Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-23
In the Spotlight.

VI q SSoIe Ol pretty women.
In the Spotlight.
John Cort has engaged Byron Beas-
ley for "Three's a Crowd"
A. H. Woods is to produce a play
by Samuel Shipman, called Ten Fin
gers"
A new musical comedy, called Miss
Millions" is to be produced this month
in Wilmington.
Maude Adams who has been in poor
health. is improving at her home, in
the Catskills. but may not play this
season.
Edgar McGregor will shortly pro-
duce THE Sweetheart Shop" Harry
X. Morton will be featured in the
piece.
The engagement of where's Your
W1fe? has been extended in New
York. A second company is rehears-
ing for Chicago.
Cosmos Hamilton, author of Scan
'daI' has written a one-act playlet
One Of Them Had a Wife," which
will be shown soon in vaudeville.
Sam Bernard and Irene Bordoni are
to be co-stars in musical comedy,
called "As You Were" The piece has
been successful in Paris and London.
sick.
Owen Davis. author Of ''At 9:45," is
also the author of Forever After" one
Of the great successes of the past New
York season. in which Alice Brady star
red.
Burton Holmes, next Sunday night
and the Monday afternoon following,
will take his audiences to the more ce;e-
brated and now historic battlefields of
France.
A London cable message says Cyril
Maude scored a big success in Lord
Richard in the Pantry" q new COM
edy by Sydney Blow and Douglas
Hoare.
THE Night Refuge" by Maxim
Gorky. will be presented at the first
of series of matinees Robert Whit
tier is to offer at the Longacre Thea
ter, New York. in the near future.
In the cast of "Piccadiily JIM" by
Guy Bolton and P. G. wodehouse, will
be Gregory Kelly and Ruth Gordon.
The first performance will be given
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, December 1.
Edward Locke. author of "The
drama based upon facts supplied
him by the American Social Hygiene
Association.
When Alice Brady opened in For
ever After" in Boston. last Monday
night she had for her leading man
her husband. James Crane, who sue
ceeded Conrad Nagel.
Arthur Somers Roche, the writer Of
short stories. who has one melodrama
to his credit, has contracted to write
another for George Broadhurst. under
the title of "The Man Of Iron"
Barry Mccormack and Consuelo
cast in sunrise" willard Mack
comedy drama being produced by the
Centre Producing Company. Inc.
A play of domestic life called "a
Dollar Down." by John H. Blackwood.
showing the lights and shadows Of
the installment plan. will shortly be
produced in San Francisco with
strong cast.
Harry First, now Mawruss Perlmut-
ter, in Business Before Pleasure" dur
ing the influenza epidemic a year ago
would be Potash one night and PERL
mutter the next, according to who was
A post of the American Legion has
been named for young Sydney Drew,
the first American actor to be killed
in the war. The cross which marked
his grave has been presented to the
post.
Rehearsals of Carnival" which
will Introduce Godfrey Tearle, the
London actor, to American audiences,
have started, The piece opens in this
city December IA and in New York
week later.
A new farce by Otto Harbach. en-
story by Edgar Franklin, will start
rehearsals this week in New York. A
II. Woods is the producer and Ernest
Truck will play the leading role.
Rose Coghlan will play an impor-
tant part in 1.-The Whirlwind," new
play, by George c. Hazleton and Rit-
ter Brown, founded on novel by
the latter. John Cort has just placed
the play in rehearsal.
Elias Breeskin, the Russian violin
list, heard in concert in Washington
recently and who last year toured the
country with Caruso, is the younger
brother of Daniel Breeskin, director
of the Rialto orchestra. He has been
in Washington the past few days Tor
reasons purely personal. The early
part of last week the famous young
upon enjoying the show. but he was
barely seated before his elder brother
PROMPTLY escorted him to the music
room. provided him with the finest