Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
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Limit. who. has created marked I'M
nreasion with George c. Tylers COM
nanv at the National Theater. is very
.xoune. His stage career has been
limited to but five years, and yet he
has so attracted the attention or
America's literary celebrity. Booth
harrington. that he went away from
the theater so impressed by Mr.. Lunt
unusual personality that he at once
set to work sketching out a play LOT
him. 1t is called Clarence, and VIII
he seen at the National Theater week
after next.
In Clarence" Mr.. Tyler will pre-
sent Mr.. Lunt as a star. beginning
early in the autumn in New YORK
Alfred Lunt began his professional
career at the lowest rung OF the lao-
der Five years ago he started as an
extra man in a stock company main
tanned by John Craig. al. the castle
Square Theater. Boston He did only
small bits. but his earnestness so I'M
pressed Mr.. Craig that in the course
the position of assistant stage man
ager Here Mr.. Lunt studied. under
a practical craftsman. the mechanics
of the theater and in the course OF
time he was promoted to do small
character bits. After another sea-
given leading Juvenile roles. Then
Mr.. Craig tried him out in couple
of straight leading roles. and so well
did he acquit himself that Margaret
Anglin engaged him as her leading
man in "Beverly's Balance" He re-
NAMED with Miss Anglin seven
months. playing at Berkeley. Calf. in
her Greek productions of "Iphegenia
in Aulis' and Electra" and in a play
called THE Divine Friend" He was
formance of AS You Like 1t" in st.
Louis
Mr. Lunt was then engaged by Lily
Langtry for her tour in vaudeville.
playing the Keith theaters in piece
called Ashes" At the end of that
playing Col. Smith in Green Stock
ings." After a season with George
Foster Plat. in Milwaukee. and with
Laura Hope Crews. in Romance and
Arabella," George G. Tyler engaged
him as leading man for Alexan dra
Carlisle in The Country Cousin
Mr.. Lunt. personally modest and
scholarly. is regarded by Mr.. Tyler
as the most promising of the young
actors of the American stage for star
dom.
John r. McIntyre-John T McIn-
tyre, author of "A Young Mans
Fancy" is best known as a writer of
popular fiction. He is the creator of
Ashton Kirke. detective. and the ad-
ventures OF this astute gentleman OF
fiction were chronicled in a series OF
stories which were subsequently en-
bodied in three volumes. Mr.. McIn-
tyre. in his early days. wrote a score
or more of melodramas when that par
ticular form of stage entertainment,
was more popular than it is today.
"A Young Mans Fancy" a decided
departure from his previous work, is
founded upon a short story by the au-
thor, which appeared a few years age
in a magazine. year ago he showed
an elaborate scenario of the proposed
comedy to Nj Tyler. who was SC
struck with the idea that he asked
him ito get busy on it," Three month.
later the completed work was in hi:
hands.
Mr.. Tyler believes II to be one OF
the most interesting plays he has evel
produced, and he has been particu
larry lavish in his arrangements fol
the mounting and casting of the fan
ciful comedy
Has Filmed the UnfamilIar-Pau
]. Rainey has filmed the lior
in his native lair. bufraloes across the
thick est Jungle underbrush, rhinoscer
and lions at their water hole and al
the birds and the beasts of the jungle
that Kipling has made famous. An,
he has woven the pictures in an in
teresting cinema called The Hear
of the Jungle"
AZ introductions to the pictures
scenes are included of the wild places
of the world Mr.. Rainey has visited il
the last year. They show the Czecho
slovaks crossing Siberia. the Forbid
den City of Picking, the President o
China. the reception to Presiden
Nssaryk in Prague. the bolshevis
prisoners. the last residence of tn,
ex-Czar of Russia. as well as scene
- :Ae far northern arctic and oths