The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
George Edwardes May Be Out of Active Manage
 ment for Good
SEALED ORDERS"
 WITHOUT HAMILTON
Famous Play Revived-The Palace With Absolutely Original Revue, Has in ''The Passing Show"
 a Familiar Title
By JOHN AVA CARPENTER

London, March 2S-(Special Kismet' has again hit the London public hard. Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton, recently returned from two years tour of the British colonies, are now installed at the Globe, Charles Frohmans house in Shaf- tesbury avenue, and are filling the thea ire with people anxious to renew &C., quaintance with Edward Knobauch's drama. Asche and his wife are said to have cleared something like S40o,0 600 from the former run of the piece at the Gar rick and from present indications there seems to be no reason why almost as large a sum should not be made out of the run which has just begun. When I stepped in at the Globe last night every seat in the house-was occupied, the house full' signs were all out, and the busi- ness office declared they could have sold the house twice over. Knoblauch, the American playwright who, five or six years ago, was reading plays for Lena Ashwell at the Kingsway theatre, must be running Henry Ford pretty close for Income tax honors.
 Edwardes May Quit
 Despite reassuring statements, George Edwardes does not mend and it is doubt full if he will ever again be able to take any active interest in his big theatrical
 
 absolute control of the man who for years past has played an all-important part in the huge success of the House of Ed wardes-J. A. E. Malone known affec- tionately 10 all who have served under the Edwardes banner, as the governor.'' Malone has been Edwardes' detail man and in that capacity has superntended his productions in every particular. Ed wardes. of course, has directed the af- fairs of his various theatres in a general way, but he has had little or nothing to do with the productions. What we have come to know as the ''Edwardes touch" is really the Malone touch'
 Malone Is widely known in the United States Some years ago he went to New York to superintend the production of 8 gaiety piece played by a gaiety com pany--which, by the way, was not a suc- cess. But although you may not like his producing methods, there is no doubt that they are immensely popular with the British theatregoing public. Up to the time, say three years ago, when the present American invasion, with it's romping, shouting chorus girls, first struck these shores the Daily and Gaiety theatre chorus girl and Show lady, were considered absolutely the last word in their profession. By some method known only to himself Malone could take a girl from a lower middle class family and in a few months. convert her into a splendid stage imitation of a daughter of the peerage with 15 generations of tn, bluest of blue blood coursing through hel veins.
 Sir Herbert has set a definite date fo. his production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion' at His Ma1estys theatre April Il will see it's first appearance il London and an extraordinary amount oi interest is being taken in it. Rehearsal Is have already been begun, although the rLn of "The Darling of the GodsY is con- tinGing to good houses However. box office considerations seldom seem to weigh with Tree. who has been known to withdraw plays at what seemed the height of their popularity