The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-14
VAUDEVILLE AGAIN
AT NEW BRIGHTON
Little Bits Of Everything
Soothing and Summertime
Will Be Put On.
ONE BEAD BAG TRAGEDY
Convict No. 1899 Slips One
Over on Mary Eaton, the
Ballet Dancer.


Parkway will begin its eleventh season
OF vaudeville on next Monday afternoon.
which will be one more sign that Coney
Island and Brighton Beach have finally
thawed out and that hot dogs are in
bloom. For the initial week George
Robinson. general manager, has picked
what he feels are winners, including
Marie Nordstrom, Jimmy Hussey ana
several refined but daring acrobatic acts
Mary Eaton, the ballet dancer of THE
Royal Vagabond." last night received a
handsome beaded bag. and on being ex-
peTtly advised to open 1t and look for
the sender's card by innocent chorus
girls, discovered this message inside !:
Dear Madam: From your picture In
the papers you seem to have an honest
face. This bag was made by me. l
hope you will like 1t. The price Is $35,
which please remit by return mail. Con-
Wet No. b 1899. Eastern State Peniten-
tlary"
Henry Hull. leading player in "3s
East" at the Broadhurst Theatre. after
an arduous search among manuscripts
for part that would suit the Hull man.
ner after his present vehicle has con-
sumed all the breakfast food available,
turned back to the classics OF the past
and decided that he was about due to
make Little Lord Fauntleroy" famous
Lee Shubert, however, demurred on the
ground that young Mr.. Hulls technique
is not yet mature enough for the part.
Mr.. Hull has taken out his dlsappooint-
ment on Reginald Birch, the artiat
whom he has commissioned to paint a
portrait Of himself as Little Lord Faun-
tleroy after a close shave.
Elbow Room for Miss Crothers.
Rachel Crothers, author of "39 East"
and "A Little Journey" has bought a
large farm near RidSefield, Conn, to get
more room to write. 1t is expected that
she will compete with Alison Skipworth
in furnishing edible vegetables to all
plays presented la carte.
Elizabeth Brtce learned last night that
charity comes home TO roost. During
the performance OF foot Sweet" the
overseas revue at the Nora Bayes Thea
tire. she was presented with large bou-
quet OF flowers by men of the Seventy
seventh Division. for whom she and her
troupe turned the war into a joke on the
other side.
Herbert Fields. son of Lew Fields is
to learn his stage manners for the first
time in The Lonely Romeo" which the
Shuberts will liberate in Atlantic City in
two weeks.
Pc Wee Valley, Ky, made itself felt
In the theatre yesterday when Esther
Walkers mother and father arrived in
this city yesterday TO renew their ac-
quaintance with their daughter in
Monte Cristo. Jr..- at the Winter Gar
den.
Ben II. Atwell. on the eve of the pre-
sentation OF Paul NJ. Potter's farce at
the Norosco Theatre, explains to all dis
grunt'ed civilians that they were barred
from In. special performances OF the play
during the last two nights because they
didn't wear uniforms. and not because
II was a bedroom farce. Tomorrow
night at the premiere all persons will be
allowed in. IL they'll only quit showing
Desiree Lubovska yesterday startled
the Hippodrome publicity battalion al
most beyond control OF their typewriters
by introducing as her contribution to the
farewell week at the big playhouse a
new Egyptian dance with which she
hopes to start a holy war in London
next month.
Something Doing at the Fulton.
IN order to consecrate the Fulton
Theatre TO an overlooking musical com
edy to be shown there in the fall. Oliver
u. Bailey, lessee and manager, has com
pleted arrangements to make the stage
fifteen feet deeper, so that "a girl will
have room to shake a foot. As 1t is
not burlesque attraction. however the
supports of the stage have not been
strengthened.
Come Along" now at the Thirty
ninth Street Theatre. will go South for
two years-though not for its health
Richard II. Nelson, producer OF the mu-
steal comedy. has sold the Dixie land
rights to ]. Osborne Clemson. who will
have a company hit the towns below the
Nason-D!xon line on August S in Nor
folk.
Olin Rowland. playing in she's n
Good Fellow at the Globe. yesterday
swore Off biting his finger nails when
an aunt with whom he was lunching
sent him from the table because he had
revived the habit after she had given
him an expensive Ingersoll on his eighth
birthday for curing himself OF the trick
Rowland says he slipped back into eat
ing his manicure polish in order to play
his present bashful part.
Violet Heming of Three Faces East -
yesterday gave the second instalment OF
the great St. Peter joke She said
when 1 had an aside on the stage
with Frank Westerton, I told him Cant
Lambert's Joke. Ho,' he said, I can dc
better than that St. Peter went to the
! gate and found successful author
waiting. How did you get here" in,
quired St Peter. The author replied
II had n long run"