The sun., 1919-06-17
SELWYNS BEGIN
TWO NEW THEATRES
Playhouses Are to Be Known
as Times Square and Forty
second Street.
ONE BLOCK TO HAVE TEN
Plots Are Purchased for
About $4,000, 900 by the
Company.

started work yesterday on two more
theatres on Broadway. no serum having
BEEN developed as yet TO stop the spread
of this organisation. The houses, which
are to challenge notice as the Times
Square and the Forty-second Street, are
to lean UP against the Lyric Theatre. on
tho north side OF West Forty-second
street, 30 that the doorman can get q
good view Of the posters of the 'Follies
girls at the New Amsterdam opposite.
These two will run the grand aggre-
gate of theatres on that block UP to ten
said to be the greatest congestion Of dra-
matte talent allowed anywhere In one
block throughout the civilized world and
Germany. or these ten the selwyns will
control four when the new structures are
completed, which 10 expected to be by
the fir<t of December. unless all the
workingmen sign UP to fight Villa In
association with Aaron Naumburg
Crosby Gaige. vice-president Of Selwyn
4 Co., purchased the adjoining plots in q
deal which Is said to come so Close to
$4,000, 900 that only a purist could tell
the difference.
Theatres Seating Capacity.
The Forty second Street will have Q
seating capacity of 100, while the
Times Square will claim a larger cir.
culation with 1900. Both theatres will
have air cushions built on the street
sides, so as to cut the sounds of the
thoroughfsre of from the audience. or
II you prefer. cut the noise inside the
theatre of from the passerby. Another
innovation will be smoking rooms-foI
both men and women-evidently In
honor OF the suffrage amendment The
Times Square in the first four rows OF
the balcony will have arm chairs instead
Of the usual orchestra seats, thus en-
abling n gentleman to move his chair
around while searching franucally fol-
his lost hat.
B. S. Moss states on his own authority
that his chain of eight theatres have
been merged with the interests of the
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, bu,
will stif1 60 II on their own, not merely
confining themselves to pictures by this
corporation. but playing any little old
thing Of merit that comes along. Tho
reported to have gained control of the
Rivoli and the Rialto. which practically
standardizes Broadway In a celluloid
sense.
New Play Purchased.
Sam Hofrenstein. after a long period
OF silent meditation. cuts loose again
with the announcement that A. H.
Woods has purchased a new play by
Marjorie Blaine and Stanley Lewis. tenn
porar!ly entitled THE Man and His
Shadow for the sake of argument
These authors wrote THE Unknown
Woman" in which Marjorie Rambeau
expects to become further known as q
star next season.
who Did 1tY' the mystery farce by
Stephen Gardner Champlin, which has
three times turned out to be dud. will
II lie positively announced once more. ex-
plode into the Belmont Theatre tonight
though you never can tell in q world
of postponements. The original cast ID
still sticking to the play from force OF
habit
Zeke 'Colvan, stage manager at the
Winter Garden. having exhausted all the
novelty OF working there from sixteen
hours q day upward, announced yester-
day that he was about to leave for his
summer vacation in a quiet sylvan re-
treat, and had therefore chosen Chicago
1t Ia with great regret that all the
papers in town are forced to print a re-
traction of the story that Marjorie Gate
son would appear In her own hair and
her right mind in the forthcoming Cal
eties of 1919" j. c. Huffman, who "a
staging this musical show for the Shu-
berts. informed her yesterday that she
would have to wear a carrot coiored wig
despite previous promises that she would
be allowed to play in her own tresses
which were said to be gold on their last
exposure. Now Miss Gatsson, who has
been forced TO wear false hair ever since
she began losing hairpins. demands she
be allowed to show the public that she
has a thatch OF her own before II turns
gray.
wiIl Hold CIambake.
Because our forefathers were thought.
less enough to have Independence Day
this year fall on Friday, thus compelling
THE Royal Vagabond" to play a double
performance on that day. members OF
the company are planning to celebrate
the Declaration OF INDEPENDENCE or
Sunday, July s, with a clambake al
Sea Cliff, L. l.. where all drinks will be
u
To prevent litigation that threa tened
to drag out to future generations
Pauline Hall. one of the girls who II
on display in Charles DillinRhsm's pro.
duction. She's a Good Fellow" at the
Globe, has decided to become a star
under the name Of Paulyne Kent Hall
adapted from the English OF her owl
name and her father'a
Miss Hall was threatened with a court
action recently by Pauline Hall, creator
OF the title role In "Erminie." unless the
young woman stopped plagiarizlng hei
name. Though Miss Hall points ou
that she came by the name legitimately
in church, she thought II best not to b.
confused with the elder Pauline Halls
daughter, who also inpends IN her stags
debut under that name, So she hal
borrowed a coEnomen from her father
Oakley Kent Hall. former vioe-presiden'
of the Pennsylvania Light. Heat ant
Power Company OF PIttsburg. and MARI
Luescher says that any further change,
are now up to Cupid.