New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

Francine Larrimore is laying her
vacation plans. Oh, no, she is not
planning to go to White Sulphur
Springs or any. other springs for that
matter. Scandal" instead of closing
for the summer, goes to the Shubert
Theater from the Thirty ninth Street
tomorrow evening and seems destined
to run into next fall. So the spoiled,
vivacious Beatrix Vanderdyke of the
play is going to stay in town, except
when she motors out to motion
picture studio to act before the camera.
Her idea of a vacation, it seems, is
more work.
Francine has little sympathy for
people who are always clamoring that
they work too hard and are in need
of vacations. People spend too much
time in vacation, she thinks.
II have a success now and l am
going to hold it as long as 1 am able
TO-" said she of the auburn locks.
"When l get older in the theater
may not be so fortunate, one never
knows, and l may have difficulty in
securing anything so suitable and so
profitable"
If you see an aeroplane winging its
way from the Shubert Theater to an
apartment house up on Riverside
Drive some evening this summer, you
may be sure that it is Francine Lar
rimore's plane and that she is pilot
ing party of friends to her summer
home, "The Hang Out" atop of the
apartment house. For she is to estab-
lish one theer. Sunshades, wicker
boxes and all manner of things which
tr,St1
being installed.
"And we will serve the things that
you cannot get in restaurants" Of
fered Francine. "God will be the only
one to see US and He will not object" !"
"Are you sure of that?"
Didn't He make them? Didn't He
make the rye, the grapes and the other
things? Why should He object, then 2"
1t is rumored along Broadway that
the list of applications to visit The
Hang Out" far exceeds the l.mber
tertain, and summer has only just put
it's spiked shoes into the cinder track
of time.
From summering in New York and
vacations Miss Larrimore turned to
stage publicity.
! Every girl on the stage has some
thing true and interesting about her.
If she hasn't she shouldn't be on the
stage but behind counter in a de-
partment store instead. That is why
cannot see the reason for inventing
things that are not true simply for the
sake of publicity. 1t is foolish to go
when all the material needed is close
at hand"
List, ye press agents, list to the
words of the wise woman
And now about Cosmo Hamilton's
Scandal" which afforded Miss Larri-
more the opportunity to become a star.
Although she had become we'll known
IN other plays, Scandal" was the first
whlch gave her prominent position
along Broadway. This play was first
presented at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theater last September and it was nre.
dlcted that it would not remain on
Broadway until the spring of 1920.
Now Scandal has passed its three
hundredth performance and will cele-
brate its forty-frst week on Broadway
by moving to the larger Shubert The
ater
The producer has had the pleasure of
organizing three special road compa-
mes that are even now competing for
sell-out honors in as many different
sections of the country England also
- A~''AAAiesA Win Vie udTluE EXPLOITS
of Beatrix Vanderdyke, the vivacious
young heroine. In fact, Scandal" was
produced in London several months
before the play had, it's American
premiere at the Studebaker T'heater.
Chicago. At the present time one of
the former company managers is in
Melbourne, Australia, arranging for the
presentation of this comedy on the
continent island. The Partisan rights
have been disposed of, and arrange
ments are being made to have it
translated into Spanish and Portuguese
for presentation in few of the South
American capitals.
Aside from the success that it has
established for itself as a play, Scan
dal' is also responsible for other ac-
compishments. For instance, it has
given Charles Cherry, often referred
to as "America's most popular stage
idol" the best opportunity so far to
demonstrate his fascinating stage per-
sonality. AS for its author Scandal"
IS powerless to either add or detract
from his reputation. Mr.. Hamilton is
too we'll known as a writer of sue
cesses, whether of the movie" novel
or play varieties, to suffer on account
OF the failure of q single play. As the