The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-10
LINCOLN DRAMA
DUE HERE NOV. 8
w. Harris Looking After Box
0ffice-Ned Burton to
Have Chief Role.
HARRY LAUDER ON WAY
AL Woods Buys Play on Hos
pital Cot, but May Change
the Title.

John Drinkwater's play abraham
Lincoln" one of the reigning London
successes. It became known yesterday,
will enlighten the American public about
the great emancipator about November
8. The playwright is now on a lecture
tour here, and William Harris, Jr., is
preparing to put the civil war on a
good box. office basis. 1t is reported
that Ned Burton Is likely to play the
chief part, with specially designed hir-
suite scenery.
Harry Lauder-now Sir Harry Lau-
der in his own rights on the way back
to this country. having stuffed Australia
full of Scotch humor He is due in
San Francisco on the liner Pacific on
October 81, and will be officially well
coined back to America by william
Morris. his American director. Lauder
was to head straight for South Africa
from Australia. but was compelled by
shipping conditions to approach the
Dark Continent gradually. He will
exude q little Scotch In San Francisco.
Los Angeles. Portland, Milwaukee. Chi
cago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and
New York to make the time pass more
quickly before sailing for Cape Town
in February.
A. II. Woods, recovering from his re-
cent illness in sanitarium. has dis
obeyed the doctors orders and bought
another play while convalescing. Crane
Wilbur. knowing the producers weak
ness. telephoned to Mr.. Woods that he
had a new play with a novel Idea which
could even stand being read in hos
pital. Mr.. Woods succumbed to the
temptation and told Mr.. Wilbur to sneak
in and read the play to him when the
nurse wasn't looking. Mr.. Wilbur did
this, and even though the news N ay
reach hts physician's eyes 1t must be
revealed that the manager at the end
hastily bought the play and stuffed all
four acts under his pillow. Its pre- sent
title is 1.-The Winged God" but as soon
as Mr.. Woods gets little stronger he
is expected to change that
"HeIIo Hopper" Rchearses.
Edward Clark. who staged and added
padding to ooh What a Girl" the musi-
cal comedy in the Central Theatre, will
soon start rehearsals for carrying along
Somebody's Luggage" which, has had
music grated upon II. 1t will bear
fruit under the Shuberts as Hello Hop
per-"
r. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest will
produce an Oriental musical comedy,
THE Rose of China" in Detroit on Sun
day next, and New York is notified to
be on the watch for it soon. Frank Nc
Intyre. Cecil Cunningham, Oscar Shaw,
Jane Richardson and George Mack have
been bonded to appear in It, and Julian
Mitchell! will celebrate his engagement
as general musical stage director for
Comstock and Gest by putting the dam
GERS on their feet.
John Corts first dramatic production
of the season, "Three's a Crowd" by
Earl Derr Biggers and Christopher Nor
ley. began making elbow room for itself
in the city at rehearsals yesterday
Helen weer will play the leading role.
kathleen, said to have been christened
after a magazine story.
Edward Locke and Victor Herbert are
driving away ennui by collaborating on
a new play with music. which Mr. Locke
intends to pattern after that classic
THE Climax" by Edward Locke
John Halliday is to give aid and COM
fort TO 1.-The Dancer" in the Harris The
atre until the Shuberts surrender Dan
serous Years" to the public. when he is
to be the chief peril
Novelties in Shakespeare.
" HSli II SOtlltlh anu julia khdT-
lowe open the latest lnstalment OF
Hamlet" in the Shubert Theatre on
Monday next something new in the way
of stage business and costumes is prom
ised. especially In the play scene, and
the lighting and scenic devices are said
TO be worthy OF nature.
Mark Luescher. upon being cross ex-
amined. deposes that Percival Knight
and Roy Atwell have been the subject
OF much CHEEKY comment from their fell
low players in Apple Blossoms ever
since a metropolitan critic called John
Charles Thomas the Prince Charming
OF light opera" while another reviewer
awarded Knight and Atwell the guerdon
OF being 1.-The two homelest men on the
comic opera stage" In retaliation the
comedians caused a caricature' of Mr..
Thomas to be set on the Globe stage yes
ierday, with two portraits of themselves
looking sleek in evening clothes. while
this caption was placed beneath: who's
the Beau Brummel of this opera house,"
To this an irresponsible chorus cir!
added: 81 know the answer-Fred La
tham."
The Coburns have engaged Lee Baker
for an important role in Louis h. Ans
pacher's drama, "All the Kings Horses"
which will be pulled down to Baltimore
on October 81, and then in the middle
of November it will recoil in Broadway
Tribute From Singapore.
Ada Forman, the Javanese dancer in
the Greenwich Village Follies," in the
Nora Bayes Theatre, has received a con-
gratulatory letter from Emil Shansl,
merchant OF Singapore. who stopped In
to see the performance before catching
his steamship, and had to wait till he
got home before he could master his
feelings sufficiently TO express his ap-
probation of the artistic accuracy Of
her work.
irwin s. Cobb has cut himself Off from
his typewriter In order to see that the
players In the dramatizauon of his
story, Boys viii Be Boys" opening in
the Belmont Theatre on Monday. put
the right amount OF Kentucky Juice in
their dialect.
The other night in the Lyceum Thea
tire a bouncing golden haired lassie APP
proa ched the box office and explained to
William Blackmore. the treasurer, that
she wanted to buy for a girl friend two
seats to THE Grave Diggers."
"You mean The Gold Diggers,'" he
said.
well whatever il is" responded the
young woman, 81 want two OF the best