The sun., 1919-09-26
GOLDEN RADIOS TO
KING ABOUT SHOW
Will Soon Announce When
Thunder Will Be Given
for Belgian Rulers.
THE BETTER OLE A wAIF
Ousted From the Booth, Has
No Theatre in Which to
Make Money.

John Golden, producer of Thunder, in
the Criterion Theatre and one of the
secial committee appointed by Mayor
Evlan to see that the King and Queen OF
selglum do not have to worry about en-
te~tainnent on their visit here, is In
radio communication with the royal
marty, and a bulletin from Wallace
Munro. Mr.. Golden's representative
among the Broadway college of heralds.
"a likely TO announce at any moment the
date when there will be big crowd at
the criterion-standing on the outside
and watching the King and Queen go in
ode.
Because Of another engagement in the
Booth Theatre 1.-The Better 'Ole" is
forced to relinquish Its grip on the good
business there and will have a cessation
Of warfare on October 9. However, the
Coburns bid the proletariat cheer up, for
they are looking for another theatre
with a trench system suitable to the
Bairnsfather comedy.
Marie Dressler, having led the chorus
r,rls TO victory in the theatrical strike,
Il going to lead herself to victory this
season in Titles Nightmare" produc-
ing and playing in IL and making her
own curtain speeches IL pushed that far.
She is rehearsing now and expects to
make her opening faces about the mid
die Of next month.
"AppIe blossoms" October Z.
Tuesday, October z, has been def
initely set by Charles Dillingham; as the
date for the opening in the Globe Thea
tire Of the operetta Apple Blossoms" by
Fritz Kreisler, Victor jacob and Will
lam Le Baron, and Mark Luescher Is
preparing a new set Of high speed gears
for the mimeograph.
The first community sewing room,
founded on the idea Of the colonial sew
ing circle which was one of the things
our forefathers fought to protect, has
been started in the Nora Bayes Theatre
by the twenty artists models of the
Greenwich Village Follies" as mission
AIRY work against the high cost of living
Facing the prospect of paying $500 each
for the latest Partisan gowns, but with
no $500 ready at hand, they have
banded together under Jane Carroll tc
make the gowns from memory OF wha,
they have seen as mannikins for mo-
dstes. and will sew up their thumbs and
fingers in the theatre dressing room In
the good old fashioned way. The dresses
will be completed in sets of five at q
time, for. of course, the girls must have
their Partisan gowns.
Thurston, the magician. who is able tc
make chickens materialize and vanish IL
his performance in the Globe Theatre
hasn't been able to make them cast 9
ar-hx al
pants of houses in West Forty-sixtf
street. mostly chorus girls, have com
planned to the Board of Health that thu
ROSTERS in the barnyard behind tn,
Globe insisted on being alarm clocks a
the CHASTITY hour of o'clock ever,
morning. So Thurston has taken out {
permit and lodged his hennery in thu
theatre cellar. being unable to make TIN
chickens, despite their theatrical per
forming, keep the Same hours as tn
show girls.
The Mcintyre and Heath company, Il
Hello. Alexander" left yesterday on
special train for Baltimore, where tn
first stand will be made on Monday.
sothern Engages Director.
Frank A. Howson has been engaged
by f. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe al
musical director to conduct the kind o
music that Shakespeare would hav
liked at the opening OF their season oil
October in the Shubert Theatre. Mr.
Howson has had previous experience
with Sothern and Marlowe arranging
Incidental music for Shakespeare's plots
Bertram and Sexton, who are rhyth
mic but careless with their feet; Haze
Crosby, Helen Lorraine and Sam Yves
ton are the latest ur't to cast in thei
lot with G. NJ. Anderson's "Frivolitie
of 1919"
F. Zlegfeld, Jr., announces the en-
gagement for the new Midnight Frolic
atop the New Amsterdam Theatre he
ginning Thursday next. of Ted Lewis an
his Jazz Band. thus insuring one laug
at least from the humorous trombone.
The Coburns have engaged Kathry
kidder aud Tyrone Power for principa
parts in Louis X. Anspachers play
AL the Kings Horses" which will ge
on its feet at rehearsals next week
Putting precedent ruthlessly asid,
Wilmer and Romberg. producers of tn
forthcoming musical comedy, 9TH