The Washington herald., 1920-06-20
n Series Of Brilliant Phoopay Offerings Supplement Dramatic Program
Irene O'Dare, the. Third

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II. after the briefest Of brief stage
careers. you were asked to take the
title role In q leading musical COM
edy. q role which had been SUCCESS
fully played by two excellent ac-
tresses and that after only two
weeks of preparation in the chorus,
you'd be just a tribe excited. would
you not?
That's what has happened to dark
eyed and vivacious Patti Harold
Adelina Patti Harold Is her full
she's the new Irene in
James Montgomery's musical COM
edy. Irene" at the Vanderbilt The
ater. New York.
The shopgirI heroine was nrst
played by Edith Day. who is now
acting in the same role in London.
Adele Rowland followed Miss Day.
and now Miss Harold. or rather
Patti. has replaced Miss Rowland.
Call her Miss Harold and you
risk being cut absolutely. Call her
Adelina and she replies reluctantly.
Sounds too much like an old
maid" she laughed.
But she rejoices in the name OF
Patti, and that is how she wants to
bs known.
A Hoosier Irene is Patti, with a
Hoosier tang In her conversation
when she forgets herself.
From Muncie, Ind. where she was
born, Patti came East for her
schooling and for her singing les
sons. Up to the time of her en-
gagement in Irene" she appeared
only in Sometime" and with the
Society of American Singers at the
Park Theater. In the latter organ
ization she was a member of the
chorus and also understudied some
of the female roles. When Miss
Rowland's voice began to give way
and II became apparent that she
would need a rest, Patti joined the
chorus to study the leading role
from behind the footlights. Now
she is the Irene and Papa Orville
Harold, the grand opera tenor. is
proud.
Arthur Kane has added some
more productions to his list Of plays
and players. His latest marketing
has brought him Mr.. and Mrs. Car
ter De Haven. They will make a
series Of dom site comedies for him,
which he in turn will distribute for
them. He now has affiliated with
him Charles Ray. Bessie Love and
Rupert Julian. and is said to have
several more interesting irons in
the FIRE.
Romance" did a good deed for
Betty Ross Clark. Although she
had minor role and was not on
the screen in many scenes. her
work stood out so clearly Famous
Players-Lasky at once annexed her
to a contract to appear in the
leading feminine role for Roscoe
Arbuckle in his next picture, The
Travelling Salesman" which starts
at the Lasky studio this week. Jo-
seph Henabery is the director, and
Walter Woods is being held respon-
sible for the scenario.
A telegram dated La Junta. Col,
says Owen Moore was in a wreck
recently on a train coming East.
With him was his entire company,
travelling eastward to make some
scenes for Stop That Man" his
next Selznick production. Mr..
Moore wired to say he was not hurt
and all of the members of his COM
pany were equally fortunate. This
will be good news to the friends of
the young man. who will be glad
to hear the motion picture troupe
was none the worse for its ad-
venture.
F. Ziegfeld. jr., is certain now
that Art. Hickman's California or
chestra can quicken marble
statue into life 50 that II will
dance off a pedestal. He has re-
ceived the following letter from a
disabled soldier who visited the
Ziegfeld Roof:
Dear Mr.. Ziegfeld: l did not
come to your roof to dance. ! left
the prime essentials of a good
dancer in the Argonne forests and
the substitutes are of sturdy oak.
But after hearing Art. Hickman's s
band / couldn't resist the tempta-
ton and a sympathetic young lady
whom l escorted was game-so we
made the attempt. And we danced
fox trotted. one-stepped. dipped
and whirled and ! don't believe a
person present realized I am among
those permanently disabled. You
are right in saying Hickman can
make wooden man dance"
II you go to see Dorothy Gish in
"Remodeling Her Husband" at
Loew's Columbia today, take note of
the highly ornamental and massive
desk behind which the vivacious
star sits when she runs her dads
business for him and when her re-
calcitrant husband comes to make
his peace with her. This desk has a
history.
When David wark Grifith, the
famous producer. was outftting his
new studio at Mamaroneck, he
dropped into an auction room in
New York with the idea of picking
up some odds and ends. The huge,
hand-carved desk was on view and
struck his eye at once. He learned
from an attendant that II had once
belonged to the president of one OF
New York's biggest corporations.
The price put upon 1t was prohibi.
tive. But while Mr.. Griffith was
bidding upon other articles, his eye
wandered back admiringly to the
desk and in a rash moment he
bought it.
1t was too valuable to use as a
part of the ONCE equipment al
Mamaroneck, so Mr.. Griffith is using
II exclusively in studio sets" The
desk made its debut in pictures in
"Remodeling Her Husband" Lillian
Gish directed this feature.
The progress OF civilization con-
tinues to pick up speed with the
announcement that Richard Walton
Tully is to produce THE Bird of
Paradise in Paris in October, and
that alraadv nm fanf n