Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
In the Spotlight.

Zelda Sears is to star in the fall in a
new play.
The Shuberts will produce a play by
Harold Heaton called The Third Cen
Grafton"
THE Jest" in which john and Lionel
Barrymore have been playing. closed
last week until September. Its business
has been phenomenal.
Marie Chambers. Francis Byrne and
Malcolm Duncan have been engaged by
Adolph Klauber for farce to be pro-
duced in the fall.
Eight new plays and twenty-one road
companies are completed and now ready
to go into rehearsal under the A. II.
Wood management.
A new jazz orchestra was installed
at the Garrick last Sunday evening.
in charge of ii. Bruce Healy, and is
proving a drawing card.
Anne Caldwell and Jerome Kern have
Friend Wife" Charles B. Dillingham;
will produce it in the fall.
David Belasco's sparkling comedy.
"Daddies," reached its 325th performance
last Wednesday night in New York,
where 1t is to continue all summer.
Elliott Dexter, who has been suffer-
ing from a nervous breakdown, Is re-
ported recovering. 1t has been only a
short time since he was made star.
Donald Brian and Wallace EddinSer
will be joint stars in musical comedy
called "Buddies," to be produced by
Selwyn & Co. The piece is by George
". Hobart
Russ Whytal will play leading role
in Love Time in Picardy," new COM
edy by William Addison Lathrop and
Wilfred North, which will be produced
by Oliver Morosco,
Charles Emerson Cook placed in re-
hearsal last week in New York new
comedy with the title "a Regular Fell
ler," in which Ernest Glendinning will
have the, leading role.
A new play by George Atkinson is
called The Devils Dance and will be
shortly produced in Atlantic City: In
the cast are Eleanor Gordon, Mary
Srvoss, Suzanne Jackson and Charles
Dalton.
This week Honeymoon Town. a
musical comedy by Will Hough, Byron
Gay and Felix Rice, will have its first
production in Chicago. Bernard Gran
vile will be featured in the cast, and
Helen Bolton will have the leading role.
Lenore Uric has just closed one of
the most remarkable engagements in
the history of the theater when Tiger
Rose" ended its run in Philadelphia with
ninety-seven weeks to it's credit. sixty
Of which were played in New York city.
The William lie Baron farce, 81 Love
YOU" closed its engagement in New
York last night c. NJ Anderson an
nounces he intends not only to reopen
the piece in New York in the fall, but
to send out four road companies.
Morris Gest and Ray Comstock are
back in New York after a run down to
Baltimore. where they witnessed the
opening of welcome Home" by Guy
9olton and Frank Mandell Due to its
New York Immediately.
| David Belasco has assembled dis
| tinguished cast to support Ina Claire
| when she makes her first appearance
| as a star under his management at
| the Baiasco Theater the week of June
| 80. in Avery Hopwood's new comedy,
The Gold Diggers." Some of the
names announced are Bruce McRae,
H. Reeves-Smith, Horace Braham,
Frederick Truesdale. Jobyna Rowland
| Louise Galloway, Beverly West, Lue1la
| Gear. Ruth Terry. Lilyan Eastman.
Gladys Feldman and Katherine Walsh
Lynn Overman. a few months ago
| leading man in Come On, Charley
| has been engaged as second man"
| with the Garrick Players. and will
make his debut with the resident or
ganization tonight in Polly With a
Past" Another newcomer is Leah
Winslow, who has been engaged to
play character roles.
Announced for early production by
| the Garrick Players are The Gin
derella Man." Johnny Get Your Gun.
| Daddy Long Legs" Peg Q. Ny
| Heart" and 1.-The Only Girl"
Jacques Of the Silver North
! Mitchell Lewis new picture, is adapt
| ed for the warm summer months. 1t
| is said, without other assistance, to
reduce the temperature wonderfully
with its snow and blizzard scenes.
One of the four new photoplay pro-
auctions announced by, the Goldwyn
Corporation will be "Heartsease," b..
! the late Charles Klein, which is to
| be filmed with a cast not yet an
nounced.
The right to picture William Far
| mum in 1.-THE Joyous Trouble Maker"
has been obtained from the author.
Jackson Gregory. 1t is a thrilling
| story Of a happy-go lucky mining en-
| gineer and lord Of an empty pocket
! book"