Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05


ton this season by the Celtic Players.
peter Ibbetson." with John and Lionel
Barrymore and Constance Collier in the
leading roles, will reopen shortly.
The Charles Frohman Company is to
produce next season a comedy by Horace
/ Annesley temporarily named "Humpty
Dumpty'
Manager Robbins of B. +. Keith 3
! Theater will formally and appropriate
! ly inaugurate the season OF l9la-191S
August 81.
| Lester Lonergan. who made a fine i'm
preston as the advocate in Justice.
has been engaged for AN important part in
The Torches"
| The musical version OF James Mont
gomerys play, "Thc Aviator which
Conan & Harris are going to produce. will
be called Going Up"
| Otis Skinner and his wife and daughter
are spending the summer on his ranch in
Montana. He will open early in Mister
Antonio.
/! Donald Macdonald has been engaged
! by Henry W Savage for Have a
| Heart" which opens in Boston Au-
! guest 20
| A. II. Woods has engaged Mae Melville
for . part in .'Mary's Ankle" the new
farce by May Tully. which begins its New
! York season tomorrow night
The opening of Friend Martha at
the Booth Theater. New York. has
been postponed until next Tuesday
night. Edward Peple is its author.
John Cort has set September "a for
the opening of Mother Carey's Chick
ems" Edith Taliaferro will be the
featured member of the cast.
Girl ushers. arrayed in purple silk
costumes. will greet the patrons of the
Gayety this season and show them to
their seats.
| There will lie four compa MES sent out
in THE Thirteenth Chair one to make
q tour OF the Atlantic coast. another of
the Pacific coast, ore for Chicago and the
/ fourth for the south.
Edgar Mactiregor last week acquired
| the rights to two new plays by Charl-
| ton Andrews. entitled The .Adora BILE
Pest" and My Hero drama of the
war
: In the cast of "Parlor. Bedroom and
! Bath" which y. H. Woods VIII present
+ in Chicago shortly. will be John Cum
/, bcrland Florence Moore. Lowell Sher-
man and sydney Shields
| Edward r. Perkins has purchased a
portfolio of costume designs by various
well known Eu: opean artists to be used
in the forthcoming production of the
i musical comedy, The Red Clock"
| Jerry Conan, father of George Conan
and well known to patrons of vaudeville
and musical comedy, died in New York
"Wednesday, aged sixty-nine years. He
| had been i'll for some time.
, May Wellesley, engaged by Elliott.
Comstock & Gest to support Alice Mel
! son in kitty Darlin', is a daughter of
Col. Frederick Reid of the British army
| staff at Rouen.
/ Winchell Smith and John Golden will
I star Fred Niblo next season in new
! play entitled Love and Learn" by
Mark Swan It will open at Asbury
Park the goth of this month.
Klaw & Erlanger have engaged Violet
Heming for the leading role in Under
! Sydney Resented, which is to be pro
/ dueed early in the season.
| Charles Dillingham; has decided that
when Fred Stone appears in his new
| musical comedy he will have no male
| chorus. Mr.. Dillingham; says he hopes
| to discourage slackers thereby.
| Raymond Hitchcock. who signed a
| contract to appear next season as the
principal comedian at the Century The
ater New York. has asked for his re-
| lease, which has been refused.
| Anderson & Weber's production Of
William LIE Baron's 1.-THE Very Idea"