The Washington herald., 1916-03-12
THEATRICAL BRIEFS.


One of the most interesting members
of the company which will present
Princess Tra-la-la" at the National
this week is Yolanda Preszburg, 16-
year-oId American girl who was study
ing music in Paris when the war be-
gan. She had great difficulty in get
ting back to America and met Andreas
DIPPED on the return voyage. rms
impresario heard her sing during one
OF the ship concerts and he promised
her when she could get her parents
consent he would give her a role in
an operetta- Little Miss Preszburg is
singing the important role of Leonie
| D'Andorset in the waltz operetta-
Cyril Maude, the English actor, who
is now presenting Grumpy" in Amer
lea, requests that an announcement
be made that one Arthur Maude, an
actor, who represents himself as "a
brother of Cyril Maude," is claiming
a relationship that does not exist. Mr..
Maude states that he has no knowledge
whatever of even a distant relative
bearing that name. much less a broth
err, in the theatrical profession.
Toto, the Hippodrome clown, is to
be married. The girl who has con-
scented to be Mrs. Toto is the little
skater who helps him to his feet after
his fall on the ice in Flirting at st.
NORTH" He says he has wanted that
kind of help all his life.
Willie Howard began his stage ca
reer at the age of IA, joining his
brother Eugene, who had been in vau-
deville brief time, in a singing act.
Willie sat in the gallery and Joined
Eugene in the choruses. At that time
they received only SIS a week. Now,
as features of the great Passing
Show of 1915" their salary is said to
be $1,000 a week.
Dorothy Dunn. younger sister of
Emma Dunn, has been chosen to play
the role of Melissa in THE Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come" Eugene
Walters dramatization of John Fox,
! jr.'s novel, which is in course of re-
hearsal. Miss Dunn will be remember
ed as the original wendy with Maude
Adams in Peter Pan"
A largely augmented orchestra and
, typical Dippel chorus of seventy
voices will be features OF Princess
Tra-la-ls" which will be heard for the
| first time in Washington at the Ma
tional tomorrow night
Experience" the allegorlcal piece
of George v. Hobart. stayed in Bos-
had been made. In Chicago many ex-
tensions have become expedient
The Blue Envelope" completely
changed since the first production here
last season. has been revived, and, af-
ter a visit to Atlantic City. will go
to the Cort Theater, New York. Wal
ter Jones. George Prophet. Carrie Rey-
nolds and others are in the cast
Maclyn Arbuckle, co-star this season
with William H Crane, Thomas W.
Ross. Amelia Bingham and Edith
Taliaferro in THE New Henrietta"
the stage for q profession.
Lillian Russell announced her inten-
ton to appear again in comic opera
and during her vaudeville engage
ments she will read several manu-
. scripts to select suitable work.
alone at Last" which has been one
of the seasons musical successes at
the Shubert Theater, will leave that
theater in two weeks in order to full
fill a short engagement in Boston. af-
ter which 1t will return to the city
and settle down for an all-summer
run in one of the Shubert theaters,
A revival of Haddon Chambers The
Idler" will open at the Shubert The
ater March %.
Among the song hits claimed for
Princess Tra-le-la" are The Swal-
low and the Lark" GIVE Me Kiss.
Dear" The Dream Of Love-" and
when in Vienna O Waltz Is Played"
In william Pruette's support when
he comes to Keith's will be Eta
Hager and Lillian Van Arsdale. the
latter a Washington girl of pro-
nounced comic ability. Miss Hager
sang in Hammerstein's Naughty Ma
rietta" and The Firefy."
Sounding a note of optimism for the
theater. and announcing that he him
self would make six new productions
between now and June 1, besides
greatly increasing his activity in mo-
ton pictures, William A. Brady re-
turned to New York last week from a
trip OF four weeks through the South
and Middle West
The Messrs. Shubert announce for
early presentation a new operetta en-
titled, My Soldier Boy" rehearsaIs
for which, under the direction of
Benrimo, begin today. The score of
the piece is by Emmerick Kalman and
Digmund Romberg; the book by Vic
tor Leon, who wrote the book of
The Merry Widow" The American
adaptation has been made by Rida
Johnson Young.
For the week of March 81 the Ma
tional Theater announces "Pollyanna,"
which will be presented by Klaw &
Erlanger and George Tyler 1t was
written by Catherine Chisholm Cush-
ing and is based on Eleanor H. Por-
ter's world-famous Glad Books.
SNAPSHOTS.