New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-03
BY GEORGE s. KAUFMAN.

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u Of Turn to the Right" is one OF
Broadways most occupied persons
nowadays. First, he feels it incumbent
upon himself to spend considerable
time in the neighborhood Of the Gaiety
box Office, endeavoring to guess the
gross. Second, he is helping to mount
GO To It." the next musical show at
/ the Princess, Of which he is also CO.
author-if not co, at least coco. And
-third-he is rehearsing a role in
Little Miss Springtime," successor to
the "Follies" at the Amsterdam. As
Hazard himself puts it. he is so busy
that he has fallen fearfully behind in
his drinking, and has practically aban-
doned all hope of catching up.
, Pearl-derbied, debonair and many
pounds heavier, Raymond Hitchcock IS
back upon Broadway. For the past
some months he has been in London,
and prior TO that the films knew him.
So New York has seen nothing Of him
since the days Of "The Beauty Shop
The new Hitchcock show, Betty" is
in rehearsal at the Globe sharing the
stage with performances OF Fast and
Grow Fat" and rehearssls Of Chin
Chin" The name of the piece, inciden-
tally, will positively be "Betty"-not
"The Plain Lord Playne," as facetious-
ly announced by Mr.. Hitchcock. Pres
emily it will take to the road, and the
length of its tour will be dependent
upon the run of the Frank Mcintyre
piece at the Globe.
As to Hitchcock's increased weight,
he did not acquire it in London, despite
his prosperity there. When last seen
hereabouts he weighed $50 pounds
perhaps less. Then he went into NOV
ing pictures.
zone day in Los Angeles | stepped
on a scale" he said, "and it registered
2OS. A second later it dropped to l7S,
for I lost thirty pounds from fright
right there. Now Pm around $50. Do
look fat?"
Well-er-not exactly fat That is,
Mr.. Hitchcock, you wouldn't look fat if
you were Frank Mcintyre.
Along with Hitchcock came an Eng
lish youth named Arthur Lowry, who
played in the London production Of
Betty" On his first night in an Amer
lean hotel-ths is guaranteed story
he placed his shoes outside the door
In the morning he discovered that they
had been thrown away.
You are at liberty 20 doubt il, but
Frank Craven was a bat boy at the old
Congress Street grounds in Boston way
back in the Brotherhood days-ball
players, not engineers. That has moth
inc 70 do with Seven Chances" of
course, except to establish (in round or
elliptical numbers) Mr.. Craven's age.
On second thoughts, however, the Bro
therhood days were not so long ago, at
/ that. A friend is a friend.
There was a time when Mr.. Craven
/ thought he wanted TO act forever in his
own shows, but to-day he isn't so sure
about it. You remember "Too Many
Cooks" Of course? Well, Craven
wrote it, and then played it for two
years During the second year his hair
began TO fall out and his rheumatism
TO fall in, and he decided to quit. The
trouble was that he was worrying. He
was constantly imagining that the
laughs were not coming a. they should,
and then he began TO conjure up the
things that he thought the audience
was thinking. Then he fell into the
habit of saying everybody's lines to
himself. as the other people were say
ing them, and worrying about their
parts, too. Then he decided to quit.
Craven is modest actor. There is
amt 4. "SAv.n Chances" where he be-