The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-27
Interesting Items from StageIand

Rose Coghlan will begin a vaudc- vile engagement this month in the sketch The Discovery" Next sea sen will make ,ha fiftieth year Mss Cochlan has been CT the stage; she made Ter dehlt on the sta.s, in London as child.
 James Neill. who some time ago retired from the stock company proposition. with which his name had been connected so successfully for several years, and who is ire quently seen upon the screen nowa- in Los Angeles
 "A Modem Eve the musical comedy, has ueen revived and dainty little Dorothy Webb is playing the role and sings Goodbye Every body that was originally in the hands of Adele Rowland. who IS now cast for the principal feminine role in the new musical comedy. Nobody Home"
 a prominent figure on the American ! stage, died at Lake Placid, N. Y.. July 1S following a short Hines :. She was 56 years old. She made her debut in 1878. In 1888 she mar ried the late William J. Lemoyne Miss Ann Swinburn Is to be the star of Princess Pat" new oper- etta by Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert.
 Virginia Thornton and her com pany are again playing the Pan tages circuit and will be seen at the local playhouse next month-Se- attle Critic.
 1 Mas Thornton was T. Daniel Frawley's leading woman when his company played in Fairbanks a few years ago.
 Sarah Bernhardt is again to make farewell tour and was to open at the New Amsterdam theatre in New York September 2Oth, with a reper- toire of seven plays.
 The name of Charles Frohman, who lost his life in the Lusitania l disaster, is to be perpetuated by the incorporation of company with a paid-up capital stock of $900000 to take over and manage all Frohman stars and theatres Frohman, contrary to the general belief, left personal property valued at approximately s350,000. The value of the real property Is not known.
 T. Daniel Frawley well known stage director and actor, has beel kept busy of late denying the ve- racity of press notices announcing his marriage to Peggy O'Neil, one of Oliver Morosco's stars. Thu latest story is to the effect that the marriage was secret and that It was performed at Chicago on Jan uary 2S last
 IN MOVIE LAND. Marie Cahill has signed $10,000 contract with motion picture con cern and will probably not be seen in vaudeville before next season <
 Jane Grey and Lionel Barrymore, two we'll known names of the speak ing drama, will make their appear ance in the photoplay, "The Flaming Sword" sea tale, written around the unique and strange characters of the north coast.
 Miss Billie Burke has been ten dered check for s40,000 for five weeks work before the camera for the New York Motion Picture Cor. poration The contract calls for T | special car to take her from New York to California;; also the use of gasoline wagon and other incl dentals of a like trifling nature
 The motion picture business, ac. cording to the census bureau, is the fifth largest manufacturing industry
 in the United States. From January to December. 1914, $20,000,000 was spent in the making of motion pie ture negatives. It Is estimated that at least 1O,0OO,O00 persons daily go to photoplay theatres in this country.
 According to eastern advices, the Knickerbocker theatre, in New York. is to be the home of two-dollar pic ture plays beginning September 6, H. E. Aiken and D. w. Griffith,