The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-02
MISS CLARA TICE is
ENGAGED TO WED
Queen of Greenwich Village
Admits 1t in the Nora
Bayes Theatre.
BOBBY EDWARDS THE MAN
James X. Hackett Is Back in
Town Recovered From
Accidents.

Village are engaged to be married, even
II 1t is such a goshdarned conventional
thing to do, Bobby Edwards, leader OF
the ring wing Of the Washington Square
proletariat, who Is at present playing the
role of n Bohemian in the Greenwich
Village Follies'' in the Nora Bayes The
atre. and Clara Tice, illustrator, who
also is lending an air of camaraderie to
the same production, announced yester-
day this plot against their mutual peace
of mind.
After Bobby had Acknowledged that
the two great clans Of the village were
| to be united, the ukulele fancier and a
reporter, conveyed by Joe jackson. a
comedian, went behind the scenes in the
Nora Bayes to get a confirmation from
Miss Tice of Bobby's latest fad Miss
Tice emerged from her dressing room
| smoking a cigarette and admitted that
Bobby had the right dope. Simultan-
eously she startled every one by blush
ing and Bobby burned his face--on her
cigarette.
1t proved to be a romance Of the arts,
for Miss Tice said that until she played
with him in the current revue she had
| never known what a fine heart beat be-
hind Bobby's ukulele. The date of the
marriage was not stated, nor whether at
| the ceremony the organ would play The
Wedding of the Winds"
Owing to the change in the itinerary
| OF the King and Queen of Belgium
caused by the illness of President Will
son. John Golden announces that the
proposed royal matinee for the visitors
Of Thunder" has been postponed. so
that all his strenuous radio communi-
cation with them aboard the George
| Washington Just evaporated into thin
air. However, a royal treat Is being
planned upon the return of the regal
party from the Pacific coast around the
| end of October, which is taken TO mean
that Thunder" win certainly hang on
to the Criterion Theatre until that time.
A Ziegfeld Announcement.
| Victor Kiraly, first mate of the New
Amsterdam Theatre Roof let this slip
out yesterday: m. F. Ziegfeld. Jr.. en-
annoncant la premiere. jeudi lie . Octo-
bre, du Noveau Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic,
un genre d'amusement d'apres la facon
de la Revue Parisienne. prends la liberte
de vous aviser que parmi les diverses at
fractions sera une petite piece franchise
joue en- francais Sans doute cette nou-
veaute vous sera d'interet, ct votre pres
|
When this statement was shown TO Leon
Friedman, Ziegfeld publicity practitioner.
he remarked: "I'll say she does
Bessie Mccoy Davis denies she will go
into vaudeville, and says that instead
she will continue to hang around the
Greenwich Village Follies'' in the Nora
Bayes Theatre as a marionette on wires.
James X. Hackett has arrived in town.
having recovered from the many accl-
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his right knee playing Macbeth" four
seasons ago, and is ready for another
bout with the drama.
George Jessel and Gllda Gray. who
are part of the quivering excitement in
the Schubert Gaities OF 1919"-especially
Miss Gray-are going to vibrate in
comedy sketch together when the pro-
ductlon trickles around to the Winter
Garden next week.
seven shubert Productions.
Next Monday night the shuberts will
have seven productions working in day
and night shifts on Broadway, and they
are thinking of borrowing the statistic
graph from the Hipr odrome for their
statistics.
When "Oh, What a Girl" moves to the
| Central Theatre next week Lew Cooper,
the smudge comedian, will introduce four
new songs, one of them being named. for
some reason, The Great American
Desert"
one OF the Josef Urban scenic novel;
ties in the new 'Ziegfeld Midnight
Frolic," opening atop the new Amster-
cam Theatre tonight, will be q group
of Chinese jewelled trees. copied by per-
mission from the hocks OF jewelled trees
in the gem collection OF Col William b,
Thompson.
A firm of Chicago publishers has
asked Charles Dillinghams permission to
use photographs of Happy Jack" Lam
bert, who impersonates Peck's Bad Boy
In the book store scene In Happy Days"
for a cover design In a forthcoming edi-
ton Of this famous morality classic.
| requests are also poarihs In for Tsox!o'S
picture, taken preferably with a group of
girlish faces. for use in beautiher ads.
When the curtain was to go up on the
| last act of THE Crimson Alibf last
night Catherine Cozzens, who appears
only in this act, had failed TO present
her Madonna-like face at the Broadhurst
Theatre, and the stage manager tore his
hair. though that didn't help matters
particularly. Miss Cozzenss part,
though small. Is necessary to solve the
detective mystery and enable wives to
leave the theatre saying TO their hus-
bands, II told you So"
| Finally, a1ter n search ny posse Oh
house attaches, Miss Cozzens was To-
Gated watching a rehearsal OF THE
Storm" In the Forty-eighth Street The
atre, which required the services OF a
taxi to get her to the other theatre on
time but enabled the press agent TO work
| the name OF this second Broadhurst pro-
duction into the story.
| Earl Benham has Joined the cast of
| 'SThe Magic Melody" the Wilner-Ronl-
berg production now in rehearsal, this
sudden access Of talent being equalized
By the Shuberts by having Jack Cagwin
join forces with Hello, Alexander"
opening on Tuesday. The Broadway
balance of power was further preserved
by the Engagement of Robert Armstrong.
nephew Of the late Paul Armstrong,
dramatist, for Boys VIII Be Boys" the
dramatization OF Irwin Cobb's story that
will flush the Belmont Theatre with
Kentucky dialect on October 10.
Walter Hast yesterday unloaded at
re hearsal a new play by Frederick
Biuerger. named after two favorite
char tiers in history. Eve and the
Man." John HARDWOOD will direct the
cave stuff.
| TIE Hippodrome production, Happy
Days" will send the arrival of the
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