Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-13

produce a play by Jack Oeterman, son
Of Kathryn Osterman.
Carl Gantvoort will be in the COM
pany of Miss Simplicity" formerly
entitled Miss I Don't Know"
When Ruth Chatterton appears in
her new play Henry Miller will
begin rehearsals of a play for himself.
The shuberts will shortly produce
Cyril Harcourt's comedy. "A Place in
the Sum-" Peggy Hopkins will have
q prominent role.
Edith wynne Mattnison has been
engaged to play the role of Light in
Maeterlinck's play, THE Betrothal," q
sequel to The Blue Bird"
Frances Stars role in Edward Knob
locks play, Tiger! Tiger"' will be the
a star under David Belascos manage
ment.
Next spring Gertrude Elliott will ap-
pear in q new version of Joan of
Arc" The piece is to have an elab
crate setting and a strong company
of actors.
Doris Keane has engaged Edward
Sheldon to write a play for her in
which she will impersonate three diff
ferent characters. Miss Keane may
return to this country next summer.
An adaptation of Ludwig Thomas
comedy, Moral" will soon be pre-
scented in New York by John D. Will
| liams. He is to present '"The Scandal
of Monte Carlo" by Sacha Guitry
also.
Edwin Arden. we'll known in this
city through his connection with stock
York last week. He was rehearsing
| in THE Three Wise Men" when
stricken.
Brandon Hurst the well known
English actor, has been engaged by
! the Shuberts for an important role
in George v. Hobart's farce, stop
That Man." soon to be produced in
| New York.
| 1.-THE Crowded Hour" will have its
| first performance tomorrow night at
the Woods Theater. Chicago. 1t is the
work of Edgar Selwyn. Franklin Ar
dell and Christine Norman have the
leading roles.
Julia Arthur is to appear in play
called The Woman the Germans
Shot," founded presumably on the
story of Edith Cavell. The scenery is
by Paul Anthony Kelly. the author OF
Three Faces East"
/ Patricia Collinge. who for three sea-
| sons has been playing the title role
| in "Pollyanna," has been promoted to
stardom in a comedy called Utilize"
a dramatization of Helen r. Martins
story, "Tillie. the Mennonite Maid"
A double series of travelogues by
Burton Holmes, entitled Victory
Travelogues." will he presented at
the New National Theater on five
| Sunday evenings and Monday after
moons. both courses exactly alike.
beginning November and 4. They
| picture what Mr.. Holmes saw last
| summer in following the boys in
khaki from England. through France
| to Italy,
The unique fact is announced that
the royalties for the Wolf-Ferrari
little grand opera" The Secret of
:uzanne," which Geraldine Farrar and
Antonio Scott made sensation at
York. are paid over to A. Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of alien property,
for investment in liberty bonds. This
opera is scheduled for one of the at
fractions of T. Arthur Smiths ten
star concerts.
Calvin G. Child. director of the Vic
tor Talking Machine Company. recent
ly put liberty bond drive over at the
Metropolitan Opera House. with
Carusi. CALI Curci. John Mccormack.
Jascha Heifetz and Roger Pryor's
Band as incidental attractions. and
gathered in subscriptions to the
amount of S4,300.000, with the great
audience clamoring for more when the
drive closed long after midnight. BOX
61," modestly describing his own COM
pany, subscribed 100000.
An eminent musical critic said of
! Margaret Matzenauer, the famous
Metropolitan opera contralto, THE
| program declared her to be a con-
tralto and her low tones. full, deep
and expressive, upheld the designa-
! ton, but what shall we say of a con-
tralto who delivers a high Gas Nine.
Matzenauer did in an aria by Pom
CHIEFLY with perfect ease. yet with
splendid power and thrilling inten-
sity? Only this. perhaps. that we
have to do with one of the most re-
markable voices of our time"