New-York tribune., 1920-02-12
The Stage Door

Arthur Hopkins will present John
Drew in "The Cat-Bird." a comedy by
Rupert Hughes, at Maxine Elliott's
Theatcr on Monday night. In support
OF Mr. Drew arc Janet Becchcr, Ruth
Findlay, Pauline Arr. ;tagc, Arthur
Barry and Sydney Mason. "The Cat
Bird" brings Mr.. Drew back to the
stage after an absence of two years.
Maxine Elliott, in Trimmed IN Scar
let" will terminate her New York en-
gagement Saturday night.
Emily Stevens, in ph;lip Moeller's
new comedy, "Sophie," based on the
life Of Sophie Arnould, famous eigh-
tecnth century Partisan prma donna,
will open her New York season OF Mon
day evening, March i, at the Greenwich
Village Theater, following Nance
O'Neill, who is to move uptown. o. P.
Heggie will be opposite Miss Stevens,
and her company will include Oswald
Yorke, Sidney Toler, Hubert Wilke,
Jean Newcomb, Claire Mersereau, John
Webster and Adolph Link.
The Shuberts have accepted for i'm
mediate production "Not So Long Ago."
by arthur Richman. Rehearsals began
Monday.
Rachel Crothers will be seen in her
own play, HE and She," at the Little
Theater tonight.
Adele Devereaux, Oriental dancer, has
been added to the cast of "The Passing
Show of 1919," at the Winter Garden.
George Broadhurst has decided to
eliminate the response to curtain calls
between acts in all his productions, as
in his opinion curtain calls between
acts disturb the illusion that the
dramatist has tried to preserve by in
terrupting the action of the play and
bringing the players out of their char
acterS.
The season of the repertory company
established at the Theatre Parisien
has come to close, and Monday the
company will open at Montreal. Rob-
ert Casadesus, art director and one Of
the principal players, announces his
intention to remain in the United
States and adopt the English language
for stage purposes.
The performances of next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of
The Girl in the Limousine" at the
Brooklyn Majestic are for the benefit
of the Williamsburg Hospital.
Nance O'Neill, playing "The Passion
Flower" at the Greenwich Village The
ater, has been invited to witness the
Yddsh version of "The Lily" at the
Irving Place Theater. In the original
Belasco production Of this play Miss
O'Neill played the leading role.
Langdon Mccormick, author of "The
Storm has built testing plant at
Mountain Lakes, N. j., where he will
prove his stage inventions.
H. Cooper Cliffe, who was the orig
nal Nobody in "Everywoman," and who
is appearing with Laurette Taylor in
Zone Night in Rome" has been Sc
lccted for a principal part in Half
an Hour" Dorothy Dalton's picture,
with Famous Players-Lasky.
Salisbury Field, author of many short
stories and several plays, among them
"W edding Bells" has joined the liter
now at work at the West Coast studio
of the Famous Players.
Several prominent screen actors will
help Marcus Loew open a new theater
in London, Ont, Monday night. In
the party will be Doraldina, Virginia
Pearson, Sheldon Lewis, June Caprice,
Jane and Katherine Lee, June Elvidge,
Dolores Cassinell, Herbert Rawlinson,
Mae Murray and Anne Luther.
"The Copperhead," starring Lionel
Barrymore, has proved so popular a
picture that i. is to run for a second
week. 1t moves from the Rivoli to the
ing of "All of a Sudden Peggy" featur-
ing Marguerite Clarke, will be post
roncd for a week at the Rialto.
Elsie Ferguson will make her re-
appearance on the stage here at the
Morosco Theater on Monday evening,
February 90, in "Sacred and Profane
Love-" by Arnold Bennett. David Be-
lasco owns the American rights to the
Bennett play and it is by an arrange
ment that he has made with All Hay,
man, of Charles Frohman Inc. that
Miss Fergusons appearance in it is
made possible "For the Defense" will
close at the Morosco on Saturday, Feb
ruary 21.
Arthur Hopkins has set Monday
night, March 1, for the first appearance
of John Barrymore in Richard IIP
at the Plymouth Theater. "The Jest
will close on February q and the Ply
mouth will be dark for a week before
acknowledgements production.
Otis Skinner will make his last ap-
pearance in "Pietro" at the Criterion
Theater on Saturday night, February
81, when the play will end its run. John
D. Williams will present Lionel Barry
more in "The Letter of the Law" a
translation of "The Red Robe," by Eu-
gene Brieux, at the Criterion, begin
ming with a Washington's Birthday
matinee on February %.
Winona Shannon, sister Of Effie
Shannon, has been engaged by Oliver
Morosco to understudy her sister in
the role of Mrs. Orrin in Mammals AT
fair" at the Fulton Theater.
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