Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
In the Spotlight.

HARRISON BROCKBANK will play
IL Napoleon III in THE Love
Song" the operetta with Offenbach
music, which is to have an early
production.
Elsie Janis will soon be seen IN
der the management of Charles Dill
bingham in a revue entitled "Puz-
zles," with Shirley Vernon also in
the cast.
Mary Nash will play the leading
feminine role in The Heart Thief"
Sacha Guitry's comedy. which the
Selwyns will produce January in
New York.
| Cargo" will be starred in the play
when it opens in Boston January IL.
Tame Cats" is the new name for
"Collusion," which opens in New
York tomorrow night.
Leslie Howard, A. p Kaye, Edna
May Oliver and Lyonel Watts will be
in the cast supporting Margaret
Lawrence. who is about to be starred
by the Charles Frohman company in
Isabel"
VIII Rogers has left the "Folliess
and returned home after a quarrel,
It is said, with Florenz ZiegfeId
Jimmy Barton and w. C. Fields were
rushed into the revue to fill up the
gap. No explanation of the quarrel
| has been Forthcoming.
The success of Badges now run
ming In New York, has created spec
! ulation as to just who Edward Ham
| mond, co-author of the piece. is. Ed
| ward Hammond Is Edward Hammond
Cady. president of the Commerce
Guardian Trust and Savings Bank
of Toledo, Ohio. Badges" Is his first
| play.
Owing to the illness of william
Farnum, star of THE Buccaneer" the
production has been indefinitely post
poned, probably until next season.
The play is a pirate comedy by Max
well Anderson and Laurence STALL
ings, and the producer, Arthur Hop
kins.
The original Rain" company, head
ed by Jeanne Eagles, will come to
the National Theater at an early
date. There are six companies play
Ing Rain" in different parts of the
country.
Miti Manley of Warsaw, Poland
has been engaged by John Cort as
| the singing and dancing coincidence
in his forthcoming production of
China Rose"
The Theater Guild Is rehearsins
in New York another play, Process
sional," by John Howard Lawson.
Philip Moeller has charge of the
production.
Jim Corbett, the ex-champion prize
fighter, has forsaken the stage for
the rostrum of health cult. He will
preach, as a lay minister, the doc
trine Of right living religion. Corbett
has been a success in vaudeville and
| musical comedy for the past 80 years.
Edwin Milton Chopper, the young
| man who wrote Ladies of the
Evening"" has Invested himself of
another new play. as yet unnamed.
which is now in the hands Of Sam
merstein, I'd, furnished New Toys"
| for Mr.. Harris last season.
Louis Evan Shipman's play Poor
Richard" Is due for a New York
| showing week hence. Maclyn Ar
| buckle has the title role. Poor
Richard" Is reported to have been a
big success in the Middle West.
| Harry Bannister has been engaged
| to direct the production Of THE
| Valley Of Discomfort" Gladys fingers
play for Marjorie Rambeau, and re-
hearsals have been under way for a
week In New York. A. E. Arson is
| slated for leading man.
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Lionel Barrymore and irene Fen
wick are in Leon Gordon's play -Four
KDaves and a Joker" which will
have its initial presentation In this
city January and then goes to New
York.
Earl Carroll has begun casting
THE Rat" in which Teddy Girard
and Ivan Novello will have the lead
ing roles. Novello played the part
in London.
Kate Gilmore of the Gilmore sisters
well known to vaudeville patrons, is
dangerously Ill at a hospital in In
dfanapolis, where she was taken after
being removed from train as she
was being rushed to New York fol-
special treatment. Eva Tanguay Il
said to have collapsed when told the
| facts.
Edith Mills is en- route from Calf
fornia to New York to direct re.
4 hearsals Of Starlight" Gladly.
Unger's new play, Of which Dori.
Keane Will be the star when 1T /.
presented on Broadway next month
Henry Miller's next production will
be after Love-" the drama in which
Lucian Guitry appeared in Paris som,
months ago and which Leo Ditrich
stein bought for his own use las
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