The sun., 1910-05-03
NEWS or PLATS AND PLAYERS.
a.. =. DaReSS sketch wins the Actors'
FUND Falr Prize.


The $3.50 prize which Martin W Beck
offered for the best one act play con-
trubuted for presentation az the Actors
Fund tair has been awarded 10 &. 7
Dazey who submitted a sketch called
The Old Flute Player There were
I .ss1 competitors. The five plays that
received honorable mention were all
written by women. They are: out
Witted. by Lucy Spencer SarveT; Judge.
by Eleanor Gates Of Alma. Cal; 'Susan's
0entlemsn.- by Kate Jordan; Ashes Of
Roses. by Alice Leah Pollock. aud The
Ninth Day by Evangellne NJ. Lent
Most Of these will b. presented - the
armory and will be seen later on the
Orpheum circuit e. r Dazey Is the
author of In Old Kentucky. The sign
Of the Roas' and One OF the Family
The leading part in his prize play will be
taken by Carl Sauermann. a German
character actor
Bobby Burnt. a play made 10y
Winchell smith from George Randolph
Ches,Sr's story will he presented by Henry
B. Harris on August p at the BelascO
Theatre. thereafter 10 be known by its old
name Of the Republic Theatre. Wallace
EddinRer will bs the principal player
later David Belasco will make two pro-
ductiOns Of his own at this theatre. One
will he a new American play by William c.
De Mile. the other by Edward Locke,
author Of The Clmax-
Mrs Sol Smith Of the New Theatre
company. the oldest actress on the Ameri-
can stage. will welcome President William
X Tait when he attends the Actors Fund
fair next Monday afternoon. William II
Crane will give the President a medal
The company which has been giving
Beethoven at the New Theatre pre-
sentSd Director Winthrop Ames on Satur-
day night with a signed portrait OF Edwin
Forrest. This portrait was given 10y
Forrest TO his friend Daniel DougheTty
II has been hung In the green room.
Porter Emerson Brownies new play was
bought yesterday by Frederic Thompson
for production in the fall. II il four
act drama Of few characters with the
scsnes laid in New NOrA.
Joaeph CawthOrne will be the principal
comedian Of The Comic Supplement-.
the musical farce which Frederic ThOmp-
aOn will present on the New Amsterdam
roof this summer
Seven Days reached ia two hun
Grvsiia performance at the AsiOr inrSsiTe
last night
The HippOdrome midgets issued yester-
day 200 Invitations Co their May party,
which will be held on the hall grounds az
Central Park next saturday morning
from A N until noon,
Gua Edwards has been engaged by ?.
Ziegfeld. Jr. 20 write part Of the scoFe
of the .Follies Of 1919 Harry B Smith
10 writing the book
The Shuberts announce that two more
circuits of theatres will book with them
instead of with Klaw \ Erlangsr here
after They are the Copper and Iron
circuit of forty theatr-e IA Michigan.
Minnesota and Wisconsin. and the Walker
circuit Of seven theatres in Winnipeg.
Fargo, Grand Forks and other cities ~
the Northwestern wheat belt.
The revival Of Jim the penman' will
open az the Lyric Theatre on Tuesday.
NAV No. instead of Monday. May ?. a.
previously announced. The postpone
ment has been arranged to give Miss
Florence Roberts and ThurlOw Bergen
additional time for rehearsal They re-
turned from the West yesterday.
Charles Waldron. recently with The
Fourth Estate, is 70 have the leading
part IN q new comedy by Maude Hos
FORD and Algernon Tassin called eco
West. Young Woman which h 10 be
produced az the Grand Opera House.
Chicago, next Monday.