Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-16
STAGE AND STAGE FOLK

After eighty-two weeks in Peg o
My Heart" forty of which were spent
in Chicago Peggy O'Neill has return
ed to New York. She will he seen in
new play in New York this season,
and probably in the capacity of star
oliver Morosco will be in charge.
Charles Dillingham; has added NAL
colin Fassett, Annie Esmond and Eu-
gene Revere to the cast of 'The Miss
ing Link" in which Elsie Janis is To
appear next month.
Arnold DAILY has dropped George
Bernard Shaw plays and Broadway
footlights for a while and become a
notion picture director and producer
for Pathe.
Maurice Astier, a young Frenchman
.ormerly employed in the Bound
Brook factory and who answered the
call to the defence of the tricolor,
has been awarded a medal for gal
lantry under fire. He recently re-
paired telegraph wire while under a
veritable rain of shells from the Ger
man howitzers.
One advantage of having Richard
Harding Davis, Irving S. Cobb and all
the other eminent literati rushing
over to become war correspondents is
perhaps the regular writer's of notion
picture plays will be allowed to slip
! in manuscript or two.
The Colonial Theater. Bloomfield
and Summer avenues which Is under
the management of Ben J. Nusbaum,
has installed Wurlitzer organ. The
organ was heard for the first time
| last night and met with approval.
| Leon Britton. late of the Grand
| Central Palace. New York, has been
obtained to operate the organ.
Raymond Hitchcock is said to be
| at his very best in the screen
farce entitled. THE Ring-Tailed
Rhinoceros," and Raymond Hitch
cock at his best is very funny indeed
Chauncey Monroe has been booked
by Edward S Keller to open in "A
Business PROPOSAL at Keith's The
alter, Philadelphia, August 30.
"The New Henrietta" with William
II Crane, Thomas w. Ross. Maclyr
Arbucle. Amelia Bingham and Mabe
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next season.
In October the Vita will inaugurat'
a Sydney Drew Day each Friday ant
| Vita exhibitors that date will be en-
abled to show a Drew comedy,
Walter Mccullough will be Blanche
Walsh's principal support in the
Western tour of her vaudeville skii
1.-The Spoils of War.
Hardee Kirkland has been engaged
to act John Mason's original role II
1.-The Song of Songs.
Harriet Marlotte will he seen undel
the direction of Edward S, Keller il
"The Lollard,' Regina Connelli's for
mer vehicle.
Rehearsals have begun of Jus
Outside the Door" new play b.
Jules Ec<ert Goodman, to be present
ed by Henry Miller, In association
with <law & Erlanger.
Emmett Dewey will open his seasor
in His Wifes Mother" on Septem
Iber :. He will be supported by Maud'
tDurand.
Mrs. Albert Gallatin Wheeler, whit
before her marriage in 1898 gained
fame as Claudia Carlstedt with Franz
Daniels in THE Idols Eye will re
turn to the stage this fall as a shov
girl She will be seen in "Cousil
Lucy" in which Julian Eltinge VII
star Mrs. Wheeler explains her ac
tion as a case of necessity.
Ralph Riggs and Katharine Wttchi
have been added to the cast cH Th
Princess Pat" the Henry Blossom
Victor Herbert comic opera to be pro
duced by John Cort at the Cort Thee
ter, Atlantic City, on August 93
Walter Jones has been engaged b
H H. Frazee to head the road com
pany of "A Full House" which goe
ON tour early in September. MI