The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

later came a rupture between the two; stoil went off to the Coliseum, while Moss resumed harness. although, truth to tell, he was in no fit state to do so.
 The strain upon his health began to tell and little by little he was forced to sur | render to others the task of once more
 building up the fortunes of the enter
 prise of which he was the original founder and in which his whole heart was centered. Had circumstances per mitted him to take things more easily I , have little doubt that he would have
 been spared for some years to come.
 We have all heard so much respecting
 the laughter-malxing qualities of Get
 Rich Quick Wallingford' that the oft
 postponed production of that piece has left some of us just little disheartened.
 But everything comes to him who knows
 how to wait and at length it has been
 definitely settled that we shall see the
 piece at the Queens on the evening of
 January IA. Arthur Collins thoroughly believes that he is a sure winner in it.
 and l sincerely trust his hopes will be realized. He has engaged Hale Hamil- ton to come to London to play his orig
 inal part, but the cast otherwise will be composed of English actors and actresses. The action of the play has been trans- formed from American to English soil: Collins tells me there is absolutely noth- ing in the story which could possibly suf- fer from the change. Apropos, l hear that Wallace Eddinger is to leave us in the course of the next ten days. He un- doubtedly made a personal success in ."Officer 666" but I fancy both he and his wife are longing to get home again. When Eddinger goes his part in Angus tin McHugh's play will be transferred to E. b. Matthews who has been play ing the role of the boy in Charles Klein s drama, Find the Woman, or as it is called in America. "The Third Degree. '' That piece finished its run at the Garriels in a fortnights time and shortly after wards Arthur Boureher and his wife Violet Vanbrugh, go into vaudeville at l the Coliseum.
 Hicks in New York
 i New York is to have the privilege of
 welcoming the volatile Seymour Hicks and
 his charming wife, Ellalne Terriss, be- fore long. They open in that city on 1 February II, Hicks at the Fifth Avenue theatre and Ellaline at some other house rot yet decided on. They will appear separately during the first four weeks of their stay joining forces for the remain
 der of the season. Prior to leaving Lon 6cn, Hicks produces at the Coliseum 3
 rev musical sketch named Washed Up.' l The action takes place on lonely is land in the Pacific, it's only inhabitani being a huge baboon. Hero and heroine
 are washed ashore in the scantiest of cos | tunes. Fortunately the sea considerate- | ly gives up their travelling trunks and consequently, they are able to array | themselves in the latest Paris fashions l Eventually their escape is effected by means of a huge and particularly real l istic balloon which bears them eff to Eng land, home and beauty. The inevitable
 ragtime melody plays a prominent parl | in the sketch.
 Among the weeks novelties figures
 John Galsworthy's new play, 'The Eldest Son. produced by Granville Barker al 1 the Kingsway. The critics appear to be rather divided as to it's merits, one lead ing writer declaring it to be the most boring piece which the London stage has seen for some time. others insisting or it's many interesting qualities. For my
 ewn part I have never yet found work by Galsworthy either dull or tedious
 There is always something in it to com mend and hold the attention. The day before the first performance of ''The
 Eldest Son. I was lunching with it's au- thor and I put the question to him which he preferred. novel-malxing or play writ ing He unhesitatingly gave his verdict
 for the former. It offered he said, a greater freedom of action, larger scope for development.