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others to be produced In the portman-
teau Theatre the coming season will be
placed In rehearsal during the stay at
Wyoming.
The Portmanteau tour, under the
direction Of Macmillan Elser. Jr.. and
Russell Janney, will open early in Oc-
tober and will take this interesting
portable stage as far West as Cali
fornia. Many Of the engagements will
be filled outside Of regular theatres,
the Pormanteau being 80 constructed
that It can he set up and a per-
Torrance given In any hall. audi
torium or hotel ballroom.
The Portmanteau players now at
Wyoming, include Gertrude Davis,
Gregory Kelly. Judith Lowry. Lew
Medbury. Mckay Morris. Edgar Stehli.
Ward Thornton. Willard Webster.
Nancy Winston. Gitruda Tristjanski.
Florence Wollerson. Robert Cook and
Edmond Crenshaw. Stuart Walker. In
addition to directing the plays. also
will appear in the cast.
When the Washington Square Play
ers rang down the curtain at the
Comedy Theatre in June II was an
nounced that after n vacation Of sew
eral weeks they would continue their
summer season. Now they are all re-
turning from the mountains and the
seashore. where they have been for
six weeks. and on Wednesday. Aug.
80. they will continue their interrupted
summer season. Four Of their great
est successes OF the past two seasons
will be on the bill Of r~evivals. These
arc THE Miracle OF st. Anthony" by
M%acterlinck; "A Bear" by T%chekhov:
Literature" by Schnitzler. and "Eu-
genically Speaking" by Edward Good
man. director Of the Washington
| square Players. This bill will he given
every evening and Thursday and Sat
urday matinee for a few weeks. The
has not yet been decided.
Agatha Brown has been engaged for
the principal part in a new comedy
by the author Of "Hobson's Choice
entitled 'Zack." in which Richard Ben.
nett will play the principal male role
Eleanor Daniels. who first appeared
here in the play Change" has also
been engaged for the principal female
| comedy part in "Zack." which John d
williams will present in New York
carly in November.
Yvette Guilbert will appear AGAR
next season at Maxine Elliott's
Theatre in New York. She announces
a series OF appearances TO be giver
twice a week during November and
December. on Sunday evenings and
Friday afternoons, the first 10 take
place Friday afternoon November 3
The Sunday evening recitals and those
Of Friday afternoon will each be OF {
different character. while the Sun
day evening recitals. which Mime
Guilbcrt calls Lies Veillees Fran
caises." will be like her programmes
OF last season. vocal and musical. IN
Friday afternoon recitals. appropri
ately styled LES Matinees Parish
ennes," will have In addition q l~iterar!
character.
Besides promising comments on he
songs in English. in which Nine. Gull
bert proudly asserts she has improved
vastly, she has also quite unexpect
eddy secured the brilliant opportunit!
OF awaiting herself OF the collaboration
OF several we'll known savants Of tn!
country who are interested In he
work and who will help her audience
to a better comprehension OF her i'm
portant literary discoveries. Full par
ticulars concerning the programmes o
LES Veillees Franchises on Sunda,
evenings and OF LES Matinees Paris
iennes' on Friday afternoons and tn
names OF Nine. Yvette Guilbert's col
laborators will be announced in du
time.
Walter Kingsley says that Hele,
Freeman will not be William Gillette
leading woman this fall and has re
fused an offer 10 star on broadway
Instead she will direct a diminut!v
theatre of her own somewhere In tn
Fifties a few doors from Fifth avenue
! This little playhouse will be called tn
: Nine o'clock Theatre. and will be III
first theatre owned and directed by
, woman in New York. Miss Freema
; has surrounded herself with a com
pany OF we'll known professionals. in
Guiding Gertrude Clemens, Mary Fan
> rem, Nina Savile. CARA Mravalyl
: Langdon Gillet. Ross MacDougall an
:. others. They will present n nc
!. plays, and among those chosen fo
l early production are THE Merr
Death" from the Russian Of Nichola
:. Evreinow, and "Who Knows" al
! Love Fr%ightens" from the Spanish {
. Jacinto Benevente. and the short play
u of Maurice Barring and several translf
t tions from the German and Frencl
There will he Saturday matinees {
: 3 O'Clock and special matinees Ito |
% a%nnounccd) Tuesdays and Thursday
at 1 o'clock.
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