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campaign for league of theatres
Though no report has come from Cali
fornia yet, the returns from Tennessee
show that in Memphis Mr.. Erianger has
Just arranged with Marcus Loew for a
40 per cent. interest In the new Metro
politan Theatre, which, with a seating
capacity of 5000. viii be one of the
largest and best equipped houses ever
designed In the South to fight the hook
worm with high class movies and vaude-
Vile.
AT the same time one-thlrd interest
In Staub's Theatre, in Knoxville, and in
the Vendome Theatre at Nashville
both Of them places to which the Ten
nessee natives point with pride-has
come out OF the Loew strongbox and
dropped into the lap of Mr.. Brlanger.
Mr.. Erlanger. With Mr.. Locw, also takes
more than fatherly interest in the
Palace and the Columbia in washington,
ID. c., and Loew's Victoria Theatre in
New York likewise has a place in his
affections and his bank account.
Richard Bennett, last seen here-or
rather. unseen--in 1.-THE Unknown
Purple" will continue on tour to do a
disappearing act from one play to
another. Through the legerdemain of
John d. Williams Mr.. Bennett has
been provided on his starring trip with
two plays OF Numerically opposite
character and combination company
guaranteed to be adjustable to either
vehicle. He will appear for time In
For the Defence" by Elmer e Rice.
and then. almost before one realizes II,
he will drop into Beyond the Horizon"
by Eugene G. o'Neill, and practically
will be out of sight. John Sainpolis,
st. Clair Hales, William Crimmans,
Angela Ogden. Adrienne Morrison, Wal
lace Jackson and Eugenie woodward
are In the cast which will soon roll up
the sleeves at rehearsal for this novel
experiment
Theatre Pnrisien Opens Nov. L.
The Theatre Parisien. OCCUPYING the
place In the heart of New York for
merly held by the Belmont Theatre, will
| inaugurate Its first season on Satur-
day evening, November 1, with imported
specimens of dramatic and lyric art,
presented by a company culled from
the leading playhouses of Paris under
, the vigilant optics of Robert Casa-desus
It's all over but the shouting. F.
Ray Comstock and Morris Gest made
their first engagement yesterday for the
/ cast of "Aphrodite," the Partisan spec
| tacle which will put over 500 artists
| In line for pay day early in November.
/ The first contract corallIng a player
at the Century Theatre was awarded
to Mile. Dazzle. hitherto classified in
| the Broadway Blue Books as a dancer.
but who will have an opportunity to
play a real part in "Aphrodite." in
| addition to keeping herself in touch with
rhythm by dancing in the fete scene.
| Mile. Dazzle will let out her voice for
| the first time on Broadway as the slave
| girl, Aphrodisid, not to be confused with
the title role, for which Comstock and
Gest are still sending out scouts in the
hope that the perfect actress does exist
but somehow has failed to make her
! self known through a press agent.
A huge box of red earth from the
Blue Ridge Mountains in North Caro-
! lima has Just been received by John
Golden to give the genuine reddish hue
OF the soil to the garments OF the
| mountaineers in Thunder" at the Cri-
terion Theatre on Monday evening, and
as a further touch of realism Burr Nc
Intosh, who was with the A. u. r. for
year In France as a Y. NJ. c. A.
worker, has been mixed with the cast
as n fighting parson.
Wallace Munro reports that Light
min" and Three Wise Fools" were
both produced in Shanghai, China. by
the t. d. Frawley Company during the
later part of August. from which it
| seems that they were unaffected by
the actors strike. The opening of the
| latter play was to have occurred in
Chicago about the same time, but for
once China got ahead Of the Windy
| City.
| Henry Stockbridge has allied himself
to Cast Is West at the Aston Theatre.
taking the place of Hassard Short. who
| Is now mixing poetry and garbage in
First Is Last" at Maxine Elliotts
Drinkwater Crossing Ocean.
John Drinkwater. author OF Abraham
Lincoln" the London success with which
William Harris Jr., expects TO make
New Workers. familiar this autumn with
the great emancipation, has sailed from
England and will have his opening on
next Tuesday with the ship news report
ers on the steamship CORONA.
"Roly-Boly Eyes, a musical comedy
| by Edgar Allan Wolff, Eddy Brown and
Louis Gutenberg, with Eddie Leonard
performing the featured pranks, will be
presented by John Cort at the Knicker-'
booker Theatre on Thursday, September
! rs, instead of Just a Minute" which
was considered unsuitable to the house
equipment OF fire escapes.
Charles Dillingham's new operetta,
representing the concerted cerebration OF
! the Kreisler-Jacobi-Le Baron group of
concentrated thinkers. commenced re-
hearsals at the Globe Theatre yesterday
when the lion used In the magic per-
| Torrance Of Thurston tried to horn into
the cast From his cage on the stage he
started to make remarks In a bass voice
about Florence Shirley and Vida Ben
! nett Not even the walking stick of
Fred q. Latham. stage director, could
reduce him to playing a mere thinking
part, and some of the show girls-so
Mark Duescher says-felt they would
be Drawer out in the street.
Then the lion tried to set the pitch for
| John Charles Thomas in one OF his solos
Finally 1t was decided to try the effect
on him OF ]. w Mathews's new top hat,
Piccadilly style, and fall suit, Bond
street model, which have stunned crea-
lures with more sense than a lion The
publicity chronicler solemly states that
the English house manager walked up
to the beast, stared fiercely at II through
his monocle and chided II severely, "T
say. naughty lion. lie down."
Mr. Matthew's act was a horrible
fivver Now Mr.. Dillingham; has given
orders that the lion be removed from
the stage during rehearsals. lest the
lion, incensed beyond endurance, tries 70
do violence to Mr.. Matthew's silk hat.
Flag Runners Arrive In Rome.
The boy runners who are carrying the