The Washington herald., 1913-05-11
Both Producers and Drama
fists Represented N Great
Financial Catastrophe.

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| after its first week and shut up shop
AT the Forty-eghth Street Theafer
Inn murphy did not last long In Hon
est jim Blunt" for the play lived about
/ montn at two different theaters
| Whom Does Helen Belong Tor lived
Tor two weeks, and never had the cour-'
age to come to New York.
WHAT Ais Your was at the Crfteri-
J on Theater on Necember Is. but the
| withdrew it.
James Forbes became a nrodne,ne
| manager with "A Rich Mans Som on
November 4, and has lot of recetptedI
| bills to remember it. The play nzzled
out.
The Point of View produced on DC.
| tober Is at a matinee, died a week later
| at Days Theater.
The Fight" launched in Providence.
| written by Bayard WELLER. was too poor
and lived a week.
Cohan & Harris produced The Polish
Wedding" in Detroit, the Henry B. Har-
ris Company offered Clifton Crawford in
My Best Girl" Klaw & Erlanger gave
| US Eva" first in Philadelphia on No
vember is and then in New York and
John Cort produced THE American
Maid at the Broadway and they are all
| musical productions now dead and for
gotten.
Just Like John was used to dedicate
| the Forty-eighth Street Theater and had
| brief career. much to the regret of its
author, George Broadhurst
THE Iron Door, closed I'D suddenly.
Even fine cast could not save it.
The Bridal Path" Is one Of our late
flascos and is still remembered
The MODEL was the first of Augustus
Thomas' new plays Of the present season
to get black eye. 1t starved to death
at the Harris Theater. Mere Man" his
second play, had the same fate
A recent failure is 1.-The Cradle Snatch
err" which Robert Lorraine used in Bos-
ton.
THE Gypsy had brief stay at the
Park Theater, in spite Of its tunefuI
music and superb mountings.
Trial Marriage" may be all right in
certain forms. but as a play II became
known here on October 9, and lost to
the world four weeks later.
James K Hackett produced "A Man
on Horseback in San Francisco. but NO
other city ever saw II.
Grace George struck snas with Car
nfvaP' and gave 1t up long before she
reached New York.
Mime. Simone received little ENCOURAGE
ment in the Parker play, THE Paper
Chase" at Wallacks. and she went back
to Paris a disappointed woman.
Room A. produced In Atlantic Ctr,
and Children Of Today two attractions
under the Conan q Harris banner, were
found wanting.
Somewhere Else which cost Henry
W. Savage a heap OF money. lived ono
week at the Broadway Theater and its
failure broke poor Gustav Luders' heart.
THE Indiscretion of Truth with a
splendid cast was q failure at the Harris
Theater.
THE Brute suffered at the Thirty
ninth Street and Bachelors and Bene-
diets did nothing at the Criterion and
were consequently withdrawn
A play called Ransom was not per-
mitted to come into New York, II was so
horrible.
Finishing Fanny" started in Harris
burg on November 25 1t closed shortly
after.
THE Woman of It," by Frederic Ions
dale, was produced at the Thirty-ninth
Street Theater, but William A Brady
withdrew it, as the public failed to re-
spond.
Cheer Up brought no encouragement
to Mary Roberts Rinehart, so it existed
for brief spell at the Harris Theater.
'Turondot'' had a trial In New Haven
and stopped there. The Shuberts were
dissatisfied with it.
Even the personal charms of Elsie Fer
guson could not save Primrose" which
K1aw & Erlanger produced in Chicago.
big disappointment was The I'm
| written Law" This play was a failure
at the Fulton Theater.
Lewis Waller put on Discovering
America one week and withdrew It the
next.
The revival of The Yankee Prince"
! was short lived 1t stayed out Just nine
days.
June Madness did not satisfy on Sep
| TENDER 8, and was therefore withdrawn
| after brief existence.
| "A Scrape of the Pen was produced
At weber's Theater on September IS and
| bid us farewell three weeks later.
"The Pawnshop'' was launched on Oc-
tober 5. and buried on October Is.
Boston saw The June Bride" last
September, but few other cities had
chance to pass opinion upon it.
THE Dove of Peace was expected to
do great things. but it lowered over the
Broadway Theater for less than three
weeks.
THE Charity Girl delighted Chicago
and fizzled out in New York.
THE Woman Haters' Club is silently
remembered by Al Woods. for he spent a
lot of money upon it. 1t was started
on October at the Aston Theater
The New SIM had a brief career at
wallack's Theater, although its run in
Chicago was fairly profitable
Miss Princess was a horrible frost at
the Park Theater. and the hopes OF Lima
Abarbanell were crushed
&C. o. d." Frederick Chapin's comedy,
opened in Buffalo in October, received a
severe stating in New York and rapidly
went to the storehouse.
1.-THE Ne'er-Do-Welr' did not do well
at the Lyric Theater. and Charles Klein
reluctantly admitted that his dramatisa-
ton was f1iver.
There are some who remember Arnold
DAILY in Steve" at the Harris Theater,
but the majority of the people prefer to
forget it.
"Tantalizing Tommy was an ambi-
tious undertaking at the Criterion on
October 2, but the public gave it the cold
shoulder.
Edith Ellis play. THE Man Higher
Up" had a good cast with Janet Beecher
and Edward Ellis. but 1t could not live.
Egypt was tried in Albany, produced
in P.ttsburg, and died In Chicago after
an existence of four weeks.
IAN Aztec Romance lived a week In
Philadelphia, and died after one week In
New York. on September %.
Coming Home 70 Roost'' did not come
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