The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-19
BESSIE MCCOY DAVIS
LEAVES THE FROLIC
Her Contract With Ziegfeld
Expires To-day---She Is
Going to Florida.
REASONS ARE NOT GIVEN
Two findings of sour Pleasant
Sins" to Be Shown at
Dress Rehearsal.

Ihough the birds are now said to be
flying North. Bessie Mccoy Davis is 60
Ing South. Her contract with r. Zisg-
field. Jr, expires to-day, and nnce she
has not signed a renewal the Ziegfeld
Midnight Frolic atop the New Amster-
dam Theatre will be dropped from her
visiting list The reasons for her with
drawal to warmer oltms at q time
when New York, II given half chance.
will become q summer resort itself, are
not stated. but IL 10 generally Understood
she plans TO give young Miss Davis a
chance TO show her new Easter fashions
at Palm Beach.
Despite her departure II II expected
that the balance Of power will be main
tained along Broadway when Grant
Mitchell. until recently the trousers
pressing star Of "A Tailor Made Man."
takes the drinks away from George N.
Conan and becomes the trousers pressed
star OF "A Prince There was" This
marks the third change in q few months
in the leading role Of Mr.. Cohan's play
in the George NJ. Conan Theatre, for
Robert billiard, the FIRST incumbent, abb
dictated In favor of the Napoleon Of the
American theatre, who will be succeeded
on Monday by the man who has been
doing the things that Napoleon left un-
done.
Rehearsal Audience to Vote.
Next TO the signing OF the peace treaty
and July 1 the publicity engineer for
Our Pleasant Sins affirmed before
notary yesterday that the most mo-
mentous day to be awaited 10 to-fnor-
row. when = special invitation dress re-
hearsal Of that play will be given to
prevent free for all fight among all
concerned. Thomas Broadhurst, the au-
thor. wrote an ending for the thing
which gave the producers, Stewart q
Morrison. Inc, case of st. vitus dance.
They had new ending written and
substituted for this, but Mr.. Broadhurst
contended that the original was the only
one which would appeal to Broadways
celebrated logical faculty. 90 the pri-
vate performance will be held to keep
the mortality among producers and au-
thors as low as possible. The guests
will be asked TO vote on which curtain
shall be used at the opening on Monday
should demand an absolutely new finish?
Alison Skipworth. one Of the prin-
cipals in "as Bast' at the Broadhurst
Theatre. claims to be the only living
actress who has ever made the ghost
walk on a farm. In smithtown, l.. l.,
Miss Skipworth has been drawing royal
ties for eleven years from a seven acre
farm, on which she raises poultry, straw
berries and a complexion. However. the
farm can't keep her of the stage.
Gustav Blum. coauthor Of "A sleepless
Night" which closes in the Bijou Thea
tire to-day In order to open traffic for
Three for Diana" on Monday. has In
cubated some new IDEAS with Masks"
play on which DIR. Elias Liebcrman
served a. advisory committee. Paul E.
Burns, releasing his mind for q special
beneft In the Shubert Theatre Sunday
night, April 2s, has written a one act
farce called Just Her Way Just to
show that being a comedian in "a Lit
tie Journey" at the Vanderbilt Theatre
cant stop man. Rachel Crothers,
however, passed a quiet night
Marc Klaw and Louis Seznick will
entertain 400 motion picture plenipoten-
tiaries at "Lightnin on Monday and at
Three Wise Fools" on Wednesday, and
unless wlnchell Smith and John L. Col
den are on their guard they are afraid
they'll have the picture rights snatched
II ON them for fortune. They have al
ready had great difficulty, IL Is said. In
keeping out of the way OF a large check
for the film lien on Turn to the Right"
This latest move II reported to be a
sly dodge OF the movie magnates for
The fact cannot be hushed up that ne
gotiations have already been started be-
tween George v. Hobart and an Eng
lish amusement syndicate for the London
production OF Come On Charley" the
farce which comes close TO an explosion
in the Forty-eighth Street Theatre Mr..
Hobart Ia already lettering on the verge
OF Loing to London to superintend It, and
will go. IL he Is pushed far enough.
Public to Pick Plays.
This being the day OF plebiscites.
Wales Winter, presenting Frances Ferne
and the Broadway Players in the Lex
ington Theatre. will have the public bear
the responsibility of picking the plays
for his company each week, according to
an announcement which Mr.. Winter
made after looking up all the interna-
tional authorities on the subject.
Poor Little Sheep" the new play by
Eugene Walter, which will moult at
Atlantic City May ~. Is emphatically
described by its author as having no
features OF a Bolshevik play or any at
tempt TO turn wolves into high class
mutton. So far as Mr. Walter can make
out, II bears all the earmarks Of love
story.
+. Ziegfeld, Jr.. has returned from
Palm Beach. where besides having a new
coat OF tan boiled on he mapped out the
skeleton work for the Follles OF 1919
II.