The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-03
COAL STRIKE BOON
TO STAGE CLOWNS
Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan
Offer Services as Mine
Hands.
TURNBULL SELLS A PLAY
Ned, New Horse, Appears at
Hippodrome and ROxie
Is Jealous.

The coal strike is offering matcn-
less opportunity to the theatrical come
dlans. The question whether he Gov
eminent can weather the crisis is over
Swallowed by the problem whether An
drew Tombes. the professional cutup Of
Nothing but Love" at the Lyric Thea
tire, and Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan.
the sly dogs OF the Ziegfeld M dnight
Frolic," can handle the situation.
Mr.. Tombes has written a letter to
Senator Walsh OF Massachusetts sug-
costing that the Senator lust put 1t up
to Congress to pass law prohibiting
strikes for two years. thus relieving the
industrial tension, as he points out, and
"scrapping the tin nzzie Of avaric1."
Mr.. Tombes picked Senator WALSH be-
cause of his impartiality in questioning
witnesses on the steel strike, and picked
himself for the job of saving the Ameri-
can people, because he graduated from
Phillips Exeter Academy and then got
into close touch with the high cost OF
living as grocery clerk in Ashtabula,
Ohio.
Savoy and Brennan have sent this
wire to President Wilson, which In eN-
Walsh doesn't: I'VE have never welded
pick, but we are willing to. We offer
our services"
F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest
doing their Christmas shopping early
have bought from Hector Turnbull, VINO
formerly wrote dramatic reviews on a
New York paper but is now working as
magazine writer. n new comedy. "A
Fool and Husband" which, it Is to
he hOnpd for fro galga nf the fem mime
patronage. isn't named after one man.
The play will be delivered c. o. d. TO
Broadway In January.
Guild Picks n Play.
The New York Theatre Guild is also
picking plays out of the air, having
chosen a comedy by William Dean
Howells as one of the warm spots during
the winter This doesn't imply any re-
Election on The Faithful" by John
Masefield. to which the guild will still
remain loyal at the Garrick Theatre.
The Bronx is to have a large con-
cert hall and none other than our own
John Charles Thomas, the baritone lad
OF apple Blossoms at the Globe
Theatre, will build this lyceum for re-
citals in New York's furthest north.
The plot selected at the corner of 18TH
street and Webb avenue was purchased
for Mr.. Thomas last week from the
Claflin estate by Mark Luescher, who.
after DOMINIC his dress suit, announced
that Mr.. Thomas would erect there AN
auditorium modelled after Aeolian Hall
in size and facilities in order to find a
hall spacious enough to hold his voice.
For. besides performances by other
artists, Mr.. Thomas will give recitals
there, assisted by John and Charles
mi, oil ad NJ n
HippodTome and Roxie the elephant is
so Jealous she refuses to have her pic
ture taken. The debutante is Ned. the
first American bred horse to be trained
by Poodles Hanneford, which was given
to the equestrian clown two years ago
by Charles Dillingham; and has only just
appeared in Happy Days" because
Hanneford insists a horse shall serve
at least two years apprenticeship be-
fore being allowed r neighing part with
him. Claudius and Scarlet are also
said to favor training new bantos for
uNo years during the long winter eve
nings
The fourth or Southern company of
Thompson Buchanan's comedy, "Civilian
Clothes" opened last week among the
best Southern families at Far Rockaway
and was then packed off by Oliver Mo-
rosco for a warm reception below Mason
and Dixon's line.
The players and stage hands for THE
Dancer are to have their way. for as q
result OF a plebiscite on their part the
management will install a ticker bacl
| stage at the Harris Theatre. and to-mor
row night during the performance tn,
audience will be gladdened and saddenec
| by having the election returns declaimet
at them The members Of the compan,
| are interested in the election becaus,
| they took a straw vote last week fol
| Supreme Court Justice. and now it's III
to Joseph e. Newburger to suh.ain then
| superior judgment and VITA.