New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Strenuous Days for "EX-
perience" "FadS and
FanCies"-Other Notes.
Rv HECTOR TURNBULL.

By HECTOR TURNBULL.
Either New York is not so wicked q
CITY rs Billy Sunday would have us be-
lieve, or its piaygoers have suddenly
turned penitent. Read the elaborate
preparations made by Comstock Gest
for the accommodation of the crowds
who yearn to see the rewards OF virtue
and the penalties of follies pictured IN
the morality play Experience: The
box Office of the Casino Theatre Will
omen next Monday morning at o'clock
TO accommodate the advance sale for
the morning or breakfast matinee OF
Experience Owing to the fact that
the demand for seats for the usual
holiday matinee and night perform
ances indicate absolute capacity, the
morning matinee on WashinCton's
Birthday was added to take care Of
the overflow. The management has ar
ranged 10 have both lunch and dinner
served on the stage between perform
ances 10 the company, so that none will
have TO leave the theatre. Il has also
arranged to send over thirty emer-
gency cot beds, so that the players
can snatch a few hours sleep before
being called upon TO act again
Klaw & Erlanger will present 'Fads
and Fancies," a new musical medley,
at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Mon
day, March 8. Owing to the elaborate
nature Of the production, the Knicker
booker will remain closed throughout
the week beginning Monday, March |.
There are two acts and fourteen
changes of scene in "Fads and Fan
cies." The book and lyrics are by
h,s
RAYMOND Hubbell. The cast will CON
tain over hundred comedians. singers
and dancers. and the chorus has been
drilled by Julian Mitchell. The dia-
logue has been directed by Herbert
Gresham. There are twenty-thrce mu-
steal numbers.
With his production Of "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" successfully launched,
Granville Barker yesterday started work
on his other productions, which will be
soon introduced into his season at Wal
lacks Theatre. These plays are Ber-
nard Shaw's "The Doctors Dilemma
Granville Bankers "The Madras House"
and Wiers Jonnssen's "The Witch"
For the present his programme of plays
will consist of alternate performances
of "A Midsummer Nights Dream" and
Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the
Lion" with "The Man Who Married a
Dumb Wife"
Marguerite Clark, who recently made
her debut in motion pictures under the
management OF the Famous Players
Film Company, will return 10 the
screen in that company's forthcoming
film adaptation of Grace Livingston
Furnss's comedy. "Gretna Green"
David Bispham has volunteered to
F. +. Albee, Of the d. F. Keith and
United Booking Offices, and. Daniel
Frohman, president of the Actors Fund
of America. 10 sing at the big vaude-
vile benefit 70 he given at the Cen
fury Theatre On March 7.
Beginning next Monday afternoon. at
the Princess Theatre, will be made the
first public showing of the motion pict-
ures taken on the recent Barnes expe-
d!tion through the heart Of Central
Africa. The pictures were taken by
James Barnes, the explorer and war
correspondent, who spent thirteen
months in Africa under the auspices OF
the American Museum of Natural His
tory. Accompanied by his motion pict-
ure operator, Crery Kearton. and about
one hundred native porters, MIR. Barnes
started from Momhassa, on the Ind
Ocean, and penetrated 1000 miles
across the Dark Continent, coming out
on the Belgian Congo. The pictures
are in six reels and are called Through
Central Africa"
William Morris is going to telephone
to Mayor Rolph OF San Francisco at
midnight tomorrow that the only New
York celebration in honor Of the OMEN
ing Of the Panama-Pacific Exposition
is just beginning. Music and dances
reminiscent of Spanish days in Cali
fornia will be introduced at the Jardin
de Danse. Ida Fuller has thought up
a dance called California Poppy" for
+ the occasion.
B At the annual meeting Of the The
/ atrical Managers Association, held in
/ London Saturday. Cyril Maude was
unanimously reelected president.
Fred Terry and Tom Davis were also
retained as Independents Mr.. Maude
sent his acceptance by cable from Bal
tlmOre.
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