Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
Outsider which will have an .,r,v
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Outsider which will have an .,r,v
| production.
Frank Craven has written a play with
Roi Cooper Megrue, which David BE-
lasco may produce this spring.
! Vernon Castle. the dancer. has sailed
| for England. where he will join the
aviation corps of that country
Mrs, George Arliss. who played Lady
| Beaconsfield in "D'Israeli." will again
nini.'
| The Dolly sisters are to be starred by
A. II. Woods in a farce comedy NV
Lawrence Rising, called The stolen
Honeymoon"
! James K. Hackett has engaged orrin
Johnson and Fuller Mellish for the pro-
| sor" "
| Ted Shawn is the husband of Ruth st.
| Denis. and they own a beautiful coun-
try home near Los Angeles, called
"Denishawn.'
Two companies in Alone At Last
are to be sent on the road Marear.t
| Namara will head one and John Chsrles
! Thomas the other
Edna Baker. leading woman 4, II,
rays TO ADVERTISE" has been engaged
by Conan & Harris for a leading role m
| a new production.
Chauncey Olcott is shortly to star,
rehearsals of new play written for
MIN by George NJ. Cohan. 1t will he
| presented next month.
Dion Titheradge. the juvenil. ~
rraganin1, is brother of Madge
1 har dCa
with his sister and the late Lewis
Waller.
| There remains one uninterview.d
| m men or the company appearing
| ST. Francis, the little brown pigeon
Marketable" SO fondly loves
Hip. Hip. Hooray,' the New York
| hlppodrome attraction is to go to chit
| cago at the end of its metropolttan
! run. Sousa and his band will 20 with
| the production.
| Charles Dillingham; has secured Mel
| ba. Marie Dressler and Hazel Dawn al
attractions for next season. His plans
Tor these stars have. not yet been an
Eleanor Painter returned to the cas-,
of The Princess Pat" in BROOKLYN last
Friday night. following two-week
absence from the head of the organiza-
ton because of illness.
The London presentation of "Ston,
Look! Listen" was made last Thurs
day night and is reported to have been
successful. Ethel Levey is playing the
| part created by Gaby Deslys.
The new musical play of the Latin
Quarter by George s. Chappen and
Kenneth M Murchison. called Come TO
bohemia" will be produced shortly
with Walter Percival in the leading
part.
Bertha Mann and Kirah Markham
| have retired from the cast of The
| Weavers" now running in New York
MISS Mann is to appear in a new
Broadway show and Miss Markham has
gone to Savannah to act in films
Kick In was originally a one-aet.
vaudeville sketch which Willard Mack
| used as a curtain raiser when he ard
his wife, Marjorie Rambeau, were an.
pearing as stock stars in San Fran
cisco.
A letter from London says that By
the viii of Lieut. Edward Ross Mu-
lock OF the Gordon Highlanders, who
was killed at Neuve Chapelle, France,
Pat Peel. chorus girl in London,
has been left property worth $4,000
Mrs. Ronald H. Jaffa of Los Angeles.
Cal, author of "In Walked Jimmy" saw
the performance at Polls last night
In Walked Jimmy" has been reviewed
by representatives of leading producers
and presentation in New York is ex-
pected.
A play called PAY Day was pro-
duced in New York last night, with
Irene Fenwick in the leading role. It
is by Lottie NJ. Meany and Oliver D.
Bailey. and is odd in having but two
acts and six scenes. Vincent Serrano
and John Stokes are also in the cast.
The role of the young newspaper man
In Louis Mann's new play, THE Bub-
BILE" is intrusted to George yelling
ton. young man twenty years of age
who. while he has been in the business
but three years. held important roles in
Bought and Paid For" and Seven
Keys to Baldpate."
J. NJ. Barrie telegraphed All Hav-
man last week from London that he I,
had completed the rough draft of
new play that will be ready for produc-
ton next fall. The piece is intended
for Maude Adams and will be the first
long play that Barrie has written in
three years.
The first performance of The,
Greatest Nation" in New York VIII
take place tomorrow night at the
Booth Theater. succeeding THE Fear
Market that closed last night. The
Greatest Nation was given its first
stage production at the Belasco in this
city several weeks ago.
The Road to Mandalay" an operetta
for which Oreste Vessella, for many
years musical director of the concerts
on the steel pier. composed the score.
was presented for the first time at the
Apollo Theater, Atlantic City, last
Thursday night. William X. Wilson,
formerly of the New York Hippodrome,
staged the production.
The success of Elsie Ferguson IN
Margaret Schiller" in New York has
caused the cancellation of the proposed
combination of Sir Herbert Tree and
Miss Ferguson in The Merchant OF
venice" this spring. Next sea son the
actress may appear with the English
actor in revival of the classics
General Manager Edward F. Albee Of
the Keith enterprises, spent Washing
tons birthday and part of Wednesday.
in the city. Mr.. sAibee reaffirmed his .
early decision to give Keith's here the
bills seen at the Keith Palace Thea
ter. New York. He states that the in
fux of former stars of concert. drama