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Description: Plays & Players Magazine-Page 4
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Washington Post June 5, 1910 Plays & Players Magazine-Page 4
Notes About Plays and Players
Bertha GALLAND is in Atlantic City for her vacation.
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Henrietta CROSMAN is said to have a pronounced success in Mackaye's "Anti-Matrimony."
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Frank SHANNON, the big halfback of last week in "The College Widow," is studying medicine.
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The title of William GILLETTE's new play, in which Marie DORO is to be seen next season, is "Miss 'Lectricity."
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Julia DEAN's sister is paying her a visit, and may remain in Washington throughout the entire season.
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Clifton CRAWFORD will be starred by Joseph M. GAITES next season, but he will continue in "Three Twins" until after the holidays.
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Miss Ke'th WAKEMAN, late leading woman with Otis SKINNER and E. S. WILLARD, will join the Ben Greet Players to play leading Shakespearean roles.
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Laura Nelson HALL, who is heading a stock company in St. Louis, is to try out a new play, "A Lone Hand," by W. J. Hurlburt, in a few weeks.
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Charles J. ROSS, with a large supporting cast, is presenting a vaudeville act entitled "Chanticlair" at the American Theater Roof Garden, New York.
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Lillian RUSSELL, after an unusually successful season in the South, has returned to New York. She was appearing with Digby BELL in "The First Night."
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Charles FROHMAN has had a queer disease. The London correspondent of the Morning Telegraph speaks of him as having "just recovered from a severe attack of indisposition."
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Alice EVERSMAN, the Washington soprano with the Aborn Grand Opera Company, probably will sing the part of Micaela in at least one of the performances of "Carmen" at the National.
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Eugenio BATTAIN is the only principal of the Aborn Grand Opera Company who does not sing in English. Mr. BATTAIN is now in the throes of a struggle with the language of Shakespeare, but thus far the language is ahead.
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Fritzi von BUSING as Carmen will attract many admirers to the National this week. Miss von BUSING has determined to sing the role for all four performances, not alternating, as had been the rule in former operas of this engagement.
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David BELASCO says that he will produce "The Merry Wives of Windsor" during the holidays next season, and in the meantime preparations are being made for David Warfield's appearance as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice."
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Janet BEECHER has signed a five-year contract with David BELASCO. She will nave the leading role in "The Concert" next season. Miss BEECHER is the sister of Olive WYNDHAM, who was seen here recently with the New Theater Company.
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Richard CARLE in "The Echo" was not the tremendous hit that had been anticipated. The company closed in Chicago last week, but Producer Charles DILLINGHAM says it will be revived in New York in the fall, but without CARLE.
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For the current week no one will be seated during the progress of the first act of "The Road to Yesterday" at the Columbia, in order to eliminate distracting conditions and permit patrons to have the full benefit of the early passage of the play.
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Jane MARBURY, who was seen here recently in "The Commuters," but who was not suited for the leading part, has been engaged to play Agnes in "Bobby Burnit," replacing Willette KERSHAW, who created the role in Washington.
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Dallas ANDERSON will make his last appearance with the Greet Players as David Garrick next week. With the closing of that play Mr. ANDERSON terminates his engagement, and on the following Saturday sails for Europe to join one of Charles FROHMAN's English companies.
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A. Hylton ALLEN, recently with William FAVERSHAM and formerly with Forbes-Robertson and Nat GOODWIN, will succeed Mr. ANDERSON as leading man with the Ben Greet Players at the Belasco after "David Garrick." Nature has favored Mr. ALLEN with a very attractive personality.
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The Aborn Grand Opera Company has been fully rehearsed in all its operas and has given many performances of each with great success before coming to Washington, therefore rehearsals here have been quite unnecessary, and the first performance of each opera is as good as the last.
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There is a diversity of opinion among the English newspaper critics as to the merits of Mrs. Frances Hodgson BARNETT's delightful play, "The Dawn of a Tomorrow," which is now being presented in London, with Gertrude ELLIOTT (Mrs. FORBES-ROBERTSON) as Glad. The Athenaeum characterizes it as "a sentimental melodrama of slum life, sensational in its scheme, crude in its stagecraft and presentation of character, and appealing to the tawdrier sort of religious emotionalism," all of which defects (?) the American public and critics failed to discover, and the play had a deserved run of more than a year in this country.
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Lew FIELDS' big summer reviews in New York are becoming an institution. First he had "The Midnight Sons," then "The Jolly Bachelors," both of which he presented with exceptional casts and most elaborate stage settings. Now he comes forward with this remarkable company for "The Summer Widowers:" Lew FIELDS, Irene FRANKLIN, Willis SWEATMAN, Fritz WILLIAMS, Walter PERCIVAL, Charles JUDELS, Paul NICHOLSON, Will ARCHIE, William BURRESS, Eugene O'ROURKE, Vernon CASTLE, Burt GREEN, Jack HENDERSON, Ada LEWIS, Kate CONDON, Alice DOVEY, Miss NORTON, Minerva COURTNAY, the Jackson Troupe, the Eight Berlin Madcaps, the Hess Sisters, Helen HAYES, and Maitland DAVIES.
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When Laurence IRVING returned to England a few days ago he was interviewed by the British newspaper reporters. "What astonished me in America," he said, "and where they
seemed to excel, is in the audiences of towns of a population of from 15,000 to 40,000 where we appeared for one night. It appeared to me simply absurd that we should produce in these towns plays of the advanced kind we were acting. Yet the audiences were appreciative. The explanation of this intelligent attitude toward high forms of the drama is, I think, to be attributed to the preference the Americans have for reading of an illuminative and educational type."
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Giga NETHERSOLE is soon to be the guest of Maurice MAETERLINEK at his Abbey near Rouen, where she will present to him the theme for a drama in which he is interested. If the faous[sp.] Belgian author consents to write the drama, his wife will present it in France, and Miss NETHERSOLE will appear in it in America and England.
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Every one knew that Charles FROHMAN had a subtle purpose in securing for Pauline CHASE the vast amount of free advertising which attended her across-ocean trip to sell photographs at the Actors' Fund fair. The secret is now out. Miss CHASE is to have the title part in "Our Miss Gibbs" when that musical comedy is produced in America next fall.
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The Berlin correspondent of a musical journal asserts that the opinion is held in some parts of Germany that Emperor William accepted Nevin's grand opera "Poia" for production at the Royal Opera House in the hope of obtaining advantageous tariff concessions from America. Evidently art (or near art, as the German critics assert) is taken more seriously by the German students of stagecraft than by Americans.
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Helen MOREST, a striking brunette of nineteen years, who is one of the "Dancing Doves" of Frederic THOMPSON's "The Comic Supplement" company, punctuated her rehearsals by visits to the Actors' Fund Fair, and as a result of her speculation in the "chances" offered thereat collected $500 in gold which was the prize called for by one of the numerous tickets in which she had invested.