Evening star., 1915-01-31

known as Carrie Thatcher. Of the CO.
lumbia Players. did not have paralysis
as was reported. but had toxic poison
ing. 1t is caused from overwork, but
after months rest Mrs. Barber Is
reported greatly improved and Is now
out.
Fritz Christiani of the musical Chris
tiani family of this city. who left
and toured Canada. Honolulu. Aus
tralia and South Africa, subsequently
drifting into vaudeville. has returned
to take up musical work in Washing
ton.
In Hartford. Conn, Tho Clever
Ones" by Alfred Sutro. was given last
week for the first time in this coun-
Russ Whytal. Edward Emery. Charles
Hopkins. Mrs Hopkins and Louise Clos.
ser Hale.
When the Lusitania sailed from New
York yesterday IL had aboard Elsie
Janis and Joseph Coyne. both of whom
are returning to fill engagements in
London. Miss Janis goes back to ap-
pear in a new musical production at
the Palace.
Although the drama tiZation of David
Copperfield." made by Louis n. Parker
under the title, The Highway OF Ltfe."
failed in New York. it has scored in
London with Beerbohm Tree in the dual
role of Mr.. Micawber and Daniel Peg
gotty.
The play in which Phyllis Nelson IL
to appear under the MANAGEMENT OF
Joseph Brooks is Anthony Hopes "Ad-
ventures of Lady Ursula" which was
presented in this country by Virginia
, Harmed and f. II. Sothern. II is a ro-
mantle costume play of the eighteenth
century
Ida Vernon has just celebrated the
fifty-eighth anniversary of her foot
light debut. made in 1857 at the his
toric old Boston Theater. under Thom-
as Barry. She played one OF the little
fairies in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" She is at present writing her
memoirs.
of tn Daniel Frohman Lyceum Stock
Company are recalled by the name OF
Howard Morgan among the players in
The Road to Happiness" Morgan
was associated with Belasco and De-
Mile in the very beginning OF that
famous organization. was its stage di-
rector at one time and played in al
most all of its notable productions.
New York had several new produc-
| tions last week. Nazimova thrilled in
a war playlet by Marion Craig Went
worth. called War Brides: Ethel Bar
rymore was seen in play from the
French. described as "weepy and woe
full" entitled The Shadow" in which
a paralyzed wife discovers her husband
loves another. and Marie Cahill and
Richard Carrie gave Ninety in the
Shade, rewritten. another tryout,
The scenes of the last-named are laid
in the Philippines.
The attraction at the Belasco Theater
the week of February Is will be Lady
LuXury,' an elaborate musical comedy
production. under the direction Of Fred
leric Mckay, with Florence Weber.
Joseph Herbert. Donald Macdonald.
Forrest Huff. Arthur Albro. Sam J.
Emily Fitzroy and others IN the cast.
The book and lyrics We're written by
Rida Johnson Young and the music
was composed by William Schroeder.
u young Brooklyn musician.
Washington will be one of the first
cities after New York to see Charles
Frohman's great tri-star cast of musi-
Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn. at
the New National Treater. Monday.
February 90. in The Girl From Utah.
Ut is described as the funniest and
most tuneful of all the girl" shows
that have come across the Atlantic
from the Gaiety Theater. London. The
score is by Paul Rubens and Jerome
Kern. The cast includes Venita Fitz-
hugh. Renee Reel. Queenie Vassar. Cis-
sic Sewall. George Bishop. Russell
Griswold, George Wharton, Veronique
Banner. Dorothy Wilcox and 100
choristers.
The Philharmonic Society OF New
York has always been noted for its
| wonderful body Of Strings" In for
mer years quantity" was apparently
the desideratum. twenty first violins.
fourteen double basses we're the pro-
portion of its string section. But this
proved unwieldy-after all Wagner's
proportion Of sixteen first violins and
eight double basses (prescribed by the
composer for Der Ring des Nibelun-
GEM proved the happy medium" be-
tween unwieldiness on the one hand
and thinness on the other. AS bal
ance to this the wind" instruments
number ordinarily twenty-five. making
over eighty in all.
Dwight Elmendorf will open his sea-
son of travel talks at the New Ma
tional Theater the afternoon of Feb
ruary IS. when he will present for the
first time a complete tour of the world
through the Panama canal. This
route over the seven seas to the worlds
wonders will reveal new scenes in the
Azores, Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez
canal, Alden. India. Burma, Penang.
Java, Honglong. Canton. Singapore.
Japan, the Hawaiian Islands and tho
completed Panama canal His other
subjects will be Around the Mediter-
ranean,"' Around Northern Europe"
Around Southern Europe and
around the United States"