Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-21
Curtain Calls

coincident with the fact that the
company playing "a Pair Of Skies
in the Longacre Theatre will begin
the sixth month Of its New York
run next Monday, II. H. Frazee an
nonnces that instead of planning new
productions for the coming season he
is combining his activities to the or
ganization of five additional COM
panies to appear in Mr.. Peple's farce,
the first of which will open his cort
Theatre, Chicago, on August s. The
cast for that company has been in
rehearsal for week. and includes
Frank Mcintyre, Sam Hardy, Richie
Ling, OLA 'Waldrop, Elizabe Nelson,
Amelia Sumers, James 7. Galloway,
Charles Ashley, Elise Scott and Billy
Dixon
Directly following the premiere of
the Chicago production. Mr.. Frazee
viii sail for London on the Maure-
tania TO complete arrangements for
the production there of "A Pair of
Skies" for which Joseph Coyne,
Thomas Meighan, Orlando DAILY and
Polly Emory are already under con-
tract
The Western company will begin
its tour in Davenport, Ia, on Sep
TENDER 6, with Paul Nicholson, Oscar
Figman, Reginald Fife, Miss Norton
and Anna Vane in the principal roles.
!. Two other companies will also be-
gin tours of the smaller cities in the
East and South late in September.
Clara Kimball Young, the star of
the latest Vitagraph Theatre sue
cess, my Official Wife," has devel-
oped spirit of thrift and is becom-
ing a business woman of no mean
ability. During the scene in my
Official Wife" in which a costly pleas
ure yacht is blown up by a torpedo
she was an interested spectator of
the scene and as near the explosion
as safety permitted. Overheard by
one of the Vitagraph heads to re-
mark that ..it was a shame to blow
up such pretty boat and she wished
she could have it," she was imme-
diately told that, inasmuch as 1t was
at the bottom of the sea it was hers
If she could use it.
Miss Young, in spirit of adj
venture, took a chance, engaged a
diver, who inspected the yacht and
reported that the torpedo. instead of
splitting it in two, as appears in the
picture, had simply torn a hole in
the side. Miss Young Immediately
arranged for the raising of the craft
and has promised the Vitagraph
heads a sail before the summer is
over in her new yacht, which she has
already named the Clara.
At the New Brighton Theatre this
week Henry E. Dlxey and Marie
Nordstrom are the bill-toppers of the
show. Mr.. Dixey and Miss Nord-
strom are appearing in a modern
romantic comedy entitled castle
Romance" by Edgar Allen Woolf.
| The scene is laid in a little German
castle in the province of Boravina.
Mr. Dixey plays role on the order
of Capicomico in "A Thousand Years
Ago." in fact, he wears the same cos
tune. Another star on the New
Brighton program is Victor Moore.
He is appearing with Emma Little
| field in his vaudeville comedy classic;
Change Your Act or Back to the
I Woods" George Whiting and Sadie
Burt have returned to the two-a-day
with their offering, which they call
"Songsayings." Mr. Whiting and
| Miss Burt have added several new
songs to their repertoire. Charles
Smith and Jack Campbell have re-
vived their skit Camping Out. !"
Charles Cartmell and Laura Harris.
/ in songs and dances, Ed Vinton and
Buster, Charles E. Lawlor and
daughters in characterizations, Vale
| ter James in tramp rnonologue,
Lane and O'Donnell and the Six
Skating Girls complete the pro-
| gram