The Washington herald., 1916-05-21

! The benefit performance OF Madame
| Butterfly" which will be made at Poll S
Theater ON Sunday night, June 4, under
the direction of A. II. Van Buren,, will
be a notable occasion.
"Step This Way" the new musical
production In which Lew Fields will ap-
pear. is a new version of The Girl Be-
hind the Counter"
| Cyril Maude has completed arrange
mentS for his next American season. He
will begin an engagement at the Empire
Theater, New York, next october. He
has two new plays under consideration,
ore by Haddon Chambers and another
| by Michael Morton and Stephen Lea
cock.
Victor Herbert has written complete
musical setting for a new photoplay by
! Thomas Dixon called THE Fall Of a
Nation" It is to be shown here next
month. This is said to be the first at
tempt by u leading resident composer
! to weld music and the movies" into
twelve-reeI production. As Mr.. Herbert
was one OF the first to enter the musical
| comedy field in America on a large
scale, so he seems to be doing pioneer
work in the motion picture field.
Gables B. Dillingham; and Oliver Mo-
rosco will combine next season to pre-
! sent Raymond Hitchcock in Betty" a
musical comedy. The play is by Freder-
! lex Lonsdale and Gladys Ungcr, with
music by Paul Rubens. 1t ran for more
than a year in London at Dalys Theater,
where it was produced by George Ed
wards. Mr.. Hitchcock will play the role
Of an English earl, a part which is said
to give his fun-making proclivities full
rein.
Mrs. Henry B. Harris. widow OF Henry
r. Harris the theatrical manager, who
/ lost his life on the Titanic, was married
Wednesday, May 8 in Greenwich, Conn,
I to Letter l.. Consolly. of New York. Be-
fore her marriage TO Mr.. Harris Mrs.
ConsoIly was Irene wallach, OF Wash
inGton. D. c. After the death of her
husband she took charge of his estate
and produced several plays.
! The producers Of Justice" have de-
cided to send two companies on tour
! next season with the play. one headed
by John Barrymore and the other prob
ably by o. p. Hcggie.
! Ina Claire was engaged yesterday by
! F'lorenz 'Ziegfeld as leading woman for
the new "Follies."
| Belle Story, who comes to Keith's
ming all season at the Hippodrome New
I York City. under the Dillingham; man
agement Following her closing. last
week she is signed to the Keith Circuit
for a limited summer tour.
| A special performance of THE Fairy
7 Bride" by Norreys Jephson OConnor.
viii be given Friday afternoon, May 26.
at the Gambler New York. Rupert Har-
/ vcy and Eileen Huban will play the prin-
cipal roles.
! H. Cooper CIife. who played the role
! of Nobody in "Everywomar." has been
engaged to succeed Edward Emery as
Long John Silver in Treasure Island"
Thirty Days" new farce by A. E
Thomas and Clayton Hamilton, has been
| placed in rehearsal by 4. Fl. Woods. In
| the cast are Inez Buck. Edwin Holt
! James Rennie. Lucia Moore. Julia Tay-
lor, George Denny and Scott Cooper.
Robert Mclaughlin, author Of "The
( Eternal Magdalene." has purchased the
dramatic rights to James Whtcomb
Riley's poem, AN Old Sweetheart of
Nine" from the Bobbs-Mcrrill Company
| Cosmos Hamlton's new three-aCt play
The Mother-Woman," will be produced
by Arthur Hammerstein early in August
There has not been time in my recol-
lection" said Lee Shubert, when there
have been so many successes in the the
aters in New York. 1 think that I am
well within the fact in stating that there
are more than twenty plays now being
presented in this city-each a substantial
success. Such thing has not been known
heretofore in the dramatic history Of
this city.
knighthood was conferred upon F. r.
Benson, the well-knowR Shakespearean
actor-manager, by King George at the
tercentenary Shakespeare performance
held on May 2 in the Drury Lane Thea
ter. London. Mr.. Benson played
Shakespearean season in America in the
season Of 1914, opening at His Majesty's
Theater, Montreal. October 6, 1913 in
Much Ado About Nothing"
The popularity of Cosmo Hamilton
play. The Blindness of Virtue" con-
tinues. The play. which was first seen