Evening star., 1916-08-06
IN THE
SPOTLIGHT T

l ~ l II e.
| SPOTLIGHT
The new season at Keith's begins Au-
gust %.
Marie Cahill will shortly appear in
| vaudeville.
Widow" is being considered this
| season.
| Adele Rowland is to appear in play
to be produced by Joseph Weber.
The Brazilian Honeymoon" has had
| it's title changed to The Girl From
J Brazil"
| Harriet Sterling has been engaged
| for a role in The Flame" by Richard
| Walton Tully.
Harry Mestayer will have leading
part in Owen Davis play, A Mile
| Minute Kendall"
A new musical comedy will be pro-
| duced shortly with the attractive title
| The Belle of Trouville."
Jessie Bonstelle's stock company
| produced recently in Detroit a play
| with no name by owen Davis.
Henry W. Savage has engaged Paula
| Shea, motion picture star. for the
| title role of "Everywoman" when it is
| sent on tour.
Maryon Vadie is reported to be arrang-
| ing a mammoth dance spectacle for the
Keith theaters the coming season.
| Four of the leading singers of the
| famous Sistine choir of Rome are to
| make a tour of this country this
| season.
Alice John and Herbert Druce have
| joined the company in support of Ann
| Murdock in Please Help Emily"
Blanche Ring began her season last
week in Willard Mack IS play Broad
way and Buttermilk." at Asbury Park.
Miriam Elberta Hubbard. daughter
| Of the famous Ebert Hubbard. is TAX
| ing course of playwriting a Harvard
under Prof. Baker.
| Mary Ryan and Maude Fealey will
| head companies to present The
House OF Glass the coming season.
Chrystal Horne has been appearing
| as stock star in companies in Denver
! st. Louis and San Francisco.
Walter Jones will play an important
e.
| King, Queen. Jack"
| Miriam Elberta Hubbard. daughter
of the late Ebert Hubbard. is study
| ing at Harvard to become PLAYWRIGHT
Silvio Helm. composer and also pro-
| ducing manager. is to present Peace
and Quiet" a war play by Edwin Mil
| ton Royle.
Ethel Clifton will play the leading
| role played by Florence Reed in San
Francisco recently in For Value Re-
| ceived."
THE Hills of Hope" is the name of
new comedy drama of Alaska which Mary
Kouncelor Brookes is preparing for Keith
vaudeville.
Charles f. Bray of the Orpheum Cir
| cult is quoted as saying the English
managers are now blacklisting Amer
| lean vaudeville acts.
A new opera by Oreste Vessalla,
with book by Norman swartout. is to
| title is The Belle of Burmah."
A theatrical circuit has been organ
lied on the Mexican border to amuse
the soldiers. The first attraction will
| be The Fall of Nation"
| Joseph Brooks is to produce play
Arbuckle and Thomas w. Ross will be
co-stars.
Edwin H. Robins will play the lead
| Ing masculine role in Her Market
Value" by Willard Mack, which A. H
| Woods will produce.
viii Irwin and Bayard villier will
dramatize the formers novel. Red
| Button for an early production in
| New York.
| Phyllis Nelson Terry is to tour the
eastern cities again in vaudeville pre-
senttng Shakespearean roles. Later she
will be seen with James X. Hackett
| Virginia Kline Is the author of
| play of American life, with the odd
| title, Yankee Doodle Dick" It is to
be produced in Rochester this month.
! P G. Wodehouse, a magazine writer
| will collaborate with Guy Bolton and
jerome Kern on a musical comedy for
| klaw & Erlanger, to be called Have
| Heart"
/ Lady 3D." under the direction of Lee
| Kugel. it will be her debut as star
| The first performance will be on Labor
| day.
| Vernon Castle writes from his post
| in France that he is flying over the
| German lines every day and giving
dancing lessons to the officers in the
| evening.
| A play Of Hebrew life in Russia.
called Who Is the Father" in which
Jacob Adler will be the principal actor
is to be produced in New York this
season
Blanche Ring has new batch of
Irish songs In broadway and Butter
milk" 1t was she who introduced
"Bedelia," Rings On My Fingers"
| "Yip-IAddy" and my Irish Molly o."
prince Silverwings." a fairy story
written by Mrs. Carter H Harrison,
| wife of the former mayor of Chicago
| is to be made into both a musical spec
tacle and a photoproduction. DIR. Hugo
Felix will probably write the music.
Goat Tales" farce, by Edward
Clark, opened the new season in New
York last week. The play revolves
about the adventures" of a mysterious
sable coat, which is pawned and re-
deemed several times. Domestic jars
and jealous wives supply the details
| Of the plot.