El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-15

, characters would show 10 good ad-
I vantage in any opera company
Frank Craven Disnppoints-
] Not Ions since a cartoonist gained
+ cOnsidera bic fame through a series OF
} comics labeled. Nov that youve got
I IT.. what are you going TO do with itZ'
] AT the Conan rheater Frank Craven
I took an idea and did so little with IL
I that This Way out will give the
[ host OF admirers he made for himself
when he wrote Too Many Cooks
little but disappointment
The program conveys the iuforua-
ton that 1fr. Craven play is founded
on "a story by Octavius ROY Cohen and
Il r. efesE In these ~Ombina- tons 60
becomes no simple matter TO give
credit or blame. where Il belongs.
However. II Too Many Cooks may
be used as a basis some little esti-
mate may be made Of the contribution
OF wheat and chaff- Indeed. many OF
the lines are quite Frankly Craven
escue. And whatever popularity II
achieves viii he due 20 the lines and
not TO the situarious-Or rather lack
OF situations.
Leave It 10 Jane.s
tt soon may happen that no success
full farce Of the recedinE years will
be elusive enough TO escape being ap-
propriated by the songsmiths Of mu-
steal comedy Overnight" having
been transmoEriffed into Very Good
Eddie" and Hoyt's "a Milk White
Flag having gone through the hop
per and come out a g Go 20 It. il be-
came the fate OF George AIDES once
popular The College widow" 10 be
Transmitted into Leave It to Jane"
The fate Of the AIDE piece which
lampOoned the ways OF college youth
was not an unhappy one The anus
ing farce had fallen into good hands.
Guv Bolton retained enough Of the
g a
new purposes 10 which IL was put p.
G.. Wcdehouse studded it with Is
lyrics all but two or three of which
were quite charming and Jerome Kern
set them 10 the delicate tinklinE and
inEra tfafiuC airs the mystery Of which
has made him the most popular OF the
younger composers Thus the trium-
virate responsible for "Oh. Boy" the
best musical comedy OF recent years,
was to the fore again
Broadway Gossip.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Of the Shubert
production Of 'Mayrime.' st the Shu-
bert theater. is greatly perturbed be
cause of the recent announcement Of
her marriage 10 an English nobleuan.
Not for me, says the dainty
dancer. There isn't a nobleman in
the world who's half as good as one
of our own Yankee boys And. be
sides. I'm perfectly happy. although
single"
~ .aNAaHNNN AAaAA A7 mas HAHHNA 10
the production OF Danger" a spectac- .
ular melodrama by Bayard WELLER
which depicts a japanese minister at .
the head Of a band of spies who ferret
out government secrets and plot with
Germans against this country The
scenery had been built and the cast
engaged
Mile Albertina Rasch announces .
from Canada. where she is touring
the vaudeville theaters. that her plans
for 1q17-1S do not permit her to ac-
cept an offer TO join the forces of the
Bernhardt organization on the condi-
tons stated by Sarah Bernhardts rep
resentative and negotiations were
terminated Nile. Hasch's tour under
the direction Of the United Booking
offices viii be continued through
Canada. the middle west and the
south, with a return TO Philadelphia.
New York and Boston at its close.
Charles Dillingham; and r. Ziegfeld.
ir-, have engaged Mrs. Vernon Castle
20 appear In the new Century theater
production.
Arrangements have been com
pleted whereby a second company Of
''Niaytime." now playing at the Shu-
bert theater. viii commence rehear-
sails within a few DAYS for a western
tour.