The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-24
'SHIPMAN TO PLAY
ROLE OF MANAGER
Playwright Who Helped Pro-
duce "First Is Last" to
Direct Its Fortunes.
SHUBERT PLANS READY
Joe Weber to Present "The
Little Blue Devil" at Gen.
trail Theatre Nov. 8.

IT'S not often that successful play
wright forsakes the pen ,sr the toga OF
the theatrical manager, but Samuel
shipman. tired Of being q iaboring man
earning few hundred thousand q year,
has boited the dramatists game and
taken out his hrst papers as q manager
Beginning on Monday next "Ffrst IL
Last" the comedy which Mr.. Shipman
and Percivsi wilde worked out Of q
college curriculum, and which William
Harris. Jr.. produced at Maxine Eiiiott's
Thestre will pass into the hands Of Mr..
Shipman, who will thereafter be respon-
sible for ALL the temperament In the cast.
Mr.. Shipman Is not only DESTROYS of
plumbing all the depths OF the theatrical
business. but of proving that under
proper guardianship First Is Last can
work it, way into any ones heart and
pockctboose. Samuel HofYenstein, who
stands In tho relation Of Col. House to
Mr.. Shipman. while declining TO I,..Ixe
any statement on the ground that every
thing vital on every subject has already
been said By every press agent. never
theless wouldn't be surprised II some day
Mr.. Shtpman should graduate from the
department, weary Of drama
Using his own Advertisements and buy
Ing new hatA and seek q different thrill
- an actor. presenting himself In HAM
let" even II shakespeare wrote It with
out his collaboration
shubert Plans.
The latest Schubert defence system for
the advancing hordes Of theatregoers, as
worked out By Adjutant oreneker. fol-
lows: On Monday, November 8, Joe
Weber will present at the Central Thea
Devil" which 10 Clyde Fitch's farce,
Tho Blue Mouse" transposed into
sharps and hats. Bernard Granville and
Lillian Lorraine will be chief among the
new tenants who will evict "oh, What
GIRL" which will seek shelter that
night at the Majestic Theatre. Brooklyns
On the same evening Marjorie Ram
beau hopes to spend . pleasant evening
at Maxine Elliott's Theatre In The IN
known Woman" dressed Up BY Marjorie
Blaine and Stanley Lewis, with A. H.
Woods es godfather. Likewise on that
fatefui Monday Fair Helen" the latest
verdict on Onenbach's La Belle
Helene" will DO thrown into the mael-
strom at the Shubsrt Theatre by Rich
ard Ordynski, with Marcia Van Dresser
leading In the race for the star dressing
room.
Arthur Hopkins, whose FIRST name
could appropriately be shortened to Art,
will 30 in for moro Of II with "Palmy
Days'' At the Playhouse on Monday next.
In ~ v.,tNh Nho
information that Augustus Thomas
wrote Il, and Wilton Lackaye will be
chief among the consultants to look
after It's health
Though few seem to have guessed II.
William Courtenay. who Is to head the
second or Chicago company for Civilian
Clothes" has arrived hero and started
rehearsing with the company at the
Morosco, In order to know all the tricks
Of the trade in Thompson Buchanans
comedy. Oliver Morosco has decided to
shed n third company for 1t, headed by
Dorothy Dickinson and John MacF,arlane
which will be sent Immediately to the
Pacific coast so that region won't be-
come disgruntled and turn the tide to-
ward Bolshcvism at the next election.
BY arrangement with George c. Tyler
the Ssiwyns for q time will have tho
rev Iork rights 10 Lola FISHER. she
will be presented with Wallace Eddinger
In wedding Bells" q new comedy by
Salisbury Field. which 10 scheduled to
be big noise here soon. Miss Fishers
hour win strike some time later when
she u starred by Mr.. Tyler in a new
play by Clare Hummer, who still has
some witty things left to put into It.
Julia to Write Memoirs.
Julia Mariows announces from the
fastnsss Of the Shubert Theatre that
abe will some day write her memoirs !:
but they win Be her valedictory to the
theatre, IN which she will write without
fear or fAvoe Of actors and playwrights,
and perhaps wipe the slate clean with
some Of her critics.
Rehear.ais began yesterday Of For
bidden." new play by Dorothy Don
nelly. which Walter Hast and George