The sun., 1919-09-30
EUGENICS INVADE
ZIEGFELD FROLICS
Playlet, Patterned After the
French, Will Be Part of
Roof Picnic.
COBURNs ENGAGE PYLE
Sothern and Marlowe Begin
Rehearsals Of Shakespeare
Plays.

Eugenics at last has lift the 'Ziegfeld
Midnight Frolic" According to the press
agent. the ninth edition Of this roof
picnic. when It starts new era atop
the New Amsterdam Theatre on Thurs
day, will have a novelty In the shape of
q eugenical playlet AT the Grand
Guignol." or -LInstinct Maternel." which
is modelled after the entertainment in
vogue in Paris. and which is calculated
to give those In search Of uplift even
more pleasure than a university extern
sion course.
The skit was originally presented at
the Lambs Gambol. and F. ziegfeld, Jr,
has engaged Ignace Martinetti, Joseph
Herbert, Frank Mccormack, Henry Nor
timer, Vinton Freddy and Graham
Jones. who were the original scientific
stars with the Lambs Allyn King, Do
lores, Jessie Reed and Margaret Irving
also will be among the bouncing babies
to appear in 1t. Until that momentous
occasion the roof will be closed, even
to the usual star boarders. to allow Josef
Urban and his arts and crafts plenty of
opportunity to stick on the scenery for
the new show.
Wendell Phillips Dodge and willy
Pogany have staked everything on the
engagement of Carlotta Monterey for the
title role of Esther" the dramatic pro-
duction with which this new firm Of pro-
ducers will presently beleaguer Broadway
Miss Monterey Is understood to have
lived through anxious hours while Dodge
and Pogany were deciding just which
actress in the whole country had the
requisite combination OF sterling dramatic
quality, youth, girlish charm and a voice
suitable to adorn the highest grade
photograph Eventually Dodge and Po-
gany cast the die in her favor and the
Shuberts, to whom she was tied by
long term contract, agreed to invest her
in the production.
Marc Klaw has engaged RN'Dl
Bunker and William Ricciardi 70" I'M
portant. roles in petroleum Prince"
Richard Barry's comedy, In which Louis
Bennlson will be thu chief gusher.
William Hodge. starred by the Shu-
berts, started paying his way in THE
Guest of Honor" in Wilmington last
night.
The Selwyns' Tea for Three COM
pany, in which Charlotte Walker Is the
principal charmer. opens its season
Thursday in AtGTtic City. This will
make the fourth company which is help
ing Roi Cooper Megrue spread him self
all over the country.
Rae Selwyn, who had a hectic but
successful engagement last season keep
ing abreast of THE Crowded Hour
under the management of her brothers
has been put under retainer for a
Broadway production which breaks into
rehearsal soon.
The Coburns announce they have en-
gagged Howard Kyle for one Of the i'm
portRnt characters in "All the Kings
Horses" Louis K Anspacher's drama,
but laughter was the only reply to
simple question as to whether Mr.. Kyle
is to play the hind legs or the front
legs
Scene rehearsals for the sothern and
Marlowe Shakespearian productions
have been started and 1t Is announced
they will be held each day until the
opening night, to make sure the scenery
knows its part well. Three complete
costume. scene and light rehearsals will
be given so that the players, musicians
and stage attaches will be familiar with
the many Shakespearlan novelties with
which the stars are bringing the bard
down to date.
Although the police in Where's; Your
Wife," the farce which opens at the
Punch and Judy Theatre on saturday,
make more than 400 arrests among the
sixteen characters before the mystery is
solved, the press agent intimates that II
will take more than the police to make
F. c. Thompson. the producer, clear up
the narrowing mystery OF who wrote
the thing. However, the press agent ac-
knowledges, without being pressed, that
the authors are husband and wife, and
already have been marked out in the.
literary world.
Mine O'Clock Revue" have enriched lit
erature with a broadway Anthology"
shortly to be published with a dedica-
ton to Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter OF F.
Ziegfeld, Jr.. who even at this early age
is thus rivalling her daddy as a patron
OF the arts.
Nine. Sonia Serova, assisted by Vero-
nine Vestoff. will open a theatre here
next season, consecrated as a sanctuary
for dancers.
The latest artistic sporting note is
that Alex Sullivan. New York sporting
writer, has poured out his soul in a new
song, give Me a Smile and a Kiss"
with music in which the punch was put
by Louis Handman. who obviously with
name like that couldn't help being a
leading boxer in Australia at one time.
The opening OF TOO Many Husbands"
the w. Somerset Vaughan comedy
which A. II. Woods will produce in the
Booth Theatre, is now announced for
Tuesday, October 7, but THE Girl in the
Limousine" the new farce by Wilson