El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

way out of the common cut Of stage
| atmospheres- PantOmime gets by once
! in a while, but has to be very good.
It's another thing left to the novice
Playlets ought to be good to judge
by the enormous deluge Of manuscripts
| which floods New York managers Of
fices, coming from ambitious writer's
north. east south and west.
A bold statisticlua makes the state
| nent that 65 unsolicited short plays
| reach Broadway every "A hours. Con-
! trary to impression, they are all read
| with interest-the interest Of the old
| prospector who doesn't find the CLINT
J of gold often, but pursues It relent-
/ Iessly Just the same. Few of the Of
| ferings have merit.
PIayIets In Vaudeville.
! Charles Feleky. the Hungarian
I vaudeville expert, is working on sew
/ eral playlets which will start over the
! Keith and Orpheum circuits in July
| and August with well known players
promised Rudyard Kipling's The Man
Who Was" Frances NordstrOm's The
| Cat and the Kitten" and Knocking
/ on the Door"
Notebook Blinn, who directed the
Princess when it had a policy OF play
| let's two years ago, will produce more
one act plays, It Is understood. in the
new theater he is now building. NJ
Sacha Guitry, Of the Grand Guignol
Will come to America in the autumn.
Little is known about his plans.
The best work in the short play line
seen this winter has been the per-
formances Of the Washington Square
Players in the Bandbox Theater, with
the talent mostly amateur.
eThe Million Doua-d DolIs.y
The Million Dollar Dolls" have
appeared at the Columbia theater.
seventh heaven Of burlesque. and pre-
scented The Hotel de Gink"
In a lively way the scenes shifted
from a fashionable summer hotel to a
L. fHa NH he
students were to be observed in ath-
letic and scholastic life, dressed in
costumes In which traditional board
ing school garb made some slight con-
lesque. However, there was no vio-
lence.
In the cast were Lew Hilton Lester
Allen, Ira Francis st. Clair, Grant Glib
son, Elsie Meadows, Adele Renney and
Bob Ferns
Maude Adams in New Play.
Old folk and children, take notice.
On or about next Christmas Maude
by the author of The Little Minister
and Peter Pan"
That combination is such an attrac-
tive one that everyone must be in
terested to learn that "A Kiss for Gin
derella," as Sir James n. Barrie calls
his new fantasy. is doing very well
in London, despite the war, the dark
ened streets and the Zeppelin bombs
Miss Thing. the heroine, is a humble
maid of all work in an artists studio,
who possesses imagination. She goes
in a browning dream to a great ball
where stranger things happen than
ever were reported by Alice in Won
der land.
Some AncientE UptOdafe.
Venus de Milo and her children eat
oranges and buns out of paper bags.
Prince Charming is just like the af-
fable policeman on the corner and
Cinderella dances a most modern fox
trot with him, to loud applause
Then there are all sorts of babies
later in the play hanging on the walls.
the English one reciting THE Marin
ers Of England" in competition with a
French cherub who roars The Mar
seillaise," while a German baby (per-
haps here he won't be made so Wicked)
beats his crib furiously and attempts
TO bite the policeman-beg pardon,
Prince Charming.
That's enough to whet our curiosity