The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31

....,.. Gown floating along with a
o.. .irN Of thcatregoers. She smiled
t,.. uuizzical smile tina, included
I'm. and the crowd come to see his
W.,l wisher?" asked one OF Jim
n, friends.
.,.n bet" said Jimmy. "She's the
,,r.. vino picks winners. She picked my
sb.A Picked within the Law and
~. Dummy and Under Cover and
o. ...,my'-you want to watch the
ola She picks. That's THE Miss
r, .,'"
.r.. Miss Tyler" has succeeded in
,...tr her name out of the papers
d. .rrat extent, and her personality
c.t ,C public knowledge, up To- the pres
D. lime. except so far as } appears on
a.. -tlfioncry Of The American Play
c.i.luy. Helen Tyler. General Man
ar and on the checks of the Play
Dr. u,ing Company, Modern Play
Company. &c. behind which names she
~ been running the winners she picked.
20 this young woman Of the New
I,sN theatre industry, with her peculiar
a .lIty for picking winners in the bit
,r.,st gambling game In the universe.
l4s not only helped net her firm, the
S,'NlrS. a big business and an estab-
ssrrd place among the great producers
81 Sew York. bur has won her own
place IN the field of fame with her own
,llys and her own New York theatre.
In the blaze Of glory along the Great
White Way that proclaims this the GEN.
ne Of play making for the Yves ern con-
uuont u Is interesting to know that
Iomo 81 those signals Of success were
hchtcd hv a girl who came to New York
scarcely more than a decade ago 20
,arr her living as "a s,enographer. and
Who to-day has four Of the biggest pro-
auctions Of recent years 90 her credit,
she lease Of New York theatre, a ST.
bnt partnership in one of the mos i'm
ynrtan- producing firms In the United
States and holdings I'm half a dozen
ether theatrical productions.
Fur Miss Tyler began. a New Eng
lind country girl just on. Of business
college. in he offices Of Dodd. Mead &
CO The keenness and clearness Of her
business head and her executive ability
secured for her the pleasant TASK of
going to the homes of authors to have
contracts signed and &, transact various
ether pieces Of business and Of meeting
ana dealing and making friendships
With famous and influential people.
siUcc his was the period of the novel
Ecd play and the dramatiZed novel. the
Interchange If Interests between play
Vrights and book writer's grew more in
innate and from Dodd. Mead x Go. Miss
Tyler went to the play broking firm Of
Alice Kauscr. When Edgar Selwyn
and Archie Selwyn. with Miss Eliza
bah Marbury who so long has con-
troed the rights Of foreign plays in
America. formed the American Play
Company. hey soon invited Miss TYLER
become their general manager. Every
season offered new opportunities to in
vest in stock plays or In new produc-
tons. II was paid in Fun" one year
and The House Mex Doo." the next
ard others in which she acquired In.
prest; her judgment IN plays always
cautious. and her balance In the ledger
On the right side The trip to Europ,
eame after within the Law. the au-
Nmobile and the bungalow after The
Dummy" and "Under Cover," and she
r still one of the very newest pro-
Goers in the field
For the greatest popular theatrical
success of the past quarter century
which has broken all records of Amer!-
tan plays in America ana Europe Bay
ard Neiller's within the Law was
picked as success by Miss Tyler. 7,
ne rage and horror of all the wiscacre,
yho turned down within the Law" as
failure this play has made fortunes FOL
g. stockholders and is still running in
America at the end ~ its fourth year
A. many as nine companies of within
the Law" have been playing in thi,
country at one time; the play has beer
translated into half a dozen languages
ana played all over Europe, in Australia
and in other far corners of the globe
and has been bringing in an annual in
come of over half a million dollars.
She picked Under Cover" which
aas been running two years AMI is still
one Of the big drawing attractions o
The present New York season, pla!
that has brought in big profits to IL
Producers and has had several com
Rncs on the road.
She picked "The Dummy" the IIar
rry OHiggins-Harriet FOr1 detective
comedy success, that ran all last sum
ner in New York from one season int
the next, an. Is just now the hit il
Chicago, with every prospect of dupli
eating the myth OF its New York run,
She pickle "Polygamy," the play tina
las aSton,shed all New York, stoD'
~ 1t and nlred a theatre for VI whel
cue door was closed against il, to con
tnuc the run, and has been doing al
prrcasng business at the Park Theatr
th every prospect of staying in Ney
York for some time to come ana the
Iaying the Western cities that are al
rioly eager 10 book the pay.
She is chiefly known to a large con
tugcut of the theatrical rid as tn
young woman with the decisive chi
end the cold blOodcd business brain VIII
has sat in the innc' office of the Amer
kan Play Company for the past seve
Years., extracting the last possible cen
- tribute from tc whcedling stoc
E1nngcr who - after royalty plays
5-u.ug contracts W hout a legel fopI
lpIe In them ana otherwise establlshin
Der prowess as general manager of on
u the largest play br, king firms in tn
country
When the Selwyn withdrew from III
american Play Cor.pany recently to do
rn'c themselves entirely to the produC
ing side Of their business Gor they hay
A number of productions now in III