New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-10
The Stage Door

Jeffreys Lewis, who played the role
of Stephanie. Marquise De Mohrivart,
in Forget -Me-Not" for several seasons
during the early eighties, will be the
guest Of George C. Tyler tonight at
the Greenwich Village Theater when
Zoe Akins's revised version of this old
play, entitled "Foot-Loose," will be
presented with Emily Stevens, Norman
Trevor and 0. P. Heggie in the cast.
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
begin the last two weeks of their sea-
son at the Shubert Theater tonight
with "The Tanning of the Shrew"
"The Passion Flower" at the Belmont
Iheater closes its season next Satur-
day evening. On next Monday the play
will be presented in Montreal, the first
stop on the transcontnental tour.
ellis Chinese Wife," by Forrest Hal
sey and Clara Beranger, will be pro-
duced on May II at the Belmont Thea
ter with Forrest Winant and Madeline
Delmar in the leading roles.
"An Innocent Idea" the new Martin
Brown farce in which Robert Emmett
Keane will be featured, and which will
have Claire Whitney, the screen star,
in the cast, will open its New York en-
gagement at the Fulton Theater Mon
day, May "a. Also in the cast are Rus
sell Fillmore, Miriam Doyle, Helen
Barnes, Florence Gerald, Elizabeth
Alexander, Renee Johnson, Harold
Howard, Lorel Lake, Arthur Villars
and Teddy Hart.
High and Dry" by Augustin Mac
Hugh and Douglas Leavitt, with music
by the late Manuel Klein, will be pre-
scented at the Apollo Theater, Atlantic
City, under the direction of William
Moore Patch. After engagements in
Baltimore and Cleveland, the play will
go to Chicago for the summer. Frank
lyn Ardell, Juanita Fletcher, Mason
Ernest Wood. Lefty Yorke, Florence
Earle, Burr Carruth and Dorothy Har-
rigan are in the company.
Theatrical managers in Boston, Chi
cago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and other
cities are forming sub committees to
cooperate with the central committee,
headed by Rennold Wolf, here in New
York in arranging the testimonial con-
cert at the Globe for William Raymond
Sill, Sunday night, May %. On Satur-
day the Producing Managers Associa-
ton called special meeting at which
y
and high respect for "Bill' Sill. and
empowered the treasurer to purchase
box for $500 for the Globe Theater
concert and return it to the commit
tee to be resold.
Charles Dillingham; is offering cash
prizes aggregating 500 for four lin
ericks. to be added to those now sung
in "The Girl from Home" at the Globe.
Walter Hast has sold the English,
French and Australian rights of Mar
Unique" Laurence Eyre's romance of
the French West Indies, now playing at
the Eltinge Theater.
Dorothee Nolan. last seen with Ethel
Barrymore in "Camille,' will be seen
with the East West Players at the
Jewish Art Theater on May u and %
The opening of George Whites
scandals of 1920" announced for May
16 in Washington, has been postponed
until week later. The following week
the scandals" will be in Atlantic City
at the Apollo Theater, and then will
come to New York for summer run.
The principal members of the cast are
Ann Pennington, La Sylphe, Ethel Del
mar, Lou Holtz, Lester Allen, George
Bickel, Lloyd Garrett, Jack Rose, Jane 8
Miller and Mr.. White himself
A special program, consisting Of four
teen vaudeville acts, two wrestling
matches and several other interesting
features, will be given to-day and to-
morrow at the Starlight Amusement
Park, East 177th Street and the Bronx
River for the officers and men of the
North Atlantic fleet.