New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
"Our Mrs. McChesney" to
Leave the Lyceum on
February rs.

Ethel Barrymore will exhibit "Our
Mrs. McChesney' in Bos.on and Chi
cago during the spring months. and will
return 20 New York in September in a
new comedy by William Somerset
Vaughan. This. at any rate. is the
content of tho latest manifesto hsy-
ing 10 do with her artistic future. An
equally emphatic statement of month
or two ago said that she would take
the Ferber-Hobart play 10 London IN
the fall Of 1915, and that il would be
her vehicle for two or three years.
At all events. "Our Mrs. Nc hes
ney" will end six months run at the
Lyceum on February 20. The theatres
next attraction is yet 20 be announced.
"The Greatest Nation" william FL
liott's war play, will have It's premiere
at the Booth Theatre on February 81
instead OF the 14th. THE Fear Mar
ket" will continue al the theatre next
week, but will not go on the road.
The Winter Garden opening will take
place on Thursday Of next week in
stead of Wednesday.
That he may have ample time in
which 10 arrange for rush hour subway
service, Theodore 2. Shonts is lereby
informed that Eva Tanguay will open
az the Bronx Opera House next Mon
day in THE Girl Who Smiles
Coming attractions at the Strand are
Blanche Sweet. in Blacklist, Marie
Doro, in diplomacy; Mae Murray, in
"To Have and to Hold; Fannie Ward,
in "For the Defence; John Barrymore,
IN The Man Who Found Himself" and
Pauline Frederick. in Audrey
There being rumors that Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree will include a few lbsen
plays in his New York season. it IS
now stated this will positively not oc-
cur unless Norway abandons its neu-
trality.
To-night's performance of "The
Wesvers' at the Garden Theatre will
be held under the auspices OF the Com
nUttee on Industrial Relations. Ad-
dresses will be made by Frederic G.
Howe. Amos Pinchot and Miss Helen
Marot.
Victor Herbert, the dresdnought COM
poser. will launch "Victor Herbert
Revue" at the Palace Theatre next
week. II will consist Of twenty-five Of
his most popular airs sung by Wayne
Gehrue and others.
an Old Kentucky" will be next
weeks attraction at the intermittent
Manhattan Opera House.
At late hour last night Arthur
Hammerstein had not arranged for a
box at the Palace next Monday after
noon 10 view Adele Rowland's vaude
vile plunge.
Twenty-eight features are announced
for next Sundays benefit at the Hippo
drome. Il will be an all-Dillingham
programme in aid Of the Actors Fund
of America and the French Soldiers
Fund.
The mex. play on which the Theatre
Assembly viii descend will be Just a
Woman" scheduled TO be viewed on the
evening Of February u and the after
noon OF February q. IL will subse-
ouentlv be examined at one of the As
semblys afternoon dissecting parties.
A committee representing the Ma
ticnal Convention Of Dressmakers at
tended stop Look Listen" last
night 20 watch Harry Pliers perform
Grce.
The Park Theatre will renounce war
films on February % 10 become the
scene of "The Road 10 Mandalay," the
Vessella comic opera which William J.
Wilson is at present restaging IN Pitts
burgh. The piece has been on tour for
several weeks under another title.