Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
BEGINNING THE NEW
/ THEATRICAL SEASON
The Outlook for the Future.
Attractions Booked for Pres.
entation Here

THE first courses on Philadelphia S
- theatrical bill-of-fare for the sea-
( son of 191S-1919 are ready. Two of
them will be served next week, as an.
nounced in another column, while the
Following Monday will find every first.
class house save one offering its own
particular amusement dish for the de.
lectation of footlight appetites that
have been whetted by the enforced alb
stinence of the torrid months.
No Herbert Hoover of the theater
has undertaken to conserve" the foot.
light repast that will offer wartime
relaxation here this season. On the
contrary, no former season has been
planned more ambitiously or launched
more confidently despite the unprece.
dented economies generally necessi
. tated by war conditions. This para.
dox merely demonstrates the psyche
logical astuteness of the managers,
who realize that the theater may play
q vital part in relieving the mental
tension that is an unfailing character.
fstic of abnormal times The combna.
ton of this condition and the tremen-
dous material boom which is a by.prod-
uct OF the war is undoubtedly directly
responsible for the unprecedented ear
liness Of the seasons inaugural.
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MYTH the opening Of the handsome
w new Sam S. Shubert Memorial
theatre on the site of old Horticultural
Hall next Monday evening, the city
will have more firstclass playhouses
than ever before in its history, not
excepting the days when both the old
Chestnut Street Theatre, as we'll as
the recently rejuvenated Chestnut
Street Opera House were in the
ring" Of local amusements. For count
ing the Little Theatre Philadelphia
this season will have eight houses in
IN the central part of the city Offer
ing attractions of first-class preten-
sions.
nUR1NG the course OF the season,
~ Philadelphia is to see virtually all
of the attractions which were notable
successes on Broadway last year. as well
as an exceptional number of new dra-
matte and musical offerings. In addition
to the openings for the next three Mon
days announced in today's Theatrical
Indicator on this. page, dramatic at
fractions and players booked for the
local season include Maude Adams,
Ethel Barrymore, William Faversham
In The Prince and the Pauper"; Nine.
Nazimova, in repertory: John Barry
more, sequel to The Blue Bird" titled
The Betrothed" Guy Bates Post, in
"The Masquerader." THE Road to Des-
tiny Eyes of Youth: Maxine Elliott,
Allegiance Freedom; Lionel Barry.
more, In The Copperhead' Bertha
kalich. in The Riddle Woman"
Robert B. 'Mantell, in Shakespeare Mrs.
Fiske. David Warfeld. George Arliss Leo
4 Ditrichstein. Otis Skinner, Cyril Maude,
Henry Miller. William Gillette, Frances
Starr, Laurette Taylor, Ruth Chatter
ton. Margaret Anglin, in repertory
James K: Hackett. Rose stahl. John E.
kellard, in Shakespeare Phyllis Nelson
Terry. Mary Ryan. in THE Little
Teacher; Richard Bennett, in I'm
known Purple"; May Robson, in "A
Little Bit Old-Fashoned" Maude Fealy,
in The Little Teacher"
ESPECIALLY varied and numerically
~ impressive is the list of comedies,
farces, melodramas and other dramatic
attractions of lighter character. In
this group may be classified "Parlor,
Bedroom and Bath" the wholly delight
ful Seventeen" as dramatized from
Booth Tarkingtoh's inimitable story of
calf love-; William Collier, in Nothing
But Lies" The Very Idea" Yes or
/ Mo-; Nat Goodwin, in "Why Marry"
'Another Mans Shoes: Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Drew, who step from the silence
of the movies to do the spoken" stage
In Keep Her Smiling; H. B. Warner,
in Among Those Present.; Arthur Guy
Empey. in Pack Up Your Troubles -
'"The Tailor-Made Man" Polly With a
Past" Tiger Rose" "David's Adventure -