New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-18
.rhs Hawk" and "The Law
asthe Land" To Be Pro-
duced Here Soon,
SHAKESPEARE IN
VAUDEVILLE NOW
.r..nv Atkins" a Nineteen.
VAR Melodrama, Revived
in London.
n, ACTON DAVIES.

nnrztat III "Ihe nhWhl VIZ
eris,N asvt attraction at the ShuOert
b u commencing Monday night
Iee.IS.r %. The play, which IS oy
SeP.s: 40 Croisset, author OF me
Ifahsn ~ Kitty" was translated by
AaI e.ne TAYLOR and ADAPTED and
hNI ~ Mr. FavershRm. Mile. Dor
ass, I'll play the role which me orlgi-
~ 4 A. the Ambigu Theatre. Paris' -
us,ss :" c,st includes Frank Losee' l.
lns Iswler. Wright Kramer, Grace
S s5O5,.s Pauline Whitson, Elise
hssos- . Mercedes dc Cordoba, William
JOE ,,v,on Herbert Delmore, V. l..
=. ;1le Harold Meltzer. Herbert
s ss,..Te Richard Dix and P. J. Mac
Srd -
u.,,;etts Crosman will make her
M vaudeville production at the
49, 49, Theatre next Monday, when she
f. .n ",,sent zone Word" a playlet, by
sssE q Egan, in which each chaTae-
., snsaks but one word at a time Inc
s.loyve is carried on by single words
~. Ssvsrtheless tells a spirited dra-
20 story. Miss Crosman announces
- her tabloid is made up of one
"a one scene, ono night, one place
~ one eouple. Miss Crosman's first
~ i.to vaudeville was also at the
Sil,te for weeks engagement. Her
1000 vehicle is the sketch presented
cyTl Maude and Jaurette Taylor
=! ~ Authors League banquet at the
go.tl Plaza last spring.
t.b, BARRYMORE aft-r all will appear
.,asr the management Of A. II Woods
AZ, season. Il WAS announced that ne
v,s 10 create his leading role IN a
~ plsy by Edward Sheldon. which
g,raSer C. b. Dillingham; was to pro-
Ss,e Evidently this play has been
S.fsred until Mr.. Sheldon's other pro-
iuetions have been staged. At all
rents although Mr.. Barrymore is not
,oise back ID his old role in The yell
W. Ticket" he will begin rehearsals
once in q new play hich Mr.. Woods
siends to produce very shortly.
Having successfully launched the
raw Charles Klein play, THE Money
Makers" in Buffalo, the Selwyns are
low rehearsing Ben Johnson's "The
Slamander." in which Janet Dunbar
AZ Arson and Leslie Faber are to
pay the three leading roles. The out
s.iown production of this play will
\ nsde at Baltimore OF September %
Another new production which will
cone to the Forty-eighth Street on
Sspsenber Is will be George Broad
Aunts "The Law Of the Land" in
Which Julia Dean is to be featured.
Not content with having as many as
iSsnty-odd vaudeville sketches of his
tu making playing on the circuits at
mt time, Edgar Allan Woof has now
81 himself a new task. He has an
htuhted his intention of writing tab
led versions Of all the Shakespearian
tr1nas and presenting them with well
lasWn stars in the leading roles. His
ffsi venture in this line is now being
SUCCESSFULLY acted on tour by Henry r
Diley and his wife, Miss Marie. II
& called Castle Romance, and is an
aeeedingly abbreviated version OF
The Tanning Of the Shrew." Mr.
Eoof's next attempt at whiting
Shakespeare down to a vaudeville time
Init may be called "A Tempest in q
Teapot" as il is a new arrangement OF
'Ateh Ado About Nothing" Later
n Wooif is going to boil down both
Oshello" and Romeo and Juliet In
quite within the range of possible
tea thas these classics in their new
mise will be labelled, respectively
That Little Pocket Handkerchief" and
The Family Jar
Close on the heels Of Beerbohm
hes INNER sely successful revival Of
be naval pageant Drake" at His Ma
iaty's London theatre that good old
uelodrama. Tommy Atkins" which
vas first produced at the Pavilion nine
ten years ago, but which was never
sohiidered strong enough to be
brought to America, has been dug uT
ag1in and revived in elaborate style al
ne Lyceum, where it is hoped that its
ute alone will bring it at least a Ger.
iig measure Of popularity.
u spite OF the war situation Miss
Agfstte Taylor and her husband, j
farley Manners, still stand fast II
iheir Origua. intention Of making an
Immediate production OF peg o My
assH' in London. After the plays
Gormous success on this side of The
ssitr the reception which Peg" re-
ewes in England, now that the en-
taie cOrdiale with all classes of the
lnsh race has been so thoroughly es
aellshed, will be interesting, to say
at least.
George Scarborough's new play
What Is Love ." will be presented fol
ne first time at the Maxine Elliot
iaeatre, Saturday evening.