The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-13
LADIES, PLEASED"
NEXT AT PRINCESS
Annual Musical Comedy Will
Be by Jerome Kern and
p. G.. WodehOuse.
LEW FIELDS AN AUTHOR
Comedian Contributes Many
Lines to "The Lonely Ro-
meo,' Soon to Be Played.

F. Ray Comstock announces that the
seventh annual Princess Theatre musical
comedy producti>n will remain feminist,
as the latter proc lions have been, be-
ing called Ladies'. Please" instead OF
having some virile title like "Attaboy 7"
which seemed at first to be the policy OF
this house. Jerome Kern will compose
some ladylike music for 1t. while p. O..
Wodehouse will go it alone in seeing
that the men get their rights in the
book and lyrics.
This marks the first time within the
recollection Of Broadways Oldest inhabi-
tant that Guy Bolton has been absent
from the triumvirate that has been
tending the temple fires OF Gilbert and
Sullivan at the Princess these many
encores. Mr.. Bolton. II 10 understood,
10 writing serious plays. being moro in
terested Just now in art than in royal
Ties. The new piece will start to trickie
out or rehearsals soon after the actors
begin to feel the effects OF July 1.
Clifton Crawford will fiy to the OPEN
ing OF his now musical comedy, II Love
Lassie." when IL is presented at New
Haven on Thursday, but would UNI
doubtedly resent any suggestion that
he might be over the heads Of his audi
ence. A Spsd s5. piloted by Charles
:. Jones OF the Lafayette Escadrille,
will sweep him of Roosevelt Field al
Mineola tomorrow afternoon, and a
movement Is on foot to preserve the
airplane In museum as the first that
ever saved an actor from walking the
ties to a premiere. Mr.. Crawford also
claims to be the first Thespian who
ever few. when Max Lilley eight years
ago in Chicago carried him on a shor,
hieht--not too short for Mr.. Crawford.
Mrs. Fiske to Close Early.
Mrs Fiske. though she plays the part
OF Southern belle whose good looks
have been able to Withstand a warn
CLINE. will nevertheless put Mis- Nelly
of NOrleans" on ice at Henry Miller,
Theatre. on Saturday night. May ~
when the hot weather starts officially
After summer holiday. which may
possibly be spent in making the COWS
more comfortable, Mrs. Fiske will re.
| SUM- with the play on September IS
eiv'7g all the principal cities a chance
to pick out her Southern dialect
Out OF Difference 10 the memory ot
Sidney Drew, Mrs. Drew has declined
Richard Walton Tuily's offer TO star ne,
| next season in Keep Her Smiling" ir
| which they were costars on the legiti
mate stage at the time OF his death
Mr. FULLY, however, expects TO have the
play keep audiences smiling on tou,
next fall.
Despite the fact that excitement has
| been further whetted by the announce.
ment that Ray Dooley and Eddie Dow.
ling have Just been engaged for the
new edition OF the Ziegfeld "Follies,
the press agent declines to appease pub
Ito demand with the date of its premiere
outside of the maddening statement tina,
Il will be early in June"
Lew Fields, not satisfied with beins
poet and picker OF chorus girls, ha,
| turned author for THE Lonely Romeo.
In which the Shuberts will present tn,
| comedian at Atlantic City on May 90
has many lines which Mr.. Fields worked
out with his own head. The book OF the
musical comedy. therefore. will be en-,
| tered in the Congressional Library as
the joint work OF Harry B. Smith and
Lew Fields. Mr.. Fields Is next ex.
pected to paint his own scenery. having
had much experience with grease paint
Though the news rings out that Lottit
Horner has been engaged for Bling
Bang, Boom" the Shuberts' latest must
cal production, II leaves us practically
where we were before.
Sydney Blackmer has been engaged
| for the leading masculine role in the spe
| cial company now being organized "a
tour in "S9 East" and Alison Sklpwurth
Of the original company at the Broad
| hurst Theatre, who has contracted &c
| furnish the boarding house scene with
hAr "a y
good appetite.
AdeIine Patti Harold to Sing.
The Winter Garden will have its reg.
| ular weekly dry goods night on June 7
when the Bliss-Fabyan Company. dry
goods commission merchants OF 81
| Thomas street. will entertain III EN-.
ployees discharged from service who
| will get back into the swing with Monte
| Cristo. Jr."
New York il now cherishins another
| Adeline Patti in her midst She is AIDE.
line Patti Harold 10 years old, daughter
| OF Orville Harold the tenor. who wa.
willing to be dragged from her home ir
Muncie. Ind. by a three years contrac
| with Arthur Hammerstein TO sing IL
Some Time" at the Casino Theatre las
| night The press agent says that he
father holding a glass Of water for hel
! In the wings. became so nervous h,
| drank the stun himself but is not likell
to repeat his mistake
BY arrangement between Charles Oil
| bingham and r. Ziegfeld. Jr, the ST,
| Brown Brothers will take their saxo
phones TO the Zegfed Midnight Froli,
on June .. when, according to their con
tract, they will see the last OF Fred
stones legs.
Violet Heming Of Three Faces East
yesterday came through with the kline
OF joke which, she says. I'VE English
can see before the morning after" Sait
| she
The other night as was going or
the stage Capt. Lambert. who PLAYS q
detective In Three Faces East said &c
me. Have you heard the fastest about
! St Peter? No? Wei. st. Pet,r went tc
the pearlly gates the other morning and
there stood a man waiting to get in.
"'"Well, we'll" said st. Peter, how
| did you get here" The man shivered
| and answered Flu"
The rest OF this three part Joke will
have TO he deferred until the morning
after, when the compositor has found
some more quotation marks