Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-16
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Dorothy webb is singing Miszi Hajos'
role in "Sari."
1.-THE Eternal Magdalene" is to go on
A. new farce by Rida Johnson Young.
Buried Treasure" is to go into re-
hearsal.
charles DingIe is to be the leading
man of stock company In Concord,
n. H.
Margaret Anglin may give in st.
Louis early in June some al fresco per-
formances Of LAS You Like It
Anna Fitzhugh. who made hit sew.
eral seasons ago in 1.-THE Wizard of
o." has been singing in grand opera
| as Anna FitZiu.
Charles B. Hanford has been engaged
to appear with James X. Hackett and
Viola Allen in New York.
Oliver Morosco intends to produce a
musical play called "Salmagundi,"
whose music is by Enrico Caruso, the
famous singer. and book by the late
Ebert Hubbard, who was drowned in
the Lusitania disaster.
Sadie Martinez is in New York hos
Fpital from nervous US, breakdown tsa low.
she has devoted her time to writing,
chiefly moving picture scenarios.
play called 1.-THE Correspondent"
by Alice Leal Pollock and Reita Wei
man, is to be produced by E. A. We'll,
with Emily Ann Weilman in the title
role.
Tom McNaughton is to be the leading
comedian in Pom Pom" the new
comic opera which Henry w. Savage
is to produce, with Mizzi Hajos as the
star.
The London police are instructing the
alter managers there how to act in case
of a Zeppelin raid.
Sam Lucas. an old minstrel and
vaudeville performer and author of the
once famuos song, my Grandfather's
Clock" died recently at his home in
New York city.
Elsie Ferguson made her first appear
ance in her new play. Margaret Schil-
ler," at Atlantic City last Thursday
night and after playing there three
nights comes to this city this week
before appearing in New York.
Lou Tellegen closed definitely last
night in Brooklyn in The Ware Case"
"In Cold Type" a play of newspaper
life. popular on the stage. had its first
performance on any stage at Albany,
n. Y, last Wednesday night.
Lillian Menaugh. who has been ap-
pearing with a Jesse l.. Lasky vaude-
Vile act. returned home Wednesday,
the act having closed in New York city
last week.
The title of willard Mack's latest
play. broadway and Buttermilk," has
been changed to Jane O'Day, From
Broadway" The piece is now in re-
hearsal in New York, Blanche Ring
having the leading part.
Dion Boucicault is now London
new comedy by Somerset Vaughan, in
which Irene Vanbrugh will have the
leading role.
Florence Martin has gone to Denver
to succeed Kitty O'Connor in the title
role Of Peg O. My Heart" Henry
Stanford, who created the role of Jerry,
may join the western company also.
Fenimore Cooper Towne has acquired
the producing rights covering Zellah
Covington's sketch, Her First Case"
and will produce 1t with Marchie Les
lie featured.
Cyril Maude will give his tooth per-
Torrance as Andrew Bulliyant in
Grumpy" In Cincinnati February Z.
Maude has scored big success all
through the west.
Emma Bunting was the original star
in Tess of the Storm Country" The
play, however, Is better known as the
film vehicle in which Mary Pickford
scored her greatest success as a photo
play star.
To stage the new Viennese operetta,
Princess Tra-La-La," Andreas Dipple
has engaged Charles Sinclair. DR..
Amselo will be the musical director.
The score of the operetta is by Leo
Asher and the English book by Matt
woodward. The piece is already in
rehearsal and will have it's first pro-
duction in Atlantic City.
Adele Richie has been appearing
successfully in three one-act plays and
it is likely that she will star in them
Edna Wallace Hopper, who has been
two- years in France. has returned to
wounded soldiers abroad.
E. Fl. Sothern will be seen in new
play at the Booth Theater, New York,
March IA. The Ugly Serante" is the
title OF the new offering. and it is the
work Of sebatino Topaz. He plays
and then returns/to New York to put
forward the new production
The tour Of William Hodge in 9Th.
Road to Happiness ended last night.
Nothing definite has been announced
concerning Mr.. Hodges future plans
The Marbury-Comstock Company is
announcing for immediate production
new musical play called See Amer
lea First" T. Lawson Riggs and Cole
Porter. Harvard students, are the au-
thors of the piece. Rehearsals begin
tomorrow in New York
Will Cressy has written three-act
play entitled From Nowhere to
Broadway"
An early event at the Belasco Theater
will be the temperance of Frances
Starr, under the management of David
Belasco, in Edward Knoblauch's Marie
Odile." with the same cast, with but
two exceptions. as that which appeared