Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-18
THEATRE BILLS
FOR NEXT WEEK
Schedule Of Entertainment at
the Tarious Playhouscs in
This City
NEW ATTRACTIONS

BROAD-"The Better Ole" wartime
musical comedy--but not war
play based on the Bairnsfather
cartoons. Macklyn Arbuckle will be
Old Bill, Charles Brown, Bert. and
Pcrcival Vivian, All. Percival Knight
wrote the music.
GdRRICK-"A TailorMade Man. a
comedy drama by Henry James
Smith. with Grant Mitchell in the
title role 1t presents n tailor's helper
as psychological study Of the ef.
fest of environment on character ana
achievement In the cast are Row
land Blackstone. Frank bertrand,
Gladys Gilbert Mary Martin, Lolita
Linthicum and many others.
SHUBERT-"Rock.a. Baby" a
musical comedy, book by Margaret
Mayo and Edgar Allan Woolf, music
by Jerome Kern. lyrics by Herbert
Reynolds. Jefferson de Angels. Edna
Hibbard, Walter Lawrence and Peggy
Worth have the important parts
while Dore and kavanaugn Will be
seen in dancing specialties.
Marry in Haste 70.
mantle farce by Anna Nichols, fea-
turing Flske O'Hara. Many new songs
are introduced, written tSpttldllS ibi
the tenor star. The .cast includes
Robert II. Russell J. =. sullivan and
others.
CONTINUING ATTRACTIONS
ADELPHi-"Oh, Mama musical
comedy. with Justine .Iohnstone,
Frank Fay. Helen Shipman and Harry
conor in the leading roles, Music by
Augustus Barratt and Frank Tours.
and book and lyrics by Philip Barthol-
omae Interesting specialties are fea-
tured.
LYRIC-l.ew Fields in Friendly Enc
mics" play based ON emotions
aroused among American citizens OF
German birth during the world war
Just ended II blends hulnor senti-
ment and pathos.
FORPEST-The Klaw \ ErIanger mu-
steal comedy. THE Velvet Lady" by
Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom, IA
musical version OF "A popular farce.
George O'Ramey. Marie Flynn and
Minerva Coverdale are featured.
OPERA HOUSE-Fnai week, oh
Lady. Lady" musical comedy. pro
duced by +. Ray tomstock and VIII
liam Elliott Book and lyrics by Guy
Bolton and p. q. WOdehOuse and
score by Jerome Kern. Original cast
including Vivienne Segal Carl Ran
dali and Constance Binuey.
VAUDEVILLE
KEITH 'S-Ruth St Denis and her com
pany Of classical dancers; clifton
Crawford musical comedy star
Frances Kennedy, comed;enne; Doro'
thy and Lucille Toye, vocalists; "ln
the Dark" a melodramatic novelty
the Melonotte Duo, gymnasts; the
Three Eddies. pantomimic comedians
Ben Bernie, violinist and Bert and
Lottie Walton, in songs and dances.
Cross KEYS-The fifth anniversary
will be marked by the engagement o,
Billy Reeves, "the original drunk" Fl
| a farcical sketch: Joe Cook, "the one
man vaudeville show; Ed Blondell
In THE Lost Boy; Vaughn and
Dreams, Rogers and Barratt, the
Manjean Troupe, acrobats, first hall
of the week. "Nowadays' is tht
musical comedy offering heading The
program for the last three days of the
| week.
| GLOBE-"Perhaps You're Right" a
musical comedy tabloid: BiIli'
Burke's Tango Shoes" Cook anC
i Lorenz, pianists; John 4, Doyle, IL
dramatic sketch; Aubrey and Rich
Cramer, Barton ans spalding, gym
nasts; the Chalfont Sisters, Hark
ness and McClay Professor Brewster
and his dogs, and Merlin, the "gabb!
tricSster,"
WILLIAM PENN-7-H. Bart Mcfiugl
presents Friday the 18th" a musica
comedy; Wallace Bradley and Gretti
Ardlne. assisted by Eddie Moran. il
songs: Val and Ernie stanton, Flage
and Malta, The International Five
and photoplay. Her Mistake" will
| Evelyn Nesbit. nrst half of week
Love and Kisses with Eddie BELLY