The sun., 1919-06-24
UP FROM NOWHERE
TO Be SEEN SOON
Play by Booth Harrington and
Harry Leon Wilson Being
Rehearsed.
TREVOR WILL STAR IN 1T
Madge Derry, Premier Dan
seuse Of Opera Comique,
Arrives in City,

The old firm of Harrington and Wilson
| will soon be ready to deal with cash Gus
toners again. Booth Harrington and
Harry Leon Wilson. probably best re-
membered for their impressive dead heat
In "A Man From Home" have taken
out Of their sleeves a new play called
up From Nowhere" John d. Williams
is having 1t run through the wringer at
rehearsal. preparatory to its being pre-
| sented in a New York theatre the first
week In August.
In writing this play. according to
have absolutely cut themselves of from
| their kind-that is. in the matter of
stage conventions. Though the play
| wrights would be Mortified to think it.
| 1t Is rumored they have INDUCED In a
| species of literary Bolshevism The basic
| Idea OF the play, however, Is a definition
| of new American ism, and Norman
Trevor will be turned loose from
''Tobys Bow" to do the principal elocu-
tionary declarations of the play. After
| going out Of fashion during the summer
"Toby's Bow" will reopen here on August
"a, with George Marion still putting the
dent in the how.
Madge Derry. premiere danseuse of
the Opera Comique. Paris, arrived here
yesterday under contract to appear in a
forthcoming Winter Garden extrava-
ganza, but New York is expected to re-
cover from the sensation by this morn
ing. ]. J. Shubert, when in Paris last
April. saw Mile. Derry in Delibes's
opera, "Lakme," and liked her so much
he prevailed on the Opera Comique,
! where she Is doing a life term. to relent
toward America and parole her in Mr..
Shuberts custody here. =
Played in "Aphrodite."
Besides giving the concentrated es-
sence of classical dances Mile. Derry
has looked after the interests OF the
Russian. Oriental and Hindu dances.
She played the chief role six years ago
| in the dramatization OF Pierre Louys's
Alexandrian romance "Aphrodite," and
was such a successful subject for cruel
fixion in this that she was begged to
come to America. She declined, being
bound over to the Opera Comique.
A surprise party. strictly on the quiet,
IL being planned for Rachel Crothers by
the players In "39 East and "A Little
Journey" when she slips back to New
York. and tho greatest secrecy is being
maintained about It. Miss Crothers. II
Is said. also has surprise for them
with her performance in her comedy
He and She" in which she Is playing
UT der the watchful eyes of Government
officials this week at Washington.
Fay Tunis, a show girl in Lew Fields's
musical revue "a Lonely Romeo" at the
Shubert Theatre. has received a chance
to make herself audible and visible with
an important bit which she will prone
made in tonight, though her perform
ance isn't expected to change the course
OF the production already successful.
The opening of the Greenwich Village
FclIies" has been put OF from tonight
to Wednesday. July 2.
Mabel Clouds Guests.
Mabel Cloud. the Indian show girl who
Is to suggest to New York the really
wild woman in the Shubert "Gaieties of
1919" will have as her guests at the
opening on Monday next at the Forty
fourth Street Theatre three girls of In
dian blood who have journeyed here
from the West in the confident belief
that the reviewers won't scalp their
friend.
At the Central Theatre next Sunday
evening New York will have its first
squint at a motion picture, open Your
Eyes" announced as having been made
under the supervision OF the United
States Public Health Service. and there
fore antiseptic. The production Is said
to deal with the necessity OF parents ac-
quainting their children with facts that
will make the world safe for posterity.
Nevertheless children under lG won't be
admitted.
As F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest
plan to invade London early next season
with productions OF Experience" The
wanderer" and their new play The
Light of the World" they engaged by
cable yesterday Capt. ]. A. E. Malone,
for twenty-five years general manager
for the late George Edwardes In London.
to act as general manager and chief Of
scouts for them.
The latest shift of titles In the A. II.
Woods office, that home Of the lightning
change act in naming plays. was the
transformation of Harold Brighouse's
farce, THE Bantam v. c. to THE
Bashful Hero" the second but probably
not the last coat of titling II will receive
before being produced at the Bijou Thea
tire about the middle OF August. THE
Great Illusion" also slipped into THE
Girl in the Stage Box" the former COW
ering being considered to be too heavy
for the warm weather.
Harold de Becker. who worked his
way through The Willow Tree" The
Typhoon," "Mr. Barnum" and Penny
Wise" has now been graduated into
Kathleen" written by Earl Derr Big
gers from a magazine story and prom
ised to a restless world by John Cort as