The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-26
TYLER ISAT WORK
ON 1S NEW PLAYS
Laurette Taylor and George
Arliss Will Be Featured
Next Season.
COMEDY TO COME FIRST
Producer Announces His Plans,
Which Include "Beau Revel"
Dramatization.

George c. Tyler has announced an
elaborate. programme, Of stage produc-
lions for next season. including vehicles
for Laurette Taylor and George Arliss.
He plans to produce thirteen new plays,
several of them in association with Klaw
4 Erlanger, and others individually.
Miss Taylor will appear here late in
the fall in new play by her playwright
husband, J. Hartley Manners, In which
she will depart from the type of char
acters she has hitherto created. Mr.. Ar
liss will have three new plays. The
first, written by George Gibbs and Lau-
renee Dudley, will show him as Voltaire.
The second, entitled Beau Revel," will
be a comedy dramatizatlon by Louis
Joseph Vance of his serial now running
In MNnseys Magazine. The third play
Is being written by Louis NJ Parker,
the English dramatist, to enable Mr.
Arliss to portray a cynical English aris-
tocrat.
The first Tyler production here will
be a fantastic comedy, "a Young Mans
Fancy" by John T. Mcintyre, in which
Jeanne Eagels and Philip Merivale Will
appear at the Liberty Theatre about the
middle of September, with scenery de-
signed by Joseph Urban. The second
new comedy. Clarence" opening at the
Hollis Street Theatre. Boston, on Labor
Day and shortly afterward coming to
Broadway. 1t was written especially for
Alfred Lunt, a young comedian who has
been playing the lead In the darlington
Street comedy, THE Country Cousin"
on the road. He will be supported
among others by Mary Boland. Elsie
Mackay, Rea Martin, Susanna Westford,
John Flood and Helen Hayes. Miss
Hayes will appear next Monday in At
lantic City in a comedy by Sidney Toler
and Marion Short entitled THE Golden
Age"
Later In the season Miss Hayes will
be presented by Mr.. Tyler in a dramati-
zation by Edward Childs Carpenter of
Mary Roberts Rinehart's Bah" stories,
following arrangements with Arthur
Hopkins, who controls the rights, On
August 25 at the Blackstone Theatre in
Chicago Mr.. Tyler will present a satir-
ical comedy of the servant problem
called "On the Hiring Line written by
Harvey O'Higgins and Harriet Ford.
Laura Hope Crews will appear in II, with
a New York engagement following
In October Mr.. Tyler will present
Lynn Fontaine, who has played with
Laurette Taylor successfully for three
seasons. In comedy with a New York
setting. Made OF Money" the work of
Richard Washburn Child and Porter
Emerson Browne. About the same time
Emily Stevens will appear in sophie,
a comedy being written by Philip Moeller
| about the life of Sophie Arnould. a
witty French prima donna Of the an
Gent regime.
| In November will come the first Ions
play by Eugene G. ONeill, Chris,
which deals with the sea. Another fal
drama of the Tyler stamp will be a play
| by Joseph Medill Patterson and A. E
Thomas, dealing with the social unres
throughout the world and tentatively
named ''rhs Book of Judith" Patricls
| Collinge will continue under his direc
ton on tour In '"rillie," and SO will Boot
Tarkington's "Penrod" and ''Poliyanna