morosco will present ct the |
Belasco Theater for one Week. eommenc-
ing Monday. April -. his production ef
j. Hartley Manners successful comedy,
Peg o. My Heart. with the following
east: Elsa Ryan. in the title role: Lii
liam Keller. Fanny Addison Pitt Wilda
Broughton. Gilbert Douglas. Frank Bur
beck and Roy .Cochrane.
Mice Brady is the daughter of Will |
liam \. Brady and has been the |
stage but two years. "Iolanthe' will
be the fourth big Gilbert and Sullivan
revival in which she has appeared:
The Mikado' was the first: "Pinafore'' |
the second. and The Pirates of Pen
zance" the third. She has also played
in THE Balkan. Princess: Little WoHl-
IN" and THE Things That Count
Miss Brady is a. graduate of the Con-
servatory of Music in Boston.
Neil OBrien. the popular minstrel CO.
median. will be the attraction at the Ma
tional Theater for one week. beginning
April %. at the head of his own min
strel organization. He has organized for
his second tour an entirely new COM
pany. mounted his show with complete
new production and promises entirely new
material for his songs, jokes and features.
The OBren minstrels this season num-
Der half hundred people and is said to
rINs, 1erp y rt1r..t tfxr, of yfy,l
now on tour.
Here is a good example of tine ready
wit of the late w S. Gilbert, AT the
dress rehearsal of "Pinafore" the au-
thor instructed Rutland Darlington, the
original Capt. Corcoran, to sit pen
sivelyf a skylight. center stage.
harrington. who was a heavyweight
tried to carry out instructions with
the result that the entire Fragile struc-
ture gave way and landed him fiat on
the boards II said 'pensively.' Rut-
land" remarked Gilbert. reprovingIy.
not expensively.
Miss Izetta Jewel will return from her
long vacation this week and rejoin the
Poll Players next Monday night. 4
cablegram received yesterday Informed
Manager Thatcher that she is a pas
senger on the Ancon. which will dock in
New York tomorrow morning. She
cables her winter vacation in Panama
and South America has given her abso-
lutte rest, and she is ready for the long
list of big roles which the Poll manage
ment has selected for her appearance
this spring and summer
Woman patrons of the Gayety who
were reluctant to come to the theater
until an explicit Invitation was sent
them, with the assurance that the per
torma nces were just as much for their
benefit as for the male patrons have
'Ninced no hesttancy in going upon the
stage to claim their prizes on country
store nights. Even when they have
been unable 10 carry away their din
ing room chairs and bedsteads from
the spot. they eagerly climbed up to
get a look at them and make arrange
ments for their disposal.
Polls new dansante salon will be open
ed to patrons of the theater next Tues
day afternoon. II has been entirely re-
decorated with new tapestry draperes.
costly chandeliers and an elaborate floral
display. special orchestra. which has
been engaged for the exclusive use of
the dancers. will be conducted by Henry
y. Smith, musical director of Polls
Theater The dansantes at Polls will
he given Tuesday. Thursday and Satur-
day this week Al the end of the pres
cnt month they will be made daily
features.
In "Racketty Packetty House" the
original cast. which consists of Master
Kingdom Brown. aged ten. and his sisters.
Dorothy and Marjorie, aged eleven and
twelve tS IN l,a tpr,1er nv