Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
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Milton sills has been engaged for q
leading part in MY Lady's Garter"
widow by Proxy" May TWINS suc-
cess, Is being acted in the stock houses.
Weber and Fields will play twenty
two weeks over the vaudeville circuit
this year.
! George Drew Mendum and John Mil
tern have Joined the cast of Molly
and l."
Klaw & Erlanger have secured a
farce by Edwin Milton Royle, called
Peace and Quiet"
Margaret Greene has been engaged
as leading woman for the play, Come
On, Charley" to be produced by John
Cort.
Margaret Anglin has a new play by
California dramatist, which will be
produced in San Francisco. 1t is as yet
unnamed.
Our Children" by Louis Anspacher,
Is to be produced with Emmett Corri-
gan. Arthur Louis, Albert Bruning and
Christine Herman in the cast
George H. Broadhurst is writing a
play for George Fawcett. to be pro-
duced this fall.
Lee Harrison is to go to Australia
| this month for a season of thirty weeks,
to appear in musical revues.
Amelia Bingham has secured tho
| rights to play called Ills PASSIONS
| Waterloo" by Leonard Judson, a Co.
| lumbia graduate.
THE Girl Who Smiles" produced last
week in New York. Is said to have pref
ty music. Natalie Alt and George Bald
win have the leading parts.
Charles Kenyon. author of "Kindlins."
has written a new play. entitled over
night" in which the leading role will
be taken by Margaret Lawrence.
Burton Holmes. who will be heard at
the Columbia Theater this winter, is
returning to Chicago after six months
devoted to travel in the United States.
titled --Our Own United states-at
Last" Four of his subjects will prob
ably be FLORIDA" Dixie" "Caiifor-
mia" and 1.-The Exposition.
Harry Bentley and Walter Pearson,
at the Gayety this week. played ali
summer in vaudeville in New York, and
Claire Evans, Baltimore man, was
leading man at the Bushwick Theater,
in Brooklyn.
Ethel Barrymore's season in Roast
Beef Medium" will open next month.
She will have William Boyd as her
leading man.
Fife Pearson, soubrette with The
Rosey Posey Girls" was born and edu-
ton. D. c. She received her early
training in dancing at one of the local
dancing academies.
Heart" at the Belasco the week of Sep
TENDER 20. Florence Martin. one of the
most popular of the Pegs will play
the title character.
Heart" has entertained theatergoers
simultaneously 1t has been offered by
as many as eight companies in this
country and London. After the piece
had been played nearly two seasons in
New York and upon the road previous
ly. it ran in London. Boston and Chica-
go last winter. Miss Martin played
Peg in the Boston company last season.
This is her third season in the role.
In Jerry" this week at Polls, Flor
ence Rittenhouse will in one scene
wear the costume which made Pauline
in Liberty Bell that Miss Chase Gre
ated sensation as the pink pajama
girl" In Jerry" Billie Burke was no
less successful in delighting the pub
lies eye.
An attractive feature of the opening
week at Polls was the appearance, at
each performance, of three attractive
young girls wearing the costumes of
antebellum days. They acted in the
dual capacity of program and water
girls.
One of the early offerings at Polls
will be Lillian Russek's big success,
"Wildfire."
One feature that has had much to do
with the success of the dancing payil-
ion at Glen Echo Park Is the fact that
Manager Schloss himself has always
given personal supervision to the dane
ing, the music and the attendants At
no time has he permitted the pavilion
to lack his personal control.
The Messrs Shubert have announced
the engagement of Charlotte Walker
as leading woman for E. H. Sothern, in
Sutro's "The Two Virtues" Margaret
Dale, who was first announced as Mr..
Sothern's leading woman, was taken
suddenly in last week, at the Tray
more Hotel, Atlantic City. and Mr..
Sothern was informed by her physician
she would not be able to act for sew
eral months. An urgent wire" from
Lee Shubert brought Miss Walker to
New York, where she went over the
n1av with Mr. Cofhern