The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
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LIONEL BARRYMORE
= TO GET NEW PLAY
John d. Williams Will Produce
French Drama and Name 1t
"The Letter of the Law"
"BUDDIES" COMING HERE
"A. III. Woods Secures Three
i More Observation-Disclosures
Form Dialect Alliance.
"BUDDIES" COMING HERE

English language under the name of
sThe Letter of the Law Mr.. Williams
has bought the American rights to the
French dramatists play from Henry
Neagle, who first got 1t by the Custom
House here. The tentative date for the
eepening has been set for the beginning
LOT the new year, but with THE Jest" stil
drawing the public at the Plymouth
Theatre. it is quite possible Mr.. Barry
more will stay with this production un-
til he is at liberty to tear off his false
,,whiskers
Mr.. Williams had under CONSIDERATION
an even more ambitious project for in
.jecting the Barrymore spirit into the
French drama-nothing less than a re-
vival of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac,"
with Lionel Barrymore fitting his face to
1.-The part of the extremely nasal hero.
However Mr.. Williams found there was
considerable haziness over the English
rights and that If he produced it an
other manager would put II on across
the street, making 1t anybody's race. So
CyTGno won't have his nose powdered
after all. new unna med piece by
Booth Harrington, which Mr.. Williams
also was aiming at Mr. Barrymore, will
Remain undischarged for some time
oc Buddies Coming October ~.
THE Selwyns have now come out fiat
footedly in favor of presenting Bud
dies at the Sewyn Theatre, October 81.
after much feverish uncertainty about
the opening date and the despatch Of
special couriers to the newspapers with
orders and counter orders. Donald Brian.
Peggy Wood and Roland Young will be
packed and shipped from Boston, and
Eugene Walters drama. THE Chai-
lenge" will on the same day be whirled
to the Hub to fill the break in the Selwyn
line left there by the Hobart-Hilliam
musical comedy.
with the ending of the war no longer
a matter of doubt, the exchange profess
sorships in vaudeville that existed in the
good old days before the war are being
renewed On Monday next Wilkie Bard.
English music hall headliner, will break
ground for his American tour at the
Palace with three comedy tabloids, ana
Ted Lewis, specialist in psychoneuras-
thenic harmony, Is considering an offer
TO go to Paris and help settle Europe s
unrest with little jazz.
The play that Edward Locke, author
of. The Dancer at the Harris Theatre.
Is writing around music by Victor Her
bert has been named 1.-THE CALL and in
Chicago Ii will soon answer to its name.
: The Players, the new theatrical organi-
zation to put 1t on, have decided they
won't refuse to answer curtain calls.
"JungIe Beauties" I'm n Fire.
@Eve and the Man." by Frederick
Bruegger, will be put on duty in Wash
ington by Walter Hast on Monday.
Helen Holmes Betty Murray s. Miller
Kent, Edith King, Ramsey Wallace ami
Claude Beerbohm will witness the OPEN
ing from prominent positions on the
stagn.
A beyy--a covey-that Is, a bunch OF
Jungle beauties'' appearing in ballet
ia connection with the showing OF "A
Scream in the Might" at b. S. Moss
- Broadway Theatre yesterday noon
donned their leopard skin fur boas and
nothing else--in the epic words of the
press agent-and went automobiling up
Broadway, as wild women frequently do.
At Broadway and Forty-second street,
not far from the cinema house, the car
caught fire from leak and the girls had
to get ont in the drizze and stand
around warming themselves at the burn
ing machine. crowd also gathered
around and giowed, and 1t was ten min
utes before the flames were distinguished
and traffic could move on again-in
short, long enough for the official pho
tographer to take pictures of the mess
Lord Dunsany, who Is in this country
looking for quaint and colorful aspects
Of life for his future stories, sought some
at the "Ziegfed Follies' and Midnight
Frollc" at the New Amsterdam Theatre
last night
Renee Adoree, French artist, is much
obliged to the Winter Garden manage
ment for placing her under contract tc
appear in the next show there.
Charles Dalton has been engaged for
one Of the principal foils to the scenery
In the Coburns, production OF "All the
Kings Horses" This drama by Louis
k Anspacher will open the public's eyes
in Baltimore. october 81. after which
it will cause new day to dawn here,
November II.
James Watts will give an inipersona-
ton of Caruso In "Pagliacci" on Sun
day night at the benefit in the Nora
Bayes Theatre for the Bide-A-Wee
Home for Animals, in return for the
tenors recent service to art when he
attended the Greenwich Village Fol-
lies" and did caricature of Watts rag
ing through Mdrguerite's jewel song In
"Baust"2
Woods Has Big Plans.
. The Jewish Art Theatre announces
that the opening of Gerhart Haupt-
1nann's Lonely Lives" will take place
to-morrow evening, as there is posi-
lively no chance that the director
Emanuel Helcher, Will go on Strlke.
A one act sketch, when II Strikes
Home" by Milton Hocky and Howard
~. Green, has been accepted by the
Lewis and Gordon Producing Company
which will soon push 1t over the plate
~ In vaudeville.
The A. II. Woods publicity clearing
house divulges that the members OF the
Woods companies now on Broadway
comprising His Honor Abe Potash" al
the Rijou Theatre; '"Too Many Hus-
bands" at the Booth "A Voice in the
Dark" at the Republic, and THE Girl
n in the Limousine" at the Eltlnge. have
organized the A. H. Woods Alliance OF
English Dialects. Barney Bernard will
represent English as 1t Is spoken on
Delaney street Kenneth Douglas. Eng
iish In Piccadilly; William b. Mack
English In Spokane, and John Cumber'
land, English on the bedstead.
Mr.. Woods. In addition to 1.-THE
Winged God" has risSed his health by
buying from Crane Wilbur. former mo-
ton picture star, two other plays. called
IAN Eye for an Eye"-which is liable
to be changed to "a Tooth for Tooth
and Arabian Nightles," which even
Mr. Woods doesn't think he can i'm
prove by retitling. Mr.. Woods also has
an option on fourth play. as yet merely
fermenting In the germ stage.
Col. House Has Good Day.