The Washington herald., 1916-09-10
THEATRICAL BRIEFS.

The Shuberts have not yet announced
| whether Washington will have the oppor-
| tunity of seeing the London success. "A
Little Bit of Fluff," which came to an
end after one weeks run at the Thirty
ninth Street Theater. New York.
| A Rotary Club luncheon in honor of
Miss Eva Tanguay has been arranged in
every city along the route she will take
on her next tour. According to Mr.. Nor
| ris, her manager she is the first woman
to be so highly honored by the club.
| Miss Maud Allan, the symphonic Eng
| lish dancer, with her complete 81 mphony
orchestra. and Isolde Menges. the noted
girl violinist Of Spain, has just returned
| from the Continent and will be seen at
| the Belasco Theater later in the season.
Miss Allan plans to feature Senorita
Menges, who is not yet twenty. on her
| tour. She is said to have created genu-
| inc sensation in London and those con-
tinental cities where she played last sea-
son.
| The Montauk Theatcr Brooklyn. open
ed its season last week by introducing
| to America for the first time, LIE Roy,
Talma. and BosCo," the triple alliance of
| illusionists, magicians and tral.sformists.
| straight from the land of Buddah.
The far-famed rope mystery is pre-
| sented by these master fakirS for the
first time in the States y rope is
| thrown in the air, small boy asCends
| it. When ne reaches its apex, he pulls
| the rope after him ana disappears into
thin air in full vjCw of the audience.
! The effect is one of the most mystify-
ing ever produced on the stage.
Washington will be interested to
! learn that another Of George Bernard
] CT. 1t
and will have It's first American pre-
sentation in New York about the mid
die of October
| At private exhibition of The Chat
! tel' in Fine Arts Hall, NV York,
Julia Marlowe had the opportunity to
applaud the first screen work of her
husband, E. II. Sothern. Mr.. Sothern.
moreover, was present to hear the ac-
clamation.
| The William Fox Film Corpor alton
was the recipient of a cOngratulatory
letter from the National Board Of Re-
/ view on its film spectacle, A Daugh-
| ter of the Gods starring Annette
Kellermann.
The Aircraft Picture Corporation has
announced that Mary Pickford has Sc
| lected the title Less Than the Dust"
| for the first film to be made by her
new company. The scenario is by
Hector Turnbull, but inspired by Lau
lence Hopes poem of the same name.
! The picture will be released during
the first part of October.
! D. W. Griffiths new spectacle, Tn
| tolerance" was presented for the first
| time at the Liberty Theater. New York.
last Tuesday. This new work is the
! largest production Mr.. Griffith has
ever made and the New York engage
ment is for an indefinite period.
The production of The Cinderella
Man" which comes to the Belasco The
| ater this season, is under the direction
| of Oliver MOrOsCo, whose successes with
| Peg O. NY Heart" and THE Bird OF
! Paradise" have been the marvels of the
theatrical world for the last four sea-
sons. Mr.. Morosco sends to the Belasco
the same cast that was seen at the Hud-
son Theater, New York, last season, in
| cuding Shelly Hull. Phoebe Foster,
| Frank Bacon, Hubert Wilke, Charles
Lane, Theodore Babcock. PerCival T.
Moore, Berton Churchill, Louise Rial. and
| others.
THE Age of Reason" in which two of
| the Tobin youngsters will be seen at
Keith's next week. is a comedy by Cecil
Dorian, first produced by the famous
! Washington Square players, Of New York,
who have given to vaudeville recently
some Of its cleverest one-act sketches
among them The Passion Play of Wash
lngton Square"
Beth Merrill who plays the role of
Mary Ballard in Carl Masons latest
drama, For The Man She Loved" at
Polls next week, lately starred in the
Pine"
Burton Holmes. the famous traveller and
lecturer, has returned from his summer
journeyings in search of new material
and is now deep in the preparations of
| five travelogues whSh he will deliver at
the National Theater early this season
| His list will include: "Canada-Coast to
Coast" THE Canadian Rockies" La
Belle France" The German Fatherland"
and Imperial Britain"
| Jack Noteworthy, Vincent Bryan, and
Ted Snyder collaborated on the act in
which Shattuck and Golden are appearing
this week at Keith's.
The Fall of a Nation" Thomas Dixon's
sequel to THE Birth of a Nation" which
comes to the Casino next Sunday, Is the
first spectacle in the history of filmdom
for which an entirely original grand opera
score was written. Victor Herbert, COM
poser Of the greatest musical comedy sue
cesses the American stage has known,
devoted more than a year to the writing
of the music that accompanies the presen-
tatlOn Of this remarkable pictured story
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