Evening star., 1915-01-24
1000 plays in a contest of which Gus
Thomas and Adolf Klauber were judges.

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| Josef Hofmann will be the soloist
with the New York symphony Orches-
ira at it's concert at the Columbia
ruary "a.
| In The Road to Yesterday each
player has to impersonate two char
| and the other seventeenth century
individual Thus the romantic and
the natural schools are combined.
With Ossip Galbrilowitsch, the IA
nous pianist. as the soloist. the Phil
harmonic Society of New York, Josef
stransky, conductor. will give the sec
ond on OF its series of three Washington
tuesday tuesday afternoon. February 9, at 4:3O
O'Clock. The program will include
!.,., Dvorak's Symphony in E minor, Op. s5,
THE New World.''
Not since the presentation by Charles
Wyndham several years ago of a three
star combination production of Romeo
ana ana, juliet, with Miss Maude Adams.
racket has there been a similar ven
( ture OF more interest than that now
announced by Mr.. Frohman of a re-
wv v,saL Io.5f Of sardou's Diplomacy" with
equally famous stars-William Gillette
hianche Bates and Marie Ooro.
Dave Marion is playing his farewell
| engage ment here this week, as he re-
tires after this season, having COM
pleted twenty-five years on the
burlesque stage. He will make his
| home 1t Toms River, N J.
Harold Crane Of THE Balkan Prin-
cess fame. is one of the principal
| members OF The Belle of Bond Street"
f6mpafs f6e lafs Mms Mr. Crane Msne, is product Of
member of the Aborn English Opera
Company at the Century Theater. New
YORK prior to his engagement VIZ.
| Sam Bernard.
| Gus Edwards is said to have dis
covered another girIish genius Of the
double-voiced kind in Sally Seeley. one
Oh the features of his 1914 song revue.
Catherine Calvert, who appears in
TO Save One Girl is the wife of PLAY
wright Armstrong. He starred her last
season IN his MS expanded Exp version of The
| first saw light in vaudeville
Rehearsals for The Chimes of Nor
mandy are progressing and splendid
| cast of principals. it is said, has been
secured for it's production Rehearsals
take place every Monday and Thursday
evening at o'clock at the Tressi
studio. 14o7 Massachusetts avenue
with good voices can be enrolled for
| the operatic club
The tour of the Maude Adams Com
pany which, originally. was to have
| been a short one, has been rearranged
and as it stands now it will take the
| actress to the Pacific coast and will
not close until June.
John w. Alexander, president of the
| National Academy of Design, planned
| the settings and designed the costumes
for Maude Adams production of THE
Ladies Shakespeare"
took dig at the woman's suffrage
movement in The Legend of Leonora"
that is subtle dig by showing the
power of the old-fashioned woman who
he did he probably felt sorry for it
and hence the reason for THE Ladies'
| Shakespeare"
Dwight Elmendorf, the traveller and
raconteur. will present his newest
the Panama Canal" at the New Ma
tional Theater Thursday afternoon,
February Is. Other illustrated lee
lures in the series will be: Around the
Europe, London. Berlin. Vienna and
| Budapest Around Southern Europe
France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain."
and Around the United States-the
| American Wonderlands."
| With Emma Trentini for star, Cliff
ton Crawford. also a star. and long
cast of operate and musical comedy
| celebrities, 1.-The Peasant Girl" the
new operetta by Rudolf Friml. under
the Shuberts will be presented at the
Belasco Theater shortly.
Rudolf Friml, author of The Firefy'
| and High Jinks," wrote the music
Melville Ellis was intrusted with the
| task of executing the color harmonies
| in costumes and scenery. Harry Ben
| rimo, back from London. where he
made nine successful productions in the
past two seasons, is the stage producer
| and Jack Mason of the Winter Garden
| forces directs the dancing.
Mrs. Charles schueler who came to
Washington to chaperon her daugh-
ter, Miss Madeline Marshall. a mem
/ ber of the Belasco production. spent
the week at the Shoreham Hotel, where
she devoted her leisure to her art
The guests of the hotel expressed such
admiration of her voice that Mrs
Schueler sang for them on several oc-
casions. Before her marriage she was
| a popular singer under the direction
| of Damrosch, Victor Herbert and other
impresarios. She has decided to re-
sumo professional work. Oscar Saenger
| of New York, under whom she is
coaching, is said to be enthusiastic
over her voice.