New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-11
Granville Barker To Be
Backed in Season TO
Begin January %.
ENGLISH PRODUCERS
REPERTORY VARIED
Helen Ware Puts Tears Behind
Her After Seven Weep
Years.

Founders o. the New Theatre have
not lost their hope Of advancing the
cause Of the drama in this city. Gran
vile Barker is 10 have their encour-
ngement in his season a. Wallack's,
which begins January % with Bernard
Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion" and
Anatoie Frances comedy. "The Man
Who Married Dunno Wife"
+. G. Bourne, Paul D. Cravsth. Ar.
cher VI. Huntington, Otto II. Kahn and
Clarence II. Mackay, with Henry Rog-
ers Winthrop as secretary, will issue
an announcement to-day on behalf Of
the founders.
For several years" the folder says,
sharing the management of two thea
tres with his wife. Lillah Mccarthy.
ana acting IN concert with a group o.
fellow workers playwrghts. designers
and actors Mr. Barker has been an
active producer in London. always with
the view OF ultimately establishing an
endowed reDertory theatre. which
would bear somewhat the same rels-
ton 20 the drama in London that il
was hoped the New Theatre would bear
10 the drama in New York. The plan
was on the point of fruition when the
European war compelled its temporary
abandonment"
Among the plays which Mr.. Barker
contemplates staging here are "A Mid
summer Nights Dream" Shaw's "The
Doctors Dilemma" his own "The Ma
dras House" and possibly one or more
OF the following plays: "Moliere's
lie Marriage Force Mansfeld's
philip the King" Maeterlinck's death
of Tintaeiles" and Meredith's THE
Sentimentalists."
Among those engaged for the COM
pany here are Kate Carlton, Eva Leon
ardBoyne. Mary Barton, Isabel Jeans,
Ruby Blyth. o. p. Heggie, Ian Mac
Claren, Arnold Lucy, Walter Creighton,
Horace Braham. Ernest Cossart, Cecil
Cameron. Lionel Braham. Gerald Ha-
mer, Edgar Kent, Hugh McRae and
Phil Dwyer.
After seven years Of shedding little
rivulets Of briny tears Helen Ware
suggests that she ought not to be
blamed for wanting 10 change her line
Of artistic endeavor. To this end she
has selected for her vaudeville debu.
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locks one-act comedy drama. "An In
terlude." She has clung persistently
20 the acting rights 20 the play since
her success with il at q Friars' Club
show at the New York Theatre some
years ago.
Miss Ware says the public won't
stand for pretence on the stage, and
declares it's mighty tiresome thing
to rack ones nerves every night wrest-
ling with strenuous part. From "The
Resurrection" TO THE Price" she has
had q succession of weepy roles. In
one, "The Deserters," she cried for
forty minutes at each performance.
With "The Lie" and "The Show
Shop" launched and playing in New
York theatres. Selwyn g. Co. turn to-
day to rehearsals of another new pro-
duction. Rolling Stones" comedy by
Edgar Selwyn. A few preliminary per-
formances recently proved satisfactory,
and regular production will be made
in Chicago on January 81. Tire cast
will include Ernest Glendinning, Rich
ard Stirling, Harry c. Bradley, Daniel
Jarrett. Frances Ring, Beatrice Ingram
and Claiborne Foster.
Lydia Lopokova will be the special
feature of the fourth in the series of
Moments Musicales avec Danses
Modernes ct Classiques" at the Wal
dorf on Friday afternoon. Leading
members of the Metropolitan Opera
Company will also take part.
Charles Coghlan, son Of Rose Cogh-
Ian, has been engaged by Charles Hop
kins for Alfred Sutro's "The Clever
Ones" which will be produced at the
Punch and Judy Theatre on January %.