New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-15
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Wilton Lackaye in an In
teresting Melodrama
at the Palace.

Wilton Lackaye, fresh from Ms IT,
newed triumphs as Svengali, journeyed
Yesterday 70 the Palace Theatre TO open
his season in vaudeville. Mr. Lackaye
chose for his vehicle a little one-act
melodrama by Gordon tombstone ana
Warrick williams. It was thrilling
and interesting sketch of Italian BLACK
Hand life with most unexpected emo
ing Il would be unfair to tell what
this erd is, but it would be we'll Tor
ali lovers OF detective drama 70 HE
Themselves Immediately TO the Palace
NJ Tackave will disappoint them neither
in his play nor his acting. win MIN
~ bjs companv are William T. Nor
car. Jerome Kennedy and Robert Law
renee The large audience yesterday
erected "The Bomb" with equal IN
tcrest to that shown at the first pres
entation of the playlet at the Green
Room Clubs special matinee some time
ago. .I I,
Marion Shorts one-act play Iho
Awakening" assisted by Charles Trow-
bridge. and Irene Franklin, with Burton
Green at the piano, gave a NUMBER OF
her characteristic songs. others on the
Hill were the Kerville family, Lyons
and Yoska. Ernest Ball, Higgins ana
Higgins. and Pirnikof and Rose ~
was a good bill and one that Will make
It's audiences forget the heat.
Margaret Anglin, with Percival
Chubb, Of the St. Louis Pageant Drama
Association. has completed negotiations
for the Shakespearian tercentehnial
celebration of 1916. The plan for the
tercentennial outlined by the assocla-
ton consists in the formation OF a
stock company composed or the pest
Shakespearian actors OF the country,
directed by Miss Anglin.
Livingston Plat, Miss Anglin's teen
nical director, who is now IN chicago
preparing the costumes and stage set
tings for Miss Anglin's forthcoming
Greek festival at the University OF
California, will go to st. Louis next
week TO select site in Forest PARK Tor
a stage and open air amphltheatre'
where the inaugural tercentennlal per-
formance will take place in May.
Following the St Louis engagement
II is MANNED to have the plays pre-
sented in several Of the other larger
cities. A special feature Of the per
formance will be the pageantry, which
will embrace old English professions,
dancing. Mosques and choruses in when
at least five hundred persons Will be
employed.
The second out-of-town opening Of
Hands Up" took place at Harmanus
Blocker Hall, Albany, last night, when
Lew Fields and Maurice and Florence
Walton appeared in the new version OF
the summer revue, which will be seen
In New York for the first time at the
Fortv-fourth Street Theatre on Satur-
day night. There is a grass plot lOOx
100 feet in front of Harmanus Bleecker
Hall. and this was utilized by the stars
and chorus for rehearsals all day Sun
day. while thousands Of Albanlans
watched the unusual spectacle.
Bessie Clayton, the American dancer,
began an engagement last night at
William Morris's Jardin de Danse, IN
dances of Yesterday, To-day and To-
morrow" Miss Clayton danced with
Lester Sheehan. The music was sup
piled by the Clayton Sextet.
The New Brighton Theatre celeprtIeS
its seventh anniversary this week, and
the large audiences yesterday tesiihed
to the interest of its patrons IN a
very excellent bill. Grace La Rue, in
songs, and Walter Kelly, 1.-THE Virginia
Judge" were the headliners, and others
who appeared were Conroy and lie
Marie in "The New Physician; Pat
Rooney, Joe Jackson and jim Toney and
Ann Norman. Owing TO the length OF
the programme the performances this
week begin promptly at 2 and p. m.
Selwyn and company have arranged
with Lucille Watson to play IN Avery
Hopwood's new farce, THE Mystic
Shrine" which is to have its prelimi-
nary performance at Atlantic City the
week of July 5.
The experiment of keeping the roof
of the Globe Theatre open during Sat
urday's matinee proved so satisfactory
that the management announces that
hereafter Montgomery and Stone Will
present "Chin-Chin" in the open at
every Wedne sday and Saturday matinee,
as well as during the evening perform
ances.
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