Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-20
In the Spotlight

be his first dramatic production ii
| New York. although he has presented
| several plays of serious intent abroad
Billy Watson forty years ago va
| doing a specially which consisted =.
a few songs and what at that tim.
| We're considered as jokes. Today h.
| owns two theaters valued at $4,000.
! in Paterson, but he says TO stop wor
| is to shorten life. so he has no in
/ tention of giving UP his professi"i
that OF burlesque comedian and pro-
| Queer.
| The Belasco stage is to he reir-
! forced for the coming of JON
| Robinson's elephants. There ar
! eighteen tons of pachyderms in III
| act. including "Tillie," the mammotl
i05-year- performer, who has learne'
how to say Papa"
| Lillian Fitzgerald has tho distirr,
| ton of having been publicly com
mended by Nine. Sarah Bernhardt fol
a perfect delineation of PAR
| chanteuse.
| Bessie Mccoy Davis is breaking il
a new vaudeville act in which she
will be seen at the Belasco durine
December.
'Poodles" Hanneford of the wei
| WHICH - appeal
| ing in Shubert vaudeville says thi
| horses used in the act represent e,
| outlay of $4,000. One spotted horss
| alone cost $1,000. The equines ar,
| featured with the Barnum and Bailey
circus and are insured for $4,000.
Probably no act imported from
Europe in years has made the sensa
| ton on Broadway created by tha
. Lockfords, the diminutive dancing
| couple from the Folies Bergere, Paris
Originally booked for one week a,
the Winter Garden. they were held
| for four, a vaudeville record.
Griff, the bubble king. It is claimed
| has entertained 5000 children in or
/ phanaees and asylums since begin
ming his Shubert vaudeville tour. He
| will amuse the Riddles in the Wash
| ington institutions during his en-
Eagement here just preceding Christ
mas.
Sally" is to be produced in Pari.
I In about three weeks. A Berlin pro
! duction is also planned, and three
companies are being organized u
tour the English provinces.
A new vaudeville house. the Riviera
| will be opened by the Keith-Mos cir.
, cult in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving day
The Shuberts will present McIntyr,
and Heath in a spectacular musica
comedy in two acts and six scenes
entitled Red Pepper" The book i.
by Edgar Smith and Emily NJ. Young
| the lyrics by Howard Rogers and
owen Murphy, and the n.Sc by Al,
bert Gumble and Owen Murph,
Z. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowi
have been so heartily received in New
tAix- hos q "
| tended two weeks. ending Decembel
10. THE Merchant of Venice" vii
have it's first performance in New
York by Sothern and Marlowe II
| seven years, starting tomorrow
night.
A title is wanted for the new must
| cal comedy in which Bert Williams
| will be featured. The original title
| of the piece was "The Pink Slip" but
| this is not considered adequate in ex.
pressing the character of atmosphere
or the style OF comedy of the star.
After rany paragraphs had beer
| published to she effect that VIII Roe-
| ers was going back to Los Angeles u
1 take up picture work again, T. Zieg-
! field grabs him in New York, places
| him in one of his shows there and
| says he will stay as long as wanted
Vaudeville continues to enroll 1e1
| ultimate stage stars. 1t Is now an
nounced that Robert Hilliard viii ap1
pear under the direction Of the Shu1
berts tomorrow night in New Yorg
| in his old sketch, Tho Littlest Cir.
A couple decades ago this clever lttl{
piece scored q tremendous hit.
A new play with music, entitled
''Bibi of the Boulevards." by Gait
| crime Chisholm Gushing. is to be PR
duced by Carl Hunt soon after The
holidays. Dorothy Maynard, now sp|
pearfng In London in Thanks Verj
Much" will have the title rolA