Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

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Alice Brady is to be featured in piece
called "fhe Will O the Wisp.
THE Devils Garden" failed to please
and closed it's season in New York.
Both A. H. Woods and George Nc
Lellan are negotiating for the English
rights to "A Plain Woman
Advices from the west indicate that
the touring Treasure Island COM
pany is a success.
The Boomerang" playing in New
York city. went over its two hundredth
performance last week.
Walter Walker will be the leading
man for Margaret Anglin in her new
play by Rupert Hughes.
Last Sunday Sir Johnston Forbes Rob
ertson celebrate his sixty-third BIRTH
day anniversary in Duluth, MINI.
A. H. Van Buren, is taking his Gus
tomary twelfth week vacation during
the presentation of THE Dummy.
Sir George Alexander. the English
actor manager. is to make an Ameri-
can tour appearing in The Basker,'
May Thompson. dancing in "katinka.''
has been engaged by Arthur Collins
for the Drury Lane Christmas panto-
mime.
Eva Tanguay is to go into musical COM
edy once more, starring in THE Girl Who
Smiles She will make a tour of the
principal cities.
May Robson has revived James Forbes
comedy. "A Rich Mans Son., under the
name of 1.-The Making over of Mrs
Matt
Zella Russell. leading woman at the
Gayety Theater this week. is WASH
ington girl and was educated in the To-
cal schools.
Vincent serrano has been engaged
Irene Fenwick may be seen in the
leading role.
Mrs. Langtry's new vaudeville comedy,
Ashes" is by Frederick Penfield. the CO.
author of LAS In Looking Glass. The
scenes are laid in London.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has con-
cluded arrangements with Conan &
Harris whereby he secures the Eng
lish rights to The Great Lover"
Lew Dockstader, who has been i'll
around again, and says he will short
ly start working in vaudeville.
The Ohio Lady" by Booth Tarking-
for the first time last week in Column
bus under the direction of klaw Il
Erlanger.
William f. Mack has been added to
the cast of the new play. ANY House,
by owen Davis and Robert H. Davis.
which Sargent Aborn will produce in
New York shortly.
The stage of the fremont Theater.
Boston. was destroyed by fire last
Sunday with the loss of all the proper
ties and costumes of Daddy Long
Legs.
A play by DIR. Armgaard Graves. based
on his books. The Secrets of the German
War Office and The Secrets of the
Hohenzollerns, is to be produced in New
York. 1t is called The Master Spy
Ferdinand Gottschalk and Mrs. Charles
Craig will be members of the company
supporting Margaret Anglin in Gertrude
Athertons novel. 1.-The Perch of the
Devil" dramatized by Rupert Hughes
The play by Ameie Rives. 1.-The Fear
Market was produced in New York
last week with a notable cast, headed
by Sydney Shields and Edmund Breese.
The piece was originally called Black
mall
George Nash has decided to go into
vaudeville in a one-act play by Aaron
Hoffman, called The Unexpected" 1t
deals with a possible and sudden war
between the United States and another
ma ton.
Pom Pom, under the direction of
Henry w. Savage, was given for the
first time last Thursday night at Hart
ford, Conn, with MiZZi Hajos as the
star. Both play and company received
favorable notice
George Broadhurst has issued state
ment in which he says he has not been
engaged to write photoplays, but has
made made contract for the use of his pre-
vious plays as moving pictures and for
options on picture rights of future plays.
James X. Hackett is getting together
quite formidable company for his
coming engagement in New York.
Viola Allen has already appeared with
him and last week he added Henrietta
Crosman TO his supporting company.
Seats on sale this week at Keith's
for the Langtry and Weber Fields en-
gagements and next week the Russell
tickets will be obtainable. Manager Rob-
bins promises bills as good and better for
the balance of the season, summer in
cluded. for keith's will stay open all
through if adequate support is given.
Edith Wynne Mattison has been en-
gagged by Sir Herbert Tree to play the
role of Queen Katherine in his revival
of Henry VIII which Is to be given in
New York at the Shakespeare tercen-
tenary festival. Sir Herbert himself will
play Cardinal Wosey
THE Song of Songs" Company is
back in New York, after having ended
its tour in Chicago. 1t reached that
city without Jack Manton, the stage
manager, who left the train at Buffalo,
journeyed to Canada and enlisted in
the English army.
The new play. God and Company"
which is to be produced under the
auspices of the Stage Society tomor-
row afternoon in New York, was orisi-
nally submitted in the Winthrop Ames
contest which WAS won by the ILL
fated Children of Earth
.'On Trial" which is the work of Ell
mer l.. ReiZenstein, a youth who has
Just turned his majority. comes to the
National February IA. The novelty of
''On Trial is that it is written back
ward. the third act unfolding a story
that occurred dozen years before
that told in the first act