The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-10
NEW PLAY
STARTLING
.f T0IlOND0N
FLYING BEAUTY SAID TO
BE SOMETHING OUT OF
THE ORDINARY


London, Aug lo,-chester Bailey |
Fernald who, with bis wife and twol
boys has settled in london, has been
busy indeed in the past year, and one
reEult viii be apparent 70 theatre-go-
ers IN the autumn season. II all goes
well with Evelyn Allllard's plans.
She announces In the London papers
that he has bought new play from
Fernald, and hopes TO produce II early
In the season.
Il asked him yesterday for further
particulars. and got this much out of
him: The name Of the play, he said
'is The Flying Beauty, from which title
YOU can draw your own conclusions
II might refer 10 an areoplane trap
enc performer IN insect or . $40 g0id
plece--ihe latter preferred. It is Il
larcical phantasy and the scene of II
-wel. It's so out Of the common that
| wont give it away. II Is wholly nm
like anything MISS Millafd has ever
done before. II Is In three ana half
actsthe half act coming first. In
additina have finished and disposed
Of to new management Il romantic
comedy in four acts, and understand
II Is to be produced ia London next
spring.
The plan for reyiyng the Cat and
the cherub at The Iiarymarkct Is OIL
ior ihe present. but the play VIII turn
up somewhere in London before
long
Tempting Offers from America.
Mrs W. j. l.c AIoyne Is spending
the snmncr in 9 Charming old house
near pnner. few miles out OF Lon
don. and not far from Mllton's cot
tage at Chalfont 81. Giles. She has
mad various temptations to return to
America, but has managed 10 resist
them so far. IL Is reported that she
has found Il highly satisfactory com
edy and may produce II presently
either here or IN America.
Another American actress who has
been seen everywhere in London this
season is Mary l.awton, who has been
interviewing the leading London play
wlighis in the hope OF finding exact.
/ ~ the play. She warts. She read plays
/ day and night until she tired out
4 and has just fled TO Switzerland to
stay the rest OF the summer Her
parting word was that although she
hadn't exactly found an ideal play.
she had found several near ideals.
The trouble was that most OF the
really clever playwrights were busy
themselves with disagreeable plays,
Tor which there is no market however
clever they are.
One OF the most interesting and
virile OF the American womeA mover
sts has been In London for several
months, and had made all prepara-
tions to start for Germany tomorrow,
to stay through the summer when
she received a cable calling her to
New York in hurry To superntend
preparations for an extraordinary play
OF hers which is to be put on early
in the autumn at the New Theatre
IN New York
Shrouds Her Identity.
For some reason the author wants
to keep her identity as a playwright
yelled under the name OF Gordon
Stairs, SO | may not give her own
name. which her novels have made
we'll known But it wouldn't be diff
cult to guess it, The play is called
The Arrow Maker and all OF the char
acters are American Indians 1t is a
big. significant tragedy.
Evidently the success of the sea
son is going to Priscilla Runs Away,
by the Countess Won Arnim, which
Is filling the Haymarket eight times
week and bids fair to run straight
through the summer and autumn ill
il is time to revive the Blue Bird FOR
the Christmas season. Under The
: title The Cottage in the Air. Kew
York tried the play aud found II want
ing Whether II was because the
New York version was SO different
or because English and American
tastes are SO different. or because the
American audiences lidn't have 4
chance to sec the amazing l7.year Old
Terry girl in the principal part tho
fact remains that London is evidently
, delighted beyond measure with some
thiag American audiences wonldn't
: stand for.