The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-24
AMES TO REOPEN
LITTLE THEATRE
Sir Herbert Tree TO stay in
America for Another
Season.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

,,r the recent theatre season, viii rc-
,urn TO management in this city next
winter. He will open the beautiful play
house known as the Little Theatre, which
has been closed ever since "a Fair OF
SIX Stockings spent Its successful year
there.
His object In the coming season will
No TO present fve plays. Those which
are successful in New York will he sent
n, tour. Mr.. Amcs's object in this pro-
eedure will he to make on the road the
profit impossible in such a small audi
forum as the Little Theatre. SO there
should be an especially interesting sea-
son. as so many new works are to he
acted and there is the promise that in
,e'ecting them the manager has set
o., to discover something out OF the
ordinary.
SIR Herbert Tree will not return to
rnrlaud this summer but will visit Gait
.ornia and do another moving picture
there. Then after a brief tour he will
come back to New York to revive plays
N which he has recently been most sue
cessful at his theatre IN London. There
may be more Shakespeare. but 1t IL deti-
ri'eiy settled at present that several
costume PLAYS in which Sir Herbert has
~on renown abroad will be seen here
mex, winter.
This is the most successful visit that
the famous English actor has ever paid
II this country. The VI OF Henry
VIM might have been extended until
late in the season and THE Merchant Of
Venice" has drawn larger audiences than
ANY recent revival. Probably the public,
Judging from its interest in his perform
arces. will receive The Merry Wives OF
Windsor" with equal enthusiasm, al
though the run Of that comedy will
necessarily be short. as the New Amster-
dam Theatre Is available only until the
beginning OF the Ziegfeld Follies.
After willard Mack has finished his
season at the Palac Theatre in An
Eye for an Eye" he will set TO work on
the finishing touches OF the new play
from his pen which Will he seen at
broadway theatres next season. For
his wife. Marjorie Rambeau. he has
written Down Hill" while Robert Eide
son will be seen in King. Queen. Jack.
Is this a new symbol for the triangle ?
Blanche Ring will again try Jane ODay
from Broadway" and Mack himself will
ne seen in THE Chc~ckerboard." In ad
dtlon to all these outlets for his activity
4, Is said that the United booking Office
has offered TO take any sketch which he
nay write.
Henry Lewis, author az ~ Falr o'
Queens in conjunction viii \. Scy'
mour Brown. has written a drama IN
three acts with a prologue called The
Call OF the Blood"
Arthur Hammerstein says that ht
bought the American rights to Les
Dragees d'Hercule." know as the sue
cess'ul High Jinks.' from the French
authors through the American Pla,
Company. Of which Archibald SelwSn Il
president. LAS High Jinks' played in al
70 more than one million dollars MI
Hanmerstein said yesterday. and Mr.
Hauerbach and I paid l per cent, for th'
use Of the play. nearly ten thousand dol
lars went to the authors. This amour
was paid to the American Play Conpan!
as agents for the authors of the pla!
by us
The first appearance OF Les Dragcc
dNIercule' on the New York stage as
farce was as "On and or in the Eng
lish version made by Leo pttr!chstei
and acted al the Madison Square Thea
ue-or was II the Savoy?
ANY one who doubts the popularit
~ the moving picture shows in Ne'
York should take a ride on a SeNent
avenue car some time before IL O'CLOCK
Though there are evidences even late
4. lUt lIIlDOI Il'U VI NiAs ~ 81 - sa''e'N
ment. Two-thirds OF the passengers VIII
enter the cars In the moving picture dis
trict on upper Seventh avenue are carry
Ing tin boxes containing films to be DIS
tr!huted 10 some OF the smaller pictur
playhouses In this city and across IN
bridges. II Is not always one sue
package which the passengers carry
They are Just as frequently provide
with two or three OF these tin boxes
uh,ph tnplrf m tho NellpleS not lnlre
ouently the appearance OF a Kind q
freigh car devoted to some special pur
pose.
Molly Pearson al the close ~ the sea
con OF "Hobson's Choice" went to Hone
lulu 10 Join her husband. who Is the lead
Ing man In a stock company there.
Last weeks engagement Of F. J
so'hern IN III | Were King AZ u
Shubert Theatre melted the profits {
34.35l for the Actors War Emergenc
Fund Of London, founded hy Sir He
bert Tree.
"Ctv!lization.' Thomas n lnce's 81
motion picture spectacle, Will be pr
sented for the first time FRIDAY nlSh
June 2, at the Criterion.
Elinor Foster will give a n
c!tal at the Hudson Theatre on Frida
afternoon under auspices Of Manhattt
CHAPTER. Daughters Of tho America
Revolution, in aid OF the Belgian Reii
Fund. She will be assisted at the llaI
BY Mrs. John W Nichols,
Miss Isadora Duncan, nho is he
on her way to MI an engagement
South America, has volunteered to dan
a" an added attraction Of "Caliban
which will be seen tonight in the q
College Stadium Miss Duncan will a
pear IN five repeti,ious Of the masque.
oscar Spirescu. formerly conductor
the Boston opera House. has been 2
saGed TO direct a series Of outdoor co
o"rts ~ the Cincinnati symphony q
ohostra this summer
II one should happen % notice
F'fh avenue or elsewhere to-day som
fhirg unusually striking in femtni
DWELLINGS, he will know they are the II
prettiest girls in Florida, prize WHINE
" a beauty contest. They will visit I
flrpodrome this afternoon.
Mss Elisabeth Marbury played most
NIr'r-four Young women At II lunche
gwen Yesterday at her home, l23 Ia
Ny-hfth street. Her guests were I
'f"rGs"s Of Miss Marbury's three mul
cal productions. Very Good Eddie
'N"hody Horne and see Amcri
FIRST" Assisting Miss Marhurv in !
c"''ins were Miss Dorothy Bigelo
MIS- Roma June, Miss Julia Mills. "
Gypsy oBricn and Miss Betty Brewst
ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.
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