New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-06
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Opinions Differ as to the
Merits of New Ticket
system.

| ly decreed by the managers. goes into
effect to-day. Comment in the theatri-
/ cal district ranges from predictions OF
/ complete success to assurances that the
new system will speedily die of inter
/ nal complications.
/ Under the new order the cut rate
/ ticket ceases to exist. while hotels and
agencies are prohibited from exacting
a premium of more than so cents on
any ticket. 1t is believed by Some that
the plan to release all agents tickets
/ through a central medium will prove
| impractical
SO far as the cut rate ticket is con-
oerned there is a general belief that
/ this institution has passed. 1t is point
ed out that the same has frequently
been said of spectators. however. and
that these gentlemen are still as plen-
/ tiful on Broadway as orange juice es-
/ ia bill hments.
The free list is also being vigorously
attacked to-day ana arrangements have
been made to have physicians sit up
with II tonight.
The Princess Theatre. which started
out TO be another Grand Guignol and
changed its mind, will be one of the
/ busiest playhouses in captivity this
season. In addition TO producing a mu-
steal comedy there, Miss Elisabeth
Marbury and F. Ray Comstock have ar
ranged with the Music League of Amer
| lea to give a series of afternoon con-
certs and nave also induced a woman
lecturer to I'LL in at odd moments with
talks on timely topics. With these ex-
ceptions the Princess will be closed all
season.
Other activities of the Marbury- c ON
stock combination will be Lawrence
| Grossmith, in new musical comedy;
! Maurice and Florence Walton, in play
described as entirely novel;; Lou
| Tellegen. in a play from the French
pers and magazines to spell Miss Mar
bury's first name with an s."
Lillian Tucker, whose portrait ap-
pears above as guarantee of good
faith, believes that motion picture
actresses ought to have an organization
of their own. In fact, she has already
put the organization on its feet by
electing herself the first member. The
men have the Screen Club, argues Miss
/ Tucker, so why should not the women,
who, etc, etc, have, etc, etc, in order
| to, etc. etc?
Actresses DESTROYS of cooperating
and publications wanting photographs
of Miss Tucker can accomplish their
respective ends by communicating with
her at the Algonquin Hotel.
Merely because Warden Thomas NJ.
I Osborne cannot be there to receive
them, Maurice and Florence Walton
will not give that matinee at Sing Sing
/ to-day. News of this decision spread
/ through the prison last night, and the
services of III armed guards were re-
quired to prevent a Jail delivery.
/ One prisoner contended that the
warden's absence from Sing Sing is a
poor excuse for calling off the trip,
| inasmuch as Mr.. Osborne can see the
dancers in New York any time he wants
I 10. If some of the prisoners were not
/ going to be there, he said, the case
could be different.
| Lest the absence of war films from a
motion picture programme prove too
great a shock for an audience, three
reels of that form of entertainment,
entitled with the Fighting Forces of
/ Europe" will precede the film premiere
of "Trilby" at the Forty-fourth Street
Theatre tonight. They will be shown
/ in the natural colors, guaranteed to
contain no benzoate of soda or coal tar
dyes.
In order to allow time, for further
| changes of title, Just Boys" an
nounced to open at the Comedy this
afternoon, will not be seen until
/ Wednesday night. Gust Boys" was
known as BILLY Jr." yesterday and
"The Delinquents" the day before
that.
When the scenery and properties fol
"Stolen Orders" was brought from
England steamship officials refused to
accept two imitation cannon for fear
German submarines would see them or
board and jump 10 conclusions. Conse'
suently the guns had to be made or
this side, and they were delivered al
the Manhattan Opera House yesterday
At the theatre IL was admitted that the
guns cannot fire real projectiles, but
] tnlS STORY WAS oUtitu " PlS'N Nh~'
they can readily fire the imagination.
When "The Passing Show of 1915
! leaves the Winter Garden, at the end OF
this month, il will begin the Longest
tour ever mapped out for musicAl or
ganizaton. The company, numbering
more than a hundred, will remain out
until December, 1916, visiting Sar
Francisco, Denver. Duluth, Cincinnati
and various coast cities.
F. II. Sothern and "The Two Virtues
will collect their first receipts IN Wash
ington on September 81. The play
comes to the Booth a week later.
Jean Temple joins May Twins com
panv at the Park this afternoon. play
ing the aristocratic Mrs. de Peyster
| Miss Irwin, il is announced. has refused
seventeen dinner invitations Tor TO-
night, which is taken to mean that she
is reducing.
Mary Nash, Ernest Lawford, Conway
Tearle and Lumsden Hare are amone
those who will support Grace George in
"The New York ldea,' coming to the
PLAYHOUSE September 20. Robert Eide.
con Wontagu Love, Dodson Mitchell
and Olive Tell will be in husband ane
Wife, which opens the forty-eighth
Street Theatre a week from To-Day
"Ruggles of Red Gap" another vivian
A. Brady production, begins lts career
in Wilmington next week,