New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-12
THE Hyphen," War Play,
Opens at KnickerboCker
Next Week.
GIVE
SUCCESS PARTY
Reception Of "Trilby' Revival
Inspires Plan for Three
Star Casts Yearly.

Z 'nHNhN MlitN INl lllhu NV pay
The Iyphen." will be produced at the
/ Knickerbocker Theatre next Monday
night by Charles Frohman. The piece
represents the novelst's study Of the
/ loyalty Of the Germans in America
These scenes are laid in Pennsylvania
/ This is the first play by Nh Forman
TO reach the American stage. lie Will
/ remain here to see il and then hasten
/ TO Europe as a war spondent.
| In the company selected for The
/ Hyphen" are w. II. Thompson. Gail
Kane, David Powell, Louise Sydmeth,
/ Grant Stewart. Ruth Ashmend, Robert
/ Haines, William Burress, Bertram Mar
/ burgh and John n. Wheeler
The Selwyns, all except Edgar, who
! is in California, gave party at the
1 Hudson Theatre on Saturday night
/ after the performance Of THE Show
| shop" Broadway was doing as well as
could be expected last night. IL was
announced as a success party. and no
one who was there would deny that u
was well named.
Twin Beds" "Undcr Cover" "The
Lie" and "The Show Shop all Selwyn
productions, furnished the inspiration
and provided the sinews for the party
and the members Of the various COM
panies were the guests Of honor.
Every other player who could get an
invitation was there, and the rest OF
the guests embraced such a wide range
of activity that the character Of the
assemblaCc from n technically profess
sional point Of view. was decidedly
mixed.
They were all good mixers, however
and long before the end of the party
they had ceased TO compare it with IFS
within the Law" predecessor and
were optimistically calling It the sec
ond annual Selwyn success party, the
inference being plain. At various
times they kept the orchestra busy
while they danced on the stage, kept
the walters on the jump when they
raided the buffet and accessories in the
lobby, and insisted that Irving berlin
Clifton Crawford, Raymond Hitchcock
and Douglas Fairbanks enlarge their
impromptu programme.
Among those present were every one
who had an invitation.
The all-star contagion is spreading.
Because of the great success OF their
"Trilby' revival at the Shubert Thea
tire, Joseph Brooks, the ShubertS and
William A. Brady have evolved two
plans They intend to send the play
on tour with as many Of the present
cast as they can retain, and they nave
decided to arrange for three annual
star cast productions.
MIR. Brooks will have personal direc-
ton of the productions. 1t is planned
to open one at the beginning Of the
season. another at New Years and the
third in the spring
Brooklyn gets its first opportunity
to-day to see Daddy Long-Legs' with
out crossing the East River 20 the
| Gaiety Theatre. The juvenile cast
which gave a performance Friday al
ternoon will repeat II this afternoon
i'm the Academy of Music for the bcne-
fit Of the Free kindergarten Society.
Elizabeth Brice has found an outlet
for the energy that she doesn't need
as Stella Sparks in "Watch Your STEP
at the New Amsterdam. She is going
to keen house on a boat moOred in the
Harlem River south Of Fort George.
She'll be the captain and the COOK,
her maid becomes first mate and stew
ardcss. and Fanchon, her French bull
dog. is TO be classified as crew. Cath
crime /. is the name the boat now
bears, but it is going to be called "Ihe
Fox Trot." Miss Brice drives her own
car. and thus is solved the transpor-
tation problem.
A committee of police officials called
on Lee and J. J. Shubert Saturday and
left a Dolice whistle made Of gold as
a token Of appreciation for the use OF
the Hippodromc. which the Shuberts
Il. go, fttr1 for "a laU4fff
last month.
Another Dolly has broken into the
profession Of acting. Eddie, brother Of
Yansci and Rozsika, has joined the
cast at the Winter Garden. lie is not
vet eighteen years old. but has made
ND his mind TO be q comedian. lie IS
understanding the headquarters Of
/ the horse used in the Times Square
scene of "Maid In America lie also
dances and gets his name on the pro-
gramme opposite bartender"
The Keith Vaudeville Circuit an
nounces thatthe twenty champion models
who vii appear this week in the Palace
Theatres Spring Fashion Show will be
sent to San Francisco this summer TO
show visitors TO the New York state
Building perfection of face and figure.
Audrey Munsou heads the champions,
making her first stage appearance.
Two Of her poses are "Miiady Of the
Negligee" and "Miladv Retires.'
Carroll McComas, leading woman Of
Inside the Lines" at the Longacre, Will
be shown in moving pictures at the
Hippodromc and other theatres
Throughout the country in a scenario,
with Mary Wall, the American girl
buyer upon whose adventures her part
in the play was founded. The Hippo
drome celebrates its tenth aHuivers-
airy to-day with appropriate festivities.
Ben Atwell also has birthday. The
continuous policy viii be withdrawn
in favor of a schedule of four per-
formances. at 1880, 2:15, 700 and
/ 900 o'clock. on Saturdays. Sundays
and holidays there will be supper
! show" at $50
THEATRICAL NOTES.