The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-26
SECOND COMEBACK
FOR ROSE COGHLAN
Having Found a Regular vii
lain, She Will Revive
"Forget- Me-Not."
"NIGHTIE NIGHT" HERE
Rehearsals Start of "The Bash
full Hero" Scheduled for
Run in the Bijou.

Rose Coghlan. the veteran actress,
who returned to the reviewers after
several years in Paul NJ. Potter's farce,
Pretty Soft" and stayed with 1t TIL
It went the way Of all flesh, Is to have
the unusual experience not enjoyed even
by prizehghters Of making a second
comeback. She is reported to be plan
ming to revive 'Forget-Me-Not," in
which she played Stephdnie with the
Lester wallack company back in the
sos and which she evidently hasn't for
gotten herself.
The projected revival came about
through the impending celebration of
Miss Coghlan's fiftieth year on the stage
and because Miss Coghlan had never
been able to ind her high ideal Of a
villain. When group OF managers
recently proposed to organize an elabo-
rate testimonial performance In honor
of the forthcoming Coghlan semi-cen-
tennial this year the actress said that II
the check was the same she'd take q
revival Of Forget Me-Not'' for hers.
who had impersonated Str Horace WeIby,
her antagonist in the original produc-
ton, she had long yearned. she confided,
to resurrect Herman Merivale's play,
with a properly gifted performer doing
the smooth and oily.
As Miss Coghlan had such man in
view the managers agreed to her pro-
posal and now this play. which was the
subject Of a notable lawsuit with a rival
producer years ago, is under way to
fulnn Miss Coghlan's dream of the ages.
Lew Fields in Mocca sfns.
When "a Lonely Romeo" moves to the
Casino Theatre next Monday night Lew
Fields expects TO move his right big toe
with II, though with some difficulty. On
Thursday night during the second act
of the musical comedy at the Shubert
Theatre Mr.. Fields was acting the seems
In which he inserts Frank Doane into
hat when his toe suffered a casualty.
Mr.. Doane tilted forward in his chair.
then suddenly rocked back in Il, where
upon 1t seemed as II an army mule had
caressed Mr.. Fieldss foot with his own
hoof. Mr.. Fields finished the scene,
though almost fainting. and as soon as
physician had been summoned the foot
began to swell Now the press agent
Broadway's attention with the Bolshevix
vests of Edward Waistcoat Dunn.
Mr.. Dunn, by the way, kindly sends
In some random society prattle from
Conan and Harris, unaccompanied by
the usual poetry. Paul Dickey has had
his latest play accepted by that firm, but
has been unable to put over a name for
it. Cohan and Harris will pay two COM
panies for the musical comedy Going
Up" to see America first. They will also
provide a liberal education in the way
OF travel for a company to introduce -
Prince There Was throughout the West,
while loosing Grant Mitchell in this COM
edy on Boston. Philadelphia and other
large tank towns OF the East.
When the company selling Anthony
Paul Kelly's melodrama, Three Faces
East" starts its road campaign Violet
Heming will be the featured distributor
of mystery. For the Broadway presen-
tation of The Acquittal" Phoebe Hunt
will be the chief feminine asset. As this
American play by Rita Weiman is said
by Mr.. Dunn to have been Cohanized, IL
might no; be amlss to refer to his poetry
| in future as Dunnite (army joke).
Plays Pulse Is Good.
"a Voice in the Dark" the melodrama
by Ralph e. Dyar which A II. Woods
will present at the Republic Theatre on
Monday evening. was allowed to be up
and about In the Stamford Theatre last
| evening. and Sam Hofenstein says that
its pulse is good.
Rehearsals were started yesterday OF
The Bashful Hero" farce in three
| acts by Harold Brighouse. with Ernest
Truck doing his best to forget that he
! Is an actor and to Ill the title role
I'll
! Nancy Fair. Gilbert Douglas, Edward
! Douglas, Alexander Frank and addi-
tional ballast. After storming Stamford
| on August Is the play will adjourn u
the Bljou Theatre here on August 25.
BY special dispensatlon from +. IL
| Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Frederick
Kaufman, who has put himself in their
power as stage director for heir forth
| coming Shakespearian plays, has been
| liberated temporarily to resume his for
mer position as stage director for "Chu
Chin Chow" thus insuring that the sec
! ond edition OF that spectacle to start al
the Century Theatre will equal the first
which also bore the Kaufman imprint
n. Y. Drafts I'Nightie Night"
! Adolph Klaubers production OF
| "Nightie Night" with the cast that has
been drafted for New York, will serve
| the customary apprenticeship at Long
Branch and Asbury Park next week.
| Post entries for the cast of "A Regu.
lar Feller." which will halt in the Cort
Theatre on Wednesday. August 10
are Edwin Holt. Everett Butterfield
Charlotte Granville and Margaret
Greene, bringing the company up to full
peace strength.
The social register of the audience al
l ~. NH.
| for the past week ex-Anbassador James
w. Gerard. Public Service Commissioner
Travis Whitney. Kitty Gordon, JOIN
Charles Thomas, ]. ]. Shubert, Georg,
NJ. Conan. Nora Bayes, Gertrude Hon
man, Marie Dressler and Norma and
Constance of the Talmadge movie heir
archy.