The Washington herald., 1915-05-16

fashion shows for spring, summer, and
fall-three a year-and preparations are
already in progress. with May Tully,
| who staged the present production, con-
tinuing In charge Of the Forthcoming
| events.
Both Maude Adams and Billie Burke
will continue their tour until July 10
both being in the Northwest.
THE Ari.tocrat" Is to be the title
Of the play in which George Arliss i.
| to appear next season.
Ethel Barrymore Is back in the movie
game. and Is playing for the Rolfe cor
poration.
/ William A. Brady. the theatrical pro-
Queer, is one of the men credited with
pulling big slice Of the Bethlehem steel
market melon during the past month.
His share is said to have been $500. 1000
wallack's, the Columbia and the Herald
Square theaters, New York. have closed
their existence. and each is to be torn
down to make way for business blocks.
Robert Edeson is quoted In some of
the theatrical papers az having more
than a good word for the movies. He's
pla wing for them now, and successfully.
too.
Thomas Coffin Cooke. sometime director
for local stock companies. has gone to
plays.
Before he wrote Green Stockings"
this weeks bill at Polls, A. E. w. Ma
son was better known as a novelist
than as a playwright. Since his success
full comedy, Mr.. Mason also has had
STAGED THE Witness for the Defense
in which Ethel Barrymore and Blanche
Bates have appeared.
Ruth Chatterton will end her New
York run In Daddy Long-legs" May 16
with 80 performances to her credit.
Blanche Walsh is to leave the vaude-
VILE stage, as she is to star in new
play.
Margaret Anglin is to appear in a new
comedy by Paul Kester. called THE
Desert Island"
ION Trial. is to be produced in Lon
don. where every good American play
goes nowadays.
William A. Brady and Mrs. Brady
fGrace GEORGE ,.Iite probably will spend
a rart of the summer interval in Cali
fornia, where Mr.. Brady had his start In
the theatrical world. He has not been
there in a number of years.
when Polly OF the Circus" is pre-
scented at Polls next week there Will be
show within a play" for full one
ring circus is presented on the stage dur
ing the fourth act of Margaret Mayo's
delightful comedy.
Philip Bartholomew author Of over
Night" Little Miss Brown" and
When Dreams Come True" has written
new farce called up Against 1t.
which will not be produced until next
fall.
Jean Adair, who has taken the place
of Emma Dunn in Sinners at William
A. Brady's Playhouse, is succeeding her
self, in a measure, since she was really
the originator of the part Of Mrs. Hor-
ton when Owen Davis play was pro-
duced on Christmas Day In Sing Sing
prison. .
The White Feather" continues to at
tract large and interested assemblaGes
to the Comedy Theater. New York.
Edgar Selwyn's new comedy. Rolling
Stones" is to be seen in New York early
in August.
1t is declared that Irwin Berlin. the
well-known song writer. will write
comic opera for DeWolf Hopper. who
declares his purpose to get back into
modern compositions next season.
Roszika Dolly is to return to vaude-
IL h4r 20 fo
following her season in Hello. Broad
way"
Lew Dockstader has bought tho name
Honey Boy Minstrels."
Rose Coghlan will return to vaude-
Vile late in September in Edgar Allan
sketch. The Discovery"
1t is reported in New York that Leo
is to go under the man
agement of Conan e. Harris next sea-
son. He Won great success In the
Belasco production of The Phantom
Rival"
John Drew found the theater in
Rochester. Mimi. so unclean and in
sanitary that he filed complaint
against the mana cement with the local
board of health.
The establishment Of The Irish
Stage, founded by Whitford Kane and
associates. has developed a repertoire
If plays which promises to be one Of
he interesting developments of the
present season. 1t is planned to do a
'uIl season of these plays next year
n conjunction with a series in French.
German. and Italian. at a playhouse
hereafter to be devoted to repertoire
plays.
Rae Selwyn distinguished herself at
he Cort Thester in New York one
hight last week by playing the leading
ngenue role on fifteen minutes notice !
and playing it very we'll.
Peggy ONeill will return to Chicago |
or a second engagement in Peg o.
iy Heart" at the Cort Theater May Is. |
Is many as possible of the original !
few York company are being assem- |
lied for this engagement, among them |
Iassard Short. who will have the i'm !
,ortant role Of Alaric. /
Al H. Wilson, once prominent |
eadliner in the varieties, now is COM
ng back to the same class of enter
ainment. since 1t is styled vaudeville.
nd will present "A De1icatessen Mer-
hant." from the pen Of June McCree.
LAY, 1.-THE Man in Request" It is