The Washington herald., 1915-07-04

Margaret Mayo, author of Com
| mencement Days" this weeks offer
| ing at Polls. is in private life Mrs.
Edgar Selwyn. author of pierre OF
| the Plains" THE Country Boy" and
The Arab"
Dorothy Cameron. in the Woman
Proposes" company, at Keith's this
| week. is a former Charles Dana Glib
| son model.
Cyril Maude is so satisfied with his
| success in this country that he is dis
posing of his London theater. the
Playhouse. This seems to be an indi-
cation that he intends to remain in
definitely in America. Well, he Ger
tainly can earn more money here at
present than most leading actors are
getting on the other side.
Through an AMIGA Bile agreement with
F. Ziegfeld, jr., Annette kellermann
has retired from the cast of the new
Follies. Difficulty was found in ham
ding Miss Kellermann's tank and the
massive scenic settings for it.
Marie Dressler is suing a moving
picture firm for 100000. which she
says were the profits of TITLES Pune
tured Romance.% She says she has
1t is stated that Charles Klein. the
playwright. who lost his life on the
Lusitania. had earned close to $1,000
900 in royalties on his plays. several
of which still have a good earning
capacity.
Harry B. Smith, ex-Chicagoan and
the Lope de Vega of American libret-
sictc 1ht he oil ar 10
by the sale of his library. He didn't
sell of necessity: he has taken down
in royalties at least s1,0oo.0o0 since
his first work. THE Begun" was pro-
duced in 1887 by McCaull Smiths
fortune began with the production of
Robin Hood" for which he wrote the
libretto and Reginald De Koven the
score. Smith at that time was a Chi
cago newspaper man.
John p. Campbell and whitford Kane.
directors of the Irish Theater in New
York. have arranged for a season of
twenty-six weeks to start early in the
fall. Changes in the programs will be
made every two weeks. and the perform
ances will be given in any theater avail
able. The following players have been
signed. the majority of them having been
seen in the company last year at the
Band Box Theater: Whitford Kane. John
Campbell. Gareth Hughes. Helen Evilly,
Eileen Luban, Kate Morgan. Catherine
Collins. Peter Golden. Susanna Rooney
and Joseph Whitmore.
Keith's is having a green and white
awning manufactured to cover its entire
front expanse 1t will shut the afternoon
sun off that side Of the theater
With the exception of the Blue Bird
cast. there are more speaking parts in
commencement Days" than any other
play produced at Polls this year. There
are nineteen important roles.
Prior to the production of "Milestones."
which is to be the Poll offering next
week. Arnold Bennett was known in
America only as the author of "Old
Wives Tales and similar stories of the
Five Towns. "Milestones," however. es-
tablished Mr.. Bennett as successful
playwright. and he followed it with
The Great Adventure" produced in this
country by Winthrop Ames.
The firm of Letter & Bratton has made
arrangements by cable with Georges
Faydeau. the French author. for the
Notwithstanding rights of his farce. "A
Flea in Her Ear" and will make pro-
duction of it early next season. "A Live
Wire" a new farce by G. A. de Lima and
Legrand Rowland. will he produced at
Atlantic City July 70 under their manage