The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
Percy Hutchinson, With "The
Luck Of the Navy" Com
pany, to Arrive.
sDECLAsSEE' OPENS OCT. 6
Thurston, the Magician, Is
Planning to Build Own House
Near Longacre Square.


nephew of Sir Charles wyndham and is
know in England also for his own sake,
will be warped into the dock on the
steamer Nieuw Amsterdam, with the en-
tire Queens Theatre company, which
has been playing The Luck of the
Navy" in London for the past two
years. acting as buffer.
Mr.. Hutchinson, with q side order OF
Muriel Martin Harvey and the rest of
the company, is making his first ad-
vance on America in response to a
pretty contract with f. Ray Comstook
and Morris Cost. who will give The
Luck of the Navy" on october 10 an
opportunity to show whether 1t has any
at the Manhattan Opera House. Previ-
Gus to its opening the melodrama for one
week will have a tryout before the Hon.
Josephus in Washington.
Empire to Open October o.
The Empire Theatre will cut loose
with its regular season on Monday, Oc-
tober er~with Ethel Barrymore in cleo
trio lights and "Declassee" as the lure
for the Broadway pilgrims The com
pany to appear with her in this play by
Zoe Atkins will include among Its prin-
cipals Claude King. Vernon Steele, Jul
Ian Boyce. Charles Francis, Harry
Thinner, Alfred Haase, Ralph Belmont.
Beatrice Beckley, Katherine Harris,
Madeline Delmar, Clara Games, Gabri-
ellie Ravine, Ivy Gardner, Maude Leslie
and other fast workers.
Thurston, the magician. now playing
at the Globe Theatre. will begin fare
well tour of the country on OCTOBER a.
thus putting himself on a plane with
Adelina Patti and Sarah Bernhard.
The wizard announces that he has oo-
tanned an option on bit of property on
Broadway in the Longacre Square sec
tor, and If possible, he intends TO wave
his wand and materialize a theatce bear
ing his own name. He plans to make
an annual visitation here for eight or
ten weeks, and then suitcase the thea
ire to managers of drama, farce and
similar black magic.
Mark Smith was Initiated into the cast
of "The Five Million at the Lyric me
atre last night, playing the part OF Steve
Macdonald, the fat soldier who becomes
a domestic science warrior by being
company cook in France.
David Beasco's comedy production,
"The Boomerang" opened its fifth sea-
son in Cha rlottesville, Va, last night,
ana as yet SIOMS llo SibhS ~ 'AeA
back tn its original starting point in
New York.
New Act for "Frivolities."
G.. NJ. Anderson, who is authorita-
lively said to be raking vaudeville fore
and aft for specialities for his "F'rivoli-
ties of 1919" has added to his spoils the
Six Constables, who tootle on the saxo-
phone while performing on the trapeze'
which shows to what lengehs some per-
sons will go just to play the saNophone'
Kate Pullman. singing and dancing
Coincidence, will provide an important
outburst in John Cort's musical comedy,
"Roly-Boly Eyes" which will spread out
over the Knickerbccker Theatre on
Thursday evening. Miss Pullman began
in burlesuue and vaudeville, but even
there she couldn't hide herself from the
rolling eyes of Mr.. Cort.
Walter Hast has commissioned Cosmo
Hamilton to write a starring vehicle for
Frarc cine Larrimore, new occupying
equal starring space with Charles Cherry
in Mr.. Hamilton's comedy, Scandal,
which is the talk of the Thirty-ninth
Street Theatre. Mr.. Hamilton has re-
piled to Mr.. Hast that he has Sound just
the thing for dramatizing-a novel.
''Who Cares" by Cosmo Hamilton.
At the Hippodrome matinee tomorrow
400 sailors of the Italian battleship
Conte di Cavour, under the eye of Ad-
miral Ugo CONF, will visit that grand old
institution, which Charles Dillingham;
considers one big justification for the
foundation of this republic, and watch
Mae Eccleston, the diver who alternates
with Helen Carr in losing her head 122
feet above the Hip tank and then find
ing It again in the water, turn nip hops
James Barton. whose eccentric dancing
brought the flush of youth to the oldest
of the happy spectators at the Equity
benefits recently, has let out his high
animal spirits under contract for the
Winter Gardens annual fall revue, 'The
Passing Show of 1919" now in prep
aration to take up the running when
"Monte Cristo, Jr.," becomes winded.
More Songs for Baird.
Beginning on Monday Stewart Baird
will have his part in the schubert Gale
ties of 1919" at the Forty-fourth Street
Theatre considerably enlarged to take
over the songs discarded by Harry Fen
der on joining Little Simplicity" and
Mr.. Baird expects to have his voice also
enlarged.
Gable information from London states
that Richard Walton Tullys play. THE
Bird of Paradise" went to the British
heart when produced week ago at
the Lyric Theatre, London, and the
English are said to be buying out the
house as though they meant to live
there.
Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan Of the
mine O'Clock Revue" are building an
apartment house in Baltimore which will
be called THE Ziegfeld" out of COM
pliment to their manager. and which
win have q marble foyer, elevators ana
all the comforts OF home.
Despite the good prospects of "Nightie
Night" at the Princess Theatre its pro-
Queer. Adolph Klauber, has not yet as
stunned a capitalistic expression, being
mistaken the other day for an ordinary
mortal-worse. a Bolshevik. The man
who made this impossible mistake, ac-
cording to the press agent, stuck his
head in at the door of Mr.. Klauber's
Office in an uptown building and bleated :
isn't these the Russian Soviet head
Quarters?"
mot here" said Mr.. Klauber with
all the emphasis OF one quoting famous
words.
Amt they, thought" the representa-
tive of the great unwashed persisted.
"a man he says to me that these was
the headquarters"
We'll. this man says they isn't" re-
sponded Klauber. stage directing him
self, in proletarian parlance. This man
Is paying rent for they SO he knowa"
The idea of any one paying money for
anything was too much for the Bolshe-
Visit and he vanished. This story can
be verified by calling up Mr.. Klauber.