The Washington times., 1914-03-22
Last Resort
Has To
Move "
By BEAU RIALT0.

By BEAU R1ALTO.
&EW YORK, March 22.-One OF the
weeks pronounced successes was Ed
ward Pebles new musical farce, a
Pair Of Skies" produced by II. H,
Frazee, at the Longacre Theater. The
piece, which received a prolonged road
try-out on the Atlantic Coast, came 70
broadway with its success assured
The action of the comedy is based on
the Potash and Perlmutter-esque quar-
rels Of two young men. partners IN
the Eureka Digestive Pill Company.
Broadway managers have found that
economy In the production of 2 new
Ilay is a poor policy. This season, In
particular. has demonstrated that tite
only way to put play across Is to
engage for it the very best obtainable.
after a play has had = successful run,
regulations, but for the premiere II has
become necessary TO have very nearly
aIl-star cast to insure success. A. IL.
Woods admitted this when he got to-
gether one OF the strongest companies
Broadway ever saw to put on The
followed the same precept in "A Par
of Skies" In the company are. Hale
Hamilton. Ann Murdock, Ivy Trout
man, George Parsons, George Howard,
Geraldine Bcckwith and many others
OF the same caliber.
OF necessity, the installation of a
Pair Of Skies IN the Longacre Theater
necessitated moving The Last Resort"
George Scarborough's thrilling meiodra-
na.ic attack on the Judiciary out of
The playhouse, after a run of three
weeks. Scarborough says that the
piece will be placed in another Broad
way theater Immediately. Scarbor-
ough's arrangement with FrazeeT.lessee
the Longacre. was that his piece was
10 run as long as he desired. II 1t did
5000 worth of business the first week.
Otherwise its stay in the Longacre was
&c be at the option of Frazee: While
The Last Resort did reasonably well,
il die not come up to the 5000 mark,
and Frazee exercised his option.
John Bunny. than whose face no
physiognomy is known TO more people
self against beaut.y. Bunn's face is
his fortune. all right, but he is proud
OF, it. He jealously safeguards his
LONELINESS, because he knows 1t is the
thing that makes him the highest
priced moving picture actor ir the
business. HIS insurance against beauty
followed a casual conversation with a
friend in one Of the broadway restaur-
ants.
''Howdy. John; you are looking hand
somer every time / SEQ you" said the
friend idly, little dreaming that he was
taking away-the big fellows appetite.
Heaven forbid calculated Euriny.
'Are you joking or in earnest ?ht
The man assured the actor that ne
was serfous telling Bunny that he
really thought he was getting hand
Some. ~ --.-o.-
.why. man. 1 cannot stand to get
good looking" shouted Bunny In gen
.lfiner panic. I've got td stop it, 1t
would ruin my business = -
why not insure your face?" sug-
evAC fal fha - h4
spce agent.
Bunny jumped at the proposition, and
promptly took out a $4,000 policy
against fatal beauty
The other night the Playhouse in
Thirty-eighth street. was dark, and
William A. Brady almost had apopleSy.
1t all came about through an oversight
that gave Broadway one Of its heart
lest laughs. Months ago, a benevolent
organization asked Brady to donate
his Things That Count. the show at
the Playhouse, for a one-night benefit
performance in the West End Theater,
In Harlem.
Brady consented, for at that time he
thought he was sure to have Grace
production in the Playhouse. Things
That Count" in which Alice Brady,
the managers daughter. Is the star,
was to go on tour, and it would be
easy enough to move the show to Har-
lem for one night. But the Grace
George play did not rlatefialfze, and
Things That Count proved to be a
big hit Brady forgot about his prom
ise until the day of the benefit rolled
around. Then the charity people re-
minded him of his agreement. and
Brady could do nothing but send his
play to the West End. That night the
Playhouse was closed.
President Wilson is not the only man
who believes thirteen is his lucky
number Florence Ziesfeld, jr., is So
strong for thirteen that he always
opens his "Follies' on the thirteenth
of the month if possible: This season
Ziegfeld not only has picked April 13
as the date for the premiere Of THE
Foliies OF 1914" but he has furt her defied
the go<s of ill-luck by. engaging thir-
teen show girls 10 hold the center of
the stage.