The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-30
WOODS GETS GRIP
ON YIDDISH PLAYS
Producer Secures 500 and AL
ready Places Five in Prepa-
ration for Next Season.
DRY TABLEAU TONIGHT
Criterion to Have Large Bra
lillian Audience on Thurs
day-Film Merger Denied.

When A. II. Woods returned from Eu-
rope with eighty pounds Of plays under
his command It was thought he had re-
duced the uncontrolled dramatic tonnage
of the world considerably. But now he
comes out with the announcement that
he has further frightened his grip on the
drama with a deal for more than 500
plays by about a dozen Jewish play
wrights which have made the Ytddish
stage In New York for the past ten
years a riot of language.
BY this arrangement, one of the most
unusual in theatrical history. Mr.. Woods
also contracts for the entire dramatic
fervor Of the Yiddish Theatre for ten
years to come, and comes into possession
Of plays by Jewish authors such as
Jacob NJ Gordin. called THE Shake
speare of the Yiddish Drama" Max
Gabel. Leon Kobrin and others who have
made tho Bowery a stamping ground OF
histrionic culture. The plays are to be
presented by Mr.. Woods either on the
English speaking stage or on the screen,
depending on the nature of the play and
the fluctuations in the Broadway mar
ket.
Five of these plays already are in
preparation. including Public Opinion"
Lost Youth" and "Clear Conscience"
by Max Gabel, and 1.-THE Man and His
Shadow and THE Unknown Woman"
by z. Libin and Marjorie Blaine. the lat
ter vehicle serving as the instrument of
destiny to bring Marjorie Rambeau back
to her people as star next season.
shuberts Get New Play.
packing away dollars in theatrical
I'M f,tet rho col m
new play by Cleves Kihkead, The Mood
OF the Moon which will soon be fitted
to the mood of the multitude. This Is
Mr.. Kinkead's chaser to Common Clay"
his first work.
With the celebration OF the one hun
dredth showing In New York of Broken
Blossoms" tomorrow evening-as one of
the few real distractions to the dry law
ID. W. Griffliths repertoire production
at the George NJ. Conan Theatre will
enter upon its finaltwo weeks. enabling
suffering New Workers to drown their
sorrows in the movies. On Monday
evening. July IA. Mr.. Griffith will offer
The Fall of Babylon a spectacle
which graduated from the Babylonian
episode in Intolerance"
Prohibition may come, but Broadway
through the Midnight Whirl." at the
| Century Grove. Is not without its means
Of ssriking back terribly. At the witch
| ing. but whiskeyless hour OF midnight
| tonight. May Leslie, the only woman
stage manager in America, who holds
that rank with the Morris Gest produc-
ton, has arranged to have tablea,
called The Death Of Liberty" with
Joyce Fair posing as Liberty and hold
ing in her appraised hand a bottle o.
champagne In place OF the almost a.
priceless torch. William Dooley. at
tired as a frock coated prohibitions
with a bottle on the side. will sta,
Miss Liberty in her absolutely unpro
tected back, and then, as the remains
clatter on the stage, Mr.. Dooley viii
draw the bottle from his rear poke
and absorb a thrill while the audienc,
goes mad.
Matinee Breaks Precedent.
A special matinee performance OF tn,
"Ziegfeld Follies'' will be held at tn,
New Amsterdam Theatre July 4, 70
the first time in the history of the city
so far as can be discovered from rec
ords reaching back TO the days OF New
Amsterdam.
Richard G. Herndon, manager of tn,
French American Association for Musica
Art, announced yesterday that this or
States next season the company from thu
Gaiety Theatre In Paris, thus incres SIM
the need for a mutual protection treaty
between France and this country.
Loubovska, having recovered from hei