The sun., 1919-07-23
KISSES HIM RIGHT
In WINTER GARDEN
Esther Walker Singing on
Runway When She Espies
SOldier-Sailor Brother.
PAIR PARTED SINCE 1917
petroleum Prince" to Be
First Play Klaw Will Pro-
duce Alone.

The runway at the Winter Garden is
like the bridge across the Bosporus at
ConstantinopIe, for no doubt Rudyard
Kipllng would say Of the New York
causeway that II the girls only prance
along It long enough they'll meet every
one they know, including their husbands
Esther Walker furnished the audience
viewing Monte Cristo. Jr.." with proof
Of this yesterday, for she discovered her
brother, Major Felix Walker of the Sig
nal Corps, Seventh Division. occupying
a rinsside seat close to the Shuberts'
own Broadway.
Though Miss Walker was singing 'Sa7
hara" at the time. she left that song
high and dry. for she Immediately recog-
nized her brother, though she hadn't seen
him since the war began. With great
presence OF mind she kneeled on the run
way, leaned over and kissed him--a sig
nal that was understood by her brother.
1t wasn't comprehended by the audience,
however for one version OF the story
runs that several prominent Broadway
Mes blushed, while another version Is
that scores tried to crowd closer to the
runway. Miss Walker quieted the
throng by saying calmly, well. he's
my soldier brother, and I haven't seen
him in two years-so there"
Frank wilstach, THE SUN: special
correspondent at the Winter Garden.
adds that Miss Walkers sailor brother
Percy Walker, had just been discharged
and also found his sister, so altogether
1t was a big day for Miss Walker and
the press agent.
The oil boom has struck the theatre
too. Marc Klaw has purchased "Pe-
troleum Prince" a comedy in three acts,
by Richard Barry, for his first solo flight
as a producer. The piece will be staged
by Harrison Grey Fiske, and Mr.. klaw
expects to strike a gusher with II early
in October.
"A Regular Feller," the Charles En-
erson Cook production, which has Just
returned with all the keen vitality &C
quired in tryouts at Atlantic City ana
other seashore resorts will have house.
warming in the Cort Theatre Wednes-
day, August IS. Before opening the reg
ular season Of the Cort and causing the
Spanish company now there to make
for another haven, the comedy will lay
OF two weeks to fix up several blow
outs in the cast Then II will compete
for attention in Washington with the
Congressional Record August g.
William A. Brady has received
cable from Frank Craven in London
that TOO Many Cooks" will soon go
into rehearsal to break from the bar
rier In the English capital. Mr. Craven
also stated that he was drawing up
solemn covenant for the immediate
London presentation of AT 49," the
Playhouse melodrama that is part of
the crime wave that has hit the stage
here.
An order of the day issued yesterday
by Adjutant Claude Greneker Of the
Shuoert G. H. Q. promoted Vera Grosset,
recently recruited for "Oh, What
Girl" When this musical comedy opens
in the Shubert Theatre on Monday Miss
Grosset, instead OF playing one role, as
she did in Philadelphia, will play an
other. This will be one of the two lead
ing feminine parts. and Miss Grosset is
expected soon to rate a Rolls Royce.
--latest advices are that Those Who
Walk in Darkness" now in rehearsal In
the Bijou Theatre, will not have the
advantage OF a country bringing up.
Instead of an out OF town tryout the
play, with Irene Fenwick well in the
lead, will be unloaded on Broadway
early in August.
J. H. Bankhead, United States Sena-
tor from Alabama. and W. b. Bank
head. Congressman from the Tenth dis
trict OF Alabama, are imminent in New
York this week to see "39 East" at Max
Inc Elliotts Theatre, for no other reason
than that Talluiah Bankhead. who COM
bines in her person the functions OF
granddaughter and daughter to them. is
on view in that comedy. When a spe-
cial road company is organized Miss
Bankhead will play the leading role and
Is expected to repay this diplomatic
courtesy by visiting Washington.
Thomas Dixon has presented his new
three act drama, 1.-THE Red Dawn" at
Stamford this week. and though the
play deals with the Bolsheviki and the
South Sea Islands, the Connecticut town
is said to be still on the map. Doraldina,
De Witt c. Jennings. Flora Macdonald
Austin Webb and Averill Harris are
the leading members OF the soviet and
the play Is due on Broadway in three
weeks, according to the present time