Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
In the Spotlight.

Ethellin Brewer de Foe. society
leader, is the author of "The Weaker
One"
Doris Keane has just celebrated the
!. 0o0th performance of Romance" in
London.
successfully in THE Thirteenth Chair"
in London.
Jerome Kern has finished the score
of a new musical comedy. Mizzi Hajos
will have the leading role.
In Out of He'll" London war play.
playing four characters.
Margaret Romaine will have the
prima donna role in "Rock-a-Bye-
Baby" the new musical play.
York until the summer, and next sea-
son will make a tour of the principal
large cities.
A new play. entitled April" is by
Osborne. 1t is described as
of modern American life with
a distinctly original point of view.
Laurette Taylor is to appear next
month in New York in series of ma
tinees in Shakesperean roles. Her
repertoire will include the characters
of Juliet. Portia and Katherine.
Oliver Morosco's delightful play of
Hawaiian life, THE Bird Of Paradise"
now starting its seventh successful sea-
son. comes to the Belasco Theater with
in a fortnight.
Edmund Quincy and Wallace Frs
kline have been engaged for the sup
port of Edith Wynne Matthison in
Charles Ram Kennedy's comedy, THE
Army With Banners"
Joseph Kilgour has been engaged to
play in ooh. Look" the role which he
created in Ready Money" from which
''Oh. Look" was adapted. Kilgour will
succeed Frederick Burton.
Bert French is presenting but not
playing with Alice Els this season. Her
new partner in vaudeville is Joe Will
mot, a classical dancer. THE Shadow
of Panay' is their new production.
Elliott. Comstock & Gest will pre-
sent next season a musical comedy,
which has been a success in London.
called 1.-The Maid of the Mountain 1t
will be presented with an American
cast.
1.-The Hip, Hip. Hooray! Girls" at
the Gayety Theater this week, Won the
run at Columbia Theater, in
New York. last summer. in competition
with the other organizations of the
Columbia circuit
Josephine Randall. Josephine Will
liams and William Seymour are impor-
tant additions to the cast which will
present Loves Lightning" by Ada
Patterson and Robert Edeson. at the
Theater. New York, begin
ming tomorrow night.
Josephine Whittell has been engaged
BY Weber & Fields as prima donna in
their production of Back Again" Miss
Whittell. who has been the leading
lady with a number of stars, is the
wife of Robert Warwick.
A new farce by Mark Swan. entitled
"She Walked in Her Sleep" has been
put in rehearsal by George Broadhurst.
Lois Meredith is returning to the stage
from the films to play the leading
role, and Isabel Irving also will be in
the cast
Manager Jarboe has purchased four
loving cups to be awarded Thursday
and Friday evenings of this week to
the winners of the diving contests to
be held in conjunction with this weeks
attraction. TEe contest is open to the
public. Thursday night is for the men
and Friday for the ladies.
Under the managerial guidance of
Richard Walton Tully, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Drew returned to the spoken
stage last Monday night at the Shu-
bert Theater. New Haven. where they
in Keep Her Smiling" a new
by John Hunter Booth, author
of The Masquerader."
Harry J. Smith author of The
Teacher" was killed week ago in an
accident in British Column
bia, where he had gone to study the
peat moss supply for the American Red
Cross. Mr.. Smiths first play was Mrs
Bumstead Leigh" in which Mrs. Fiske
starred.
Tomorrow night week the Fort
Pitt Theater Company will present in
New York 1.-The Man Who Stayed
Home" war play of the moment. by
Lechmere Worrall and ]. f. Harold
Terry. The play has recently enjoyed
extended and successful engagements
in Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. and
specially organized cast of unusual dis
tinction.
An all-star production of r. c. Car
tons sparkling comedy. Lord and Lady
Algy." now playing. at the Broadhurst
Theater, in New York city, where it has
been necessary to give extra matinees
to meet the demand. will be seen in this
city this spring. The cast includes Will
liam Faversham, Maxine Elliott, Irene
Fenwick, Maclyn Arbuckle, FIorine Ar
mold. Lumsden Hare, Eva LIE Gallienne.
George w. Howard. George Fitzgerald
and Frederick Lloyd.
Love of Mike" the new musical
comedy whose Washington enga cement
has been twice deferred because of it's
unusual success in, New York and
Chicago, is positively announced for
the Belasco the week after next.
Jerome D. Kern composer of Very Good
Eddie" Nobody Home" and other pro-
auctions. wrote the music; Thomas
sydney the book and Harry B. Smith
the lyrics. 1t is presented in two acts.
with a prologue, and is mostly about
love.
David Belasco and Charles Frohman
are named as sponsors for a produc-
ton of 1.-The Laughter of Fools" which
is coming to the National Theater Sun
day night, April z. The David Belasco-
Charles Frohman series of Joint pro-
auctions began in 1915, withthe all-star
revival of "a Celebrated Case" the last