The sun., 1919-05-29
'FOLLIES' HAVE 18TH
PREMIERE JUNE IS
"The Velvet Lady,. to .Yacate
New Amsterdam Theatre
Saturday Night.
DEBUT BY MILE. CAUBET
Run Of Shakespearian Plays
Planned-Movie Changes
Under Way. 49,.

Regardless of whether the peace treaty.
Is signed by then, Florenz zlegfeld. Jr.
| announces that the premiere of the thir-
teenth splurse of the "Follies" will take
place Monday. June 16, at the New Am
sterdam Theatre, and New Workers. are
expected to arrange the time for their
vacations accordingly. "The Velvet
Lady" will drop all homework at that
theatre on Saturday night. and until the
opening of the "Follies" the empty house
according to the press announcements.
VIII be used for rehearsals of Joseph
Urbans scenery.
Mile. Suzanne Caubet, n goddaughter
ana protegee OF Sarah Bernhardt, will
make her debut in the Century Midnight
Whirl tonight and renew part of this
country's debt to the land OF Lafayette
AS this season is proving exceptionally
prontable for every one in the theatre IL
was inevitable that there should be a
| stampede to Shakespeare Besides Wal
yer Hampdens' current production of
| Hamlet and the return OF Il. II. Soth-
ern and Julia Marlowe in Shakespea rean
repertoire. Romeo and Juliet" will be
entombed here early In the fall. with
Gareth Hughes. the young Welsh actor.
VINO Is now muffied up in the films, do
| ing rare bit OF acting as Romeo. A
| MEMBER or the younger set will raise her
voice as Juliet, and Iden Payne has been
| invited TO make himself heard in staging
| the play.
Frederick Kaufman. stage manager
| ior Mr. SotheSn and Miss Marlowe dur
| ing sixteen years, has been reengaged by
| them to assist Mr.. Sothern in setting in
motion Hamlet" The Tanning of the
| Shrew" and Twelfth. Night" with
| winch Mr.. Sothern and Miss Marlowe
will make Shakespeare famous again
next season. All the Sothern- Ma riowe
| prompt books have been lost, and Mr..
Kaufman Is now preparing n new, linn
Yea eoition from memory, assisted by
the Bard OF Avon.
| Shift in Film Pictures.
After 1--WE weeks of THE Unpardona-
| Ole SIN at the Broadway Theatre tho
picture version Of Rupert Hughes's novel
VIII relax its grip on the theatre this
saturday and Henry Il. Warner. sue
ceeoing IL on Sunday in a picture called
me man Who Turned White" will
| nave the whole Sahara Desert on which
to spread his emotions,
| Inc only NO. company ever orRa-
| hlIen TO play single one night stand
ana then vanish from the face Of thu
earth was hitched together by Charles
| DlIiingham when he sent a second set
OF principals and chorus from shes a
Good Fellow" at the Globe Theatre. al.
rect to Camp Upton to keep the l3 900
soiuiers or the Eighty-ninth Division
| from Ianguishing before going West TO
take on the army shoes and demobilize
| Jerome Kern, composer of the score con-
uucted the improvised musical comedy /.
TWO or the Amaranth Sisters DUPLICATED
the Duncan Sisters squeak; Arthur
| Geary, with a nautical roll gained from
warbling in "Pinafore." at the Hippo
| drome, was able TO carol Scott Welsh s
GOD SOLOS; Ann OT's singing was trans
| posed TO Alice NJ Poole. and William
| Wolf and Helen Patterson upheld the
| morale of Brig Gen Frank l.. WINS
unit by acting as ringers for Joseph
Santley and Ivy Sawyer.
| Edwin +. kohn. leaning for support
on the Scibilia Theatrical Enterprises.
producers Of Love Laughs" at the BIZ
jou Theatre, has taken unto himself
another play by George d. Parker, and
the blue prints have already been started
for its production. 1t is said that the
| new comedy Is American, at the same
time that it Is announced some of the
scenes are laid in Bar 1Iarbor.
gig Tag FoIIies" Appear.
Oliver d. Bailey, unafraid to trust
the Fulton Theatre stage to the chorus
hooters of soldier show before It has
been recarpentered, has agreed to bill
let members of the Seventy-elghth
| (Lightning) Division there during re-
hearsals for their production, Zig Tag
Follies'-the only show which f. Zieg-
field, Jr.. will allow to use the word
! 'Follies" without lawsuit Lieut.
! Frank r Curtis is scoutmaster for the
| sixty NJ. P.s, which in this case means
musical police.
The following productions will COM
memorate the civil war on Memorial day
with special matinees: Dark Rosa
leen," "Daddies' and Forever After"
! in which Alice Brady will celebrate also
her 325th birthday in the chief role.
| Another special performance on that
holiday will be given by Clifton Webb
of Listen, Lester" at the KnicNer-
booker Theatre, when he throws open 20
his mother the house at Great Neck
which he will present TO her in lieu OF
n birthday cake,
Negotiations have been COMPLETED
without RECOURSE to verbal offers be-
tween the Coburns and Winthrop Ames,
whereby THE Better ole" will leave
the Cort Theatre and on Monday. June
10. dig itself in at the Booth. The
CobuIns as a gift threw in the current
cast OF players for the run.
| Another chorus girl-Trixie Summers
of Tumble In at the Selwyn Theatre
has lost some Jewelry, in the shape
of a platinum neckpiece. but the actress
in this case knows II was lost by en-
trusting it to the care of man who
represented himself as a wealthy South
American, who was crowded for room
by acres OF diamonds on his Chilean
estate Both friend and neckpiece are
gone, but Miss TriXie still has her heart
BOSTON TO HAVE HORSE SHOW.
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