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J ri± THE WASHINGTON HERALD STTTOAY FEiUAIY 23 1908 > I MISS pIG NETHEBSOLE with a French translation of The Comet YORK THEATERS ¬ THE WASHINGTON HERALD NEW in his pocket and without saying any 1 ACTORS WHOS WHO A Remark- ¬ thing to the Russian actress Nazimova Wellknown ActreRvlInn Special to The Washington Herald claims an play Cavenaugn hftg able Career authors interest in the Bernard ass8 M the Feb 22 No player has met which remains unsettled Whether she Important role Tomes pWiO5 p > DRAMATIC DEPARTMENT > The Washington engagement of the annual of with a more hearty reception this season will contest in the cventrOlat Bernhardt teal old hermit in Marta or Low- Olga the V Nethersole which Is always one of than Otis Skinner who on Monday even- ¬ should present the piece In Parts is a I FULLER aU lands with Bertha KaHcfe Mr Cave HECTOR 0 Editor variety- mooted question At events the claim unusual Interestby virtue of the ing succeeded at the naugh was engaged early this season by of her offerings promises this season to is made in her behalf that she gave the Hudson and presented for the first time author the plot and the character of The Harrison Grey Fiske to play the part of bo quite the most notable of recent years In New York the play The1 Schraat in Mr special company ROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK fouract Comet and lies abundant grounds for a Fiskes u i Those of our local playgoers who read Honor of the legal contest What is interesting us appearing in L a Kleschna His work I I with but casual Interest of the five plays more than this however i the question was + good in tbJs role that he was ad- ¬ The fleIn o I rthii Knllch- Chas < fl Polite Vaudeville she Is to present at the New National Edith Wynne Matthlsdn appeared in whether Sarah Earnhardt will consider vanced to the same part with Mrs FIsKe f on appeared In The National i Ethel Barrymore I The Academy The Wizard of Oz Theater next week may be surprised to Margaret Anglins part of RutH the her- the play worthy of her a d give it who ae preliminary tour t play drUrbervlHes BluR- know of the career of most famous oine of The Divide Henry a production this and Teas of the Till Columbia The Lyceum Burlesque this Great with Ute teas a character of Monday Now actor in Temas I t TJic Gnycty nil Englishspeaking emotional Miller at the Academy of Music re- ¬ Burlesque js paying the penalty of 9t exceptional opportunity and is well actresses night was heartily received Her and trying to follow a tremendous success ceived In it Miss Nethersble Is daughter a Impersonation of young the of the down East such as Peter Pan wilh a play capable Pritzi Scheff The village Lawyer lawyer was woman goes reflecting Miss Louise Drew One of the principal Her mother of to the extentrof of exercising en equal drawing power I n tho Henry L Blossom Victor Her- ¬ It is seriously to t> e oubteS whether Spanish descent Perhaps the Spanish her sectional peculiarities in intonation players in Miss Ethel Barrymores m- It is evident that she has not found it in bert opera Mile Modiste Inst weak Cress > Daynetj tho two clever vaude- blood In her veins led her to favor the and general as an aany this season lies been but a short and characterization and The Jesters for her engagement at we were treated to the somewhat rare vllle actors iho their entrance strongly emotional roles with which he emotional expression is highly commend- time in the dramatic profession yet by the Empire fs confined to but two weeks spectacle nowadays at Ieastrof an in-¬ into the legitimate last week at the Cd name as an actress has been identified able Her engagement is to force of her Inherited genius Slid appHeU restricted more Her work In Jesters is far dividual predominating and outshining the lumbla Theater in a rural play called At any rate of this union the future this season and a new play is being made The Intelligence ha won recognition as an more worthy of her than anything she did ¬ play in whlQh he is exploited Of course The Village Lawyer have added any ¬ actress was born In Kensington London ready for her In which she Is to un- actress of much promise destined to de- star in Peter Pan and the play is charming velop uMile Modiste is a most engaging comic thing to their reputations or whether In 1870 Of her early life little has been der Henry Millers management It is tot a worthy addition t the fNue But the poetic refinement of The Jest- ¬ trees galaxy of DrewBarrymore stan opera a to Its American au-¬ they will benefit financially by the published parents were not wealthy modern and credit Her and was written by her husband ers Is no match for the drastic effects oC- Being the daughter o the courtly John thorship In respect is change Cressy very play- ¬ they gave ever but it not Sir is a clever but her an excellent education whd accompanies her her former vehicle which appealed strong- prew It follows that Miss Louise is customary operas to run three er of a certain type of character a type She studied In Paris and speaks French Olga Nethersole continues her engage ly to the Imagination of children and cousin by bleed to Miss Barrymore or more seasons upon their own merits which he has made very familiar to as fluently as she does English Italian merit at Dalys after finishing the first women and to some extent of the men whose mother was the brilliant and la- The old Bostonians had operas which thousands through long seasons In vau also she acquired and Spanish from her week with The Awakening She opened I Two actresses well known and well meoted Georgians and much longer than that and if they and for the purposes of vaudeville mother At the age of seventeen she was on Monday night with th famous Scribe liked are on this weeks list ef prospective she the sister t f oar John Drew of to¬ led dele brides One is Virginia Earle formerly day the of prince ro- ¬ have gotten hold of Mile Modiste- written a great number of a governess in one of the up ¬ Lcgouve play which Idealizes the rein and wife that ef teaching a prima donna in musical comedy and Barrymore re-¬ It Is safe to say they wOuld have sketches which are in minia schools of London She tlonship mantic Maurice that of Maurice de Saxe the hero of lately ia vaudeville who is preparing to cently deceased Louise Drew was last found In It a most remunerative piece of ture transcript of life more or less real was especially engaged as teacher of Fontenoy with Adrienne Lecouvreur the dispose of her theatrical wardrobe to the seen in Washington with Miss Barrynwre theatrical property But that was an ex which he wrote French and of music this latter accom- ¬ great French contemporary of Nance Old highest bidder preparatory to going at the New National in Alice Sttbythe eeptlonal organization crowded with fa- ¬ and In which he and Miss Dayne appear- ¬ plishment being one that has frequently OLGA M3THERSOLE field The performance gave general sat abroad and getting married The other is FIre and the season prior t that with vorites ed for two or three seasons in vaudeville been utilized in her stage career notably- Famous emotional ctre won to apr in isfaction Some disappointment was felt Amy Ricard whose engagement to Ute William Collier hi Caught in the Rain It was Frltzi Scheff first last and all Perhaps It wan his best work of the In Carmen Miss Ncthersole remained- AVa hteffton In Frank Mills performance of de Saxe editor of the Smart Set has been pub- ¬ lished however is not to appearing season in the time that attracted the immense au- ¬ kind It W the act he chose at any a governess for nearly two years She who is as essential to general harmony Miss Ricard this the retire immediately judging by the an- ¬ the support Barrysnere ta diences to see Mile Modiste last rates to develop Into a fouract play But was a little over eighteen when she made of the love story which underlies Adri- of Ethel Her week PLAYS AND PLAYFOLK nouncement that she is to have a part in Sister has come to be known among To hear an artist such as she is a tho humor and the pathos which con ¬ her first professional appearance as an enne as the heroine Locoureur herself Clyde Fitchs new comedy Girls which maaagexa members of the profession- lego that the discerning public has not densed into a twentyminute act seemed actress Brewsters Millions passed Its The work of Miss Nethersole Shubertg are produce Be and has in the title the to at the in general as the loaned acter Mr been slow to take advantage of Not real and vital has lost much of its force She was induced to adopt the stage a- 300th performance hi London role was according to eon ¬ lasco Theater In Washington on March admirable the Byron more sInce Alice Nielsen sang In comic opera- in being thus spread out into an enter-¬ career participating In several sensus of t with Laura Nelson Hall Herbert Stand- has appeared in productions sa after the critics The latter part of than any other actor oe the American tor sorno years prior to Amer- ¬ tainment extending over two As amateur performances Hall Caine has gone to Egypt where he the week Miss played Ing Edward Marble and Charles Cherry jUt Frltzls hours In London where Nethersole Paul stage as loaned player one man- ¬ impression expects to spend a year and devoto his Maxine Elliotts former leading man > in a from ican debut hh a light opera star taken The Village Lawyer stands today It she made an instant Charles Hervleus latest drama The Enigma ager to another To attain distinc- ¬ ¬ time to writing a new play the cast Miss Hall who test appeared in this SUCh a hold upon the popular fancy It is a pretty much attenuated play The Hawtrey txvr her at one of the perform and Pagllaccl For the coming week tion an actor or actress most he especial offered engagement she announces Carmen Sappbo The Coming of Mrs Patrick by Rachel was saId of Alice Nielsen that she was central character played by ances and her an George new comic opera called ly fitted for impersonations re- that lr ¬ Ades Magda Crether wilt probably have the leading certain Cressy She joined his company in tho first pro- produced by Camllle and The Secoi d quiring an individual stamp of ability tlw successor to Lotto but Nielsen is the same as in the vaudeville duction The Fair Coed is to be Mrs Tanqueray U part No details are yet available ag to and of a comedydrama Harvest Harlequin of Lafayette general knowledge Mr Byron is consid- ¬ was not satisfied with that designation sketch and where it has added to produced Brighton in the Club Ind Vera MIcijelflna who recently appeared the character of the piece Girls will ben at the In April ered to be without a peer on the Ameri- ¬ and now away to Europe to return a in an attempt to build it has been of 18S3 A London who hap- ¬ In tIe Koven opera of The Girls be the first Fitch play ever produced by fall critic the of ca stage for the quiet yet forceful dear ¬ opera songstress In weakened The interpolation sup- ¬ Holland Snow- the Shuberts- fullnedged grand of the pened to be traveling in the provinces Bessie Clayton has been closely study- otherwise known as The acter part He distinguished himself in many ways a light opera career Is a good posedly pathetic incident of the old mans saw the performance of and Man has been given the soprano role in E H Sotbern announces the last two Harvest ing the dancing work of Adeline Genee weeks of Lord Dundreary at tile Lyric Sea York aad Chicago during the long foundation for one who Is ambitious to longing for a clarinet and his absurd upon his return to a with an idea The Waltz Dream at the Broadway glowing of burlesquing at Webers At Wallacks A Knight for a Day con- ¬ runs of The Lk a and the Mouse He sing grand opera but how about the art- ¬ nretenso of playing with the village band tribute to the work of the young Theater that of the Princess Helene replacing is an actor held in special reserve by and unknown actress predicting that Miss DahL This is the only change that tinues to draw well and the end of the ist who forsakes for comic opera on a piece tif broomstick Is sheer bathos engagement yet only Charles Froteman for peculiar roles and Sand within six months she would be occupy- The tour of come to has been made in the cast of the enchant- ¬ is not in sight but Certainly the which made and silliness unworthy of consideration- Funabasbl has one more week remains of Edna Wallace has bees loaned to as many as eight Ing a place as leading player In some an end Maud Fulton and William Rock ing operetta since tHe opening night The managers hi season ail ef whom Frltzi capable of singing such A lot of supposedly ¬ Hopper at Oe Garrtek ht Fifty MUse ee Scot role rural character theater Tlls led several Lon will bo in the next Shubert musical pro ¬ work is exercising as insidious a spell on have oecftarod that he was the one and as La Boheme Nadda are introduced without any Indo to make trips into duction- the public as Its rival Merry Wid- ¬ from by George Cohan the The FRED V SCHXADBIt only actor they could use for the rote in Pagllaccl and parts In the scores of reason for their being and when they provinces to see her and she had three ow though it has advantages over that nreparatfea many ac- ¬ such operas as The Magic Flute Don are Introduced they do nothing The offers in as weeks SUe finally A musical play with a Western atmos-¬ muchheralded novelty in tunefulness and Kolker Favorably Known Giovanni and Faust give her the episode of the lad found in a lions cage cepted an otter to play with John Hare phere called The Girl Over There is exercises a constant temptation to hear Mia Ethel Barrymore is one eC the the London AI It repeated Henry Kolfcer who will play the pe- power to bring out the beauties of Victor is ridiculously improbable so are at Garrick Theater and having a trial in Milwaukee at the youngest American stars new toeftwe tho and there the following year she made her hambra Theater culfeuiy difficult SOd trying role of Mane delightful loss classical man of forging ¬ public Miss Barrymore was horn in Herberts but the other incidents the London debut gave a profes- Ifcn in support of Bertha Ranch m Mar- ¬ who jump ¬ of check ¬ ¬ August 15 158 daughter music far better than one has the the fitting of the Swede Miss Nethersoles triumph while load The last concert by the Boston Sym sional matinee Tuesday afternoon at the ta of the Lowlands during her engage- the with ¬ ¬ phony of the late Maurice Barrymere and Goon ed Into prima donna role from a short a suit of clothes mere Interpola lady with Mr Hare was most pro Orchestra will take place at the Garden Theater which was attended by ment at the Beteeco Theater next week tions to Ins She leading ¬ Sew National Tuesday March glenn Drew Brrymore was edu- ¬ experience in the Intended be funny and having no tho femi afternoon hundreds of her colleagues of both sexes hi won success tend Slit nine role crete A 17 at 490 en actor who has as Dame in The Philistines are all for grand opera relation at all to the play as a play in of promptly who filled the house t utmost ca- cated at the Convent of Notre W its big man for many of our bestknown OraL stage apjfear and we are not going to say that the pub There is no possible doubt that Mr Plneros first serious play The pacity gave a PhimdeinUa and her Profligate In was James K Hackett has begun rehearsals She superb performance actresses This is Mr Kolkers third sea-¬ niece was in company e uncle does not need educating In this re Cressy is a actor astonishingly which she afterward the her lf god seen in America and also played the role of The Walls of Jericho and a few of Electra but did not appear in The son under Mr Fiskes management be- Mr Drew in Miss Maude Hpe t you Henry clever in the Jon titt If doubt It ask Mr of work he has made of Flora in Sardous La Tosca other plays of his repertoire and will Flower of Yamato in order to reserve having previously takea part with Mme Adams was then Mr Drews leading lady San Carlos Opom his own but if ho is to on In few Russell of the Grand rise to anything for two weeks during the Indisposition- start tour a weeks herself for a special effort in the Greek Kalicb in Moons Vanns The Kreut On account of the Illness of Miss Elsie de Company But as long as the popular like eminence in his profession it of Mrs Bernard Boere whoee under- ¬ drama The title role in the Japanese Wolfe Miss Barrymore then but a slip mut William H sold Jet Sonata Therese Raojrin and taste runs to opera the like It- be through some medium study she was It was at this time Crane has his summer play was taken by her daughter Stella of a girl scarcely nineteen years of age comic and other than that home at Cohasset Cove Mass to the Sappho and PhMon In none of these s a real benefit to have really great slng The Village Lawyer The play is weak Pinero wrota The Second Mrs Viola Aliens season in Irene Wycher was called upon to assume the role played ray with Olga Nethersole in mind for Rev Howard K Barton of Cohasset ley at tbe Astor comes t a close this pieces has he had greater opportunities or by Miss de Wotte It Is said that she ore In this class otj uslcal entertainment and maudlin and has not the

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