Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10

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Thursday, "Cavalleria Rusticana" and
| "Pagliacci"; Friday, Jewels of the
Madonna; Saturday matinee. la Ira
viata (Camille)"; evening, III Trovatore.'
| tore
In the Spotlight.
Three companies will go on tour next
season in The Little Teacher
The Littlest Rebel was recently
played in Rochester by a stock COM
pany.
THE Weaker One" a war playlet, is
mentioned as q hit last week IN New
York.
! John Mccormack, tenor. will be heard
.
ernoon, April 2
! A comedy with the title Two Pairs"
! written by Donald MacI.aren, will shortly
I be produced by Clinton Moffatt-
James H Lewis. with William Hodge
! in "a Cure for Curables, is seventy
nine and the oldest actor on the stage
! Arthur Hammerstein is to produce in
the late summer a musical play py
Rida Johnson Young called Some
! time" the music by Rudolph Fr1ml
| For the principal role in Suppressed
1 Desires the pldylet which Joseph Hart
recently produced for vaudeville pur-
J poses, Efie Shannon has been engaged
! Personality a comedy by Edith Ellis
and Arthur Shaw. will be given trial
/ production by Oliver Morosco in Los An
/ geles in the near future.
! Mscha Elman. the Russian violinist,
/ will be heard at the National Theater,
Tuesday afternoon, March Ia. at 4:30.
Both are under the management of Mrs.
( Wilson Greene.
! A play called "Fisherman's Luck"
| by Arthur Edwin Krows and Norman
Lee Swartout. will be tried shortly at
Northampton. Mass, which boasts of
municipal theater.
! Walter Catlett. comedian of Follow
! the Girl has joined the Actors Play
wright Club and is busily engaged in
completing the book of two-act mus
| ical comedy.
! Having launched AL Jolson success
! fully in "Sinbad" recently in New York
J. J. Shubert has gone west to overlook
his different theaterS and then drop IN
for a complete rest at Hot Springs.
/ At last Thursday nights performance
n u
Comstock and William EIliotts produc-
! ton of "Oh, Boy" reached its 450th
consecutive performance.
George Giddings has been engaged
for a leading role in "A Pair of Petit
coats" the new Harcourt comedy. which
was produced for the first time in New
Haven last Thursday night.
Girl O. Mine" was withdrawn from
the Bijou Theater, New York, last night
and the Hattons' THE SQUAD Farm"
will be given there its first appearance in
| New York next Wednesday night
1.-The Little Belgian" a comedy drama
J by Arthur Richnan, will have its first per
| Torrance at Stamford Conn, on March
! l6 with Ethel Stannard in the leading role
| Charles Stevenson will also be in the cast
| George MacFarlane, baritone of Miss
| Snringtime" has lost two nephews in
| France another lies wounded in a Lon
don hospital and three others are serv-
ing with the Canadian expeditionary
force.
| Beatrice HEREFORD. whose monologues
have been popular for a long time in
Washington. has joined the production
| of Lets CO. which opened in New YORK
| last Thursday night. The piece is de-
scribed as a "costless and castless revue.
new play is to be produced in New
York under the auspices OF the British
| Canadian recruiting mission, having
for its object to show the union OF the
lallies against the Prussians. The play
is called Getting Together.
1.-THE Road to Yesterday" a play
which made big hit several seasons
ago, is to be made over into musical
comedy. Henry Blossom is to prepare
the book and lyrics and IDA Waldrop
will write the music
Charles Emerson Cook, who is direct
ing Lou Tellegens tour in Blind
| youth" was formerly an important ex-
ecutive with David Belasco. he Is the
husband of Gladys Hanson. former
Belasco leading woman.
A new musical play. now in state OF
| rehearsal will have the services of Fay
BANTER, recently identified with the
speaking drama The title of the piece
is THE Kiss Burglar" 1t is the work
of Glen McDonough and Raymond Hup-
bell.
Francis J. Schroeder of Southeast
| Washington is home, after success
full tour of twenty-eight weeks with
the Ben Hur Company. He has joined
the army of war workers for Uncle
Sam.
Twin Beds after being held up for
several months by the London censor,
has finally got by and will shortly be
produced under the title, "a Pair Of
Beds" The censor thought the orig
iinal title was too naughty for the Eng
lish theatergoers.
Having successfully launched The
| Wanderer" and Leave 1t To Jone
William Elliott of the producing firm
of Elliott, Comstock & Gest has returned
to New York from Chicago. While
west Mr.. Elliott secured the rights to
two new musical plays, which will be
tried out in the near future.
Roy Atwen has been persuaded to
play the part of the hero in Here
Comes the Bride in a company which
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