New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-04
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
under Fire" at the Hud-
son Next Week - Mr..
KOslOff'S Villa Goes.

Selwyn and Company announce that
they will present Under Fire. the
newest play by Roi Cooper Megrue, at
the Hudson Theatre on the night OF
Wednesday, August IL, instead of Labor
! Day, as had been formerly planned.
William Courtenay is the featured
rember of the cast Of more than fifty
players, which includes Frank Craven,
Violet Heming. Felix Krembs, Henry
Stephenson, Norman Tharp, Mallse
Sheridan, Phoebe Foster, Dorothy ABB
bolt, Walter Kingsford, Edward Nav
son and Mckay Morris. In addition
to the fifty speaking parts Under
Fire" will call for the services of more
than one hundred extra players and
the scenic production will be eXcep-
tionally elaborate and beautiful.
NJ. Maurice, co-star with Miss Wal
ton in Hands Up" at the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre, possesses as much vlr-
tuosity in the sartOrial art as in the
art of dancing He announces that ne
will shortly appear in coat, which ne
has named the Maurice jacket, that
Will startle even blase Broadwayltes. NJ.
Maurice declares he will wear 1t at all
the formal functions at which he and
his wife, Miss Walton, appear, in spite
of the traditions of the conventional
swailOw-tall.
Theodor Koslof, the Russian dancer
at the Winter Garden, received brlet
message yesterday from Russia stat
ing that his Polish villa, fifty miles
east of Warsaw, and in the zone Of
evacuation, had Len entirely dismant-
led and everything of value shipped
to his Petrograd home.
The Drury Lane Company of America,
composed of the Messrs. Shubert, Will
lam A. Brady, f. Ray Comstock and
Morris Gest, yesterday concluded ar
rangements with Arthur Collins, man
aging director of the Drury Lane Thea
tire. London, whereby Stolen Orders,
the big London melodramatic success
which has been running at Drury Lane
for almost three seasons, will in Sep
TENDER be presented at the Manhattan
Opera House. The entire London pro
duction and company will be brought
TO America. II \ the first play to
show in action a submarine, dread
nought and an aeroplane in hghtlng
trim. One scene shows the destruction
of a Zeppelin airship by an aeroplane.
+. Newton Lindo, the personal repre-
sentative of Arthur Collins, arrived
from London last week with scene plots
and special plans for the alteration OF
the Manhattan Opera House stage.
Owing to the magnitude Of the produc-
tion II will be necessary 10 devote az
least five weeks 10 the structural
changes to accommodate the scenery.
Ernest Dauban, general stage director
of the London Drury Lane, will arrive
in New York next week to take charge
of the actual staging Of "Stolen Orders
in America. The entire company OF
1876 English players will arrive the
latter part OF August.
Rehearsals began yesterday at the
Gaiety Theatre of Just Outside the
Door" the new play b Jules Eckert
Goodman. to be presented by Henry
Miller. in association with Klaw and
Erlanger. The rehearsals are under the
immediate direction of Mr.. Miller. The
scenes of the play are laid IN TINS
country at the present time. Prominent
in the cast are Leonore Ulrich, Janet
Dunbar. Lizzie Hudson Collier, julia
Mills. Elliott Dexter. Ernest Truck,
Frank Kemble Cooper, David Glassiord'
Frank Losee and William Norton.