The sun., 1919-05-15
MARGUERITE SYLVIA
TO GO INTO MOVIES
Joins Other Prima Donnas
Who Know How to Act Be-
fore the Camera.
GLOVE LAUGHS, COMING
Then There Is O New Comedy
by Ella Peattie Called
"Sunrise."


Ono more unusual operate voice will
be acquired soon by the movies, which
hardly seem to need Il. Nine. Mar
guerita Sylvia, the diva who Is high
score at the Palace this week, will be
projected before tho public this fall In q
quiet WY. She will .secede from vaude-
Vile in July to work her eyes into the
first picture of tho Marguerite sylvia
Film Company.
Love Laughs" q new comedy by
George D. Parker. incrusted with q cast
including Jessie Glendinning, Lionel
Adams, Katherine Alexander and Ada
Waterman, will take a lease on life at
the Bijou Theatre on Tuesday next with
nostrum for the grand passion.
Three for Diana" on Saturday win get
It hence.
The chance of a lifetime to receive
some nice letters from a nice actress,
written on nice stationery, is offered to
all stage struck femininity by Constance
Binney. the star boarder OF "3s East"
who offers to run her own department
or advice to the stage lorn. In q state
ment. for which not even the Scandi-
navian copyright Is reserved. Miss Bin
ney says she wants to show other girls
that, like her, they don't need pull to
get position where the stage door
keeper recognizes them.
Tho Theatre Guild will prolong
John Ferguson" at the Garrick Thea
tire for an additional week starting next
Monday. having been egged on by the
favorable notices they have received.
Ella Peattie's Play.
Inasmuch as the new comedy by Pearl
Franklin and Ella Peattie, which
Winchell Smith and John L. Golden are
soon to produce, Is called Sunrise -
naturally the cast which they have Just
! amalgamated contains couple OF
Days. The sum total OF players com.
prises Alphonz Either. Wilson Day
Chester Morris, Malcolm Bradley, Hor-
ace James, Benjamin Kauser, Andre
! Aubry, Joe Woodburn. Charles McDon-
aid. Charles Althofr. Sylvia Field, Ma
rion Kerby, Marie Day. Dorothy Gray
Constance Beaumar and-think Of It =
| Liela Bennett. The play will expose the
Tennessee Mountains at Atlantic City
mex. Monday.
TIE announcement that Dolores who
has been appearing in the 'Ziegfeld Nine
O'Clock Revue" has been engaged to step
around in the new "Follies" brings the
sensational revelation that she Is Eng
lish and not Maltese. as one might ex-
poet from her name. Coincidentally f.
Ziegfeld. Jr.. barring his teeth at pro-
ducers who have spirited away beauties
| which he has developed to the proper
Ziegfeld plane, instructed his attorneys
to start injunction proceedings against
motion pictures showing his stars who
signed exclusive contracts with him. but
merely thought exclusive" WAS q rhetor-
| ioal flourish.
Camille Darville Coming.
The Stage women's War Relief has
been taking in so much money for the
welfare OF soldiers. particularly among
the Western branches, which are dis
| solving. that Camille Darville, known of
the record as Mrs. Z. w. Crellin. chair
! man of the San Francisco unit. has come
all the way from the Golden Gate to ask
| the national board to tell her what on
earth to do with these embarrassing
riches.
william A. Brady and Grace George
who Is Mrs. Brady aside from the foot
| lights. have arrived in England. and Mr.
Brady's New York office refuses to deny
a report that all the London ticket spec
ulators have taken to cover.
West initial offering in the D. W. Grit
| nth repertory season at George NJ. Co
hans Theatre, will be continued for a
| second week with daily matinees. and
an added supply OF Chinese punk ha,
been laid in for the purposes OF the pic.
lure as well as the possibility that mos
quitoes are due soon.
The Greenwich Village Players. with
the closing of their season, will be dis
charged into civilian life on Saturday
May II. This will put the. silencer or
the centuries old Hindu classic "Shakun
tala," which may possibly be retired FOL
another 1900 years. 1t will make way
for n summer heat absorber still called
| Greenwich Village Follies OF 1919" al
though Mr.. Ziegfeld has shaken hi,
finger at them for using his favorltt
word.
| Well. Who DID Itf
| Lyle d. Andrews and Walter n. Law
renee, taking their courage in theil
hands. have decided to call their new
mystery comedy who Did IT," TIL
play will be brought TO Broadway in
fortnight. when the authors have an ide;
the same words will be on everybody
tongue.
George Broadhurst will make an earl,
1
I.angdon Mccormick, from whiri
brother Thomas is said to be writin;
the title as we'll as two or three alterna
tive endings.
| As the Belmont Theatre next season
will hold the Theatre Parisien this ha
seemed as good an excuse as any I,
erisR the "Chansons Montmartre" dl
rect from Paris and acclimate then
here,
Helen Hoerle. formerly bioerapher 70
"Our Pleasant Sins" at the Belmon
Theatre has now shed literature for tn
job of company manager, being tho onl.
feminine mandarin OF that rank oil
Broadway.
When Peggy Wood exhales the las
note In "Maytime" at the Majestic The
atre in Brooklyn OH Saturday night the,
can chop down the old apple tree 20 IA
as she is concerned. for after IN excep
tional engagement of nearly two year
with the musical comedy she is recon
ciled to being starred by the Shubert
in n new production next season.