The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-14
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of the standbys and of vigorous and
misleading advertisement, but II does
not seem destined to a prolonged ex-
istence even in notwithstanding New
York.
Chatter.
The Century will light up again on
the 25th to start four weeks sea-
son of dancing by Isadora Duncan and
her young girl pupils.
Conditions in Paris may be inferred
from the fact that Mime. Rejane is
playing in vaudeville in London. And
in London matters cannot be much
better when the famous Gaiety which
for twenty years before the outbreak
of the war paid average annual divi-
dends of more than 16 per cent is in
difficulties and has to raise $4,000
from its stockholders before II can
venture on a new production.
Poor old Days II seems to have
reached the depths of degradation. As
though il was not bad enough for the
famous theater to have become a bur-
lesque house. the final blow WAS given
when the police closed it on account of
the character of the performance.
In Winnipeg a memorial tablet has
been placed in the lobby of the local
theater in memory of Laurence Irving
and his wife Mabel Hackney, who
made their last theatrical appearance
there and were drowned on their way
back to England when the Empress of
Ireland sank in the st. Lawrence.
The opening attraction at the Man
haitian Opera House next autumn will
he a big English melodrama entitled
The Midnight Wedding" by Walter
Howard. author of The Story of the
Rosary" which opened this season at
the Manhattan and has since been
touring the country
George Tyler is authority for the
statement that the theatrical business
is worse in peaceful America than in
emhatIIed England.
Mr. George Bernard Shaw has not
yet got even with Miss ChristabeI
Pankhurst for her recent utterance at
Carnegie Hall to the effect that Mr..
g. Il. IS whole existence is embit-
tered by his jealousy of Shak espeare.
II may he that NJ. Shaw has whole
some dread of SIM further provoking
wOman'S tongue or ii may he he is
especially picking a rod for Miss
ChriSta bel
AN ohservart English actor named
a Torke has recently returned to
London after an unsuccessful visit to
this country and before the -. T.
club gave utterance soIemnly to the
statement that while Tammany was
violently anti English. an interchange
of plays and players between English
and American players was difficult and
even impossible" That Tammany has
any influence 70 speak of in the mat
ter Of plays aud players is news in
deed. Their may he some truth about
the interchange. If interchange means
anything like a far exchange. All
Mr. NOrke and his audience have to
do is to compare the number OF Eng
liSh plays and players now in New
York with the American plays and
players in London.
David RelasCo and Charles Froh-
man are TO join this spring In an all
star revival of the Old Union Square
success, "A Celebrated Case"
Five hundred dollars a week has
heen cut of from Mrs Leslie Carter's
$1,000 a week salary because her man
ayers believed that her appearance in
moving pictTes made at least that
much difference In her value as a
Vaudeville top-liner
The musical attraction seems to
overtOp the dramatic in the matter of
vaudeville salary. Nine. Calves weekly
stipend for singing twice a day at
the Palace is $4,000, and next season
Nine. Melba breaks into vaudeville
Even Presidents of one United States
don't come so high when working at
their regular job. and Secretaries OF
state don't come anywhere near it
on the Chautauqua circuit