The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-25
FOot1igl1t Chatter

Madame Ruano Bogislav, the cele- brated and effective singer of folk songs, attended a piano recital at
 Carnegie Hall. T admire that p1anists finish, don't you?" inquired her daughter, T would" the singer mournfully replied, If he did,
 Whttford Kane, the Irish actor and
 playwright, who is now in the com pany with Frances Starr, is compIet- ing a group of new plays. One of thera is a seafaring tale, which Is different from his usual Irish lay. AIr. hane is fond of fish and this
 is his tribute to that affection
 The company from Paris which is to occupy the new Theatre Parfsien
 in New York arrived on the Touraine
 last week. A preliminary season of
 three weeks in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington will be played and
 then the new playhouse will be opened under the business direction of Richard G. Herndon and the artistic
 direction of Robert Casadesus
 Robert Rendei, who enacts the role
 of the blase Engltshman in The storm" which is one of the big Broadway hits, is the same clever act or who has done such brilliant so- ciety acting in the light comedies that l have been done, He is an English man by birth, but America claims the best stage work of his career during
 the past five years.
 When New York gasped at the sen
 sationel effects of The Storm writ
 
 duced by George Broadhurst, they re- ali2ed that a new master of stage ef-
 fleets had come to them. These are the most effective and sensa tional Of any kind that have been seen in New York. Comparisons between the story
 and sta aging of The Storm and s'Tf- ger Rose" is entirely to the credit of the former.
 Wanda Howard, one of the best actresses in the east, sails from San Francisco, her former home, early
 next month for Honolulu, as the lead ing woman in round-the-world dra- lnatic company which will play a year in Japan, China. India and other far eastern countrieN. The tour will per
 init the presentation of a score of the best Broadway successes in these countries, Miss Howard was select ed because of her remarkable versa tality in depicting stage characters. Pietro A Ton, the noted organ vir- tuosO and composer of organ music, has written a new composition, nam ed Christmas in Sicily'' which has more popular and original auxiIiaries than the most popular jazz band. He has done this to show what an or ! III of showing this to the organ and of making the organ show it to the pub lie. His American Rhapsody" is an- other concert number he is using on his trans-continentaI tour.
 The decision of Helene Flanders to devote her time to concert work this year removes the possibility of her stage appearance m New York which is a distinct loss. Miss Kan ders is one of the handsonest wo- men in public life, a singer of rare charm and brilliancy and a sterling dramatic actress. Her New York rnu- sical work, from the time of her Met
 ropolitan Opera Company associa- 1 tion to her more recent successes in concert, have been marked by high 1 popular favor.
 The celebrated PaIais Royal, which l is the most fashionable midnight playhouse and deluxe cabaret in New York, opened it's new season in the Metropolis last week with Madame Desiree Lubovska, the celebrated dancer, as the star in a revue which | for elaborateness an color, is tL,
 most interesting in that city. Ma dame Lubovska is the most noted nd 11ic | ment is preliminary to a tour which | she is to undertake which will include ] the important cities of the world. Madame Marguerite Sylva tempor- | arily discontinued her brilliant yau- 1. deViIle season this wee6 to make her i American debut as d screen star. This l remarkably brilliant and versatile 1 actress will have run the gamut Of l opportunities when she has added a ! film success to her various achieve nents in this and the leading for, ! eign countries. Her film enga gem ent l will be broken at intervals to allow l her to continue in vaudeville, but for 1 two years she is expected to devote | most of her time to acting where her | golden voice is siIenced.
 i Dancing, as an adjunct to the De- l paFtnent Of Health, has been given 1 official approval in New York Ma | dame Sonia Serova, the danseuse who l is the prime mover in the only the 1 atre in the United States which is to ! be exclusively dsvoted to the dance, l has been assured that the city of l New York appreciates the healthfuI
 advantages of dancing, and is prepar- ed to give sanction, approval and sup port to it. This theatre, will be used l to create and illustrate the new mea-
 sures of terpschichore. Madame Ser
 ova is especially successful in this | branch of her graceful art
 The new opera company in New
 York, now presenting light works a,
 the Lexington Theatre, brings back
 to the local musical world Theodore
 Spfering, the American concert vio- linist and orchestra conductor, This , unusually intelligent artist is one ot the most notable of our native musi- cal celebrities. His work in America dating from his experience with the , late Theodore Thomas, to his most recent Metropolis enga gements, tha,