New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-26
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Castles Receive $4,000
Challenge to Prove They
Excel French Team.
By HECTOR TURNBULL.

William Morris, Of the Jardin de
Danse, believes that Mr.. and Mrs. Yer
non Castle, Of Castles in the Air, are
the second best dancing team IN New
York. He has $4,000 which he is ready
to lose if they can prove that they are
the best. All this is by way of indi-
eating his belief that Mile. Samya, the
French beauty, and 81. Albert, his latest
Partisan importations. are superior to
any dancers IN this country.
Mr.. Morris has issued a challenge.
He suggests that there be three meet
ings of the TWO teams, with three
dances at each meeting. The first he is
willing to take place at Castles in the
Air, the second he wants at his own
Jardin de Danse and the third he would
have in Madison Square Garden. Other
details he would leave to q jury NUT
ually agreed upon.
All that's necessary now is for the
Castles to accept the challenge.
Klaw E. Erlanger announced yester-
day that they would be associated with
Frederick Mckay in the tours Of
Blanche Ring. Several plays have been
under consideration by the managers
and it has been finally agreed that the
first in which Miss Ring will appear
under the new arrangement is a COM
edy by Mrs. Catherine Chisholm Cush-
ing. the author of widow by Proxy"
Kitty MacKay" and Jerry" Follow
ing Miss Rings New York engagement
the tour booked by Klaw & Erlanger
includes the leading cities OF the coun-
! try.
professional matinee day" at the
! Shubert Theatre will be celebrated
! Wednesday afternoon, and players will
| be welcomed to "To-Night's the Night"
! by Grossmith and Laurillard.
/ Nine. Emma Calve mas commandeered
I the Palace Theatre Orchestra for daily
/ rehesrsals at the Hotel Majestic for
! her vaudeville debut on Monday. This
/ is the first time that a vaudeville or
! chestra has ever left the theatre TO re-
! hearse an act. and it is permitted in
/ this case only because of the position
/ held by Nine. Calve, who is once more
( in perfect voice, DR.. Holbrook Curtis
! having pronounced her ready to sing.
| Theodore Koslof, who staged the
( Ballet of Color and Motion in Maid in
/ America" at the Winter Garden, is
working on a new ballet, the theme OF
which will be war, victory and peace.
| This new ballet will be given at spe-
| cial afternoon performance shortly, the
Winter Garden corps de ballet being
employed.
"The Trap" is now announced By
Arthur Hammerstein as one of the per-
mament attractions of the season.
| Seats at the Booth Theatre are selling
| three weeks in advance. The cast in
cludes Holbrook Blinn. Martha He'd
man, Tully Marshall, David Powell and
! Elaine Hammerstein.
The Liberty Theatre will be rear
ranged for d. W. GrifIith's photo
graphic spectacle, "The Birth of a Ma
/ ton" which opens Wednesday even
/ ing. Following the end OF Otis Skin
ner's engagement tomorrow night, Mr..
| Griffith will take possession and in
stall an optical expert TO establish the
correct focus and minimize the strain
on the eye. The most advantageous
seats will be set apart as loges.
The Broadway Theatre, with its new
policy Of Paramount Pictures, offers
Mary Pickford in Mistress Nell" for
the last time to-day. "The Love
Route" follows. Next Thursday the
Gaby Deslys film, "Her Triumph" will
come 10 the Broadway.
II has just been announced that
Gustave Frohman will be the director
~ the Church and School Social Ser
vice bureau in its uplift work with
moving pictures. The organization is
nrenaring a film which II is confident
! " stated will make the biggest sem
sation in the world since moving Piet'
! ures were frst used