The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-16
BROADWAY SOON TO
SEE ROSE COGHLAN
Margaret Lawrence Will Try
Out Two Comedies and Play
One Next Season.
PASTOR WEBS SHOW GIRL
Dress Rehearsal of Green
Room Club Next Sunday
Ozark Horses" Coming.

Rose Coghian, last of the celebrated
group OF players who caused wailack's
Theatre In the early SOS to suspend the
free list, will return To Broadway IN
q few weeks and put that thoroughfare
back in It's old position on the theatri.
cal map. She will be in the diadem
Of all star performers who will present
the new Paul N. Potter farce, the title
Of which alternates every night between
Pretty Soft and Very Soft" When
last heard from In New York Miss
the revival Of 'Trilby" at the Shubert
Theatre. which also was an all star af-
fair, even to the press agent In at
tendance.
Despite announcements to the con-
tarry, Selwyn q Co. announce that Mar
earet Lawrence will not weaken Tea
Tor Three" at Maxine Elliotts Thea
tire by Withdrawing from the cast for
one week In order to try on the Mt OF
Eugene walters new play, Poor Little
Sheep" 1t Is predicted BY the selwyn
forces that this play viii be turned into
spring lamb for popular consumption in
Atlantic City on May ~. but Miss Law
renee has transferred her allegiance else
VIII Try Two Comedies.
Late this spring she will pit two
new comedies against each other and
the one which wins her favor will trans
port her back a. q Christmas holiday
gift to New York next season. As q
preliminary to this In the fall she will
tune up with the original cast Of Tea
for Three" in Chicago.
In the face Of all these preparations
for a rosy future for Miss Lawrence the
Selwyn stan II not too busy to draw
diagrams showing how to feature Edna
Hubbard. who IL making personal thud
IN tumble In at the Selwyn Theatre,
IN . new musical comedy with which
that firm will broaden Broadway's out
look the latter part Of the year.
Alfred Matthews. 1t present musical
director for Al Jolson. has been engaged
TO compose six numbers for oliver
Morosco's new musical comedy, "Smith,
Jones and Brown" and even before they
have been SGT to paper the Morosco in
teliigence department vouches they will
reveal extraordinary promise.
Since the Announcement that Oliver
Morosco had obtained dramatisation of
the novel Seven Miles to Arden" which
has for It's chief character an Irish lass.
tho managers oflces have been 30
thronged with Celtic actresses applying
for the Job Of leading brogue artist thxt
he 10 thinking Of spelling his name
OMorosoo.
"our Pleasant Sins" On Monday.
It has been deemed appropriate to
open "Our Pleasant Sins" the new play
in which Thomas Broadhurst finds three
acts SUFFICIENT to reveal the gamut of
human frailties. at the Belmont Theatre
on Easter Monday when his Internal
been laid to rest for another year. The
cast includes Henrietta Crosman. VIM
cent Serrano, Pauline Lord, Forrest
winant and others skilled In represent
ing nayghtiness in public.
John Philip Sousa: the famous trap
shooter who has been known to write
good music, yesterday presented to
Charles Dillingham; the original orches-
tration Of his new song. when the Boys
trained his daughter. Helen Sousa Albert,
to write the lyrics. It had an airing
for the first time at the Hippodrome
golden Jubilee on Sunday.
Another Hippodrome presentation took
place yesterday when the Rev. Robert
Davis. pastor Of the Presbyterian Church
Of Engiewood. N. j., presented Florence
e. Pray, one OF the prominent show
girls Of Everything" to Clyde Powers,
resident stage manager OF the big house,
az his bride for keeps In honor Of the
event Charles Dillingham; sent Mr.. Pow
ars n medai-but II was for devoted
service, not for bravery. Chorus girls
.ast night displayed banners inscribed,
Pray for Powers"
Dress Rehearsal Next Sunday.
Everything is set for the seventeenth
annual dress rehearsal OF the Green
Room Club at the Hudson Theatre next
Sunday night, and since the bill. which
includes three original playlets. will be
presented by Marjorie Rambeau. Frank
Bacon. Nora Bayes. Alice Brady, Her
bert CorthelI. James Lackaye and Ed
Wynn, II seems likely no one will get
out an Injunction to stop them.
saInuel Shipman and PerclvaI wilde's
Dark Horses" will be trotted out OF
the stables of William Harris. Jr. IA: the
Shubert- Belasco Theatre In Washington
on Sunday, April ~. unless one of them
develops a sprung leg.
r. II. Burnside has Just put the last
Joke into a new musical comedy. Little
Miss Millions" which he wrote In col
fusion with Raymond Hubbell for pro-
duction when everyone comes back to
town braced by summers vacation
Just to show how Providence watches
over its own It is pointedsout that some
unknown admirer has been sending bou.
luets OF swoe. peas TO Constance Bin.
ney In "39 East at the Broadhursi
Theatre. which she simply must have
or else the play will 20 to smash. This
Of course. helps TO cut down the high
cost of living In a stage boarding house
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