The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-17
RIALTO ROCKS WITH |
POST-STRIKE PLANS.
Winchell Smith and John
Golden Quit as Firm, but
Outline Busy Season.
'LITTLE BLUE DEVIL NEAR
Costume Experts Return From
Europe-Mlle. Guida Called
Back to London.

II is announced that the successful
theatrical firm of Winchell Smith and
John Golden has been dissolved into
thin air, but Broadway's reason, by an
effort, remains seated on it's throne. The
blame for this change Is laid on those
naughty rogues, the actors who STRUCK
for Mr.. Smith declares that hg is un-
able to continue managerial activity
with the spectre of labor unionism now
being featured on the boards. Just TO
spite the strikers he resigns.
As proof that the split is not due to
any misunderstanding between these
two friends of many years, it is stated
that AN agreement has been made by
which Mr.. Golden wifi have the exclu-
sive presentation in the future of all
of Mr. Smiths now domestic science
dramas. In addition to these Mr.. Col
den slips the world the news that he
will put on this season Happy New
Year" a farce by Langdon Mitchell; "A
Horse on Him." comedy by Victor
Mapes and William Collier starring the
latter; "Bumbo the Brave" a fantastic
comedy by Lawrence Gibdon, and song
farce by James Montague called Both
Doing WELL" which is expected to sum
up the future condition of Messrs.
Smith and Golden.
henceforth announced as under the per-
sonal magnetism of John Golden, in
clude the three companies for Three
Wise Fools in Chicago, London ana
Sydney, Australia; two "Lightnin'
companies, one at the Gaiety Theatre
and the other in Melbourne, Australia
two Turn to the Right" companies on
tour, and Thunder" which will have
chance to make the audience at the
Criterion Theatre next Monday start
from their seats.
More English Actors Coming.
More new English blood will be in
fused into the drama this season by
Claude King and Julian Royce, who
| have just dropped over from London
| to lend the jolly old helping hand &c
| Ethel Barrymore in "Declassee," the
play by Zoe Atkins which will KNOCK
| the cover off the season at the Empire
| Theatre next month. Mr.. King, who ma
been toddllng along as Lillah Mccarthy
leading man in London recently, vii
| throw his first kiss to New York audi
ences this year. Mr.. Royce has KEPT
| away from the old town since he wal
! in service as the butler in "Passer:
By"
| A. l.. Erlanger has completed ar
| rangements for the building of a new
| playhouse in Cleveland to cost more
| than S1,000.000, and judging by the
press announcement, to be referred tC
as the beautiful Ohio Theatre. It vii
replace the Euclid Avenue Opera House
which has been the sanctuary of TIT
| syndicate for years, and will be erected
at Euclid avenue and Seventeenth
| street, being aimed right at the heart O.
the shopping district
IAN Exchange of Wives" a new com
edy by Cosmo Hamilton, who starte'
the latest school of Scandal al tn
| Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, has beel
checked slightly in its career by Waite
| Hast. so that 1t will open at the Bijo'
Theatre next Tuesday evening, instead
of running the gauntlet of the critics OIL
| Monday.
Joe Weber has dropped the last poun
of talent into THE Little Blue Devil,
the new Harold Atteridge-Harr Carol
musical farce, with the Incorporation o
Lillian Lorraine. The completed cast
which is now being shuffled at rehearss
by Ned Wayburn. including Bernar
Granville, John MCGOWAN, Edward Mar
!. tindel, Wilfred Clarke, Louise Kelley
Eddie Cox, Will H. Powers, Julian Win
lters, Anne Sands and-hold you
breath-Josephine Emery. THE Littl
Blue Devil" will throw off all restrain
in Washington September % and bas
in the sunshine of the road for fe
, weeks before breaking in on Broadwa,
During the engagement here Miss l-oi
raiue will lead a double life in the pro
duction and the new ziegleld 'Midnigl
Frolic."
"Sce Saw" Lives Up TO Its Mann
!. "See Saw" the new musical coined
p with Henry w. Savage as cicerone, hi
lived up to its name by having /
n premiere at the George M. Cohan Tn
s ntre bounced back from next Monds
e to Tuesday evening.
Il r, Ziegfeld, Jr., it was announced we
A terday, has made the arrangements a
g solutely perfect for presenting ne
u week at the Mine O'Clock Revue" A
r Hickman's San Francisco Orchestr
!. which came here to be deathlessly i
scribed on monograph records and su
ceeded in blowing itself up to the Ne
Amsterdam Roof The ten musicia
who will operate after the revue +
4 those desiring TO dance have so mu
n talent they require fifteen instruments
i satisfy it, Their presence has crowd
A the opening of the new 'Midnig
Frolicp into the following week.
II
e rascal of the schubert Gaieties of 191
a at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre. W
e bow his head with Harold Atterid
" over a new revue, in which Mr.. Jes:
will arrange to be the funniest pers
le on the stage.
W. Mile. Guida, premiere danseuse
"A "Chu Chin Chow" at the Century The
Is tire. received yesterday from Csc
Is Asche of His Majesty's Theatre. Lo
al don, a cabled ultimatum directing ]
to return TO the British capital VIII
IN "Chu Chin Chow" is positively kill
I'd two weeks hence. Mile. Guida, "
in staged the dances for this Oriental
~ zaar, is TO function similarly for
n English production of Mr.. Asche's ne
a. est splurge, Mecca" which F. r
US Comstock and Morris Gest expect
u February to make as popular as
e.1 cigarettes at the Century.
On Charles Il. Schneider and Veron
lie Blythe, costume experts who were 81
to Europe two months ago to con
with Percy Anderson. designer for
forthcoming Comstock and Gest prod
= ton of "Aphrodite," staggered ash
an yesterday from England by way of
nj steamship Cretic, loaded with 500
nd ored costume plates by Mr.. Ander
'af and 200 by Leon Bakst, and sighed "
Ia | relief when at last at the Century Il
were able to get so much art off II
his hands.
ne The Shubert publicity manufactu
AZ gives the public his sworn word
D. Sophie Tucker will play an import
70 role with Mcintyre and Heath In He
Alexander"
,. IIora Hoffman of the "Gaieties"
ow do the prima donna gurglings in a
we Shubert operetta in October, VIII