New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-25
Actor Lionel Walsh Said
to Have Been Killed
in Battle.
A NOTED PLAYER
OF "SILLY ASS" ROLES
Marie Tempest to Open Her Sea.
son In Canada-PIaywrlght
Jones Heads This Way.
BY ACTON DAVIES.

Is reported unofticially to have been
killed in action in France, was perhaps
the best known exponent of the SILLY
ass" British Johnnie type OF roles III
America since Lawrance D'orsay was in
his prime in this particular line Of
| work. Walsh, however, was an infinite
| ~ bitter actor than D'Orsay ever was.
| Although net being nearly such an i'm
/ posing looking person, he as not near
/ ~ so we'll known. Mr.. Walsh, who
4 was frail, slender man, somewhere
/ IN the late thirties, had scored sue
cesses here in at least half a score of
musical comedies. In several Of her
carrier plays he was prominent in Miss
Elsie Janis's company. The announce
ment of his death was received in a
letter from England by a member Of
the Players Club, but so far, although
| many of his old friends ha cabled to
l. adOn for particulars, no further de-
tails Of his death have as yet been re-
/ ceived.
Other letters received from England
/ this We confirm the fact that Robert
! | .raine, the actor, Las already DIS
! tinguished himself as a member of the
English military flying corps. Mr.. Lor-
/ raine was one of the first Englishmen
/ to go in for aviation, and four or FIVE
/ years ago he made several sensational
! flights. When he b. ame engaged to
! Miss Marie Lohr, however, that young
actress insisted that he sho Id soar no
more; but as their engagement was sub
! sequently broken OF and Miss Lohr
! became the wife of some one else, Mr..
| Lorraine evidently considered himself
| justified ) in returnir : to his earlier
| love, the aeroplane.
/ Unless Louis n. Parker's "The High
way of Life should prove another
| such great success as his "Disraeli"
/ was and should run through one whole
, season we'll into another this is prob
/ ably the last year at Wallacks The
/ atre.
Manager Charles Burnham's lease Of
/ the famous playhouse expires next Au-
/ gust, and he has practically stated that
/ nothing short of an enormous uCCess
would persuade him to renew his lease,
| as he desires to acquire more modern
/ theatre further uptown. With Days,
the Garden and Weber's already closed
! or devoted entirely TO motion picture
| performances the closing of WallaCk's,
! if IL comes, would leave the Garrick, in
West 35th ST., to enjoy the doubtful
! distinction of being the farthest down
| town Legitimate theatre. The GarriCk
( which was closed for a good deal of
! last season, will be opened sometime
next month by new manager, Mr.. |.
. W. Hope, who Will present Miss Adele
Blood in new play, "Milady's
Boudoir," by J. c. Drum.
So, at last, Marie Tempest is coming
back to America. While England sends
many actresses few, in fact, scarcely
3 81 -,
compete artistically with Miss Tenn
pest for moment. Her American
managers, the ShubCrts, announce that
she and Graham Broune, who was
seen here as her leading man some
years ago, will arrive from England by
way of Canada and will begin their
/ tour at Toronto on October 3. Miss
! Tempest is 10 appear in THE Marriage
Of Kitty" one Of her old successes, and
/ when she comes to New York she will
also be seen in new comedy by
Henry Arthur Jones, MARY Comes
4 First" and possibly also in AT the
/ Barn" a play in which she scored .
success year ago i'm London.
The arrival of Henry Arthur Jones,
who comes next week TO direct rchear-
sails of the new play which he has writ
/ ten for Margaret Ellington, will COM
/ plete the trio Of distinguished British
playwrights now in America. The
other two, Of course, are Sir J. VI. Bar
RE and A. +. w. Mason. The plots Of
( both the new Jones plays are shrOuded
in good deal of mystery. Meanwhile,
I the greatest of all Mr.. Joness sue
cesses, "The Silver King" Is now being
very successfully played in London by
H. y. Irving at the Strand.
A complete dress rehearspl Of the
English comedy consequences" by
4 II. +. Rubcustein, which will open at
the Comedy Theatre on Thursda
evening, October ]. will be given A.
this house on Sunday afternoon at
o'clock.
MIR. J. Harry Bcnrimo, the man who
was responsible for the production OF
"The Yellow Jacket in this country,
has staged consequences" for the
Messrs. Shubert. During his visit to
Europe last summer Mr. Benrimo WAS
made an honorary doctor by the Uni
versity Of Budapest because 0, the ar
tistic manner i'm which he produced
"The Yellow Jacket" in the Hungarian
capital
/ The American debut Of Gabrielle
DorZiat in "The Hawk" with William
Faversham, at the Shubert next Mon
dav promises to prove interesting, for
in Paris for some time now Nile. Dol
zial has been pronounced favorltc.
! In London, too, when the actress made
her. first appearance i'll an English
/ speaking role she stepped into immedl-
1 ate favor. Here Mile. Dorziat will
| pray in English the same role which
/ She created i'm the Paris production OF
"The Hawk" The cast which will ap-
near in "The Hawk" on Monday night
/ includes Conway TeaTlc, Frank Losec,
/ Wright Kramer, Herbert DelmOre, v.
! /. Granville. Richard Dix, Harold
. Mcltzer. Grace Henderson, Pauline
Whitson, Elise Oldham, Mercedes de
| Cordoba, William II. Burton and Her
/ bert Belmore. -.
In spite of the great success which
! she has scored in vaudeville in Lon
/ don. Elsie Janis, owing 20 the war, has
/ cancelled all her. English contracts,
/ which were to have kept her in London
/ for wear at least, and will sail for
home on the Olympic on October l.
Whether her American manager,
/ Charles B. Dillingham;, intends to pre-
/ sent her in a new musical vehicle THIS
season is not known, but the chances
are. in view Of her grea- and remark
! able success as a vaudeville star IN
/ London, that Miss Janis on her return
! will take q short plunge into vaude-
willie on this side Of the water.
WHITE RATS SCAMPER
Invade Palace to Give Loving