The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-26
THEATRICAL BRIEFS.

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ing to have four companies playing
Fair and Warmer" next season.
Thomas A. Wise is to impersonate
Falstaff in Hackett's production of THE
Merry Wives of Windsor"
Margaret Greene is to have a leading
part in Hall Gaines play, Pete" now
In rehearsal.
Mary Nash has rejoined Grace Georges
company at the New York Playhouse
Belle Storey will be lost to musical
comedy after this season. After the Hip
podrome prima donna's present contract
expires with Charles Dillingham;. she in
tends to enter the concert field.
Robert Edeson and Kathlene Mac
DOnnell will head the cast of The
Dawn" play by George d. Parker.
General Manager Edward F.. Albee and
his family spent last Friday in the city
en- route from Florida to their New
York home.
Henry Blossom. who wrote the story
of THE Only Girl the new musical
comedy by Victor Herbert. before he
began writing for the stage, was an in
surance clerk in his fathers office in
st. Louis.
Manager Fred Berger has let the con-
tract for the reupholstering of the set
tees and chairs in the Poll Theater lobby.
Mr. Berger believes in early preparation
for spring and Is making other plans
for improvements at the Avenue Play
house.
THE weavers." the play produced by
Emanuel Reicher in New York with such
remarkable success, has been routed to
appear in the important Eastern and
Middle Western cities.
Margaret Anglin has laid aside The
Vein of Gold" She is playing in Chi
cago In THE Tanning of the Shrew' in
the part of Katherine.
Three companies. playing Edward
Childs Carpenters The Cinderella Man"
will be sent on tour next season by Oliver
MoroscO.
Signor Antonio de Novellls. the most
famous conductor Of light opera in
America, celebrated the fftieth ami
versary Of his musical career on March
49, This fifty years includes the decade
of his musical life in Naples and SalernO.
Italy, for he made his debut as young
boy. and was conductor in Salerno be-
fore he was 20.
Peg O. My Heart" is having its Gooth
performance in London. while To
nights the Night" has just passed its
3OOth presentation.
Henry E Dixey is rumored to have
planned a starring stock tour. and will
utilize for his venture Mary James Pa"
Mary Nash has rejoined the Grace
George company in New York and is
playing in The New York Idea"
Clara Kimbam Young will desert the
movies temporarily and will play a
short season in vaudeville.
Gareth Hughes has been invited to
appear in a proposed production 70
Strindberg's Lucky Pehr.'
Mary Anderson Mime. de Navarro)
made her temperance on the stage re-
Gently at a performance given at the
Theater Royal, Worcester, England, in
aid of a fund for the disabled soldiers
of the Worcestershire Regiment. Miss
Anderson played her original character
in Gllberts one-act drama, Comedy and
Tragedy" and was supported by Basil
Gill. Ben Greet. ]. H. Barnes and Mrs.
Arthur Carlton.
The production of W. Somerset Maug-
hams new comedy, Caroline" by the
Charles Frohman' company, has been
postponed until next autumn.
Adele Rowland obtained a verdict of
$500 in the municipal court of New York
against Arthur Hammerstein for two
weeks salary in 'Katinka," in which
she was leading woman.
William r. Lghton's BILLY Fortune"
stories, originally published in the Sat-
urday Evening Post, have been drama
tized by Clinton Stuart. The comedy will
be produced soon.
Norman wilkinson, an English scenic
artist, best known in this country as
the designer of the settings and costumes
for Granville Barker's revival of "A
Midsummer Nights Dream is TO enter
the British army.
Emmett Corrigan has purchased the
rights for a new play, THE Jewel
King" from the pen of the late Pierre
Berton. 1t is said to be a greater play
than his "Zaza."