Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
:" HE Garrick Players next week
will introduce as their new
leading man, for limited

~ HE Garrick Players next week
will introduce as their new
leading man, for a limited
time, Irving Cummings. who
mas won fame here and abroad in
photoplay drama with Elsie Fergu-
son, Ethel Clayton, Pauline Frederick
and others, and notably in the Para
mount Aircraft productions, Every
woman" and The Whip" Mr.. Cum
mings will make his debut in "A
Prince There Was" which the Gar
rick PLAYERS will present in Wash
ington for the first time. His en-
gagement, however, is limited by rea-
son of demands in the cinema held.
which require his presence in the
autumn. The further announcement
IS made that the acquisition by the
Garrick Players of Mr.. Cummings
services has brought about an ex-
tension of their present season
through the month of August and
that during the stay of the new
leading man he will be seen in
series of plays of power and merit.
Nme. Borny Hammer, late of the
National Theater in Bergen ana
,Christiania and a leading exponent
of the PLAYS of Ibsen. the Norwegian
dramatist. is to make her New YORK
Z debut next year.
Among the new stars promised for
the coming theatrical season is
Georges Plateau, formerly OF the
Comedie Franchise, Paris. He already
has created a favorable opinion Tor
his versatility and unusual dramatic
qualities in the several American
plays in which he has acted. he is
one of the best known players OF the
French stage.
X X X
Spanish Love" adapted-by Avery
Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart
from a French play by c. De Battle
and A. Lavergne, which is to be pre-
scented at the Shubert- Belasco Tne-
alter the week of August by wagon
halls & Kemper, had q run OF sl4
months at the Theatre Antoine, Par1s.
1000 performances in Spain, ana also
at other European capitals. b. Mau-
rice Jacquet, a French composer, mas
written the musical score for the
production. which also will introonSe
Los Carlos, two famous spanish
dancers. 1t will be presented at the
Maxine Elliott Theater, New OK.
August 16.
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Gilbert MiIler's production. of the
Messenger romantic opera,
Monsieur Beaucaire, which was
presented at the New Amsterdam
Theater last winter, is to be present
ed by A. L. Erlanger on tour the com
ing season. The company tnciudes
Marion Green. in the title .roie; ROB
ert Parker and Lennox PawIe, VINO
are IN thiss countrys and Hlaufhe Tom-
lin and John Clarke, with others WAC
will return from abroad.
Marie de sarlabou writer shsw 10
the stage, has several plays scheduted
for next season, including Debts OF
Soul" for which bids have been OF
fered by three of the best known emo
1ional actresses of the American
stage.
New York is said to be enjoying its
most successful summer season OF
music, with opera singers ana SYM
phony orchestra at the Stadium and
Edwin Frankie Goldman and his MILF
tsry band at Columbia University.
'The Passion Flower" with Nance
O,Neil and the original company. will
begin it's road tour in philadelphia IN
September and possibly. reach WASH
ington shortly afterward.
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In THE Review Of the Ria1to,"
Dixie Hines says: The Celtic Play
ers, an artistic organization in New
tuous actors and the fema1e>sof the
species is planning. under the guid-
ance of Whitford Kane. to do sea-
son of Shakespeare, declaring that.
in reality, it is OShakespeare and
that he is Irish"