Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-04
IN THE
SPOTLIGHT

SPOTLIGHT
Edward Peple is writing a new farce
for production next fall.
Ethel BARRYMORE will continue in
Our Mrs. McChesney" next season
Ben Greet and his players are giving
open air performances of LAS You Like
IT. in the summer parks in Oklahoma.
Frederick Lewis will be in the COM
pany supporting Margaret Anglin in
Shakespearean performances in ST
Louis.
Klaw & Erlanger and Henry Miller
next season will produce a comedy by
Robert HouSeman
Daddy Long Legs" scored on its first
performance in London, Renee Kelly,
as Judy, winning an ovation.
Wells Hawks has written a sketch
called The Stolen Star" which will be
produced by That's Masrane.
city. recently made her debut in grand
opera in Carmen at Naples.
Irene Fenwick is to appear in a new
play by Willard Mack. called Common
Little Thing" A n. Woods will make
the production in the late summer.
Mabel Frenyear has taken the place
of Louise Dresser in Nothing But the
Truth" Others in the cast are Grant
Mitchell. Marie Carroll. lone Bright
and Rapley Holmes.
Elizabeth Berger, daughter of Man
ager Fred G. Berger of Polls Theater.
will return to the Poll Players this week
Thomas A. Wise will offer in vaude
Vile a playlet of theatrical life on the
road. by Roy Atwen, called THE
Christmas Letter"
the road next season Walter Jones and
Carrie Reynolds will be in the company
in their original roles.
The success of Potash and Perlmut-
ter" in London has led to the engage
ment there in September Of its sequel,
Potash and Perlmutter in Society"
Margaret Anglin will appear next
season under the mana cement of the
Charles Frohman Company. opening in
New York in the late summer in new
comedy.
When Sir Herbert Tree returns to
he will revive THE Newcomes, which
he produced in London. He will ap-
pear also in version of David Cop
perfeld" called The Highway of Life"
Lew Fields p ppeared last week in
New York in step This Way" Alice
Fischer made one of the individual hits
of the piece. and Beth Lydy carried off
much of the musical honors. John
Charles Thomas had one of the leading
roles.
Conan e. Harris are to produce. about
the middle of the month. in Atlantic
City p comedy called Buried Treas
ure," by Rida Johnson Young 1t will
have cast including Josephine Stew
ems Adele Rowland. Martin Alsop,
Zelda Sears. Otto Kruger, Ernest Stall
lard and Charles Browne.
More than $4,000 persons witnessed
Julius Caesar, in the Hollywood
Auditorium, near Los Angeles The
stars were William Farnum Tyrone
Power, De Wolf Hopner. Frank keenan,,
Sarah Truax, Theodore Roberts. Mae
Murray. Douglas Fairbanks and Grace
Lord Besides the principals. those
taking part number about 5000
When the dramatization of Riley's
we'll known poem. An Old Sweetheart
characters will be Little Orphant An
ME. the Raggedy Man, Squire Perkins
and Doc Sifers. The production will be
made in octobn~. Robert McLauehlip
author of THE Eternal Magdalene," will
make the stage version of the poem.
Richard lie Caffeine. the poet, has two
One of them is Hesper lie
Caffeine. VINO is already winning dis
tinction for herself with verse and fiction
of exceptional quality. The other is Eva
lie Gallienne. but seventeen. who has
been on the stage little over a year and
is now playing in the new comedy, Mr..
Lazarus, with Henry Z. Dixey.
Phoebe Foster, who plays the lead
ing role in Oliver Morosco's The Gin
dereila Man" has been chosen for the
same role in the London production.
which is to be made in the fall. Miss
Foster will play throughout the sum-
mer in the piece in New York. and aft
er short rest, go abroad for the win
ter season.
The contract between Rose Stahl and
the Henry 3. Harris estate is said to
have expired. It was of ten years du-
ra ton. and proved of great profit to
both parties. During its existence Miss
Stahl appeared in The Chorus Lady"
Maggie Pepper "A Perfect Lady and
Moonlight Mary"
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