The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-01

l about climatic upheavals. but after acting in +'The Storm nearly a year he went out in one and was taken ill.
 Harold de Becker has been en- gagged to support Tyrone Power in a revival of "The Servant in the House, which is to be done for limited Len ten season. MT. de Becker has al ready won signal success in this drama
 "The Passion Flower" in which Nance O'Ne1 has scored one of her most pronounced successes, is to be placed on the film when the New York engagement is concluded. This will be some time next year.
 Langdon Mccormack, who wrote | ''The Storm" and a hundred other successful plays, has had bought for him by his general manager a coun- try home at Mountain Lakes in New l laboratory from which he expects to invent further stage sensations. The names of Marguerite Sylva,
 Alice Nielsen and Anna Fitzhu are mentioned as guest prina donnas for the American Grand Opera Company which is to be formed for next sea- son. It will present only noted. Amer ican works with American artists. Harry Ashford, whose skilfuI acting 1 is a, feature of Scandal now being acted in New York, will appear in a series of matinee performances of notable plays during his present en- gagement. He will appear first with Alexandra Carlisle in a revival of John Masefield's Man.
 The Theatre Parisien presented i for the first time in this country Miss Flirt'' by Robert Casadesus, who is 1 the art director of that company and 1 one of the cIeverest comedians this country has ever seen. The company closed a twenty weeks engagement 1 last week to appear for a limited sea- son in Montreal.
 i Whitford Kane is going to Ireland ! to produce Dark Rosaleen," a play which he wrote in collaboration. Be | fore this well known Irish actor came l to the United States to win high sue cess, he was with the Ulster Players in Ireland, and a leader in the Irish renaissance, especially in the drama Now he is a leading huntsman in 1 Tiger, Tiger"
 Lubovska, one of the greatest dancers we have in this country, is going to shake her foot in Paris short | ly. She is going all around the world after that. She appeared in her own recital last week in New York and won the highest praise for her origi- nal creations and remarkable eXecu-
 ton in a dance program which was as Versatile as a department store. l Paul Gordon, whom critics in New York picked as the most promising Heading man of that season, has won
 a substantial artistic success in the
 leading role of ''The Man Who Came
 Back" Figuratively speaking MT.
 Gordon is well qualified to play this,
 as he has just come back after an
 absence of three years in France. Ethel Newcomb, who generally
 finds her time well occupied in fond ling the worries on a Steinway piano in concerts, has written a book on Theodore Leschitezky, the great piano teacher of Vienna, who died recently.
 Advance copies indicate that it will be one of the most interesting musi-
 
 brought out in the fall.
 Marguerite, Sylva, the most famous 1"Carmen'' now singing, appeared in
 this part for the Washington Opera Company last wAo'- in the National
 "apitol. One of the critics declared
 that a woman wrote in and said thar
 she did not know whether the opera
 was Carmen" or ''Sylva" but she
 knew one was a great singer and the tother a great opera.
 Valentine Jory, whom New York Iers knew as Ethel Valentine before
 the war, has a new name now tha istil taxes the electric signs for space lThis unusually talented actress wa: ione of the promising candidates fol
 stellar honors which were forsake1 for the time being when civilization called her and many other noted ! actresses and women in general to tn
 colors.
 Veronine VeStoff, a noted Russian dancer, who appeared once in Nev l York with Pavlowa,- is to have hi ? second appearance at Carnegie Hal next month with the Vestom-Serov r Dancers. An elaborate production o s Glinka's "A Life for the Emperor l will be given, and Sonia Serova, On - of the most graceful of classic danc n CTS, is a special artistic addition t l tthe group.
 d Warda Howard, the brilliant Amer '' ican dramatic actress who is tn q Heading woman with the America h company presenting New York play
 in China, cables that the reception | n the company at Shanghai, the mos e important city in China, was UT $ usually cordial They will present J wide repertoire here for more tha g three months Then they visit Indi
 and Japan.
 =, Ruano Bogislav will give her celt q brated Gypsy songs in London. Tn e remarkable artiste. whose recitals
 New York have evoked unusual con
 ment and favor, is the most brillial singer of these exotic songs New Y or
 has yet heard. She has appeared ser 4 eral times in her own recitals and. U each appearance evokes paens of ac
 miration for a repertoire exclusive