Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-24

will have a new American play next
| spring.
! Los Angeles has Little Theater.,
which opened recently with Snow
White
| Kathaleen mcdonnell is to be lead
| ing woman for Robert billiard in his
new play.
Harrison Hunter will be leading man
for Rita Jolivet in Mrs. Voltays
! Daughters.
| Nine. Kirkby Lunn, the English
| operatic singer will make an American
| tour this season.
Sarah Bernhardt has one-act play
called "Cathedrals,' by Eugene Mo
| rand.
A play based on the Leo Frank case,
called THE Sacrifice was recently pro-
duced in Chicago.
| E. s. Willard, the famous English
actor. is reported to be seriously i'll at
| his home in London.
| Edward Abeles is to have the leading
| role in George V. Hobarts play, stop
! That Man
| John Barrymore is to appear in new
play by Edward S. Sheldon called Ihe
Lonely Heart.
| Edwin Mordaunt is playing with will
| liam Gillette in the latters revival OF
| Sherlock Holmes"
| The name of the play in which Ethel
Barrymore has been appearing mas
| been changed to Our Emma McChes-
ney.
Between now and February Oliver
Morosco will produce seven new plays
in New York, where he wishes to es-
tablish a theater of his own.
James ]. Corbett is to appear in the
film version of The Other Girl" by
Augustus Thomas, in which Lionel Bar
rymore starred.
James K Hackett will shortly begin
preparations for his production OF
Macbeth. He will later produce Mac
neill, V. c. romantic Scotch play.
Back Home" was recently pro.
duced in Boston. The dramatization of
Irwin Cobb's Judge Priest" stories has
been made by Bayard Villier.
Charles Cuvillier. the composer of
The Lilac Domino" is writing another
opera which will not have war theme
At present the composer is "at the
front"
Josephine Stevens, a daughter of the
| late Ben Stevens. has been engaged Tor
| the leading woman's role with Andrew
| Mack in his new play, THE Irish
Dragon"
| Leonore UIrich, who has signed for a
terms of years to appear both IN the
| films and spoken drama, under the
| management of Oliver Morosco, is to
be seen in new play called The
Brat"
| Julie OPP became ill in Chicago while
playing in The Hawk" and the doc
| tors have ordered her retirement from
| the stage Indefinitely. Her place was
taken by her understudy, Arisen Hack
| EFT.
| When The Dummy is produced at
Polls next week Peggy Cameron will
| have the biggest role which has been
| intrusted to her since this clever young
! ingenue became a member of the Poll
| organization
| Alone at Last" the Viennese oper-
| alta by Franz Lehar. composer of The
I Merry Widow" was seen in New York
| last week and made a hit with the au-
! dience. The music is pronounced su-
| perior to the book
Elsie Janis is going to write serial
motion picture play, with the scenes
| laid in jamestown in colonial days.
| thence proceeding through various
| periods of American history down to
| the present. She will act in it herself.
May Vokes. who is one of the laugh
| ter-making forces of "A Full House,
ever since she created the role of the
| Swedish housemaid in My Friend
| From India" it is said, has been be-
sieged by managers to create more
| cha acters on this line.
III Starred Babble," in which June
! ADJUSTMENTS.