Evening star., 1915-10-10

SPOTLlGHT
Elita Proctor Otis is reported serious
1y Ill in New York.
| new play is announced. The Cave
Woman" by Virginia Kline.
shore Acres" is to be presented By
stock company In New York.
Eugenia Blair has an emotional play.
let called THE Reckoning Day"
Harry Lauder will begin his next tour
Of the United States in November.
Jeanette Lowry has Joined the COM
pany appearing in The Show Shop"
"Just Boy" a Juvenile play. produced
| IN New York recently. has been sent on
tour.
drama called ~m-starred Babbie."
is to have its first production this week
at Lebanon. Pa
The new play by willia-, Harlows
Briggs, which Henry w -e II 70
produce. is called Behold Wife"
It is said within the Law" has made
! $4,000 in royalties from stock COM
panies during the summer months.
Valerie Bergere is appearing in .
playlet called War Babies" by Mrs.
Florence Haines Reed.
Oswald Yorke has been engaged for
the role of Black Dog In Treasure
Island"
A second company to play Some
Baby" has been organised with JEFF
ferson D'Angelis at its head.
Hamilton ReveIle and Olive May have
been engaged for Avery Hopwoodrs
new farce. The Morning After"
Florence Rittenhouse will appear at
Polls this week for the first time in
the khaki riding habit Of a western
heroine.
George v. Hobart and William 4.
Sempie have written play called
original lines.
Arthur Hammerstein IL to produces an
Margaret Crawford will sing the con
tralto role.
Ethel Barrymore appeared last week
in Atlantic City in George v. H0hart's
dramatization of Edna Ferber's Emma
McChesney" stories.
Laura Nelson Hall fs to appear sn .
one-act play by r. II. McLAuEh1tn. Au-
thor of ''The Eternal MagdalenS. The
piece is called "Demi-Tasse." 5
Leo Deitrichstein is to appear this
week in Syracuse In q new play By
himself and Frederick and Fanny Hat
ton. It Is called $4,000 q Night"
Alexander Carr has been 30 success
full In april Shower" that Its author,
Edgar Allen Woolf, is going to expand
the playlet into a four-act drama
T
The deck of the German cruiser Eitei
Friedrich, interned at Newport News,
forms one of the scenes in Frank Man.
ders farce, sherman Was Right"
E. A. We'll will produce a modern
romantic play. called The Beautiful
of the play is laid In the Andes noun
tains. ss-W
The Franz Lehar operetta alone at
duction this month. Jose Collins. Harry
Conor, Roy Atwel and Marguerite Ma
mara will be among the principals.
Nobody Home" with Lawrence
Grossmith in the leading role, is said
to be a musical comedy de luxe" It
is scheduled for the Belasco soon, under
the direction of Elizabeth Marbury and
F. Ray Comstock.
Miss Imogene Taylor, daughter Of
Manager L. Stoddard Taylor. made her
professional debut in the cast OF IAN
American Citizen last week. Her role.
a modest one. was played with grace
and professional ease.
Frederick Ballard, author of Believe
Me, Xantippe," and of Young Amer
ica," is a product Of the famous Har-
ward school of playwrights developed
by Prof Baker. Other successful
dramatists who have graduated from
this school are Edward s. Shelburn
and Edward Knoblauch.
farewell American tour in Richmond
this week. His leading woman 10 Laura
Cowie. He will visit those cities where
he did not appear last season.
The Law OF the Land" which was 20
successful last season in New York and
after four weeks on the road. julia
Dean was the leading woman.
THE Princess Pat" the new light
opera by Henry Blossom and Victor
Herbert. was given its New York pro-
duction last week. The composer con-
Quoted the performance and received
an ovation.
A committee of citizens Of Detroit 70
making arrangements for a tribute to
George p. Goodale of the Detroit Free
Press. who will be given dinner on
his nftieth anniversary as dramatic
editor Of that paper.
Clara Morris, who has partly reGained
her sight and has been relieved of her
money worries by a bequest of $780,
900 left her by her brother-in-lay.
Samuel w. Harriott- Her husband,
Frederick Harriott, died last year. :
The nrst performance Of the second
edition OF Potash and Perlmuttop
took place Thursday night At the Shu-
bert Theater. New Haven. A large
crowd went over from New York TO
see the initial performance.
Elsie Janis appeared In Now York
last week in her new play. Mics In
formation" by Paul Dickey and Charles
W. Goddard. authors OF The NtuloAd-
ing Lady" In the play Miss Janis as
sumes six different characters as . girl
detective.
One Of the scenes in Hands DE- % o
on conditions alleged to pre-
vail In Sing Sing prison, who're War.
den Osborne has introduced various
reforms and prfy1leUea.
In this scene the men win knit and The
women viii tango.
The beginning OF his eoalng eesseo
marks the twenty-third year of D1r-
ton Holmes career a. . lecturer On
fr.v~I nuriuO this u8rf06 hn and 6f1