The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-08
THE RIcHNoNp v1RGIN1AN-sUNDAr FEBRUARys 1920

make an extended European trip next
season. Miss Handlers was wanted for
! the role in Aphrodite, where beauty OF
| form and face counts as much as
dramatic talent.
The French company which has
been at the Theatre Parisien for the
I past twenty weeks will terminate its
New York engagement next week anJ
after short visit TO Montreal rctu.n
TO Paris. Another company viii be
assembled during the summer. how
| ever. ana next year it will continue to
give French plays.
! Paul Gordon, whose absence from
| the native stage while he served over
seas has been commented on by
theatrical journals, has made bril-
! liant return in The Man who Came
Back" a role in which. he displays
! his unusual ability as a romantic ac-
tor and a character player. Mr.. Cor
don has acted on Broadway in Eng
fish, French and German.
Georges Plateau, whose work on
the American stage since he began TO
use English instead of the French
language, has been singularly brill
liant, acted Sherlock Holmes" in
Paris for years. He is young actor
of the romantic type but, like most
welltrained French players highly
adaptable to a variety of roles. Late
iF-h he has acted the featured IN
The Great Illusion"
Whitford Kane, the Irish actor.
whose work in America has won for
him artistic praise which would be
envia BILE at any time, will stage Dark
Rosaleen" in Dublin late this season.
This play. of which Mr.. Kane is a
part author. was staged with great
asucccss by David Belasco in New
York last year, but Mr. Kane, being
a favorite Irish actor in Ireland as
well as England and America, retained
the foreign rights himself.
I.nbovska, the dancer is to make q
trip abroad which will be the first
leg of her Journey around the world
The first leg Is appropriate for n
dance. She is the creator of all her
dances, including the Egyptian Dance
of Morning which she has danced
more than 500 times in New York
city alone. If she could stretch a leg
from the first Ia the last step OF this
series Of dances. she would span the
continent
Langdon Mccormick, the inventor
OF those sensational stage effects used
in his own play, The storm was
ut one time an employee of the largest
electrical manufacturing company In
the United States It was here that
he learned II harness electricity and
make II create illusions more realistic
than the natural scenes themselves
His storm scene and forest fire scene
in The Storm are the most sensa
tional ever seen in New York
Lacinto Benavente. the Spanish au
thor, in whose The Passion Flower"
Nance O'Neil Is now acting in New
York, is q theater manager ii Madrid
and also conducts a children's theater
whic hhe founded after studying d
like enterprise conducted In New
York by the educational alliance.
Benavente has never been in America
but he sent a most hattering cable OF
congratulations to Miss OMEN because
Of her great success in his play.
Madame Marguerite sylvia. the
opera singer was first to expose the
open claque' while a member of the
Chicago Opera company. This
elaque demands money from the ar
fist for furnishing applause, and II
they refuse they seek to embarraSs
his appearance, They threa tened
sylvia likewise. but the singer, being