South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02
Stage
Among the Stars in the
World Ofthe THeater
By VIII v. Fink

Wallace Eddinger. who was here
last spring. playing opposite Miss
Irene BOrdoni when the French
farce. Sleeping Partners. was act
ed AZ the oliver. IS soon to appear in
Wedding Bells a comedy by Sails
bury Field. Miss Margaret Law
renee, who was until recently fea-
tured with Arthur Byron and Fred
erick Perry in the company giving
the extraordinarily successful com
edy. Tea for Three" now current
at the Lasaile I'm Chicago. Will be
Importantly cast in Wedding Bells"
Mr.. Eddinger started the season
with the triple star cast OF Donald
Brian. Peggy Wood and Wallace
EddInger in George Y. Hobart's
"Buddies," which was produced IN
Boston. Roland Young was selected
TO hl the vacancy in h alliance
when Mr.. Eddinger withdrew.
Emmett Corrigan will appear IN
the leading role OF "a Daughter OF
Two Worlds when that play. writ
ten by Frederick Brueger. is pro-
duced by Walter Hast, whose bank
account was enriched through tho
production or Scandal" recently
played at the Oliver by a road com
pany. An Exchange of Wives" pro-
duced By Mr.. Hast in New York re-
Gently. was a failure prompt one.
Martha Hedman, who has not had
a satisfactory part since she left the
cast Of hat rarely good comedy,
THE Boomerang" (she vas not in
the organization that presented it at
the oliver is to play the role Of a
German princess in Forbidden" a
new play by Dorothy Donnelly,
which will be produced by Walter
Hast.
"On the Firing Line" produced
for the first time on any stage at the
oliver last August and which went
from here TO the Blackstone IN
Chicago. in a measure breaking tho
actors strike. which was in full
, swing there at that time, is being
acted az the Criterion in New York
by n cast hat IN some respects Is
different from the one sent here.
Laura Hope Crews and Josephine
Hall are still in II. Among the new
comers are Cyril Scott, Donald Gal
laher and John Blair.
Fritz Kriesler, who was a captain
i'm the Austrian army and who, dur
ing the war. was prohibited from
giving concerts in this country. is
- -. a ~ N-.qaa--f--. - ffr4
cago this afternoon-his first recital
there since he was stopped as the
result OF way feeling. Kreisler and
JasCha HeifetZ seem 90 share hOnOrs
as to being the worlds greatest VIC
iiuist. That New Workers are not
prejudiced against Kreisler as a re-
suit OF his having been a captain in
The Austrian army Che was wounded
while fighting on the Russian 'front.'
- evident from the way they are
nocking 10 see (and hear) Apple
Blossoms" a light musical enter
tainment. for which Kreisler and
Victor Jacobs wrote the music-anI
10 is said TO be real music. NIusi-
clans were in evidence at the prem
.ere OF Apple Blossoms"
There were orchestra conductors
Joseph Stransky Walter DamroSch.
Edgar Varese. Theodore Spiering.
and singers. such as John McCor-
mack. Sopie EraslaU. Andrea de Sc
Curola. Paul Eeimcrs. Herbert
Witherspoon. Pianists present were
Serge Rachuaninoff, Ossip Gabriel
owitsch. Alexander Lambert. Nio-
linists were less observed, but there
were those who discovered Franz
Kneisel. Tsaye, Elman, Jascha Hell
fetz. Kreisler himself. in a dark
corner furthest from the stage. had
Co DE called out. and finally dragged
out 90 answer a curtain call with
John Charles Thomas. Wilda Ben
nett. and jacob.
Too Many Husbands which has
duplicated in New York the great
success il won in London. was origi
ualIy written by w. Somerset
Vaughan. English playwright, for
Robert Lorraine. English actor. who
more than 10 years ago played
Ma and Superman q George