The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-21

porter in Rupert Hughes successful
karce, Excuse Me-
Mr.. Granville Bankers production OF
| a Midsummer Nights Dream" has ap-
parently not caught the New York fancy.
| II has been reduced to two performances
] a week, the other evenings and matinees
being given over to the more popular
"Androcles and the Lion" Shaw's 1.-THE
Doctors Dilemma will he added to the
repertory week after next.
The real cause of the closing OF Days
was that the gentlemen In the audience
| We're invited to come up on the stage 10
! dance with the ladies' OF the company.
New York will stand for the ladies' OF the
stage minSling with the audience. but not
for the audience minGling with the select
company on the stage.
No success attended the effort to sup
! press the presentation OF the big film
play, THE Birth Of a Nation" The
theory on which its producers were hailed
| into court was that the exhibition OF
some of the scenes or the film was cal
culated TO rouse race feeling against the
negro. The charge was such a vague
one and so little possible of proof that
the court couldn't take cognizance OF 1t.
We are shortly to have revival OF
''Trilby." with Phyllis Neiison-Terry In
the title part. and Wilton Lackaye In
his famous representation of Svensali.
Among others from the original cast are
Leo Ditrichstein as Iou-Zou. and Burr
Macintosh AS TafYy.
Ninety in the Shade was such a pro-
nounced failure n drawing proposition
that both u. V. Arthur, the producer.
and Marie Cahill, the star have filed
petitions in bankruptcy. with the men,
bers of the company out Of their jobs
and their last weeks salaries.
The latest reports are to the effect
that Nine. Sarah Bernhardt IL in bet
ter health and spirits after the am
putation of her right leg at the hip
than she has been for ten years foi-
lowing the original injury to her knee,
and that she is coming here next sea-
son TO tour In Rostand's poetic drama.
la Princesse Lointaine." The play has
already been done in New York In
English, with Mime. Simone in the title
part
The Hippodrome's first moving pic
ture will be The Heart of Mary
land" in which Mrs. Leslie Carter
made her first success. and in which
she appears in photo-form. The pic
ture feature will ne supplemented
with attractions in a musical way and
an aquatic spectacle utilizing the big
tank.
The Strand rheater which has been
such remarkable Broadway success
as theater constructed especially
and on a large scale for moving pic
lures. combined with vaudeville is
about to he duplicated in Newark, n.
j.. and run under the same manage
ment. II counts for patronage not
only on the large population of the
Jersey metropolis. but also on the big
trolley public of which Newark is
the center.
1t has been a mooted question which
was the greater attraction for u res
taurant, cabaret or dancing. Church
ills celebrated place on broadway has
long stood out for the former, and
refused TO put in n dancing floor. The
craze has finally won out. and, like
the long-resistinE Waldorf-Astoria,
thurChilrs has been obliged to give
way to dancing scOner than see it's
clientele drawn away to other re-
sorts. Shanley's is the only restau-
rant Of prominence that sticks to