The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
SHUBERTS TO PRODUCE MANY
 NEW DRAMAS

Tn the event that the strike of plans will be carried out by the Mes-rs. Leo and J. J. Shubert for the coming season. Plans indicate the greatest activities ever undertaken by the firm for they include not only the staging of numerous plays, but the extension of their already large circuit of theatres.
 Through their booking office they will route he attractions, numbering over two hundred of some forty of the most important producers. for in cluded among ths allies of the Nossrs. Shubert for the coming sea- son are William A. Brady A H. Woods, Arthur Hopkins, Selwyn (S Company, Winthrop Ames, Oliver Morosoo, William Elliott, Morris Gest, r. Ray Comstock. William Harris, Jr., George Broadhurst. Arthur Hammer stein, Roland West, John D. Williams, Sanger 6 Jordan, Joe Weber, Lawr- ence Weber, Lew Fields, George An derson, Richard Walton Fully, H. H. Frazee, Walter Hast, William Morris. George Mooser, Nora Bayes, Rachel Brothers, F. II. Sothern, Robert B. ManteH, John P. Slocum, Stuart Walker, Fortune Gallo, Andreas Dip pei, Robert c. Campbell, Thomas Dixon, Joseph Gaites, Scibilla Enter prises, Leo Kugel, Walter Wanger and Jed Shaw.
 Sothern and Marlowe, upon thei return to the stage will be seen a.. the 44th Street Theatre in revivals of Twelfth Night" ''The Tanning of the Shrew'' and Hamlet" with a tour to follow.
 Al Jolson begins his season in sin bad" in Philadelphia, early in Sep tember. "The Honored Guests has been selected as the vehicle for Will liam Hodge. who continues under di- recdoi of Lee Shubert. Charles Pur- cell begins rehearsals soon in a mus ical play entitled Cali A Taxi" with book, music and lyrics by Earl Car roll; this in association with A. H. Woods.
 Miss Rachel Brothers is to be seen in October in her latest comedy, He and She" having the support of Cyril Keightly and F'aire Binney.
 Walker Whiteside's New York ap- pearances will be made in a dra- matization of Robert Louis Steven sons "The Master of Ballantrae," tr- Carl Mason, through arrangements with Lloyd Osborne. This will be done in association wiEh Mir. Walter Hast. Miss Alma Tell will be seen in "The Third Generation" by Harold Heaton.
 Later in the season Miss Peggy Wood is to appear in play which she has written in collaboration with Samuel Merwin, and called Youth Has Wings"
 "The Dancer" by Edward Locke and Louis K. Anspacher, goes into rehearsal Immediately with Isabelle Lowe in the leading role.
 The Messrs Shubert also announce that they will produce "Of1cer's Mess" a current London success. From Gloves Kinkead, author of Common Clay" has been accepted, ''The Mood of the Moon," Raising the Mask" a melodrama by Bruce Reynolds, will have an October production. Other new plays accepted for immediate staging are The School for Man ners," by NJ. Arment and Barbidge; "CIutch of Circumstances from the novel by Marjorie Benton Cooke; His Wife, by Maurice V. Samuels, l author of 'The wanderer"; "A Friend At Court" by Clinton Stuart; The Dancin' Fool" by Henry Payson Dowst, which ran in the Saturday Evening Post; The Wicked Streak, |" | by Edgar Franklin; Dangerous | Years" by Edward Locke; Those ! Who Walk in Darkness" by Owen | Davis. from the novel by Perley Poore | Sheehan; ''Two's A Crowd" by Joseph Bernard Rethy; a spectacuiar production of Susan Lenou," drama l tized from the novel by David Gra- ham Philips by George V. Hobart with a well known start in the title role; "The House of Salaoacca," and 'Iysa stratta.'
 The Nessrs- Shubert are also to pro iuce tra plays of Henri Bernstein, with a V sll known star in the title | five years.