The sun., 1919-05-08
PLAYS $25EACH ; I. :. !.
IN PATCHES OF SIX
Missouri Author Sends One
Sample Of His Genius to
Broadway Manager.
WHAT ACTORS ARE DOING
"Scandals Of 1910" a Musical
Revue, to Open at the
Liberty Soon.

IL Is given to few men to discover the
latent dramatic genius of Nettleton, Mo.
Such has been the destiny of Lester
Lonergan, whose recent announcement
that he would produce John Gals
worthy's drama. The Mob" between
performances of East Is West" in
which he is learning pidgin English, has
resulted In flood of manuscript dramas
which raised the percentage of Anerii
cans writing plays between ball games
to so per cent. Yesterday came a mas.
terpiece from Nettleton's grandest brain,
with the following letter revealing how
he positively dripped plays: 90
Il enclose herewith the first five
scenes Of a play have written, entitled
"A Rumpled Rassoon." The play covers
ESQ pages of this tablet, in four acts, and
wish to sell 1t outright to you for ,s25.
Josiah Cricket uses every effort to
thwart the marriage Of his daughter,
Priscilla, to DR.. Rdssoon and failing ac-
cepts his defeat with good grace and
presents the bridegroom $4,000 in bank
notes. upon the return OF the bride and
groom after their elopement. The afro
plane could be strung to a tiny piano
wire and by such arrangement made to
move from Mount Hearts to the sides of
Dr. Rdssoon and Priscilla Cricket. This
continuance would not cost much and yet
the feature would be novel and cute.
For the kindergarten class scene
there must be a yentriloquist. Small
children could not be heard by the audi
ence
.P. s.: Would furnish six plays for
$25 each"
War Tax on Actors Pictures.
Unless he is checked in his mad
career, Henry Hull of "3s East" threat
ems to revolutionize the stage Mr.. Hull
has been accustomed to comply with
numerous requests for autograph pic
lures at his own expense. but he has
finally grown tired Of wasting his sub.
stance in this kind Of rlotous living,
when the $40 per week devoted to 1t
might be used in buying an extra straw
berry from Alison Skipworth's farm for
the boarding house now current at the
Broadhurst Theatre.
So he suggested to the Stage Women's
War Relief that at their tumble Inn"
shop at SO West Forty-seventh street
they sell his photographs at from 81 to
So. depending on the cubic contents Of
his smile. He urges other actors to do
likewise, thus consecrating their faces
to the relief OF the families Of destitute
enough for a girl to get along nowadays
without having to purchase her theatre
cal romance by the yard?
Major Henry J. F. Miller. in command
of the Aging circus that has been trying
to raise the Liberty Loan sky high
herea bouts. has chrktened his plane Ming
Toy, after the role of Fay BANTER In
East Is West" but for some odd reason
William Harris, Jr., isn't going to sue the
MAZE" for bursting the copyright like
this without permission.
Those who are keeping score for
George Whites new musical revue
Scandals of 1919" to open at the Lib
erty Theatre soon. can add TO their list
of the cast the names OF Mabel Withee
and Yvette Rugel-as we'll as Al Strass-
man. an added starter in the publicity
stakes.
"The Lonely Romeo" Delayed.
The Shuberts are holding back the
public stampede to see Lew Fields in
THE Lonely Romeo" for a couple of
weeks until Robert Hood Bowers can
finish a few additional numbers of the
revue.
TIE New York Syncopated Orchestra OF
fifty men. who watch every move of
VIII Marions Cook. has been engaged
by Harry L. Cort. manager Of the
Standard Theatre. to jazz away the heat
during the summer programme of movies
nj that house.
The Stuyvesant Players will present
their inaugural production at the Stuy-
vesant Neighborhood House. Ninth and
Stuyvesant streets, tomorrow ana Sun
day evenings, and as the play is called
when Old New York Was, Young" re-
vealing New Amsterdam under Peter
Stuyvesant. a large crowd from east Of
Third avenue Is expected to come for a
look at their ancestors
For the cast OF Jena Bedini's bur
lcsque revue "Peek-a-Boo." which vii!
liven up the summer cigar trade at the
Columbia Theatre starting on May 10.
those already engaged include Clark and
Mccullough. Joe Cock, La Selbina, Kelso
Brothers and the University Trio. not
forgetting the Three English Rosebuds,
the Seven Musical Spielers and the thirty
rampaging chorus girls With this cast
the press agent regards 1t as the abso-
lutte limit in burlesque shows.
''Moliere" will pass away at the Lib
erty Theatre on Saturday night. but
instead Of using a pulmotor Henry Miller
will revive It this summer by taking II
to the fresh air OF California. with all
the original wigs in the company