The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-22

Mctord was asked as she shimmered
along through Broadway sunlight Sat
urday afternoon. Haven't lone any
thing since. have you?'
Well began Miss Vera McCord
in II speech that made one think
Of those annual speeches of Charles
Frohmau TO the American people when
he arrives at the dock with a new bunch
o. plays, after conccding a partner
ship interest in vaudeville to Arthur
Shaw we've been writing and producing.
Inc producing end and most OF the writ
ing I've been taking on myself.
"Recently-let me see. As circum-
stances were against my getting a
chance to play Peogy in a butterfly on
the Wheel on Broadway. I produced
thu Butterfly and played PoooU for u
successful run in California. Then We.
Mr.. Shaw and |. spent a good deal of
money to dress. produce and play the
sketch Just Like a Woman cross
country again successfully. Most of 1t
! rewroto.
Last September Joseph Hart pro-
duced The Reward. which we wrote,
and our playlct got seven curtain calls.
That's enough for that. Last December
Mr. shaw and | produced The Schemer.
which We also wrote. whereupon the
National Woman's suffrage Association
took the sketch over from us and has
sent IL out. \ few weeks ago We played
What TO You Know About That. also
written by Mir shaw and me-trst play
ing IT for tho Criterion Society success
fully.
II have the rights to \. L. Thomas's
new play. The Man Without a Past.
and | intend to produce IT before the end
OF summer. Also I'VE secured the
rights {" tho war playlet 'Rada,' 10y
Alfred Moves. q wonderful war sketch
which Miss Iary Shaw did for the Nc
Dowell club. and the rights to Beulah
piN's Getting the Best of 4 Macis-
tratc' and the rights 20 The Booty
Prize in which Miss AMELIA summer
willie is 10 appear.
"Frederic Thomps n. for whom !
PLAYED tho head IN his Via Wireless
~throughou, its New York run and for
the rest of tn" run Of tho piece o. the
road. has JUS, written TO me that ~
soon as a play T. secured that has the
kind Of star pirt In II he liksS he wants
me to appear IN the part. Mr.. Tho1p-
:, n. YOU know. has revived his fortunes
with his Grown Up Toyland ~ the san
Francisco fair"
"THen outside ~ writing. producing.
acting and huyir- M the rights To pla ".
Miss McCnrd YOU re not doing a blessed
thing
ooh. yos, she answered. sometimes
l md time to dine and get a hit of
sleep
II. As j. populirl> supposed. the
petrol JOY ride is tho height of TIA"
hopes Of broadway ladies' Of the ru.
seinble ,"chorus girls - hopelessly
out IL vogue now. OF since the pro-
graiumc Of "FadS and FtncirS' APP
peared,. then the twenty girls wao to-
night win begin what advance notices
say viii h. = sort OF transcendentsl raha-
ret a, tho Hotel Mc.Nlpin and At tho
= ClHr!dge should vote that this is tho
lie.
Jack Mason II Hippodrome producing
fame has arranged and stage 4 "Caha-
ret Ballet show which. beginning to-
riCht between the hours IL II 80 l.. NJ.
and I o'clock \. VI, will progress stimuli
t%aneously in TIE Slaridge min room.
nh.rs tho daucinc class holds forth
Saturda, nights, and in tho Mc->lpin
grill. half a mile down Broadway.
TIL" 'npaiy that viii give the per-
forrtrres. which consist 81 choral nuir-
hers. stunts and stage dancing. is made
M OF twenty girls well known to Rroad-
way musical comedy and one lone hero.
Ernest Evans. Nlso there arc spa
ghettl' and "Goulash.' Tiny tads who
will give = cold Dust Twins number.
The entertainment had a tryout last
Friday at the Hotel TAFT. New Haven.
The reason tho LADIES' Of the en-
Sembl" have their hearts IN the Job lies
lE tho fact that IN" simultaneous per
f"rTaucoS mean that they must dash
madly bach and forth between the Clir.
idgc and Mr.Alpiu in automobile, every
few minutes. When one group ~ per.
formers finishes = chunk of art At tho
M"Nlpiu. say, strtightNay tho girls
slide down tho brass pole inGura'ivclv