The sun., 1919-05-03
EIGHT BRADY PLAYS
BOOKED FOR LONDON
Grace George and Her Husband
Sail To-day to Start
Them Off.
THREE NEW ONES ALSO
Emma Dunn to Star in Drama
Built From Nalbro Bart
ley's Serial Story.

William A. Brady ana the missus,
Grace George. will sail to-day on the
Aauitania. bound for London and Paris,
and the oficial resumption Of passenge,
tramc between this country and Europe
now authoritatively can be said to have
started. Even as this country rushed
troops to the aid of the Entente Allies
Mr.. Brady will rush plays to the aid Of
the English theatre.
Drnwn up In company front and read
Ing from left to right they are The Man
Who Came Back" Forever After" Alice
Brady's present success: The Family
Cupboard" TOO Many Cooks" Little
Miss Brown" The Things That Count"
Home Again." the James whitcomb
Riley play. and Ewes Daughter" and
while he IL arranging for their produc-
ton In London the theatre ticket specu-
iators here are expected to have q
breathing spell.
In addition Mr.. Brady has boxed for
the export trade three new plays III
which he will do his theatrical 5obbing
nero next season. They are THE Abb"
the latest mystery committed by Owen
Davis; she Would and She Did," and
The Ruined Lady" In which Grace
George has and will.
Also on Film Business.
Mr.. Brady also will assume the role
or exchange professor Of cinematography
with Europe. As president of the Ma
tional Association Of the Motion Picture
Industry of America he will hold a SYM
postum with French and British Aim
illuminate and endeavor to put interna-
tional comfy on a celluloid basis. Miss
George will seek additional fodder for
her coming repertoire season.
Charles Emerson Cook will present
Emma Dunn next season in Il dramati-
zation OF "A Woman's Woman" the
Nalbro BARLEY serial, which will enable
the Saturday Epenino Post once more
to be transposed in the key OF the
drama. How did you guess Miss Dunn
would play a mother?
e. +. Albee OF the Keith circuit, chair
man OF the theatrical section of the Vic
tory Loan committee. offers to each per-
son up to 100 who win subscribe for
100000 worth of bonds a season pass,
and several dramatic critics sare said to
be trying for 1t.
On Monday morning the box office
sale opens for the testimonial at the
Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday
evening. May IL, to be rendered to the
Salvation Army lassies who fought the
Germans with doughnuts.
Another Bronx Theatre.
Ground was broken yesterday at 1slst
street and Prospect avenue for the new
B. S. Moss movie house. which Is planned
to mako The Bronx a place Of wonder.
Tho theatre. which will be named az
soon as the press agent can get around
to 1t. will seat $500 persons. or 500
Bronx families. 1t u the ninth in the
Moss photoplay stable. and besides ex-
hibiting high class vampires II is sched-
uled to have a symphony orchestra, a
large pipe organ and soloists with real
voices. An adjoining amphitheatre, also
with a pipe organ In addition to the
regular plumbing. will provide natures
own movie ventilation for 5000 patrons
in the summer
Doc Potter. boss Of the Hippodrome
animal species. who does a little blood
letting to the drama on occasion, has
offered to the authorities a goat whose
appetite has been trained under his own
eye to destroy the bombs that are break
ing out like a rash all over the country.
Doc Potter asserts that his goat can eat
bombs without having them pre-digested.
As understudies he offers two voracious
ostriches who are sure death to dyna-
mite.
F. Ray Comstock has started re-
hearsals to operate on Guy Bottoms new
comedy. Welcome Home" which will
take the air in public for the first time
on May 10.
The company, which will play
Through the Ages" the new drama by
Pierre Sasson. will leave for Buffalo
this morning In order to be ready at the
Tecks Theatre there to start punching
the time clock on Monday night.
Five Years on the Roof.
It was announced that the past week
ended the NTH year since F. Ziegfeld,
Jr.. laid hold on the roof Of the New
Amsterdam Theatre, and an era In the
history OF the theatre Ia believed to have
been established.
Owing to great pressure brought by
friends OF his puppets. Tony Sarg will
extend the engagement of his Marion
cites at the Punch and Judy Theatre
for brief period in view of the Thack-
cray craze he Is considered to have
started. Mr.. Sarg's engagements as an
| illustrator have been remodelled to M
this new condition. since 1t now appears
that his presence Is vitality necessary in
order to put the breath OF life into Prince
BulUo in The Rose and the Ring"
The latest member OF the Binney
family to make the sacred pilgrimage to
Constance was an aunt, Mrs. Samuel
Powell OF Providence. r. l.. who or
ganized her own specially conducted
tour to the Broadhurst Theatre TO watch
her niece grow In "39 East" Afterward
Mrs. Powell gave her a supper party and
saluted her even as Mohammedans kiss
the stone of Mecca.
The poor old roof constable. Ed Wynn,
has hobbled back to the cast OF the
Morris Gest Century Midnight Whirl
after an absence OF three weeks required
to think up some now ones.
At the Forty-fourth Street Theatre
Those Who Walk In Darkness" the
latest dramatic production of the Shu-
berts, was exposed to dress rehearsal
yesterday morning. Irene Fenwick.
Mary Shaw and Arthur Shaw were
among those who took exercise.