The sun., 1919-06-21
TWO new MIDNIGHT
FROLICS TO CAPER
One Will Be Seen at the New
Amsterdam and the Other
in Paris.
~LADY IN RED, RETIREs
Lew Fields Puts an End to Old
Superstition--Yiddish
Plays Coming.

Tor theatrical producers Ned Waybufn,
having successfully urged the latest
''Ziegfeid Foilies- upon the attention
OF. the public at TIE New Amsterdam
Theatre. has been xsabls TO rest on his
curtain calls. He has taken his head
quarters under his arm and moved the
box Of cigars from the ground floor to
the roof. in order TO get better ventila-
tion for the ideas he'll use in two new
Midnight rrolics."
One Of these win be detained here
fer the homo trade. The other will be
sent to Paris. though II In denied that
this organization win Join the American
Expedftionary Forces. Mr.. wayburn's
personnel stan II now using the seiec-
tive service principle on this quota. to
be recruited locally. and II probably will
be sent abroad about the time the rirm
OF Kaiser q Son goes into the bank
ruptcy court Tho now 'Trolic'> on the
New Amsterdam Roof IL expected to
save many New Workers. from madness
during tho first week Of July. +. zieg-
field. Jr.. already has ordered for It
several cords Of new costumes. and Mr..
Wayburn. having used up all the pretty
girls on hand, has issued a gener al
forgiven everything IL they'll only come
and hitch on to the, chorus.
Dollys In New Comedy.
r. Ray Comstock and Norris Gest
have signed q new contract with the
duplicate Dolly Sisters, who are Rossika
and Yancsi In the order Of their senior
ity. and under the new articles of con-
federation the sisters will star next sea-
son In "'Oh. Look r. In which they In
vited notice on tour last season. They
viii continue to exercise in this until
February next. giving Comstock and Gest
time to take a nrm grip on a new musi-
cal comedy In which the DoIlys will
patter >ut on Broadway later.
The Lady In Red" will end its
earthly career this season at the Lyric
Theatre tonight. The coroner Is ex-
pected to diasnoce the cause as heat
prostratton.
Houdini having shown that digital
dexterity Is no drawback TO 4 great
screen actor. w. C. Fields, the tuggler
o fthe Ziegled productions. Is going 10
take the movie game into his hands
He will appear in q series of short COM
edies for which 4 prominent screen con-
Germ will pay any breakase due to his
slcight of hand.
Leon Enrol has postponed his return
to America, ostsnsihly In order to put
on 4 new revue At the London Hippo
drome, but In reality because he be-
came convinced that pure art alone would
not enable him to put on his "souse
sketch" At the Palace. since he was to
open early in July.
A Superstttion Shattered.
During rehearsals of "A Lonely
Romeo" at the Shubert Theatre. several
superstitious members Of the company
that Is. practically everybody-baIked at
promenading on the stage set with open
UMBRELLAS as being liable to put q crimp
in their art FIeld-Marshai Lew Fields,
feeling that this ought to be an en-
li6htened age, insisted that the con-
struction Of the play would fall to pieces
without those parasols. and now that
the luck OF the standing room only
order has set in. Mr. Fields, smiling all
over his mouth. has ordered two more
open umbrellas added to the cast
At last use has been found for the
Garden Theatre. aside from being q
convention hall. A new enterprise, the
Jewish Art Theatre, will be housed In
the Madison Square Garden building. and
starting September 1 with the better
class OF Yiddish plays. including trans-
lations Of the European masters, q COM
pany headed by Emanuel Reicher wf1l
appear at the playhouse.
Charles b. Falls, a Bohemian who In
cidentally Is a capable artist. Is quite
willing TO have his name mentioned in
the same breath with the Greenwich
Village Follies." as the designer of their
scenery. Another hair-raisinR item In
that Andre Sherri made the costumes
from designs that radiate the genius Of
Shirley Barker.
The Palace next week. with Elizabeth
Brice and Will Morrissey In 4 canned
version Of the overseas revue. foot
Sweet; Greasy and Dayne In q aketch
and a recital of war experiences, and
Jack Waldron, ex-member OF the Ssv-
enty-seventh Division, dancing with
Emma Haig. will be recruited to full
war strength.