New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Charlotte Walker Will Be
Leading Woman for
SOthern.

Sothern this season when the curtain
goes down on the last act of "The Two
Virtues" In other words, Miss Walker
will be Sothern's leading woman when
that actor begins his engagement at
the Booth in the Sutro comedy next
month. Margaret Dale, who was to
have filled the role. is i'll in Atlantic
City.
A telegram, slightly aided by train.
brought Miss Walker to New York yes
terday. She has been spending the
summer at her husbands lc ge in
Maine, Playwright Eugene Walter hav-
ing made sufficient money to entitle
him to call his place a lodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ W. Mouvet Maurice
and Florence Walton, if you want their
other names will go to Ossining Mon
day afternoon and teach the inmates
of Sing Sing how 10 fox trot. What
the prisoners will do with this accom-
plishment in their present environ
ment is not stated. Although Mau-
only dancers who ever have been in
the prison, high hopes are being enter
tanned along Broadway.
1t is rumored that smoked glasses
will be distributed among the prison
ers. lest they be blinded by too sudden
exposure 70 the dazzling polish of
Maurice's hair.
Honestly, there are persons in New
York so superstitious that they have
refused to 90 to see May Irwin in mo.
/ 10 Washington Square" Equally hon
estly, the knowledge of that fact has
so bothered Miss Irwin that she has
changed the name of the play. Finding
/ it cheaper than paying rent, she has
moved from No. 10 TO No. 80. The
change involves considerable expense
for printing, but thrifty management
/ estimates that there are enough super
/ stitious people in the country to pay
a profit on the investment.
The New Amsterdam, and not the
/ Liberty, will house Holbrook Binn's
production of "Moloch" this month.
/ Klaw & Erlanger had been holding the
/ New Amsterdam for Sarah Bernhard,
but the divine one still is in Paris and
gives no indication of departing. Be-
/ Sides. "Moloch" needs the larger stage
! facilities afforded by the New Amster-
dam. "Moloch" is still another war
play, but is said to be different from
/ the rest of them. Rehearsals are now
on, and the opening date is September
/ 20. Beulah Marie Dix, author of The
Road to Yesterday" will sign receipts
for the royalty checks.
Ziegfeld's "Follies," incidentally,
leave the New Amsterdam September
/ IS. The first stop is Boston, and the
/ line forms at the right
Josephus Daniels, in the general in
terests of preparedness, saw the per
Torrance Of Common Clay" at the Re-
public last night.
Eddie Leonard, according to advices
from the Palace Theatre, "has built an
elaborate darby comedy singing and
dancing act around the home of Rob
ert f. Lee" To date there has been no
objection from the owners of the prop
erty.
Charles Hopkins, who is prolonging
the anxiety by engaging only one new
PLAYER day for the cast Of Treasure
island" did his customary amount OF
labor yesterday. The newcomer IS W. j.
I Ferguson.
Things have come to such pass that
it is now necessary to hold dress re-
hearsals for moving picture shows.
"The Battle Cry of Peace coming to
the Vitagraph next Thursday, was run
through at that theatre late last night
with complete orchestral and stage ef-
fects.
Hands Up" at the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre, reaches the fifty mark
tonight and the road next week
Elsie Ferguson, who has been
Frightening the Adirondacks this sum-
mer. returned to town yesterday and
started rehearsals in "Outcast" David
Powell. seen briefly in "The Hyphen,"
will play the Charles Cherry role. Early
in the new year the star Will be seen
i'm New York in new play.
second "Blue Paradise" company,
for external use only, began rehearsais
yesterday.