New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22


completed several seasons ago, hut the
unsettled conditions due to the war are
said to have delayed its production.
Among Mr. Harriss other productions
will be a comedy by Robert NJ. Baker,
one of the authors of arms ard the
Girl" and a play by Paul Dickey. The
other half of the Harris family, Mrs.
Harris. and the Henry B. Harris Estate
will first produce "The Jackknife Man,"
the work of Lee Wilson Dodd. They
will follow that in October with THE
, Claim" a drama by Charles Kenyon,
and later will try piece by Sara
Cowan called playing the Game"
Victor Mapes, who wrote half Of
"The Boomerang" will turn manager
long enough to produce his own play,
"The Lassoo." (Mr. Mapes declares
that he is deferring to Western pro-
nunciation in the spelling of the word,
but that fact is not preventing many
persons from dropping the final "o.D
r"The Lassoo" will be presented at the
/ Lyceum during the week of August 10.
The piece is not sequel to THE
Boomerang" despite some rather am
biguous announcements, and is COM
panion piece only in that it treats of
the troubles of young couple after
marriage and is of the same delicate
texture as the first piece. Shelley Hull
and Phoebe Foster, lovers in "The Gin
derella Man." will be the married folk
in the new play, and the company will
include Helen Wesley, erstwhile Of
The Washington Square Players.
Later in the season the Lyceum
probably will be occupied by Tiger
Rose" melodrama written by Willard
Mack and touched up here and there
by David Belasco. Lenore Ulrich and
William Courtleigh will be in the cast.
Mr.. Belasco is maintaining deep silence
concerning his other plans, contenting
himself with the announcement that
he is contemplating an unusually
active season." Arnold Daily will make
another attempt to get properly started
as a Belasco star, and, although no
announcement has been made, It is I'M
derstood that he will appear as Napo-
leon in an adaptation Of Hermann
Bahr's play, Josephine" Mr.. Warfeld
will spend the season on the road, but
Frances Starr may be seen here in a
new comedy after a tour in Little
Lady in Blue
Arthur Hopkins will begin his sea
son next month with "The Deluge,'
which will be seen at the Hudson, with
Henry E. Dixey in the leading role. 1t
goes without saying that several in
teresting productions will come from
the studio of this producer. One of
them, as has been said, will be the
Billie Burke-Clare Hummer comedy
produced in association with Mr.. Zieg-
field; another will be a musical ver-
sion of Good Gracious, Annabelle."
There will also be two pieces of seri-
Gus nature.
"Hitchy-Koo" will vacate the Cohan
and Harris late in August, and the
next tenant will be "A Tailor-Msde
Man." which, like "The Country
Cousin" comes heralded as sure-hrc.
1t is a comedy written by Henry James
Smith lido you remember Mrs. Bump
stead-Leigh"O around the idea that
clothes make the man, and IL quite
captivated Boston in the spring. And
il is good news that George Cohan,
who let a whole season go by without
being represented by new play, IS
dramatizing Gelett Burgesss story,
. Mrs. Hopes Husband" published In
"The Saturday Evening Post" That
publication. incidentally, will be we'll
represented in a dramatic way this sea-
son. Also on the Cohan and Harris
list is a war play, by James Montgom-
cry, called "The Stacker" and there is
a we'll defined but uncomfortable re-
port that Leo Ditrichstein has reached
Mr.. Chopin in the course of making
the rounds Of the musicians. The re-
suit, 1t Is said, will be n play called
Chopin" written by Mr.. Ditrichstein
and James Huneker.
Allen Doone and a company from
Australia are announced as the frs,
attraction at the Thirty-ninth Street