The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
HOPPER OFF TO
JOIN THE MOVIES
Comedian VIII Play sDOn
QuixOte and Falstaff
for the Films.
BILLIE BURKE A RECRUIT

BILLIE BURKE A RECRUIT
De Wolf Hopper left New YORK late
yesterday afternoon to fulfil his FIRST
moving picture engagement with the
Triangle Film Company at the COM
pany's studios In Long Beach. Cal. The
contracts were signed about a month
ago. Just before stepping ON the train
| Mr.. Hopper said tina he would not be
under Mr. Brady's management next
season. az had been announced. His
moving picture engagement Is TO last
a year and an option on his services
for another year has been obtained.
He will appear In screen productions as
Don Qutrote, GUilirer and FdIStdG. ana
will probably be seen In some OF the
light operas by Gilbert and sullivan.
After he Is settled on the coast his
wife and young DE Wolf Hopper. Jr.,
will follow TO spend the winter In CALI
| furnla.
I'm going back to Mr. Brady when
I'm through with the films said Mr..
Hopper, but that won't he for a year,
and maybe TWO, for | have "A sort OF
an understanding with the Triangle for
q renewal of our contracts. Mr.. Brady
says | won't like the movies "A bit. but
shall try Il.
81 should like 10 double az Mr.. Micdtr-
Der and OH PeOgoty in David Copper
Held, he continued. I'D like to he
Guitrer among the liliputians. Jack
Fdistdr surrounded by the Merry wives
Of Windsor. Don QuirOte accompanied
10y Digby Bell az SdnChO Pdnsd, II giant
! or a Apnia In "A I.N nf the ArlnlIn
Thousand Nights. a Biuebedrd harp
ing on the eternal feminine note OF Curl
usity. a Robinson Cr,tSos logged by Man
Friddy or a NJ. PicktriCk devoted TO
archaeology and rural sports.
THE stage has IT, limitations. When
one feels that one has got As far az
he can with stage work an entirely
new medium OF expression possesses "A
striking appeal. Whoever has made
people laugh by facial play, gestures aud
bodily movements can make them laugh
likewise In the Photographic drama
The next instalment OF legitimate
stars TO GO Mr.. Hopper's way Will be
Billie Burke. Weber and Fields and
sam Bernard. who Will leave for the
California studios on special cars next
saturday. Miss Burke's contract calls
for five weeks. hut IL il possible that
Ii will be extended. What she will do
upon her return In the way OF return
ms TO the stage In a new play has not
yet been decided.
Cyril Maude's supporting
which viii be seen with him In a return
engagement OF Grumpy" at the En-
pire Theatre. beginning September l3.
IL due to arrive in New York next Mon
day on the American liner 81 Louis.
Mr.. Maude himself will not come to
America until a week later. Rehearsals
will he started Immediately upon his
arrival. The engagement Is TO last four
weeks and will be followed by william
Gillette in Secret Service preceding
John Drew In a new comedy. The
season at the Lyceum Theatre will COM
mence on Labor Day with Marie Tenn
pest in The Duke OF Killicrankie" and
"Rosalind." Francis Wilson and Ann
Murdoch having withdrawn from the
cast.
Acting with a committee from the
Drama League OF America, the Players
Club Is planning a big celebration OF
the birth OF William Shakespeare. which
will call into use the new tadlum of
the College OF the city OF New York.
1t IL planned 70 give there next spring
a series OF outdoor performances OF the
plays by Shakespeare that are adapted
for open air presentation.
This Is TO he a part OF a Shake.
spearian festival to be held IN all parts
~ the country during the spring and
summer OF 1916 under the auspices Of
the Drama League. For the New York
celebration a committee headed pv
Howard Kyle has been appointed to
arrange the details. II il expected. ac-
Cording TO present indications, 10 have
all the talent available from the Lambs
club, the Players Club. the Friar and
other ora guizations participate In the
New York celebration. Negotiations are
being carried forward to obtain the SER
vices Of such well known Shakespeariar
actors as Robert Mautell, Sir Johnston
Forh-s-Rohertsou James X. Hackett, T..
II. Sotheru and Julia Marlowe. In spite
~ the fact that the latter has announced
her retirement from the stat &c, and
others OF hardly less prominence.
The new theatrical sea son will he In
full swing by Labor Day. Announce
ment was made Yesterday OF the OPEN
ing of most Of the vaudeville houses or
that date. These include the Orpheum
Theatre. Brooklyn. which has been re-
decorated and altered. The Bushwick
and Prospect theatres. Brooklyn, viii
open on August 30.
In Manhattan. the Colonial and Al
hamora theatres will also reopen on
Labor Day. The Royal Theatre in The
Bronx will open It's doors next Monday
The stock season Is also scheduled Ia
begin on hat date with the opening of
the Standard Theatre with a production
of THE Yellow Ticket" The Lexington
Avenue Theatr will begin its new sea
son to-day with Potash and Perlmut-
ter"
Practically all OF the Legitimate houses
will open on IA Day. With the eX-
ception OF the Empire Theatre there
will not be a theatre which will be Closet
for lack OF an attraction. Within the
next ten days 4. H.. Woods. II Is under.
stood. will open the Republic Theatre
with the Harvard prize play Common
clay" and the Eltinge with a farce Gale,
See My Lawyer The opening date
for the first named la reported to be
August 30, and for the latter Wednesday
evening Of this week is the unoficia.
date
simultaneously with the appearanc
OF Gertrude hoffman, I'm "Sumurun a
the Palace Theatre this afternoon comes
an announcement from Walter Kingsley
evidently suffering from the effects %
the wet spell. hat Miss Hoffman, ha,
painted her body with a preparation 81
liquid copper and to her dismaV finds