Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31

IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
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in new romantic play by Louis
Parker, called "Mavourneen.' The
scenes of the play are laid in the time
of Charles II, and the heroine is a
young Irish girl.
John Barrymore will appear in Ed
Heart some time next month.
The shuberts have obtained the
American rights of a detective play
called The Ware Case"
,, Edward Abeles is appearing in vaude-
vile in a playlet by George Broad
hurst. called Self Defense"
Willard Mack, called Apple Sauce
Philosophy 1t is a drama of New
England life.
fabulous offers" from moving picture
managers. but so far has turned them
all down.
Billie Burke is to appear in drama
tiZation of Hall Gaines novel, THE
Woman Thou Gavest Me- under her
husbands management.
Herbert Corthell. who made his big
hit in Seven Days" is said to be
duplicating it in the role of the comic
/ burglar in a Full House"
Bernard Granville will take the place
of Vernon Castle in Watch Your
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land
Laurette Taylor is to return to this
country in the spring. Incidentally 1T
is said she has played Peg in Peg O.
My Heart" a thousand times.
Tit for Tat" a comic opera with
music, by Orestes Vessella, the Atlantic
City bandmaster. will be given it's first
production Thanksgiving day.
A play called Another Mans Shoes"
after a run in Northampton. Mass, is
to be produced in New York by Henry
Miller and his son. Gilbert.
George Bernard Shaw has written a
humorous play. called "O'Flaherty, v.
! c." 1t will have an early production In
this country.
The new play in which John Drew is
u L.
1t is reported he is very much pleased
with his role in it.
Sherman Was Right" a farce by
Frank Mandel, was produced last week
in New York with Hale Hamilton in
one of the leading parts.
Laura Walker, who is playing in
The Bubble" with Louis Mann. is one
of the youngest leading women on the
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ness man of Memphis. Tenn.
Mrs. Boltays Daughters" play
from the Hungarian of "Eugen Heltai,"
New York last week. Its theme is de-
scribed as unpleasant.
The new Potash and Perlmutter"
play. ABE and Mawruss," made a hit
worthy of its predecessor on its first
production in New York last week The
story continues the fortunes of the
partners.
George Nash appeared in New York
by Georgia Earle and Fanny Cannon.
called The Mark of the Beast" Lenore
Ulrich plays the heroine.
Louise Randolph. who plays the
mother in THE Eternal Maedaiine IL
one of the most popular actresses on
the stage. She was one of the best
child actresses in the country some
years ago.
Horace F. Clark will come to the Be-
lasco in November with talks on Ha-
wall, Japan and the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. after spending six months
or so In the orient and part of the sum-
mer in the Yellowstone The motion
pictures of Hawaii are said to be par
| ticularly Interesting. as the expedition
was successful In securing photogra phs
Of the volcano In action-perhaps the
first time such photographs have been
made.
Yesterday being the sixty-frst birth
day Of John Philip Sousa. Charles
i! Dillingham;. in commemoration of the
event, made arrangements to have his
| Hippodrome March," played simulta-
neously in every large city of the
| country at 4:10. when Sousa appeared
in Hip, Hip Hooray." the ballet of the
Is composing the music for THE Irish
Dragoon, a comic OPERA the book for
which was written by Joseph Herbert.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury in presenting
Nobody Home" made her maiden ven
ture in the producing field with this
musical farce.
Lawrence Grossmith, the English
comedian. says "as a matter of fact
there is not a crumb of difference be-
| tween English and American humor,
any more than there is between Eng
lish and American tragedy. All humor
depends upon the seriousness with
which the person trying to be humor-
Gus acts the fool. That may sound like
| a paradox, but 1t is nevertheless vitality
true"
Earl Derr Biggers. author of Inside
the Lines" also wrote Seven Keys to
Baldpate." The entire action of Inside
the Lines" takes place between Tuesday
and Thursday night. the first week of
August. 1914 in the lobby of the Hotel
Splendide, Gibraltar, and the library In
the home of the governor general.
When "A Pair of Skies" is produced at
Polls next week A. II. Van Buren, will
be seen in role entirely different from
anything he has ever attempted In
stock in Washington. that of the irasci-
BILE. nervous. jealous husband, who is
driven to desperation by the antics of
his business partner.
A. thu Gayefy Theafer this weeix tho