Evening star., 1916-04-30

| Eleanor Painter. who won favorable
notice in The Princess Pat" says she
| is going to return to grand opera next
| season.
The new play by Justin Huntley Nc
| Carthy of which Claude Duval is the
| hero has the stirring title of stand
| and Deliver"
w. c. Fields, the comedy juggler. who
was one of the principals of last years
'Follies," has been re-engaged for this
years revue.
Eugene Walter is to rewrite THE
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, j,
season.
Roi Cooper Megrue and Irwin S. Cobb
have written a play of prison reform
called Just Like Justice" which will
have an early presentation.
A. H. Woods has purchased the dra-
matte rights to Hector Turnbulfs motion
picture play. THE Cheat and it will be
produced next fall.
Leona Callan is to give a dancing
carnival shortly, introducing sixty-five
little lads and lassies in songs, dance
features and character work
Clara Joel. who headed company
| in THE Eternal Magdalene," has been
engaged by Selwyn and Company for
an important part in fall production.
oliver Morosco has just produced in
| Los Angeles a play by Maude fulton
| called "The Brat" in which the author
appeared for the first time in a legiti-
mate role.
Olive Reeves Smith. daughter of H.
lReeves Smith, is to make her debut in
this country in Come to Bohemia. ,
She is we'll known in England in musi-
cal comedy.
| Mizzi Hajos is receiving enthusiastic
| praise in her melodramatic operetta.
Pom Pom" now running in New York.
in which she appears both as comedy
actress and a pickpocket.
James T. Powers is to return to the
stage in piece called somebody
Luggage" to be produced by the Shu-
lberts. Jeanne Eagels VIII nave an I'M
portant part in the production.
Annie Mack Berlein has been en-
gagged by Charles Dillingham; to appear
| in Marie Dressler's support in sweet
| Geneyieye' James Forbes farce, which
will be produced shortly for a brief
| spring tour.
! Lew Fields is to revive the musical
piece, The Girl Behind the Counter.
| In the first performance of this piece
Vernon Castle won notice in the role
| Of a lanky waiter. Blanche Ring may
have prominent role in the revival
| Ruth Draper. who made a hit as
monologist has been offered part in
the comedy in which Marie Tempest is
to star The play is by Cyril Harcourt.
| author of "A Pair of Silk Stockings,
and is called My Lady's Name"
| Francis Nordstrom is responsible for
pits of Acting" in which her sister
| tnF riy,ey in
sisters are of Washington, born and
| bred.
Coming soon are Mary Shaw. Belle
| ing dramatic and musical season has
placed within the reach OF Keith
vaudeville.
| Rehearsals of Louis y. Parker's play.
"Mavourneen." are in progress daily in
New York with Peggy ONeil in the
title role. under the direction of Corey,
williams and Ritter. The first per-
| formance will take place in Toronto.
May 8.
| With Primrose. Dockstader. Frank
TinneN Neil O'Brien. George NJ. Co
han, Nat Wills. Tom Lewis and Charlie
Ross as end men in the minstrel first
part, a chorus of seventy-five and an
orchestra of sixty. this part of the
Friars' Frolic will be some show"
| Lee Kugel is TO produce a dramatiza-
ton by Rachel Crothers of Louise
Forslund's novel. "Old Lady. No. 81,
which deals with an old women's home.
Mr. Kugel will produce also play
from the French, Mother Love" and
| The Fall of Babylon
| James Thatcher general manager Of
the Poll attractions. former manager
of Polls Theater. this city, has been
commissioned by the Retail Merchants
Association to write a song eXtolling
point. The song will be used on the
coming outing of the association
George V. Hobart. who wrote the
Paint and Powder Club will produce
at Polls Theater tomorrow afternoon
| for the benefit of the Christ Child So
ciety, has been selected by Ziegf1eld
to write the book for the 1916 Follies.
Manager Robbins is said to contem-
plate a new interior decorative scheme
for the Keith Theater during the sum-
mer. He purposes removing the red
| tapestry from the walls and putting
| colored designs, lending picturesque
and enlivening effect.
Master S. Iden Thompson, one of the
featured actors in the juvenile musical
comedy, The End of the Rainbow"
which is to be presented by Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Leslie Holt at the Belasco
Theater May %. received his first vocal
training in the choir of st. Stephens
Episcopal Church, 14th street and
Columbia road.
Andre Benoist will be accompanist
for Albert Spalding, the American
violinist, one of the many stellar lights
of the forthcoming Friars Frolic
Benoist has played for such world
famous artists as Luisa Tetrazzini,
Jean Gerardy, Lillian Nordica. Nine.
Schumann- -Heink. Misha Elman, Fritz
Kreisler. Mary Garden, Pablo Casals,
Henri Mareau and Efram Zimballist
He was also musical director for Henry
W. Savages production Of "Parsifal."
Frederick Thompson and Wells
Hawks, backed by a corporation rep
resenting millions, will reconstruct
Luna Park, Coney Island, and again
place the famous resort upon the
amusement map.
Frederick Thompson was the creator
of Luna Park, the Hippodrome and
Toyland at the Pacihc-Panama exposi-
tion, San Francisco Wells Hawks was
formerly a Baltimore newspaper man
and became the general press repre-
sentative Of the late Charles Frohman.
Recently he has been AFFILIATED with the
A = AR-A. ia.