Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
Washington girl Miss Hager sang in
Hammerstein's Naughty Marietta"

Washington girl. Miss Haser sang in
and The FREELY.
David Belasco is preparing to place
in rehearsal a play by Roi Cooper Me-
grue, which is at present unnamed.
but which was known some time back
as "The Cradle Snatcher." The piece
was originally presented by George c.
Tyler in Boston. and for a week in
Brooklyn.
According to an announcement Kath-
leen mcdonnell will appear next sea-
son under the A. H. Woods manage
ment in play called The Dawn" by
George D. Parker.
Mizzie Hajos is having some diff
Guilty in having her name changed to
Mitzi. and incidentally little adver-
Using. Last week she withdrew her
application from Boston court as she
couldn't appear there in person and
then petitioned the New York legisia-
ture to make the change. which is
now pending there.
Lubov Tchernichowa. who appears
nurse maid in "Petrouchka.' ballet
russo feature. represents one OF the
figures in the public square at Petro-
grad. where fair is in progress
William A. Brady announces that he
will produce five new plays before the
season ends, among them The Man
Goodman; Little Comrade." by Burton
r. Stevenson; Counting the Cost" by
George Broadhurst. and a play by
Owen Davis. not yet named.
Rita Jolivet, the actress who was on
the Lusitania when it sank with pas
sengers, including Charles Frohman.
has married an Italian count, and says
that in difference to his wishes she will
leave the stage.
One of klaw & Erlanger's produce
tions next season will be Little Miss
Springtime," an operetta with score by
Emmerich Kalman. composer of 'Sari."
and with new book by Guy Bolton.
The operetta in original form was pre-
sented in Vienna with great success
under the title Miss Rabbit Foot
THE Blue Envelope" as revised since
it's opening in Washington, was given
its first production at Atlantic City
last Thursday night and success is
Frank Hatch and Robert E. Romans.
The piece opens in New York tomorrow
night for a run.
princess Ira -la-la'' is the third light
operate venture of Andreas DIPPED
since he ceased to produce grand opera
for. the Metropolitan and Chicago
grand opera companies. His first
no." his second was a revival of THE
Spring Maid
Daphne Pollard. the tiny comedienne
of THE Passing Show of 1885, is
known to her brothers and sisters of
the stage as the "littlest soubrette."
She is but four feet six inches in her
high-heeled slippers. weighs but ninety
pounds. and wears 1871 shoe. Her
real name is Trott. and she is sister
of Ivy Trott.
Emmy Nicklass. the coloratura So
in Princess Tra-la la" which Andreas
DIPPED is to present at the National
this week. is a native of Dresden This
is her first English role. 1t ia the one
which she created in the original Ger
man version when it was sung at the
Irving Place Theater. New York
"Everyman's Castle" by William An
thony Mcclure. is to have its first pre-
sentation a the Cort Theater, Atlantic
City. the goth of this month An ex-
ceptional cast has been secured for the
piece. including Wilton Lackaye. Kitty
Gordon. Emily Ann Wellman. Cyril
Scott. Ef1ngham Pinto and Kathleen
Clifford. the last named canceling her
vaudeville dates to get into the piece.
Following the engagement in Atlantic
city the piece goes Chicago for a
run.
Marilynn Miller. the seventeen-year-
old premier danseuse of THE Passing
Show of 1915" was barred from stage
work in this country during the first
years of her professional career Her
father took her to Europe, where she
became one of the sensations of the
vaudeville stage. Later, when she was
sixteen, she returned to this country,
and was Immediately engaged by the
directors of the New York Winter GAR
den for The Passing Show of 1915"
Harry Andrews of Polls is an in
ventor-architect craftsman as we'll as
a theatrical director AS he watched
the mechanics Of the double revolving
stage for this weeks production Of
On Trial he objected to the expendi-
ture involved in the staging of the
play on the lines of the initial produce
ton. The transitions of the story are
so swift that the double stage is neces-
sary.
When "On Trial" was secured for
production at Polls he hit upon a plan
70 secure the same results by less COM
plicated mechanism.
Mr.. Andrews has set down the de-
tails OF his plan on paper. and has ap-
piled for patent rights for his inven-
ton He is waiting for General Man
ager James Thatcher to come to Wash
ington and witness a demonstration of
how easy 1t win be to play "On Trial'
in all the other houses on the Poll
circuit without the extraordinary ex-
pense that is necessary here.