The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-08
WAR IS THEME OF
R@EIZENSTEIN PLAY
Author Of son Trial" Will
Soon Produce His Second
Effort.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

ri,sr Ecizenstcin, who made such n
.,ccsss last season with "On Trial" his
ace, eror, at a play. has written a Sec
o,d drama which will soon see the light.
Ar.hu~ Hopkins, 10 whom Mr.. Rei1en-
..,,, took his second work just as ne
"a ,ts drst. is now assembling a cast
FOR the play.
In Europe. So far no name has been
elected. II will not be for a star al
though there is a strong leading role.
~, loafed all summer" Mr.. Reizen-
.,.,n said yesterday" and with my lee
.ur,s at Columbia. 7 have been busy
,,ncs | came back to town. I have not
.sten ans dramatic courses at Columbia
collage, but have been devoting myself
"a .ociolological and economic subjects.''
Nj. Reizenstein at one time intended
ma, his next play should be n sociologi-
csI drama. but the var interviewed as
, theme and he finished hat play first.
The Garden Theatre. which has nOt
NAN opened since John Kellard made his
m0rHI0bU 1tflt VII ttf IL W bN
elaborated for Emanuel Reicher. who
has the playhouse for his series OF mod
.rn dramas. which were announced for
no Garrick Theatre last winter. He
calls the organization The Modern
stage" The opening play will be
p,ornsijernc Bjornson's When the
Young Vine Blooms" In addition 70
Hedwlg Reicher. the company will In
Jude BERTHA Mann. Alberta Gailatin.
rrnita Lascelles, Rupert Harvey and
,ugustin Duncan. The play to follow
after four weeks will be uerhardt Haupt-
mann's THE Weavers.' which has never
been seen here in English.
Joseph Brooks has decided that New
York will have TO wait to see Bunker
Bean" He has taken the comedy, which
has TAYLOR Holmes as Its star to Chi
ago for four weeks.
"Hohson's Choice" will be seen to-
right At the Comedy Theatre. as Mrs,
pol'ay's Daughters nave gone to the
nlnce 20 which such rcprehensible con
duct and such unconventional bringing
70 seemed inevitably 20 predestine them
Granville Barker h-- returned to New
York after having delivered "A course OF
seizures on the theatre during the last
'hree weeks in the middle West.
II is perfectly true that Charles Dil.
'ingham. after he had read oil successive
reeks at the Palace Theatre the names
n Anna Held and Lillian Russell az
headliners. wrote 10 f. F. Albee inquir'
7g II ne did not wan, TO book Charlotte
Tushman for "A week. But Mr.. Dilling.
nam j. well known ~ n wit to the pro-
.ession. II vas he who wrote to DAM
Frohman, who was managing the Ly-
'eum Theatre In Four'n avenue whilt
Nr. Dillingham; was a, we Garden The.
atre. . letter beginning: 1T Is time W.
country managers got together" They
were ~ that time far off the bcatei
rack of the drama.
He wrote 70 n friend from Atlanti,
city when he was there early last sprins
mat the place was deserted. The board
walk he said in his letter "is as empty
70 Louis Mann Wednesday matinee
g, was there that he saw a play which
0eean well and then went no further
This was during the last season Of tn,
Bitou Theatre. when one play after an
o'he. Was tried there without success,
Tho nrs, act was fine was Mr.. hi
'u-hlms description. blu, after tina
he piece settled down To a BijOu The
atre triumph"
OF al the American aCtors--and 70
'hat malter--the English members OF tn
company, that appeared In Doris keane'
production of Romance" in London
:he gcttest success was made by Gid
Wares. She plays the part Of the primj
d1una's duenna.
some Baby which was acted 1
New York a. IA farce. Is now played wit
EFF ANGELS In the leading role and
'horus to make the piece a musica