The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-05
RACHEL CROTHERS
HERSELF WILL ACT
Playwright to Try Out His
trionic Powers I'm she
and She"
EXODUS TO EUROPE ON
Managers OFF to Get New
Plays and Try to Ex-
change Old Ones.

Tho life ambition of most good Amer
| leans IL to see Paris before they die,
but Rachel Crotherss real aim ia to get
He and She produced In New York.
| This play. the most wayward of all her
dramas, has had several tryouts beyond
the pale Of the Observation-Disclosures every
year of late has been a He and She"
year-but somehow II has always been
| swamped while trying TO cross the Jer-
| sey meadows to Manhattan. Now Mise
Crothers. apparently feeling that The
| actresses Of note who appeared in It in
the past failed to do II Justice, has
started rehearsals of the comedy once
more under the name Of Armand Is
playing tho chief role herself.
Others who played this part during
the regular tryout REVEALS Of the play
we're Grace Ellison, Viola Allen and Eff
| ne Shannon, the last to appear for Miss
CrotherSs favorite brainchild when CO.
hand and Harris were its godparents q
couple OF years ago. The play deals with
| the rivalry between two artists-who
happen to be husband and wife-and the
| moral which this woman playwright Is
understood to point Is that woman's
place is somewhere near the iceboL
Evidently having tired of writing plays
unfinchingly Miss Crothers has decided
II
the footlishts. and the Shuberts are re-
ported to be on her side.
The Paul M. Potter farce Pretty Soft
closed at the Morosco Theatre last
night, while Sheriff Knott and his stan
| were giving q party at Good Morning
Judge" in the Shubert Theatre. though
the two events had really nothing IN
| common.
| on to Europe for Plays.
The summer theatrical wash to Eu-
rope was Joined yesterday by Frank
| Conroy. director Of the Greenwich VII
| lage Theatre. who Is being rushed TO
| London for the purpose of obtaining new
plays for his stately pleasure dome next
season. He has been invited by a num-
Der of English theatrical organizations
to exchange plays and cigars with them.
| Then he will go to Paris, where his
way will be blocked by the directors Of
the Moscow Art Theatre, who will but
tonhole him for ideas. After seeking
refuge In Florence he will end the Con-
roy travelogue with a brief address to
the New York customs inspectors in Au-
| gust
+. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest
have sent out a scorching denial Of re-
cent reports that for paltry silver they
| had let "Chu Chin Chow" Experience"
and THE wanderer' be dragged off to
the screen On the contrary, they de-
clare that these productions are still
pure and undefiled in their original state
and that the second incarnation or "Chu
Chin Chow will ebb back into the Gen.
fury Theatre In August.
| Josie Heather, Katherine Hart and
Frank Kingdom are the latest quotations
for the cast of bling, Bang, Boom" the
new Shubert musical novelty. which will
i la % twtA o.
breezes in two weeks
Allyn King. the Six Brown Brothers
Savoy and Brennan and Bilboa, the &c
centric dancer. will Join the Ziegfelt
headquarters staff on Monday night ir
the 80 O'clock Revue" and the Mid
might Frolic' atop the New Amsterdam
Theatre, where even the stage doormai
has heard OF them before.
Adelaide and Hughes, now putting
their best foot forward in Monte Cristo
Jr.." at the Winter Garden, celebrated
at their home in Bensonhurst-sur-M er
L. l.. yesterday. their tenth season al
dancing partners and their seventh sea
son Of marriage.
Miss Brice Entertains Nurses.
Elizabeth Brice. starring in '.root
| Sweet" recently was hostess at the Nora
Bayes Theatre to thirty army nurses
who not only saw service at the front
but actually saw Miss Brice doing can
teen work at a Paris hospital and still
wanted to watch her perform.
The graduating class OF the Pulltzel
School of Journalism. at Columbia Uni
versity. fortified by having received theil
diplomas yesterday. will attend Low,
Laughs" at the BiJou Theatre tonight II
full strength. The Scibilia Theatrica
Enterprises. who will have them al
. guests. will precipitate them immediatel,
into Journalism with prizes of s25, 81
! and $40 for reviews showing what the,
| can do to the play.
while You Wait" Keller and Bost
: wick's production OF the musical coined,
by Adelaide French and Lewis Aller
Browne. has already bearded New HaveI
in the Shubert Theatre, and now New
York waits breathless.
Cards bearing an invitation TO a "hop
on party to be held yesterday after
noon on the roof OF the Globe Theatr,
apprised members OF the She's a GooC
Fellow company, including Paulin,
Hall. that Pauline Hall was engaged I,
Lieut. Alfred Rollo OF the Cameron High
landers. Miss Hall, who had been keep
, ing her betrothal secret, was said b,
Mark Lueschsr to be much surprised b.
the news that she was engaged.
Mile. Dazzle, the dancer, Is willing I,
answer questions about the offer she ha4
| received TO appear at the London Hippo
drome in the fall revue.
, Tumble In at the Selwyn Theatre
the populace are informed. not only hal
opened its side doors freely to tn
breeZes but the management has place.
geranium beds and vines outside them
! so that as soon as the spectator can taxi
, his eyes of the chorus he can gaze OIL
the grandeur of nature in the alleys.
The Coburns have accepted from
Louis N. Anspacher "All the King
: Horses" to be matched against San
Shipman's Ozark Horses" in October
| DR.. AnspacheTs play. which Is reporte,
to deal with a subject of a very vital
: though very vague-nature. will be car
, ried along by an all stare cast. A
the same time tho Coburns will sen,
, The Better ole" packing for the large
J cities. with De Wolf Hopper givinl
tongue to Old Bill.
I Agricultural Dill Passes House.