New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-04
CONAN SHIFTS BUSINESS
CARES FOR AUTHORSHIP
KIaW & ErIanger to Take
Charge of Three Conan &
Harris Houses.
ASTOR THEATRE RETAINED
Seven Keys to Baldpate,"
Dramatization of Earl Derr
Biggers's Novel, Will Be
Produced Here.

George NJ. Cohan's recently announced
decision TO retire from the stage and de-
vote his time to writing plays has taken
concrete form in the arrangements COM
pleted yesterday by Cohan & Harris
whereby Klaw & Erlanger will assume the
management of the George VI. Cohan The
atre, the Gaiety Theatre and the Grand
Opera House in this city Mr.. Cohan will
produce his plays exclusively at the Astor
Theatre. in this city. and at the Cohan
Grand Opera House. in Chicago. which
still remain under the Cohan & Harris
management.
The firm still retains it's interest in the
houses turned over to Klaw & Erlanger.
which II has had for several seasons. but
will in the future devote its energies TO
the Astor Theatre, In New York, and the
Grand Opera House in Chicago.
The Aston Theatres second season
under the direction OF Cohan & Harris will
begin on September 1 with Seven Keys TO
Baldpate" a dramatization by George NJ
Conan OF Earl Derr Biggerss novel. which
was published in the magazine section OF
The Tribune Wallace Eddinger will have
the leading role The George NJ. Cohan
Theatre will open for the season on Au-
gust Is with Potash and Perlmutter,' a
play founded on Montague Glasss stories.
The Gaiety Theatre will open on Labor
Day with a new farce by Edgar Selwyn,
Nearly Married" with Bruce McRae in
the leading part.
Cohan & Harris's new Bronx Opera
House will be opened the last week In
August with Eugene Walters Fine
Feathers" presented by Wilton Lackaye,
Robert Edeson and other members Of
the all-star cast seen at the Astor
Theatre last season. The theatre will
have Broadway successes at popular
prices, with a change OF bill weekly
Mr.. Conan will open his season at the
new theatre September % with Broad
way Jones" The regular fall and winter
season at George NJ. Cohan's Grand Op-
era House in Chicago will begin August
25. the first attraction being Carlyle
Moore's farce stop Thief" Raymond
Hitchcock will begin his fifth stellar
year under the management OF Conan G.
Harris September l at the Apollo Theatre,
Atlantic City, with a new musical play.
as yet unnamed Mr. Hitchcock's prin-
cipal feminine support will be Miss
Flora Isabelle. 5000" a comedy by
Porter Emerson Browne, successfully
produced in Atlantic City last Monday.
will open in Boston in September.
On or before October Cohan & Harris
will produce a comedy-drama entitled
Back Home" by Irwin Cobb and Bayard
WELLER. Home Ties" a play dealing
with the question OF woman's suffrage,
written by George Middleton. will be
produced in Washington November 10.
Among the new productions now being
prepared for a fall hearing by the firm
are: Douglas Fairbanks in Cooper
Hoyt. Inc.," a comedy in three acts by
Frank Lord and Hugh Ford; The Brain
Promoter" comedy by Edward Laska;
The House OF Glass" a drama and
Money Mania" a farce. both by Max
MARGIN. Besides the numerous actiW-
ties above mentioned Cohan & Harris
have accepted play scenarios from the
following we'll known authors: Win
chell Smith, Rennold Wolf and Chan
ming Pollock Porter Emerson Browne,
James Montgomery, John Golden and
Frank Craven.