The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-03
STAGE PLAYS ALSO
HAVE MOVING DAYS
"The Little Whopper" Will
Go to Casino, Supplanting
ga Lonely Romeo"
HAS MALE vAMP RECORD
S0thern Has Device Whereby
He Will Give Shakespeare
In Three Hours.

AS their contribution to the stories
nounce that on Monday, October 10, they
will haul THE Little whopper'' into the
Casino Theatre. This musical comedy
Is. of course. triple plated. having had
the book laid on by Otto Harbach, the
music by Rudolph Friml, and the lyrics
by Bide-a-Wee Dudley. vivienne Segal,
Sydney Grant. Harry Browne and Mil
dred Richardson are among the elect as
regards the cast Lew Fields. in "A
Lonely Romeo" will meander out of the
Casino on Saturday, October II, and
philander up to Boston.
Other breaks in the monotony OF
broadway engineered by the Shuberts
will be the crowding of THE Five Mil
ion" into the Comedy Theatre on Octo-
Der 10. with a new leading woman in
Ann Hamilton, who was discovered by
r. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest in a
Providence stock company when they
sent Robert Milton, their stage director,
beating about the bush in the provinces
to scare up new talent. up From Mo-
where" now in the Comedy. will go
up on tour.
'The Five Million" will have its place
in We Lyric Theatre kept warm by
Nothing But Love" This musical
comedy, which will take fight on CO.
iumbus Day matinee, has Frank SIAM
mers behind its book and lyrics, while
Harold Orlob wrote the music and the
trap drummer's score. Andrew Tombes,
Ruby Horton, Clarence Norstrom and
Florence Enright are the chief names
In the cast to bear in mind.
Arthur Hopkins has put into rehearsal
new play by Augustus Thomas, en-
titled, "KentucA," in which Mr.. Thomas
has gone back to his practice of nam
ing his plays after States, just like
American battleships., Wilton Lackaye
is to be the star and Mr.. Thomas Is
staging everything but Mr.. Lackaye's
curtain speech. The scenes have been
designed by Rollo Peters after nature.
MI Lackaye will open out of town in
three weeks and shortly afterward
prins an atmosphere of mint juleps to
New York.
shakespeare I'm Three Hours.
BY means of special machinery de-
vised by themselves for scene shifting
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe will
reduce the usual time for performing
Twelfth Night" Hamlet" and The
Tanning Of the Shrew" in the Shubert
Theatre from the usual four to three
HSuiS pul Will not otnerWlSe try for
speed records this season. 1t is under
stood they have not taken out union
aids as master stage carpenters for
their inventiveness. being content to re-
main Shakespearean stars.
g NJ Anderson wishes It understood
by any one careless enough to inquire
that he hired Lester Allen for his forth
coming "F'rivolities of 1919" in good
faith and had no idea the comedian was
tied by contract to George Whites
Scandals of 1919" so help him Su-
preme Court. This announcement was
elected by the fact that Mr.. White went
before Justice McAvoy and asked for
an injunction restraining Allen from
straying into the "Frivollties" BUSH
ness of washing his hands of the affair
by Mr.. Anderson, who says he may
have busted bronchos but never con-
tracts.
Costumes for the production of Fair
Helen" the musical play by Austin
Strong and Charles Hanson Towne, are
having their working drawings made by
Charles B. Falls. the painter, who made
the designs for the Greenwich Village
Follies"--all hand painted too
Adolph Klauber. producer of "Nightie
Night" in the Princess Theatre. began