Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
In Love and the Law" which Douglas
J. Wood Is to produce this week IN New
York at a matinee performance.


Gertrude Coghlan. who has been pos
| ing for picture films. is to present play
| let called "A Lesson in Bridge" Miss
| Coghlan is the daughter of the. late
| Charles Coghlan.
Hoffman week at b. F. Keiths Theater
| last week broke all records, in spite of
billiards., snow and all other opposing
| attractions and discomforts. The receipts
are said to have mounted above $4,000.
| A. H. Van Buren, and his wife. Dorothy
Bernard. have been engaged for another
season in Winnipeg and will return there
In the fan TO begin their second season
in that city.
ton which will be revived next week
by the Poll Players. is a dramatization
by the author of his own novel. My
Mamie Rose
Annie Russelrs permanent company
at the Little Theater in Philadelphia
will be under the management Of
Lawrence J. Anhalt. The company will
be artistically directed by Miss Russell
herself
Marie Rosa" with Dorothy Donnelly
as the star and Lou Tellegen featured.
is to close its season in New York. The
play is to have spring tour in Can
ada, and next season will be produced
in the west.
Part Of the great copper sign over
the main entrance of B. F. Keith's Thea
ter has been suspended in position. When
the other part Is up. 18th street from F
TO G will be illuminated at night like a
section Of Broadway.
Lulu Beeson, at the Gayety this week.
is at least one person who has not been
won over to the modern dancing. At
the age Of four she appeared on stage
in Dallas, Tex. in the capacity of a soft
shoe dancer, and has been one ever since.
A II Woods has farce comedy from
the German called Sleepy Theodore.
which he intends to produce on the
same date in Chicago. New York and
Boston. as he thinks it is going to be
a big success.
"Ritas Romance" a musical play by
Leo Dietrichstein and Avery Hopwood,
with music by Silvio Helm, is to be
brought east from its original place Of
production-Los Angeles A new musical
star to appear in the cast is Selma
Paley.
A star-cast revival of The Girl from
kays" is to be made by the ShIberts.
with Gaby Deslys. Sam Bernard and
Cecilia Lotus in the leading roles.
Others in the cast will be FRITZ Won
Busing, Forrest HUI. Lawrence d'Orsay
and Harry Pilcer.".
Miss Kitty Cheatham, whose inter-
pretations of American folk songs has
now in America She has the distinc-
ton of being the only foreigner VINO
has appeared before the faculty and
students Of the University of Berlin.
Lew Fields and Joe Weber will once
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comedy. the present plan being that
they make an all-summer run in New
York, after which Fields will retire
from the musical comedy field to devote
his professional life to straight comedy.
F. Tennyson Nelly. who will lecture at
Polls this afternoon and evening on the
topic. THE Truth About Mexico, APP
the House committee on foreign AFFAIRS
and told the members of the committee
an inside story of actual conditions.
stop Thief" this weeks attraction at
Polls. is the first OF list OF plays writ
ten or controlled by George NJ. Cohan Tor
which Sylvester q. Poll, head Of the Poll
circuit of theaters, has obtained the ex-
elusive Washington rights and privilege
of producing in Washington prior to the
release of the plays to stock companies.
William Hurlbut. author of The Man
Who Would Live" his latest play, deal
ing with American life. which Will be
presented in Washington the first week
in April. is also the producer of the
piece. He personally engaged each mem
Der of his company for some especial MT
ness as he mentally pictured the require
ments Of the character.
Blanche Curtiss. with the Miner show
at the Gayety Theater this week, enjoys
her vacations between jumps at her beau
tifu1 home near Boston, where she owns
a big tract of land. She is quite an archi-
tect In small way and erected her
bungalow from her own plans. Her chief
pleasure lies In training her f1ocks OF
homing pigeons and doves.
Frank Speaight will appear at the Be
lasco Theater in the Dickens recitals he
has made famous in London. The recitals
are really dramatizations. in the presen-
ta,ion OF which neither costume. scenery
nor makeup is used. Mr.. Speaight de-
ponds entirely on his own facial ex-