Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25
country next season IN q new play By
J. Hartley Manners. author OF her pres
ent success, Peg % My Heart"

country next season IN q new play BY
]. Hartley Manners. author Of her pres
ent success. Peg % My Heart"
GLORIOUS Betsy" by R!da johnson
Young. is among the plays which ars
TO be put on the screen
Dan Frohman, brother Of Cha r4.r
Frohman, says that theatrical condI-
lions are bad, owing chiefly to the lack
of good plays: which seems as good an
explanation as any.
He Comes Up Smiling" which WAS
presented some time ago. with Douglas
Fairbanks as the star. is to be revived
in the fall. with Bernard Granville in
the leading role. This production Will
take place in Chicago Labor day.
The Hyphen'., was produced for the
first time last week in New York with
a strong cast. including W. II. Thomp-
son and Robert T. Haines. The scenes
are laid in Pennsylvania and the play
is study of hyphenated nationality
The first performance OF The Love
Thought. by Henry Irving Dodge, is to
be produced next week at Hartford
Conn. by David Belasco. Janet Beecher
will have the leading role. that OF n
woman physician.
Nobody Home" a new musical com
edy, was given last week in New York
with Miss Elizabeth Marbury the well
known play broker, as one of it's pro-
ducers. Alice Dewey, Lawrence Gros-
smith. Maude Odeil and Adele Rowland
were among the performers.
THE Lady In Red" was produced last
week in Atlantic City Its title is de-
rived from the girl wearing a red bath
ing suit and whose portrait is painted
by an artist, an attempt to destroy the
fbpma nj ha
plot. The American version of the
operetta was made by Anne Caldwell.
In the stage version of War Brides
the locale of the story. AS first given IN
the magazine in which it was pub
lished, is changed and made to fit into
any race and nation. Keith vaudeville
is under positive orders to observe the
strictest sort of neutrality
The great vaudeville Fashion Show
| in which Peggy Hopkins of this city
has been one of the thirty and more
fair models and illustrators. will be
presented in the Keith Theater here the
week of May 10.
In appreciation of Nora Bayes' first
aid assistance during the week Calve
was taken sick, the Keith Theater man
agement has secured her for A return
, date the week of May Il. More new
songs and gowns are bits held forth.
Willard Mack. the playwright. was
educated at Georgetown University. He
went west shortly after leaving the
capital and had dropped out of the
| memory of Washingtonians. when sud
denly he returned from California last
fall with two successful plays, Kick
In" and 80 Much for SO Much
Help Wanted will be a May attr 40
ton at Polls. This successful comedy
by Jack Lait has never been seen in
Washington, although 1t ran for TWEEN
ty-two weeks in Chicago and for a sea-
son in New York.
Dorothy Young. stepdaughter Of the
late Nine. Lillian Nordica. is appearing
with Joeph Santley in All over Town"
This is Miss Young's first appearance
on the stage.
Walter Jones. who made his first great
success as the tramp in Rice's 1872.
Is appearing in "An over Town" as
Hewitt Burns. the head of the tempta-
ton department of the Internal re-
gions.