The Washington herald., 1914-08-16
SMALL TALK OF THE STAGE

SHALL 1ALh VI I6E S1A66
The Columbia Players will close the
summer stock season at Columbia Thea
ter Saturday night. completing the nine
teenth week.
| W. H. Walmsley Is business manager
of the Byjo Theater. Mr.. walmsley was
connected with the Lafayetts Theater
spent twelve seasons with Mr.. p. B.
Chase, and has been connected with sew
eral road productions.
David Belasco, who was TO have put
on The Vanishing Bride IN the Belasco
Theater. New York, last week, has post
poned the premier indefinitely. He finds
the play in need OF changes.
The engagement Of HiIda keenan, to
Edward Wynn. OF the ZIegfeld Follies,
has been announced by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Keenan,. Miss keenan, has been
released by Selwyn and Company from
her engagement In The Salamander.' %
and will retire from the stage after her
marriage, which is announced for Sep
tember.
Marie Thelin. who makes her first bow
to Washingtonians at Glen Echo next
last eight years she lived in this coun-
! try.
Managers Metzerott and Berger have
/ taken occasion TO congratulate Arthur
Ritchie for the excellent service he has
rendered as stage director OF the CO.
! lumbia Players during the season which
is now drawing to a close. To his efforts
are largely attributable the excellence
Of the productions at the popular house.
A. H. Woods regarding present con-
ditions in New York as inauspicious. de-
fers the promised presentation there OF
Douglas Fairbanks in He Comes Up
Smiling" He will send the play to
Philadelphia instead.
The proud Maude Adams announces
that never will she be seen in moving
pictures. and that the camera will like
wise be deprived Of the Barrie plays in
which she has appeared.
Lewis Waller. who was much depressed
by his reception in America last season,
has reconsidered his determination to ig-
more us, and will return in the course
Of a year.
Mr. and Mrs. A H. Van Buren, Ooro-
thy Bernard, will take a well-earned
vacation after the close Of the Columbia
season Saturday night, although their
plans to tour Europe have had to be
abandoned.
Ida St Leon. once an ornamental
figure OF the circuses. is 10 impersonate
the hungry stenographer of one Of the
several Help Wanted" organizations.
Mr. Stone and his associates are re-
hearsing the successor to The Lady Of
the Slipper" though its authors, Anne
Caldwell and r. H. Burnside have not
christened It yet 1t will be produced in
New York next month.
Apartment K-12." said to have been
a duplication OF Twin Beds subsided
in New York after a few meagerly at
tended performances.
Marie Doro has returned from her vic
torious adventures in England to join
the Doro- -Bates-Grlette trio which will
play Diplomacy in October.
Four o'clock in the afternoon and in
the evening are the hours set for the fire.
diving exhibitions at Glen Echo Park next
week.
Fannie Ward, who is to be seen here
as the star of the French farce comedy,
Madam President" arrived in New York
City on August 5. Miss Ward came over
on the White Star Line steamship Olym-
pic, the last of the liners Of that company
to sail from England since the war
declarations were made.
George W. Barber, Carrie Thatcher,
John NJ. Kline and other members of the
Columbia forces are planning a months
stay at Colton's, near the mouth of the
Potomac River. During the time they
propose rehearsing a vaudeville sketch, in
which they will probably be seen during
the coming season.
The regular fall and winter season at
the Columbia Theater will open septem-
Der Is with New York success.
Burton Holmes, Of travelogue fame, has
cabied his mother that he has Just
reached London with his wife, in good
health and spirits. He further notifies
her that he hopes to secure homeward-
bound passage at comparatively early
date. H.
London's smart set is to have its own
exclusive theater, to be known as the |
Ambassador. The house will have no |
gallery nor pit, only stalls. No one will |
be allowed TO enter for less than SIS. |
Performances are to begin at s:15 O'Clock. |
thus permitting Lord and Lady Algy to !
daily over their dinners
The incidental music for Edward Shell !