Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-17

/ Howard T. Brock and THE Workhouse
/ Ward" by Lady Gregory. Their other
! productions this year have included
| London Assurance" John Kendricl
| Bangs ~ Proposal Under Difficulties,
. Arnold Bennets "Thc Stepmother,"
Sabotage" from the French; Stanley
| HouEhton's THE Dear Departed" and
Fancy Free" and George Middleton s
| "Embers." The future of such an in
stitution should be big, II 1t can only
keep to the production of new. untried
and notable plays and surmount the diff
! fcultles of scenic production which
face it.
The Blue Bird" returns to Philadel-
/ phia April &c for one more visit. Jack
Davis and Eleanor Davidson will play the
hoy hero and girl heroine when Maeter-
lincks philosophic fantasy returns TO the
| Lyric,
This year the Lambs are building no
new clubhouse, but an all-star "gambol''
| is in prospect all the same AS n fitting
excuse for this marathon joy-rde of the
stellar lumnaries (phrase released TO
press agent 5O-5O) the proceeds will go
TO the Actors Fund of America. The
tour begins May %. but Philadelphia
won't come up on the horizon till June ..
One of the highlights in the. youth of
a certain Philadelphia critic was the sum-
mer musical stock that hourished in St,
Louis a decade back. And the principal
highlight in that company was one John
Il. Young. With @ real voice and plenty
of JUNCTION, he made the best Koko that
the American stage has yet offered for
that critics attention, while his follow
up performances in parts that Raymond
Hitchcock, Frank Daniels and jefferson
In hnI 1,ft ,,,t
sons decidedly odlous from the other
mems point of view. After some sum-
mers in st. Louis and winters cruising
round the Middle West in Chicago
shows Mr.. Young gratihed that critics
civic pride by landing" on Broadway
hard-with The Pink Lady" and Mon
day he returns to the Philadelphia Gar
rick with THE Little Cafe"
With the intermediary aid of the press
agent, Mr.. Young contributes the fol-
lowing facts about his early career He
began 1t at as a boy soprano in the
San Francisco Minstrels, which came to
his tand also Marie Dressler's) home
town, Saginaw, Mich. Then came stock
and comic opera troupes, including an
engagement in Philadelphia, with Ray
mond Hitchcock "n support Mr..
Hitchcock invaded Broadway, while our
hero took out John e. Young and His
Merry Comedians'-a took them in
again, just ahead of the sheriff. He had
as many eight hotel representatives
travelling with him waiting for receipts
But those days are over
Another young player of unusual tai
ents and unusual history comes to town
next week. He is Arthur Aylesworth, of
She's In Again" a novel origin and
brief career distinguish him. In the
new farce he will play a youth who has
spent 10 years trying to pass his college
examination. AS matter of fact, Mr.
Aylesworth passed his long ago. gradual
ing from Brown University and entering
law school before he found he had a
larger talent for acting. Then in his first
two plays, says the scholarly William
Raymond SILL who is the source of all
this wisdom, Mr.. Aylesworth was a rank
failure. The cynically truthful Mr.. Sill
also applies those words to the result of
Mr.. Aylesworth's association with a ro-
mantle part in an operetta, "The June
Bride" But, as a matter of fact Mr..
Aylesworth's performance in that piece
was decidedly interesting and novel;
while i'm between the first failures and
the last he scored q remarkable hit as
the saturnine hotel clerk of "Over Night"
A new touch which, let us hope, gets
plenty OF chance in "She's In Again." is
Mr. Aylesworth's principal asset.