New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
THE COMING PLAYS
Continued from page one.


who have collaborated before. Not
only that, but Mr.. Belasco will confer
on Miss Claire the honor Of being al
lowed to open the Beiasco Theatre
which she will duly do next month
And inasmuch as the attraction when
opens the Belasco Theatre has habit
of staying there most of the season.
it would appear that Miss Claire Will
be rather well taken care Of.
Also leaving the musical stage behind
her is Eleanor Painter, who has found
the strain Of singing eight times a
week too great a one. She has ac-
cordingly enlisted under the Morosco
banner, and her play, a comedy by
Chester Bailey Fernald, entitled THE
Pursuit of Pamela" will have its hrst
production during the coming week IN
the Morosco hothouses in California.
Norman Trevor is also in the company,
and the piece will be brought to New
York in September.
As for Mr.. Morosco's further plans,
he has already produced a new COM
edy by the Hattons in Los Angeles,
and he is sufficiently encouraged by
its reception to announce 1T as the
first attraction of the season az the
Morosco Theatre here. This is "Lom-
bardi. Ltd" the title role being taken
by Leo Carrillo, who made quite an
impression last season as the French
chef in "Upstairs and Down" "Lorn-
bardi. Ltd" Is concerned with smart
dressmaking shop, and gives the female
members of the cast the opportunity
to pose effectively in various inter-
esting costumes.
A new play from DR.. Louis X.
Anspacher. who has not been heard
from since "The Unchastened Woman"
is also among Mr.. Morosco's prospec-
tive productions. This one is entitled
"That Day." and it is scheduled for
New York presentation about October
Is. Also in October Charles Ruggles
will return to the legitimate from his
brief sojourn in musical comedy, his
vehicle being comedy entitled Just
a Suggestion" written by Harold Sell
man.
The Hattons, according to present
plans, will be represented in New YORK
by a pair of plays this season. In
addition to lombard, Ltd" they are
writing a comedy for Emily Stevens
bearing the somewhat cryptic title OF
"The Walk-Ofs." 1t Is due in New
York about the first week in Novem'
Der. Still other plays are being tried
ont in the Morosco laboratories, ant
undoubtedly one or more Of them viii
see the Broadway lights-among then
"Mary's Way Out" by Ashton Ste.
vens; Scandal" by Alfred Browne;
"The New Nippon" by Colgate Haker
and "The Skeleton" by Frederick
1ruesdale.
Having made their everlasting fort.
une with Turn to the Right" it is but
natural that Winchell Smith and Johr
L. Golden should desire TO go aheat
and make two or three more. They
have already given "Toby's Bow" (pro
nounced as in now a preliminary pro
duction, and, after some slight fixing
it will be seen in New York. The piece
is play of the South, written by Johr
Isintor Foote. Mr. Smith, who is goot
for a play a year, is at present col.
laborating with Frank Bacon on a com.
edy 20 be entitled You'd Never Be
lieve It." Mr.. Bacon, if your memory
is faulty, is the actor who gave such
fine performance as the old servant
in "The Cinderella Man" There will
be two or three other plays in this
firms list when 1. is finally made up.
Madison Corey, who parted company
with Joseph Ritter during the season
just ended, recently allied himself with
Harrison Grey Fiske, and the two will
offer double bill in October. This viii
consist Of Dunsany's "a Night at az
Inn" familiar TO patrons Of the Neigh
borhood Playhouse, and Lavedan's two
act drama, "Servir." The latter is II
a sense a war play, and has beer
played more than five hundred times
in Paris.
Also from Paris will come another
Brieux play, this one being altogether
new to America and called "The I'm
brcakable Link" It's sponsor is I
French actress, Myriam Deroxe, who Il
comparatively unknown on this side o.
the water.
Some time during the season LEI
Kugel will offer an American versior
Of Ludwig Thomas comedy, "Moral.
which has long been familiar 70 fol
lowers Of the German drama. moral
IL frequently brilliant comedy, de-
signed 70 expose self-styled Purtan'