New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-17
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Hands Up" Off Till the
Fall-American Academy
Praises Granville Barker.

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The Messrs. Shubert and Lew Fields
announce that, after having made two
out-of-town trials, they have decided
that Hands Up" is not in shape for
New York presentation, and that it will,
therefore, not be produced until it has
been entirely rewritten. Instead Of be-
ing a summer show, it will be made
into a fall one, and will be produced
for the first time in New York the lat
ter part of August or the first part of
September BY that time an entirely
new book and new music will have been
provided, and everything then Will be
in complete shape. Both Mr.. Maurice
and Miss Florence Walton will appear
in the new version.
Granville Barker, whose season of
Greek plays came to an end at Prince
ton University last Saturday, has re-
ceiyed from the American Academy Of
Arts and Letters the following official
communication:
Dear Mr.. Barker: The American
Academy of Arts and Letters, organized +.
as it was for the purpose of promoting
the dignity, the usefulness and the best +.
standards of literature and the arts, /
cannot be Indifferent to the unique and !
important service that you are render /
ing in these fields by the admirable out !
door representations which you are 1
giving of DR.. Gilbert Murrays trans |
lations of the dramas of Euripides. |
You have succeeded in reviving and /
broadening among us the sense of the |
vitality, the. imaginative influence and .
the permanent value OF great art. You .
have thus done a notable service both .
to classical culture and to popular edu-
cation.
AS directors of the Academy and in
its behalf we desire TO record our ap
probation of this achievement and to
send you our cordial congratulations. II
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM DEAN HOwELLs.
,,.,,,,.,, President Of the Academy
WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE. II
ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON.
Permanent Secretary.
EDWIN ROWLAND BLASHFIELD.
WILLIAM CRARY BROWNELL.
THOMAS HASTINGS.
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD MEAD.
Indignation over the sinking Of the
Lusitania and the use of chlorine gas
by the Germans has caused Ernest
Knoch, who was one of the musical
directors of the Century Opera Com
pany, TO renOunce his allegiance to
Kaiser Wilhelm and become an Ameri-
can citizen, He took out his first pa
pers yesterday. Says Herr Knoch:
81 am loyal to Wagner and to Ger
man music, but in all else | am a
simon pure American from this time on.
There is no string 10 my new allegi
ance and no mental reservation in
favor of the Kaiser"
The Century Opera Company brought
Herr Knoch to this country last fall as
its Wagnerian conductor. He is at
present conducting the Gilbert and
Sullivan Revue" an organization of
sixty singers, which is to present at
he Palace Theatre next week a COM
Dosite offering containing numbers
from several of the Gilbert and Sui
ivan operas.
Knoch received his musical education
n Karlsruhe, where he was a pupil and
,rot6ge of Felix Motif. He assisted for
several years in the Bayreuth Wag-
merriam productions, dnder DR.. Hans
Richter, after which he was success
,ively conductor in the opera houses of /
'trassburg and Cologne. His declara-
ion of intended American citizenship
will enable him to accompany the Gil
vert and Sullivan production into Cam
ida without danger of trouble from the
British authorities.
Klaw & Erlanger yesterday denied a
eport that had been circulated that =
hey would be interested next season in .
plan to present plays of the 50 class
{ 81. Their policy in regard to the |
Gale of prices for the plays in which
hey are interested will not be changed
n any respect from previous seasons.
The programme for the opening Of
he Grand Central Palace three-ringed
loving Picture Carnival tonight in >,
lude Robert Warwick in THE Face "
n the Moonlight" and Vivian Martin I
n Little Miss Brown" There will be W
eatures starring Nance 0Neill, Weber Il
nd Fields, Kathryn 0sterman and y
eitcrson de Angels. A special two ,
eel Charley Chaplin picture has been b.
ooked, and war film, bearing the n
lamp of approval of the German gov
will be exhibited Besides m
1ese there are industrial, travel and h.
opical pictures. n
The Messrs. Shubert announce that Il,
wing to the hot weather. the ENGAGE,
tent OF George Nash in Three of
carts VIII come to a close at the r
hirty-ninth Street Theatre, next Sat
rday evening.
Headed by Admiral Sigsbee. Admiral
ARK who investigated the sinking Of
lie Maine, and Captain Jack Crawford
he poet-scout, five hundred members
the &. A. r. appeared before the
lmera at the Vltagraph studio vcs-
'rday. VS.
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