The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-16
ANN MURDOCH TO BE STAR;
is A MODEL IN NEW PLAY
Soon to Be Seen on Broadway in "S~uki"-Thomas Wise
in the Supporting Company-News and
Gossip Of the Stage.

Ann Murdoch will be the next star TO
come to . New York theatre In q new
play. She liz expected to arrive with the
party scheduled for Easter week. Miss
Murdock's play Ia by James Henry
smith. who wrote Mrs. Bumpstead
Leigh for Mrs. F'iske and "Blackbirds"
for Henry Miller. Tho latest comedy Is
called 'Suki." It's heroine IL a model.
Mr.. Smith seems to think that there 10
more fun to be got out Of q pretendsr
Than anybody else. so he again makes
the youthful model pose as . famous
French woman painter. A similar false
representation was the foundation Of
the authors Two preceding plays.
But this heroine has various adven-
lures before she goes to visit q home In
New Jersey in which she Is supposed to
be an artist OF the most advanced school.
She teaches that there should b two Of
everything. 10 paint q picture Of q full
moon so as 10 produce the proper effect
TWO full moons should be shown is the
theory Of this founder Of this new school
OF painting. OF course this Is all the
sheerest nonsense. Miss Murdock Is Q
Inouei IN the nrrt act.
Being a frivolous person. this young
model has rented an automobile and with
her girl friends taken a Joy ride which
n d In tragedy. The machine ID
wrecked. She must pay S2.s0O damages.
FIRST she tries to borrow Il from Q
French admirer and then from a painter.
Finally she appeals to the old sculptor
Tor whom she has been a model for a
dozen years. When there Is no chance
OF getting the money from any Of thess
she imposes on the New Jersey hostess
looking for a lion to whom she has prom
ised to pay Just tire sum that the young
model needs for the automobile COM
pany.
Miss Murdoch 10 said to De very we'll
suited to the leading role. Thomas Wise
plays the fathery old sculptor. Ths
play wa first acted last week.
Come Back to Bohemia" which wal
written by Kenneth Murchison a. to ia
music and by George Chapel az to III
Will be seen here on the Tuesday
OF Easter week. although the name OF
the theatre has not been made public
Sotn coliaborators are well known New
FORK architects.
Sir Johnston Forbes. Robertson. who
w t1Nu away kTOTu Ills
performances OF Hamlet In Brooklyn
last week many hundreds Of persons. will
~ week be In Newark. On April 20,
20 and rs the actor will make HE last
American appearances at Sanders Thea.
ire in Cambridge. The receipts Of these
performances will be given to the British
Women's Hospital Fund. In which Ger
trude Elliott. wife Of the actor. 10 inter.
ested.
Constance Collier. who has been acting
with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree IN thu
cinema version OF Macbeth" will ac1
this part with him at the benefit for the
Hr1tsh Red Cross to be held on Easter
MONDAY. Phyllis Neikon.Terry ~ viota
and Edith Wynns Matthison a. Oltvte
will abo appear. while Lyn Harding viii
give = scene as Prwcs Hell in the hrst
part Of Henry w."
The producing stan for the Drama So.
ciety. which will give "The Tempest al
the Century Theatre. will be practically
the sam which cav the Shakespeare
plays there in the days OF the New Thea.
tire. II will consist Of John Corbin. Louis
Calvert and Elliot, Schenck. while Fred.