New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-10
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Dorothy Donnelly En-
gagged for Shaw-NeW
Star in Nobody Home

BY arrangement with A. H. Woods,
Dorothy Donnclly has been engaged
by the Garrick Producing Company to
play her original role Of Candida with
Arnold Daily and his associate players
ut the Park Theatre The perform
ances Of CANDIDA" will be limited 20
four matinces, May Is, 20, % and p
A. Arnold Days season at the Park
Theatre has but three more weeks 20
run, this will bring the last two matt
nccs of CANDIDA" into the last week
Of his run The end Of this engage
meut will see the end Of Arnold Days
appearance In New York as an inter
prefer Of Bernard Shaw, and IN en-
gaeing Dorothy Donneliy to play with
! him he, in way, completes cycle
of shaw. as u was with Dorothy Dom
nelly IN candida" that he made his
first great Shaw success.
Miss Olga Cook. daughter Of De-
tectiye Sergeant Edward Cook, now
attached to Headquarters. will become
the prma donna Of Nobody Home at
the Princess Theatre IN a few days,
succeeding Miss Alice Dovey, who re-
tires 70 resume role IN a Shubert pro-
duct.on. This VIII be Miss Cooks first
appearance In New York. She has
never appeared in the chorus Of any
/ production, and her sole experience has
been singing the prima donna role Of
the Shubcrt production Of AT the
Ball" in Chicago last winter. She 10
only nineteen years old.
( The auction sale Of boxes and seats
/ for the Green Room Club Review will
/ take place az the Playhouse at 4.3O
p. m. on Friday. The Shubert Thea
/ ire, for the performance itself, which
/ is 20 be given on Friday, May p, has
been donated BY Lee Shubert, and the
affair Is under the personal direction
Of William A. Brady. The list Of
actors and actresses who are TO par
ticipate in the entertainment includes
/ Grace George. Weber and Fields,
I George VI. Conan. Emma Dunn, De
Wolf Hopper, Wilton Lackaye, John
/ Mason. George MacFarlane, Robert S.
/ Mantcll. Alice Brady, Ernest Glend.n-
ming, Irene Tenwick. Karl J0rn, Nellie
7 Y. Nichols, Neil OBrien, Belle Storey,
Ralph Stuart, Maurice Costello, John
/ Cromwell. Walter Walker, Jerome Pat
rick. Ed. VIM, William Danforth,
Herbert Corthell. Arthur Aldridge,
/ Loney Haskell, Edwards Davis, Her
bert Watcrous, II. L. Snader, John
| Willard, Otto Kruger, Natalie Alt, Hugh
/ Cameron, Gladys Caldwell, George d.
McQuarrie, Alice McComb, Marie Hor-
gan, and the entire company support
F ing De Wolf Hopper in the Gilbert and
/ Sullivan operas at the Forty-elgntn
Street Theatre.
The directors of the Columbia
Amusement Company, the corporation
/ that owns the two circuits playing bur
/ lesquo shows throughout the United
States and Canada, at their regular
monthly meeting, held Saturday,
/ agreed TO dispose OF their No. :
circuit 10 a corporation, 10 be known
as the American Burlesque Assocla-
ton. The circuit consists Of forty
theatres and thirty-iOur travelling
companies, all Of which are either
owned or leased BY the Columbia
Amusement Company. Application for
incorporation was made 10 the Secre-
tary of State at Albany Saturday OF
last week The capital stock Is $780,
900. The incorporators are George
+. Lothrop, Of Boston; Samuel Levy,
of Detroit; Charles Waldron, Of bos-
ton; Rud X. Hynicka, Of Cincinnati
and Charles Franklin, Charles b. Bar
ton and Gus Hill, of New York, all OF
whom have been elected directors for
the first year.
The drama committee of the Gamut
Club presents three plays this after
noon at the Gambler Theatre ne
Courtship Of Then, Now and To-
morrow by Anna Wynne; "Self-De-
fence" By Anne Moore. and "The Death
of Tintagiles," by Maurice MaeterlInck.
Special interest attaches to the Mae
terlinck play, for it affords an opportu-
nifty to see in English one of the two
new plays that Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt has added 70 the repertoire that
she will present here next fall.
George Parsons will play a new type
Of stage husband and Herbert Cortheu
new kind of funny thief in Fred
Jackson's farce, "A Full House." at
the Longacre Theatre tonight Other
farceurs assembled by II. II. Frazee for
the new play include May Nokes, IN
character part; Elizabeth Nelson, Ed
gar Norton, Maud Turner Gordon,
Ralph Morgan, Ida Darling, Hugh
Cameron, Claiborne Foster, c. W.
Goodrich, Berenice Buck, Clare We'll
don and Arthu. 7. Lyman.
Sam Bernard has entered into con-
tract with the Famous Players Film
Company whereby that popular feature
film concern secures the noted come
dams exclusive motion picture ser
vices. Mr. Bernard will make his debut
before the camera within two or three
weeks in an adaptation of one of his
greatest stage successes, most probably
"The Dangerous Maid"
A three-part detective story, whose
mystery battles until the end, entitled
THE Fsterbrook Case" Is the Broad
way star feature picture Of the Vita
graph Theatre programme for the
week. "The Estcrbrook Case" was pro-
duced b. Lorimer Johnston from a
manuscript by Ouida Bergere.
The Columbia Theatre will inaugu-
rate its summer season with afternoon
and night performances to-day. when
Lew Kelly and the Behman Players VIII
present a specially arranged produc-
ton Of burlesque. A one-act farce
with music, called "a Wise Dope" will
begin a programme that includes many
new vaudeville acts and a score or more
original musical numbers. concluding
with a burlesque on Bronson Howards
war drama, Shenandoah" An IN
usually large chorus is announced. and
the orchestra will be augmented for
the occasion. All new scenery and cos
tunes have been provided. and the pro-
duction in its entirety Will represent
the best achievements In this form OF