New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
The Stage Door

Elsie Janis will give Christmas
party to the members of cher gang
after the evening performance on the
stage of the George M. Cohan Theater
with supper and dancing. In order to
permit her soldier actors to enjoy a
Christmas dinner at home, Miss Janis
Will omit the usual holiday matinee.
Lawrence Johnston. movie actor. aged
five, will give Christmas reading at
the Children's Theater. the Sixty-third
Street Music Hall, to-day.
The Night Boat" will open Monday
evening at the Academy of Music
Baltimore. Charles Dillingham's mu-
steal comedy is by Anne Caldwell and
Jerome Kern, while the "ship's officers"
include Jack Hazard. Louise Groody.
Stella Hoban, Hal Skelly, Hansford
Wilson, Ada Lewis, Ernest Terrence,
Jeannette Methven, Lillian Kemble
Cooper, Jack Scannell, Betty Hale. Flor
ence Bruce. Lorette McDermott, Airline
Chase, Louis Leigh. Patricia Clarke,
Lydia Scott and Irving Carpenter.
"The Light Of the World" will be pre-
sented by f. Ray Comstock and Morris
Gest in the Lyric Theater Monday
night, January s. 1t is by Pierre Sais-
son, Frenchman, and has been adapt
ed Tor the American stage by George
Middleton and Guy Bolton The cast
VII. be headed by Pedro de Cordoba
with Clara Joel. Jane Cooper and
Percy Haswell in important roles.
Christmas Eve party was given las
night on the stage Of the Century The
ater after the performance of "Aphro-
dlte. when f. Ray Comstock and Nor
rs Gest entertained 800 members OF
the company with an informal supper
and dance, together with a giant Christ
mas tree which contained a present for
every one IN the organization. Dorothy
Dalton appeared III the costume % :.
fairy queen to distribute the gifts,
while Mckay Morris, leading man in
"Aphrodite,' played Santa Claus.
Rupert Hughes, novelist; John Drink
water, playwright and singing under
the leadership of the Community Serv-
lee' Will be the principal features at
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coin" for young people which the New
York Drama League has organized for
to- morrow afternoon. Mr.. Hughes will
talk of the play much in the manner
in which Walter Damrosch introduces
the music at his symphony concerts
for young people. The audience will
join In the singing Of the best known
songs Of the Civil War time.
Crock, the French clown, will be
headlined at the Palace Theater next
week for his American debut
Lillian Lorraine will play Keith's
New York vaudeville theaters In
new act following the termination of
her Broadway engagement In "The Lit
tie Blue Devil"
Herbert Feldman, recently with the
Famous Players Lasky Corporation, is
now member of the "Intelligence"
staff at Universal.
Through the Stage Women's War Re-
lief and the War Camp Community
Service 800 wounded service men from
Fox Hills, Staten Island, and from the
Polytechnic Hospital attended the Christ
mas Eve performance of "Forbidden' at
the Manhattan Opera House.
Lee Shubert will present Leo Ditrich-
stein in "The Purple Mask" tonight
at Parsons Theater, Hartford, opening
in New York at the Booth Theater
January 5.
Willie and Eugene Howard, who
have not been seen in New York for
nearly two years, as they have been
on tour with 1.-The Passing Show Of
1918," will appear at the Winter Gar
den Sunday night.
George Broadhurst. as a Christmas
gift and in appreciation of her work,
has elevated Helen MacKellar to the
featured position with "TheNStorm" at
the Forty-eighth Street Theater.