Evening star., 1919-04-13
Blanche Chapman and John Halliday
will be in the cast.

will be in the cast.
Josephine Victor is to appear IN q
play by Edith Ellis, as yet unnamed
1t will have cast including Byron
Beasley, Wallis Clark, Jeffreys Lewis
and Clarence Derwent
A dramatization by Frederic and
Fanny Hatton of Joseph c. Lncolns
book. "Cap'n Warren's Ward" is to be
produced by Oliver Morosco. Thomas
A. Wise will play the leading char
acter.
Henry W. Savage is to produce a
musical comedy by Earl Derr Biggers
called aaThe Love Boat" Mr.. Biggers
has also dramatized Christopher Nor
ley's Kathleen" which John Cort
will produce.
A. H. Woods is going to produce
a ''cinemaphonic" play by Ralph Dyar
a Spokane journalist, called Look
and Listen" In the cast will be
Sutherland and Harold Vosburg.
The Shuberts placed in rehearsal
last week new play entitled '4Those
Who Walk In Darkness" a dramat-
zation by Owen Davis of Penney Poor
Sheehan's story of that name
Otis Skinner and his managers. the
Charles Frohman Company, have ac-
which Mr. Skinner will appear next
season. Mr.. Ivor is a newcomer as
a playwright
Marie Nordstrom in private life. 4.
the wife of Henry E. Dixey. th<
famous actor. Her sister Frances also
is professional Her sketches and
plays have been successful
A new play, Dark Horses" by Sam.
uel Shipman and Percival Wilde, will be
produced at the Belasco Theater Apri
u. The cast of the new comeoy includes
Roland Young, Phoebe Foster, Cath
leen Nesbitt and other players OF
prominence on the New York stage.
Grace George is to return to the
stage next season with the establish
ment of a permanent stock company
similar to the famous companies OF
DAILY, Palmer and Wa1lack. She will
make new productions. among them
She Would and She Did," by a new
playwright. Mark Reed, and 'The
Ruined Lady," by Frances Nord-
strom.
King George and Queen Mary re-
Gently witnessed John Drinkwater's
play founded on the life of Abraham
Lincoln, which is said to be attract
ing unusual attention at a small sub
urban theater in London never be-
fore visited by royalty.
Gilbert Miller produced last week
in London an opera by Andre Mes
sager, who was CONDUCTOR of the
Paris Conservatory orchestra on its
American tour, which is based on
Booth Tarkington's novel Beau
caire," Maggie Teyte appeared in the
principal feminine role.
Patricia Collinge. whose new play
'Tillie," achieved a large measure OF
success in Chicago, has a distinctly
Irish quality Of wit. In a letter to
friend the other day she said,
| commenting upon disagreement
| existing between herself and an ac-
auaintance. 'X and I are still very
| chubby. only there are spikes in the
clubs"
Baron James de Rothschi1d, q
major in the Jewish Legion. a par,
| of the army now occupying Pales.
tine, has promised $4,000 a year fol
the next three years to a Palestine
organization composed of amateur.
| who have devoted themselves to de.
veloping a Hebrew-speaking theatel
| in the Holy Land as a cultural insti.
| tuition. The organization, which call.
endeavorlng to. secure the services OF
| professional stage director, who, be.
/ sides professional skill, must have 3
| speaking acquaintance with the He.
! brew language and be imbued will
| the Jewish national spirit.