The sun., 1919-09-20
LIONEL BARRYMORE
TO GET NEW PLAY
Booth Harrington Writing
Script to Be Produced by
John ID. Williams.
WOODS PREMIERs OCT. 8
"The Girl in the Limousine
and. "Too Many Husbands"
to Appear That Night.

Lionel Barrymore IN q new play by
Booth Tarkington--that 10 the prospect
With which John d. williams intends to
MADE rosy many hardened theatregoer's
declining days. Mr.. Williams has just
snapped contracts with Mr.. Harrington,
who collaborated in up from Nowhere"
now under the Williams banner at the
Comedy Theatre. and as result Of this
exchange OF notes the next Harrington
play, already incubated beyond the first
draft, has entered Mr.. Willfamss sphere
Of influence.
The title of the work is "Kunnel
Blake" and II will be held in reserve by
Mr.. Williams for the future, ready to At
Lionel Barrymore.
1.-THE Girl In the Limousine" by Will
son Collision and Avery Hopwood, and
TOO Many Husbands" by w. Somerset
Vaughan. will be allowed by A. II.
Woods 10 take the public into their con-
fdence on the same night, October 9.
The flrst will start after the speed rec
| ord az the Eltlnge Theatre. and the sec
ond will bring the flavor of wit and po-
tatoes to the Booth,
warheld to Make Tour.
David warfeld is still seeking more
/
| He opened his umpteenth season in Da-
vid Belasco's production at Parsons
Theatre, Hartford. Conn, last night, at
| tended by the same company which sup
ported his dialect last season. Mr.. War
| fields tour this winter will start with
most of the principal cities of the East
and run the gamut of the country to San
Francisco.
| Mrs. James X. Hackett and Katherine
Harris have been engaged by Charles
Frohman, Inc, for principal parts in Zoe
| Akinss new play, 'Deciassee," which
Ethel Barrymore will put in circulation
at tho Empire Theatre.
| Ruth Chatterton's company in Moon
light and Honeysuckle," which will ir-
| radiate Henry Miller's Theatre on Mon
day. September 20. has James Rennie,
Lawrence Eddinger. Lucille Watson and
Charles Trowbridge assembled as i'm
portant parts,
At the close of their present engage
ment in the mime O'Clock Revue Savoy
| and Brennan will go to London for
| six weeks vacation At the Hippodrome
Afterward they will be seen proving
around America at the rehearsals for
| the new musical play which two news
paper men are draining from a French
farce.
Ernest Glendinning, who gets thsprin-
| cipal gasolene stains in "A Regular
Feller," at the Cort Theatre, is directing
at rehearsals the benzining process for
Martin Browns new farce, IAN Innocent
Idea" This production. Charles Emer-
son Cooks second fier for the season will
give thought to Baltimore on Octo-
Der 6.
Helen bolton in "see Saw"
Helen Bolton, formerly exhaling sweet
ness with John Cort in Mother Carey's
Chickens and with Comstock and Gest
In "oh, Lady, Lady" has been pressed
] into service by Henry w. Savage for
the vampire role in "See Saw" the now
musical comedy designed to titillate and
| titivate at the George NJ. Conan Theatre
On Tuesday. Miss Bolton replaces
Mabel Bunyea, who tripped over part of
Boston and injured her leg.
Harold Atteridge, official Winter Gar
len jokesmith, has been commissioned to
write three scenes for the Schubert
iaieties of 1919" at the Forty-fourth
street Theatre, in which Nora Bayes
can have II good time. At present Miss
Bayes is combining her voice to her spe-
cialtes. :
! Irene Fenwick has entirely withdrawn
| from the illness which occupied her at
tention in place of Those Who Walk in
Darkness" She will soon be suscepti-
bic to rehearsals of new play for the
Shuberts
Laurillard and Grossmith, English
producers, have made an offer to the
Shuberts to acclimate in London the
present company in "Oh, What a Girl"
at the Schubert Theatre, with the likeli-
hood that the title will be changed to
''Oh. ] Say. What a Flapper" Claude
Greneker offers odds that some of the
principals, including Harry Kelly, will
scud over to London In the spring. about
the time that prohibition has made the
props for the well drinking scene prac-
tically unobtainable.
| Frederick Lewis, associated with
Sothern and Marlowe since they first
put their heads together over Shake
speare has been retained by them 10
pool his voice with theirs during the
. coming season. HorGtio in Hamlet"
, OrsiHo In Twelfth Night and Lucentio
, in 1.-THE Tanning of the Shrew" will take
! up lot of his time.
sarg shows New Bill.
Tony Sarg's Marionettes created their
! usual sensation with the second of a
series of four bills last night at the
Provincetown Players Theatre, tucked
away in the southeast bushes of Wash
ington Square. "A Victorian Romance, "
THE Indian Snake Charmers," "a
} Strange Dream" "Greta and Her Dog
, THE Royal Juggler'' and two acts from
"polly and Her Pals" gave the wooden
| heads a chance to demonstrate that
! some living actors could learn points
from them.
Mark A. Luescher. editor of the Hippo
!. drome literary supplement, respectfully
! submits that Charles Dillingham; hal
extended the four weeks engagement al
the big house of Clyde Cook. the English
pRntomimist and dancer, for some tine
thus insuring happy days for the chill
dren and elephants over the holidays.
Willie Solar has been eclipsed In "a
Lonely Romeo" at the Casino Theatre y,
Willie st. Clair, who has adopted th'
role of Andnids Bcebe not only with hi
3 legs but with his voice and who sing
THE Influenza Blues" with perfect i'm
munity from criticism and colds.
4 A tour of the country will be made b,
a Henrietta Crosman in new comedy b!
Stanley Dark and Eva Dennison entitled
;. '"The Critical Moment" which will pat
} through that period on october 20 a
Q Atlantic City
"The Gold Diggers" Presented.
= LONG BRANCH, Sept. 19.-7In the Broad