The sun., 1919-05-28
NEW YORK TO HAVE
FORBIDDEN CITY
Fox Film structurdwill House
5000 Employees and 20
Companies.
IT'S IN TENTH AVENUE
Walter Hampden Nears Tooth
Performance in Hamlet"
This Season.

New York. like Pekin. is to have q
Forbidden City OF its own--a metropolis
Just on Broadway where 5000 persons
VIII swear allegiance to the William
Fox payrolls. The fiim maguate Is hav-
Ing constructed at Fifty-ffth and Fifty
sixth streets in Tenth avenue n huge
three story structure where, twenty COM
panies OF vampires can man9uvre at
once. When It Is ready for occupancy.
October !. according to an announcement
made yesterday by Winfield r. Sheehan,
general manager OF the Fox Film Cor
poraticn, admission will be granted only
to those who can laugh, roll their eyes
| and lure men TO destruction at will, and
authors with scenarios will be absolutely
prohibited.
The building. which is already almost
far enough advanced to hold some of
the Fox actors regulations will cover
nearly the whole OF the block and will
cost about S2.b00.0o0 in round press
| agent figures. 1t will cortain the ad-
ministration Offices. the laboratories, DO
lection rooms, shops for carpenters,
property men and scenic artists, restau-
| rants and Eastern studios of the COM
pany. and the publicity promoter vows
that In this hive more love will be
made and more hearts broken every day
than In whole continent Of average
cities."
Shakespeare and Business.
Walter Hampden's word wizard main
tains that under the proper management
Shakespeare can be turned into q sure
winner. A week from tonight Mr.
Hampden win have put Hamlet"
through his seances for 100 times this
season. Fifty-one performances were IN
New York, while Chicago was good for
thirty-six goes at the great Dane, In
which respect the Western city estab-
lished a new Shakespeare percentaHr
Since the days OF Edwin Booth, who
soliloquized here for 100 nights without
stop, Z. H. Sothern Is the only actor
who has approached Mr.. Hampdcn's en-
durance record in this city. having pre-
sented Hdmlefs case to the people tor
three weeks in the Garden Theatre years
| ago, before amateur dramatic clubs
ousted Shakespeare from this house.
X. II. Burnside, shepherd OF the
Lambs. competed with the news about
the NC-4 yesterday. with the announce
ment that the members of the commit
tee In charge of the Lambs annual pub
lie gambol in the Manhattan Opera
House June have committed themselves
on the best sketches among the hun
dreds which were privately exposed at
| the sambols during the year. TIE Of
ferings selected are by George NJ. Conan
(cries of teachers pet!"). William Col
lier. Hassard Short and George v. Ho-
bart. and the committee Is now trying
to catch 200 Lambs who can be stuffed
| into the casts.
| F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest have
| renamed their new play. Through the
Ages" deciding that THE Light of the
World' has more paprika. 1t now. turns
out that this drama, which has been
announced one week as the work OF
Pierre Sasson and the next week as the
composition of Guy Bolton and George
Middleton. is an adaptation by the lat.
| ter of the former and the public Is now
| able TO set its mind at rest and acquire
ength for the opening of the play
here in the fall.
Marcus Loew. now that the Allies
seem on the point of recognizing the
| Russian Government in its Kolchak in
carnation. feels safe in engaging Lud-
| milla Toretzka OF Yvette Giulbert's en-
| tourage to tour his circuit In charac-
teristic Russian folk songs, commenc-
! Ing June /.
Mollie Kings marriage to Ensign
Kenneth D. Alexander Of Spring Station,
KY. Will not prove q handicap to the
drama, II Is announced for she intends
\ to keep her supply of smiles in stock
for Good Morning. Judge" and will
| continue producing motion pictures for
later ages, II now develops that Miss
King has scored a signal triumph over
the other half of Kentucky. for in the
Blue Grass State, where the wealthy
! sportsman was considered extremely
eligible. he was known for his total
| abstinence from feminine society.
Brother Cob of Her Brother.
Mt. Alexander also scored something
| of record on his own account for he
| Is the first prominent native of Ken
lucky to marry a member OF the theatre
cal profession since John Fox. the nov
elist UNDERSTOOD to keep up with Fritzi
| Scheff. He has been noted for the stable
which he maintains between Frankfort
| and Lexington, and one of his equine
meteors, Escoba, a few years ago made
the acknowledged champions trail their
| tails in the dust. He was introduced
| to Miss King by her brother Charles
who before he appeared with her at the
| Shubert Theatre did a deck swabbing
| speciality in the same class with MT
| Alexander at Pelham.
The rush to play the Great Enamel
pator in the announced production OF
| Abraham Lincoln" by William Harris,
Jr.. has already. begun. the line being led
by LIncoln's only living spiritual de-
scendant. who proved on close inspec-
ton to have long hair. seedy clothes.
the only" authentic portrait of Lincoln.
and other bona fide earmarks of a nut"
The play recently accepted by the
| Shuberts from Ethel Dane. featured in
"A Little Journey" at the Vanderbilt
Theatre, has been dubbed BLACK is
White" after the authoress gave her as
surance that II is a problem drama,
| AS Alison Skitpworth has made good