New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
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headdress she will lend for exhibition
at the Metropolitan Museum, in the
textile department, in order that the
public may see the perfection Of
Rumanian handiwork When Prince
Carol of Rumania was in New York
last summer he attended a rehearsal
Of Lady Billy" and evidently his
description of the play and its star
appealed to his sister Elizabeth, with
the gift and the gracious greeting
From Princess to Countess" as re-
suit
Tomorrow night, April 20. Holbrook
Blinn and the company appearing with
him in Porter Emerson Brownies play.
"The Bad Man." will move to the Ritz
Theater from the Comedy, having com
pleted eight months at the latter house
William Harris jr. has taken over the
Ritz Theater on lease from the Shu-
berts. Frances Carson, Frank Conroy.
Edna Hibbard, Fred l.. Tiden and other
members of the cast who began the
run of "The Bad Man" last August
are still IN the company supporting
Mr.. Blinn.
The Beechwood Players will produce
at the Beechwood Theater, Scarbor-
ough on the Hudson, on April 2S and
20, new three-act comedy by Thomas
P. Richardson, entitled Jingle Bells"
Mr. Robinson is the author of the new
Harvard prize play. The cast of yin
gle Bells" will includde Helen Odell,
Lucy Clarkson, Frances G. Leon.
Louise Dean, T. M. Cleland, Paul Hunt,
Frank Sangster, F. S. Colling and Mani
Takenaka. Henry Stillman has directed
the production.
George A. Schiller, who played the
role of Kenneth Mugg in the original
at the Casino Theater in 1897, has been
engaged by the Shuberts for his old
part in the revival which is to be pre-
sented shortly. Mr.. Schiller, who is
dian, has appeared in leading character
roles in musical comedy, operetta,
comic opera and the legitimate. He is
a Bostonian and got his first training
as a member Of the famous Boston
Museum Stock Company. He has been
in the support of Barrett, Jefferson,
Sothern and Goodwin, but is more es
pecially identified with musical shows,
as he played the leading roles in many
of the New York Casino productions.
AS the Actors Equity is to hold it's
annual gala testimonial at the Metro
politan Opera House on Sunday even
ing, May /, the commanding officers of
S. Rankin Drew Post, No. $40, Ameri-
can Legion, composed largely Of mem
bers of the theatrical fraternity, which
had planned on that same night to give
a benefit performance for it's clubhouse
fund, made request of Charles Dill
lingham that the booking of the post
for the Hippodrome for that night be
Cancelled or postponed as tribute to
cHS ASIoiS A1d0Asys NIL
willingly acceded to the suggestion,
and will endeavor by changing the date
of the Eugene Ysaye recital on Nav
10 to place the Hippodrome at the dis
posal of S. Rankin Drew Post for that
evening.
Shaun Glenville, the Irish comedian
who was brought to America by the
Shuberts for prominent part in their
phoebe of Quality Street," is widely
known in Great Britain as song writ
er. He has been popular entertainer
for many years in musical comeds,
vaudeville and pantomime, and has
found it advisable to write many Of his
own numbers. When he played long
engagements at the Palladium or ths
Victoria Palace he invariably provided
his own repertory of comic and senti-
mental songs, with which he character
lied the Irish race. Probably his best
known song is There's Something in
the Irish After All" "Hennessey~ and
Irish Christening" also are to his
credit
The New York Rcpertory Thea;er,
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