Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
PLAYS AND PLAYERS

John Cumberland. the Billy Bartlett
Of the Fair and Warmer" cast, and
L5rancine Larrimore have to drink the
most awful cOncoction that was ever
put together. in the second act of the
farce now current at the Cort the
atre. Somebody asked him the other
day what the mixture tasted like on
these hot August nights. His answer
was. 20! it's a cross between sweet
ened water and cold tea, but nobody
but the property man knows what it
is mode OF. Miss LarrimOre and l are
supposed to drink a combination con-
sisting Of whisky, gin, French YER
mouth, Italian vermOuth, brandy, alb
suthe, creme de menthe, creme vyette
and peach brandy. If we really drank
it l think it would kill US both, but,
thanks to the property man, the COM
binauon we do drink isn't so bad.
They tell me that at the New York
Press club they serve something called
renaissance which is built on some
what similar lines, only real stuff,
and that one Of them is as good as
knock out drops"
The Willard Mack play known here
and in London as Kick In" has been
renamed Once a Thief for its tour of
the English provinces, where they do
not know the meaning Of the original
slang title of the play
Adam Killjoy' is the sad-sounding
name of a nevertheless funny sketch
that viii he played over the Orpheum
circuit this season by Harry HoI-
man. The sketch was written by
Stephen G. Champlin, who is coming
VI al n q
notwithstanding the fact that his regu-
lar job is that Of a drummer in the
Eushwich theatre orchestra in Brook
Ign.
Juliette Day will be the principal
actress in Frederick and Fannie Locke
Hatton's comedy, Upstairs and
Down when it has it's restaging in the
autumn. 1t was tried out little while
ago in Los Angeles.
When "POtach and Perlmutter" reg
istered such a huge success nearly all
Of the best Jewish comedians in yaude-
Vile were drawn into the legitimate
to play the principal roles in the gar
ment trade comedy. Now they are
returning to the tWO-a-day. Harry
First is the latest. He has been with
Potash and Perlmutter" for three
years, but now he is rehearsing a vau-
deyilIe sketch written by Addison
BuTkhart, Of Chicago.
In a few weeks Ruth St. Denis will
resume her vaudeville tour. She is ar
ranging to present some of the "clOse
to nature" dances that she originated
and presented with her company al the
Greek theatre at Berkeley, under the
al nil of univ ~ of
mia last month.
Edwin Arden, late star of To-day"
and who has not been seen in vaude-
Vile for d long, long time, is at the
Palace theatre, New York, this week
in d sketch by oliver White, called
CLOSE Quarters" 1t is described as
IAN odd affair Of the present day in
New York city" which is sufficiently
mystifying TO make people want to
see the playIet as well as the player.
Charles +. Bray, formerly of Chica-
so, is being sent from New York to
New Orleans, where he will establish
an office OF the Orpheum Vaudeville
association, from which the southern
section of the circuit as far north as
St. Louis viii be guarded. 1t is ex-
pected that two years will be required
70 put vaudeville in the south on a new
footing. \ new Orpheum theater will
be built in New Orleans this year, and
St. Louis viii be given a handsome
new theater.
The first performance of Richar1
Walton Tully's new American play
The Flame" viii be given at the Lyr-
ic theater, New York, Aug. 81. instead
Of Labor day as previously announced.
! The play is in three acts and nine
/ scenes. The complete cast includes
the following prominent players: Will
liam COurtleigh, John Cope, Robert
! Patton Gibbs. Richard Gordon, Albert
Tavernier. Byron Russell. Harry Nor
vii, Violet Hemlng, Peggy O'Nefl, Har-
riet Sterling, Helen Carew. Helen Bell,
Arvine Kennedy, Florence Flynn, Leah
Rachel, Mabel SeamOns and others.