Evening star., 1918-02-17

Women dominate now the box Office
and house staff of Keith's Theater. They
handle the ticket sales and telephone,
they check up and audit the sales; in
fact, few men are left, and the number
is slowly and surely lessening.
Henry Coote, the well known tenor,
is announced as a recent addition to
the Poll Musical Comedy Players. He
sang in 'The Chocolate Soldier" and a
long list of musical comedies and light
and heavy operas.
Heatless theater Tuesdays having
been set aside. the Poll Musical Comedy
Thursday and Saturday matinees. Next
Friday. Washington's birthday. a spe-
cial holiday matinee is announced.
Annette Kellermann is again in Keith
vaudeville with show having ten
scenes, located on land, in the air, at
sea and at the bottom Of the vastly
deep. Her supporting company includes
Edmund Makalif and the Kellermann
Girls. Irving Berlin, Bert Grant. Ted
Snyder, Joe Young and Sam Lewis
wrote the music and words.
Charles (Chic) Sale, who attained
headline prominence in vaudeville as
an expert delineator of picturesque
rural character types, and is appearing
for the first time in the legitimate
playhouses in The Passing Show of
1917" is to he starred by the Messrs.
shubert next season in comedy with
out music, which George Ade has been
commissioned to write.
Somewhere in France Is the Lily" a
ballad of the world war, written by
Philander Johnson. with music by Jo-
seph E. Howard. has been added to the
musical program of THE Passing
Show of 1917" BY means of novel
| fa Piall affa two
method has been attained for present
ing the song, which is sung by Henry
Bergman and a chorus.
80 Long Lefty" coming attraction
at the Belasco Theater soon. is Oliver
Morosco's successful musical farce.
which has just completed two-year
tour of the principal cities of the east
Elmer Harris. while Earl Carroll has
contributed the eighteen musical num-
hers which are of the lifting. whist
ling variety.
Charlotte Greenwood is the featured
member of the cast. which includes
Sydney Grant, May Boley. Will Morris
ey, Tyler Brooke and Henriatte Lee.
Doing Our Bit" described as 'the
most stupendous extravaganza Messrs.
Lee and J. J. Shubert have produced at
the Winter Garden" will be the attraction
at the Beiasco Theater at an early date.
1t is vehicle designed for laughter
iarism. Frank Tinney. the black face
comedian; James J. Corbett. an ideal
foil for his whimsical persfiage; Hen
ry Lewis, Charles Judels. Ada Lewis.
Sam Ash. Virginia Fissinger, the Dun
can sisters. the Cansinos, Leah Norah.
Bud Murry. James Clemens and $50
others do their bit at every perform
ance.
The long list of principals in THE
Passing Show of 1917" includes De
Wolf Hopper, who began his career
when nineteen years of age, and has
played every conceivable line of parts
from Shakespeare up and down; Irene
Franklin. who made her first appear
ance on the stage when baby her
mother being an actress; Chic" Sale,
who began his impersonations which
have made him famous while a school
boy at Urbana, H.; Henry Bergman,
Johnny Dooley and Yvette Rugel, who
have had varied experience in the
drama and vaudeville. Others are
George Schiller, who replaced William
H. Crane as La Blanc in Rice's Evan
geIine': Rosie Quinn, who began four
years ago as a chorous girl with the
Winter Garden Company; John Miller
and James Mack, eccentric dancers,
who after appearing in local entertain
ments in Philadelphia ten years ago
have danced their way around the
world, making their greatest successes
at the Folies Bergere in Paris and at
the Hippodrome, London.