Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-18

and appeared in support of that mana
gers important stars. For many sea-
sons he appeared in support of Francis
Wilson. with whom some of his best
work was done.
Tom McNaughton, the comedian with
Mitzi Hajos in om-Pom,' Is in pri-
vate life the husband of Alice Lloyd,
the English music hal singer, who has
made several tours Of America. both as
a singer in the vaudeville theaters and
as a coincidence. She is now in Eng.
land.
Helen Hayes Brown won q national
reputation as a child actress. She con.
acterizations In the Columbia Players,
and with the popular Poll Players,
her most notable being Little Lord
Fauntleroy and the child in "On Trial"
The Partisan musical comedy star,
Anna Held. will be the Belasco The
aters attraction inauguration week In
Follow Me-" Miss Held will be seen
in the role Of Claire La Tour, star OF
the Theater Varieties in Paris, a part
which permits her to adorn her at
tracttve person with numerous gor-
geous gowns during the three hours of
the entertainment.
Mary Hotchkiss, who so adequately
handles her role I'm Pom Pom" at the
National Theater this week, is a native
of Washington. Her father is Prof.
John B. Hotchkiss OF Gallaudet Col .
lege. This will be her first appearance
In Washington since her successful
season with a. stock company in Can
ada, where she had opportunity for de-
veioping her art and gaining wide ex-
peHence.
Nine. Yvette Guilbert, who fascinated
Washington audiences last season with
her unique entertainment, is returning
ior two performances the afternoons of
March 10 and Is at the Belasco The
ater Nine. Guilberts fellow country
men called her a disease" one who
knows how to say things. She cannot
be described as an actress, a singer or
a dancer, but rather a combination of
all three in the Interpretation of folk
songs or ballads.
Your Daughter the tense little
psychological drama by DR.. George Wood
run Johnston of this city, which was
first produced at the Cosmos Theater
in November. recently celebrated its
Tooth performance on the vaudeville
stage. With the well known English
players. Mona Hungerford and Daisy
Belmore. comprising the cast, it head
lined the bill at the Globe Theater
Philadelphia, during the past week
Bessie De Vote, remembered as a
sprightly dancer in the days of the
Rogers Brothers musical comedy pro- ,
auctions. is member of the support
ing company with Mitzi Hajos in Pom
Pom. She has been appearing in Par
is and Berlin for several years. but was
forced to come back to her native land
and has taken up the thread of her
dancing career here again with quite
as much success as formerly.
80 Long, Lefty" Oliver Morosco's
musical farce. will come to the Belasco
Theater early in March. direct from
New York, with the original cast and
10 ha,n M.
rosco and Elmer Harris. and is based
on the latter's well known farce, Your
Neighbours Wife" Earl Carroll has
supplied eighteen musical numbers.
acts of comedy.
Dwight Elmendorf is coming to
Washington on March l for his annual
course of illustrated travel talks to be
given on five successive Thursday aft
ernoons at the New National Theater.
For his series of attractions Mr.. Ell
mendorf has selected five topics. Spain
from Many Lands" "Old German
Towns" More About the Garden of
Allah" and Mexico and the Mexicans."
A special fortnight1 engagement in
the principal Virginia cities has been
arranged for the new Harris Dickson
comedy of southern life, "A Niger in
the Woodpile," which is part of
"A Night at an Inn The plays will
then be taken into a New York city
theater. Willis p Sweatman, famous
for his characterization of the colored
politician in "A County Chairman" is in
the cast.
Signor Eugenio De Folco. the San
Carlo Opera Company's new Italian
tenor, now making his first tour Of the
United States, will be heard in at least
two operas announced for Washington.
De Folco is young Italian nobleman
who has sung with distinguished sue
cess in that countrys greatest opera
houses and at Buenos Aires. where no
became prime favorite.
Another leading tenor in the organi-
retti. former Metropolitan opera star,
and we'll known in Washington.
Ian Forbes Robertson has a long and
honora BILE career in the theater to his
credit. and he does not need to borrow
the reflected glory of his distinguished
brother. Johnston Forbes Robertson.
He was born in London and made his
first appearance AZ the Lyceum Theater
in 1879. Soon after he came to the
United States and remained here for
ten years. He has appeared in support
Of Nine. Modjeska. Edwin Booth. Law
renee Barrett, with A. NJ. Palmer's COM
panies and also with those of Daniel
and Charles Frohman. He returned to
England in 1891. when he Joined Irving
at the Lyceum and played with him in
his repertoire of productions. 1t was
under his direction that many OF
Forbes Robertson's most important
productions were made.