The sun., 1919-07-10
NEW PASSING SHOW
IN REHEARSAL SOON
"Thc Crimson Alibi' Will Be
.Unmasked on q Peace
Footing Monday.
"BuDDIEs, LANDS SAFELY
Ban ION Sunburn, May Force
Some Chorus Girls Into the
~ Sea When Bathing.

The name Of the next production to
be put on at tne"winter Garden as soon
as i""Mohte Cristo. Jr.." has run down
is announced; as 1.-THE Passing Show of
1919" which will do much to set many
persons minds at rest, The new Pass
ing Show" will be the eighth OF the
worlds series Of travesties on current
dramatic successes and the twenty sixth
entertainment by which Lee and j. j.
Shubert have diverted traffic into the
Winter Garden, j. ]. Shubert will pre-
side in the chair when the new piece Is
put In the developing room for rehearsais
soon.
Al last 1.-THE Crimson abb is to come
into New York after jocKeying for posi-
ton with William A. Brady's produc-
ton of AT 9:45'' At the Broadhurst
Theatre on Monday next George Broad
hurst win uhmask the play in a pro-
logue. four acts and seven scenes. which
he trained up himself from young
novel the same9name by Octavus Roy
Cohen The cast which Mr.. Broadhurst
has brought to light includes Harrison
Hunter. William H. Thompson, George
Graham Robert Kelly. Bertha Mann,
linda Palmer and enough additional play
ers to put its complement on a peace
footing. r.,
selwyns Promise "sIommer."
'Motimer." character comedy by
Edward Goodman, will be produced by
Selwyn & Co. this fau with Mary Shaw
featuring the great maternal gurgle II
will first be sun dried on the beach at
Asburyf Park and Long Branch. 49,.
The Selwyns got Jessie Glendinning
also, lin their power yesterday, binding
her with long term contract. She
win start from scratch in new play
this fall.
At last "Buddies," the. comedy with
music by George ". Hobart. which has
been towering over New York for some
time, made a safe landing at rehearsal
yesterday. As Donald Brian, Peggy
Wood and Wallace Eddinger are to be
co-starred in this piece. 1t is requested
that all applause be in triplicate.
Things have grown so bad now that
the poor chorus girl can't even call her
sunburn her own. F. Ziegfeld, Jr., who
doesn't like sunburn-at least. not when
T. iriterferes with the view on the show
girls of his Midnight Frolic' atop the
New Amsterdam Theat-e-has offered a
prize of 800 Liberty bond to each OF
the girls who up to the middle of Sep
tensber keeps her chest, and neck free
from sun spots. New Wayburn and
Herbert Burns have been appointed In
spectors. and 1t looks as though the poor
things, IN order to take refuge from the
solar rays whenever they go bathing
will actually be driven Into the water
The Fox Film Corporation has bought
the screen rights to Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy's romance, IF Were King,
which. e. H. Sothern bagged for the
stage twenty years ago. William Far
Nun viii surrender his rights to smash
ing noses and start work immediately
reducing himself to ethereal propprti ors
for the role OF the poet, Francois Whom
On next Monday evening "S9 East, "
Rachel Crothers's comedy that has been
pulling 'em of the streets at the Broa d.
hurst Theatre. will get transfer tc
Maxine Elliotts Theatre without paying
two CENTS for'it,.-
Wynn Has Historical Prop.
Ed Wynn has documents to prove that
the laugh drive" registering wheel
which he uses in the schubert Gaieties
of 1919" actually saw service register
ing the amount of patriotism during the
fourth and fifth Liberty loans. Mr.
Wynn obtained the wheel from an ora
tor friend. who motored across the
country using the register as means
OF getting subscriptions, and since Mr.
Wynn can outtalk this orator---or any
one else for that matter-he expects in
his own drive to exceed Che Liberty loan
figures --r .r...
Edward Langford. formerly top ser
geant of Company X of, the old Seventh
Regiment. who plays the role OF jim
Everett; one OF those suspected Of do
ing the. shooting in AT. 3 ;45" at the
Playhouse. uses the very same revolver
that. helped him. bring the late war &c
a successful Termination. . But this in
formation fails to solve the mystery OF
who killed Houard Clayton, which 1:
still pnzzIing first nighters.
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