New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06
NEWS OF PLAYS
And PLAYERS
Stars to Appear in Five
New playlets for Green
Room Club Benefit.

The Green Room Club will soon have
to add the name OF william A. Brady
to its list of benefactors. Mr.. Brady
has consented to take the management
of the special performance at the Shu-
bert Theatre on Friday afternoon, May
81, the proceeds Of which will go TO the
building fund for the new clubhouse.
Star players will take part in FIVE
new one-act plays which will be pro-
duced for the first time on any stage.
Special features will also be contrib
uted by Weber and Fields, George NJ.
Cohan, De Wolf Hopper, Raymond
Hitchcock, Robert B. Mantell. George
MacFarlane, Belle Storey. Nell o'Brien.
Carl J6rn and other volunteers OF
prominence on the stage.
Grace George will have the principal
role in one OF the new one-act plays.
which il called THE Wonder of the
Age" the work Of Ssda Cowan. Wilton
Lackaye will be the leading player in
"The Bomb" Emma Dunn, with
Ernest Glendenning and others. will be
seen in Back of the Yards" by r.
Sawyer Goodman. Alice Brady, as
sisted by John Cromwell and John Will
lard. will present 1.-THE Honeymooners,"
farce, by Thompson Buchanan. Au-
gustus McHugh, author Of "Ofticer $685."
contributes a new short drama called
"Dora's Decision" in which Irene Fem
wick and Otto Kruger will appear.
The Lambs Club has postponed its
public gambol for week to avoid con-
hict with the performance.
Ernest Glendinning, leading man OF
"A Modern Eve" company, at the
Casino Theatre, has entered into a
three-year contract with Harry Askin.
bv which he is to receive 100000 for
the first, $4,000 for the second and
$4,000 for the third year. Mr.. Glen
dining, who had never appeared in a
singing role until his present engage
ment In "A Modern Eve" will here
after be solely under Mr.. Askin's direc-
ton.
The Booth performance Of "Chin-
Chin" at the Globe, will be given on
Tuesday evening, June l. Montgomery
and Stone will sing a medley of the
song hits of all the shows in which
they have appeared under the Dilling-
ham management.
Because Mrs. Vernon Castle has
been ordered by her physician TO- take
a long rest, watch Your Step viii
end its engagement at the New Amster-
dam Saturday night.
Miss Ruth Shepley, who is having a
vacation at Garden City, Long Island
after playing the role Of Mary Graysop
in at Paws TO Advertise all season,
made a flight in an aeroplane with Mr..
Heinrich yesterday, during which they
attained height OF more than 5000
feet. She plans to accompany Heinrich
Saturday, when he will try to beat the
present altitude record OF 10000 feet.
Miss Marjorie Wood has taken Miss
Sheplev's place in the cast Of at Pays
to Advertise" at the Geo. NJ. Conan
Theatre.
Miss Marjorie Curtis, daughter Of DR..
Holbrook Curtis, has made a number or
sketches illustrating scenes from No
body Home" at the Princess Theatre,
which will be used by the management
in the preparation of an attractive ad-
vertising device for that musical
comedy.
Two companies of Experience" will
be on tour next season. The present
company now playing at the Maxine
Elliott Theatre will open in Boston
Labor Day for an indefinite engage
ment. A second company will open in
Toronto August 30.
One of the latest attractions at
"Mam'zelle Nitouche" is a dance by
Carmencita, just here from Spain. 1t
is an apache dance never seen in New
York before, with catchy music which
it is predicted will be all over the city
before long.
Tickets go on sale this morning for
"a Full House." the new farce by Fred
jackson, which will open In II. II. Fra
zee's Longacre Theatre Monday even
ing.