The sun., 1919-07-02
fOH UNCLE TO VISIT
MUSICAL NEW YORK
i'Welcome Home" Is Forced to
! Change Its Name to "The
Five Million.'
BRADY SPURNS $4,000
t.Shubert Gaieties Of 1872 to
Open Monday-Notes Of
Other Attractions.
BRADY sPURNs $4,000

-Oh. Uncle" the musical comedy
which has been running in Philadelphia
for the last three months wfll soon
run away from there and hold open
house at the Casino Theatre here. Lee
and ]. J. Shubert have wound up the
east with Frank Fay, Harry Kelly, Sam
Ash, Ignaclo Martinetti, Lew Cooper,
sam curtis, Hazel Kirke, Bessie Wynn
and several square yards OF chorus
girls The book and lyrics were culti-
waited by Edgar Smith and Edward
Clark, while Charles Jules and Jacques
Presburg felt equal to the music.
The new play by Guy Bolton and
Frank Mandel, which F. Ray Comtsock
and Morris Gest are to produce, was AT
first called Welcome Home but that
title, it Is now announced. has worn
out its welcome. AS many theatres
have over advertised the show with
signs of Welcome Homo" for the re-
turned soldiers, and as William A. Page,
word controller for Comstock & Gest,
points out, It was thought that this title
emblazoned in electric signs would sim
ply be interpreted as a hearty greeting
and not an invitation to come In and
open the pocketbook.
So every one who expected this title
10 fall soon will be satisfied to learn that
It has been changed to THE Five Mil
lion" intended as a rough estimate oil
the expected profits from the show. In
order not to conflict with the opening OF
the Shubert "Gaieties of 1919" at the
Forty fourth Street Theatre on Monday
might the opening date at the Lyric
Ia extension
lime until Tuesday next.
Another production which has been
postponed until the same night is the
Greenwich Village Nights" despite the
protests Of prominent first nighters that
hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
summer Run for ...Peek-a-Doo."
Jean Bedinrs diverting burlesque re-
yue, 'Peek-a- Boo" announced at first
for a summer run OF month and
half at the Columbia Theatre. has re-
ceived such a rousing welcome from
the populace that ii is likely its engage
ment will be prolonged beyond the mid
die Of August. as considerable relh'
from prohibition, in order that real
burlesque OF the PEOPLE. for the people
and by the people shall not perish from
The earth.
Charles Frohman, Inc, has obtained
from A. E. Thomas his latest contrap-
ton, Poor Mother" and will expose
It to the sun early next season.
william A. Brady was declared yes
terday in a sworn deposition to have
turned down an offer of $4,000 for the
movie rights to his Playhouse produc-
ton AT 9:i5." the owen Davis melo-
drama described as dealing with 'mys'
terry, marriage and murder" though why
the last two institutions should be
coupled Is the real mystery of the show
Mr.. Brady il was represented, felt thai
IL mere child of a play was worth al
Of that money II would be valued more
highly when time had made 1t ripe
Moreover, it is said that Mr.. Brady ha:
so much money anyhow that all III
cared about following A. II. Woods:
example in cornering the Yiddish drama
was buying up all the Irish plays in the
country.
Broadway and Buttermilk." a pla.
which scored here several seasons ago
was revived In part yesterday when
dozen show girls from Listen. Lester,
at the Knickerbocker Theatre. bubblet
In a motor truck. along with Ada Ma
Weeks and Esther lngham and bottle
Of buttermilk 10 the headquarters of tn
marines at "a East Twenty-third street
where the boys received all they coul
stagger away with. The girls had their
served later at Shanley's.
"The Challenge" to Open soon.
Holbrook Blinn, who is starred b.
Selwyn & Co. in THE Challenge" Eu
gene Walters latest aria. as soon as tn
6elwyns can spare the time from raisin