The sun., 1919-10-28
CHORUS VOTE? NOT |
r ! OF AGE, THANK YOU
Miss Rembaugh Gets Only
shIur
g Good Wishes From Girls of
ssW "HellO Alexander"
ALBEE PLANS CONCERTS
Theatre Partisan Company
/ Will Leave Soon on Tour
of Several Cities.

4 kPolitics, after no longer peiHs !"
pdsition to be accused of going into the
! saloon, has now invaded the theatre
Last night Bertha Rembausi., .he woman |
lawyer with offices at 165 Broadway, 1
! Rho is a candidate on the Republican |
/ tieket for a Municipal Court 5udgeship, |
was reported to have sought votes from |
The Hello Alexander" company at the |
Fprty-nnth Street marking the first !
time on record that an office seeker has |
\ eyer gone behind the scenes looking for
khe minds that rule the country.
I ;Outside of Mcintyre and Heath, the |
I STARS, who are quite old enough to vote, |
hnd several Of the male principals In |
abe company of 100, Miss Rembaugh |
Found that no a girl in the show had az
. tained the years of discretion necessary
Ter voting-or at least that none of them |
would admit it. However all the girls
, ssinced a keen interest in the election, |
! Wanting to know IL it was true what you |
hear on the street corners about the |
country going dry.
jE F. Albee owner of the Keith vaude- |
Vile circuit. announces that he has COM |
g,eted arrangements to present Keith |
Vaudeville concerts every Sunday night |
an the Century Theatre. once the home OF
shakespeare. At these performances, |
which start on November 2, only head |
lhers and acts of the first magnitude |
will be deemed worthy to hold the |
Eboards that have been trodden by Soth- |
ern and Marlowe
7 The Theatre Parsen company, which |
has been rehearsing here. will leave this |
week for it's first engagements TO help |
the people of tine United States to think
lin French. After a preliminary cultiva-
ition of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore
4 and Washington. the company will
Translate the Belmont Theatre into the
Theatre Parisien.
I ! Bessie Mccoy Davis Back.
J / Bessie Mccoy Davis has inserted her
ankle. now recovered from its sprain
during a performance of The Green
xich Village Folles," back in place at
the Nora Bayes Theatre.
: Charles Frohman, Inc, will soon put
Mary Shaw to work in an important
! part in THE Rise of Peter Barbans'
i with which Otis Skinner will talk for
publication. BY the way, "Mommer,"
Edward Goodman's play, in which the
Selwyns were to install Miss Shaw. has
gone on it's last earthly Journey to the
( storage house.
A. Strassman denies Indignantly a
report that because all watches have
been set back an hour the title of Frank
Bacon's new play at the Fulton Theatre
! ts to be changed to -Four O'Clock"
Walter Hampden on Friday evening
! will appear at the Academy of Music
, In Brooklyn as Romeo, marking the
Z FIRST time that he has done this with
! Americans, though the Scotch kept after
him in the role for record period of
! eleven weeks in Glasgow without a let
I mp. The other three performances of
( this engagement will take Hamlet" In
/ charge. Later Mr. Hampden plans to
\ put Romeo and Juliet in Broadway's
Z keeping.
Z ] The chorus of Apple Blossoms" Il
( develops, holds young woman who
married into the French nobility and
: language. She is Brenza Dugro, who as
Miss Rees of Winchester, KY, was CIV
Z ing a vocal recital in boston during
the summer of 1916 when she met Ran
/ dolph Dugro, a student at the Harvard
Law School. who is a nephew OF Su-
preme Court Justice Dugro and a son
F, of Francis A. Dugro, the latter being
1 entitled to the title OF Count where
! French is spoken-only he prefers the
title of lawyer where English is spoken.
II A Chance for Herself.
The young couple were married in
l June. 1915, but the wife obtained a legal
! separation in January, 1918, and her
husband went abroad with his mother
one of the Randolphs of Virginia, in or
Mrs. Dugro wanted to follow an artistic
career, but failed to make headway until
Ethel Barrymore met her accidentally
at photographers during the actors
strike and tucked her away in a Job
c. B. Maddox of Maddox & Hart
producers of Nothing but Love" at the
Lyric Theatre. will feature Charles
- Withers in new comedy which will be
taken in hand at rehearsal as soon as
Mr. Withar4 from
where he is now bringing that country
up to date with the travesty on the
American bgosh mel anna. For PHYS
Sake"
At Cumberland, Md. last night John
d. Williams presented new play in
three acts by Elmer r. Rice, which, like
that authors "On Trial" has the law ON
every one under the title of For the
Defence" Richard Bennett is starred
in it. and after a few weeks tour For
the Defence" will be put up to a metro
politan jury
The Shubert correspondence school
yesterday pointed out in connection with
statement In a morning paper, that
THE Dancer" at the Harris Theatre was
taken from a Hungarian original by
Edward Locke, that they have made no
bones about acknowledging this from
the start. that a critic commented on
this fact on the opening night, and that
they even advertise II on their pro-
grammes.
The music and chorus rehearsals for
"Aphrodite," the forthcoming production
by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest,
began at the Century Theatre yesterday,
and 1t is important to remember in
memorizing this date for future refer
ence that DR.. Anselm Goetzl, who has
composed much of the score for the
spectacle. directed the onset.