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produced on the English speaking
stage. 1t is estimated that these two
plays have earned over $4,000, 900.
Pinero's Sweet Lavender" which has
made nearly half million, is the dra-
matte success of England. Musically
the record is held by "A Chinese
Honeymoon" which is the only musical
piece that ever ran over 1000 nights
in London, and which to date has net
ted the owners nearly 100000.
when We Dead Awake" the latest
work of Henrik Ibsen, which was acted
recently at a special matinee in New
York, scored so pronounced success
that IL is now running regularly at the
Princess theater. The Interpreting
company includes number of players
who have won reputation in ;.fad pro-
ductions," among them Florence Kahn.
who was with John Blair's Independent
Theater company seven years ago, and
Dorothy Donnelly, who supported Ar
mold Daily when originally he presented
Candida" Despite its title, When
We Dead Awake is a decidedly inter-
esting and dramatic piece.
Frank Daniels and company gave a
trial performance of the English mu-
steal comedy, Sergeant Brue" in At
lily anu VIII
put IN two weeks with it in Philadel-
phia before going into New York for
an indefinite run. The piece has been
big hit in London, with Willie Edouin
in the role that Daniels will essay in
this country.
The young interviewer was talking
TO Ezra Kendall. L presume that with
your books and your drawing power as
theatrical star money comes easy?"
Money? Easy? Well, that depends
on the point Of view" replied the
comedian. Assuming that running a
trolley car in zero weather is easy
when you get used to it, l might give
you an affirmative answer. OF course,
you understand that hard work and
hard knocks are to the mental man
what the horizontal bar is to the phys
fcal man in training" You mean
that you have had the work and the
knocks and ii has made your efforts
easier?" Quite So" And were YOU
never discouraged" "Momentarily,
yes. took one Of my first books to a
publisher well known one, too. He
liked il, but when L suggested that IL
ought TO sell for so cents in paper
cover he said il wasn't thick enough
l told him that if he judged value that
way Shakespeare ought to bring $50"
Julia Sanderson is the newest theat-
real beauty to excite New York. Pho
tographS of her adorn the shop win
dows, half pages have been devoted to
her in the newspapers. and all kinds
or Salable articles are being given her
name. This is, of course. a new ex2
perience for Miss Sanderson, who is
only Is and had been on the stage
scarcely two years when she appeared
i'm ssENanfaF1a - INtrf Z t.
for Gotham. Successfully, the big town
on the Hudson has enthused over a
line of beauties beginning with Lydia
Thompson and including Lillian Rus
sell, Cleo de Merode, Edna May, Della
Fox and a score of others. None of
these stars has been idolized for long
and, remembering this, it is to be
hoped that Miss Sanderson. who really
Is an exceedingly pretty girl, will not
allow her head TO be turned. Uranium
is epidemic on the stage,
and 1t is not at all a nice malady.
If any fresh evidence were required
to demonstrate the flowing of popular
favor toward George Bernard Shaw,
that evidence would be supplied in the |
announcement that Captain Brass
bounds Conversion" is TO be acted by |
Ada Rehan. The great comedienne. |
though never averse to appearing in l
modern plays. has always preferred |
her modernness favored with a tiny |
pinch of the EliZabethan, and her de- |
cision to go in for Shaw, therefore. is |
distinctly straw in the stream. |
Captain Brassbound's Conversion" is /
eminently fin de steele. dealing with |
the power of womankind over the |
sterner sex in n manner that would |
have been deemed more or less scan 1
dalous a generation ago. In spirit the /
and Superman."
For ways that are devious and tricks |
that are dubious, the modern property /
man seems in a fair way to take the /
gloss off Bret Harte's Heather Chi |
nee" The latest stunt of the master !
of props" of The Eirsinian" compa-