ALL THE PRESS agents in the country seem to have got excited over Philip Kearney Mindil's success in getting President Roosevelt to donate the East room of the White House for a performance by his new attraction, the Japanese wrestler Hitachiyama. Only a few days ago Charles Frohman was talking about giving private performances in the White House as a far-off dream, and, behold! Mindil has gone and done it. Not only that, but he got the president to bring in the French and Japanese ambassadors, the full tennis cabinet and a quorum of the real cabinet.
    The stunt of bringing the Russian Giant to the White House and having the president shake hands with him is completely eclipsed, and Wells Hawks is tearing his hair over what he regarded as a brilliant play in having Maude Adams take fencing lessons with the president. Hawks is reported to have wired Secretary Loeb asking permission to give a performance of "Peter Pan" in the East room and offering to let the president play Hook the Pirate. Mr. Loeb refused to confirm the report, but the president is said to have begun reading the book of "Peter Pan" aloud, striding up and down the room and declaiming the pirate's lines to Kermit and Quentin, so there is some confidence in the report.
    "Dan" Fishell is reported to have wired Loeb immediately after reading the report of Mindil's great stunt. Fishell wants to have a Barnum & Bailey performance in the White House grounds, with the president and the Japanese ambassador selling peanuts and red lemonade, and offers to let Quentin ride a hippopotamus. A counter-offer has been received, it is said, from Brady asking that Ringling Bros. be allowed to set up a monkey house in the East room for the Roosevelt children to play with, and that some special trapeze and acrobatic acts be given in the White House lot under the auspices of Theodore Jr.