Evening star., 1917-12-16
firm of TAFT Bros. The piece is to
be produced in Australia before the end
of the season.

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be produced in Australia before the end
OF the season.
3 Rose Coghlan, that delightful veteran
of the theater. now celebrating her
Hfftieth year of active playing. will in
fterpret Madame Prudence in The Lady
of the Camellias." and Charles F.
Coghlan will be the Gustave.
Cohan & Harris announced last week
that s"The Cohan Revue. 1915" will open
in New York New Year eve. The book
of the new revue Is by George M Cohan
and the music by Irving Berlin and
Cohan.
Many New York theaters are setting
aside one night in the week, when
bodies of soldiers, NUM- boring about
200. are invited from the surrounding
charge.
Al Jolson has returned to New York
from the Pacific coast to cooperate
tion of the book for the next Winter
Garden Offering after Doing Our Bit"
shall have completed its run.
Francine Larrimore has been engaged
by A. H. Woods for an important role
in ''Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" the new
farce comedy by C. W. Bell and Mark
Swan, which will be presented the lat
ter part Of this month in New York.
Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson sailed
last Thursday from New York for
London, where he will enter the long
promised retirement which he thinks
he has earned after nearly forty years
devotion to his profession.
Percy Haswell has become a vaude-
willie headliner under the direction of
Joseph Hart. She will make a tour OF
nrk aIr1x
by Frances NQrdstrom entitled Cousin
Eleanor" which was used by Henrietta
Crosman last season
Oliver Morosco's What Next" with
Blanche Ring in the chief role, closed
it's season last night in Chicago, the
company going to New York The
piece has been appearing in the west
since early last summer. 1t is by FL
mer Harris, Earl Carroll and Mr.. Mo
rosco.
ThurIow Bergen, playing one of the
leading roles in de Luxe Annie" now
in Boston. was arrested one night re-
Gently fer non-paymet .y OF !, alimony, a,.ss ana
Ernest Anderson Is now playing the
part.
the New York Commonwealth Opera
Company. has been formed. with the
incorporators including John Philip
Sousa, Raymond Hitchcock, Richie
Ling, Sylvio Helm, Tyrone Power and
Van Rensselaer, Wheeler
In the cast of the Buster Brown
Revue are four Washingtonians-Edg
Bixley, one of the principal comedians,
who was employed for some time in the
war Department; Minnie Coulburn,
Violet Robinson and Lily Robinson.
Bixley works very much along the
lines of the late Nat Wills.
PiiIard in 1.-The Social Maids" is now
one of the chief funmakers of Joe
Hurtig's New Bowery Burlesquers" at
the Gayety Theater.
An original song composition. Co
lumbia Victorious written by two
Weshingtonians. Maurice Freeman and
Ralph Garren. and dedicated to our
boys across the sea. VIII be played DUR
ling the intermission period by the
Gayety Theater orchestra at all per-
formances this week.
Margot Kelly. the youthful English
star who was the sensation of "Pierrot
the Prodigar' last season. has contract
ed to appear under the direction OF
James P. Sinnott during the rest of her
stay in America. She will be seen
shortly In a one-act pantonime ar
The sum of $125,ooo outright and a
life income in his residuary estate. es-
timated at $6.000,000. is bequeathed to
Mrs. Edna May Lewisohn, widow OF
oscar Lewiston, who died recently in
New York. according to the terms OF
his will, filed last week for probate.
T. Daniel Frawley and four players.
including Katherine Brown Decker.
left New York recently for San Fran
cisco. whence they are going to sail
for tour Of Japan and China. The re-
maipder of the company has been en-
gagged on the Pacific coast. Mr.. Fraw-
ley but recently returned from. the
! orient.
"Toot, Tootr a musical comedy in
three acts. will be given its initial
presentation by Henry w. Savage
Christmas day. It will be an early
tional Its locale is the railway ter
minal of western town, Pullman
train in motion and an open country
at the foot of the Rockies.
"The Rose of Blood" the photoplay
written by Richard Ordynski, stage
director of the Metropolitan Opera
House. New York city, for Theda Bara.
has been decided by the Creel censor
bureau to be unobjectionabIe.
Mr.. Ordynski is a native of Poland
and his treatment Of the Russian situa-.
tion is altogether sympathetic. the pic
lures presentation of facts being
wholly favorable to the revolutionists.
Margaret Anglin's first appearance was
as Nerissa in ''The Merchant of Venice"
and Rosalind in a small company headed
by Benjamin Rolfe. 1t was James O'Neill
who gave Miss Anglin her first real
opportunity as Ophelia. After that the
Shakespearean role eluded her and 1t
was only after she became her own man.
ager that she gratified her ambition to
play in Much Ado About Nothing"
Twelfth Night "As You Like IT. and
Tanning of the Shrew.''
"The Riviera Girl" this seasons big
K1aw & Erlanger musical comedy pro-
duotion, comes to the National The
ater January Z. It is the latest of a
long list Of successes like THE Pink
Lady" 'The Little Cafe" ''Oh! Oh!
Delphine'' and Miss Springtime." It's
book is by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wode-
house, with music by Kalman, the COM
poser of Miss Springtime." The
scenery is by Joseph Urban. In the
cast are Vida Bennett, Sam B. Hardy,
Carl Gantvoort, J. Clarence Harvey,
Juliette Day and Arthur Burkley.
Once more James Henry Smiths new
play is christened THE Teachers of
Goshen Hollow" This is the play which
Cohan & Harris are to produce with
Mary Ryan In the principal role in Buff
decided to mama the