Evening star., 1921-06-19
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

The thrilling melodrama "The Bat
passed its 35oth performance in New
York Tuesday night and Is still going
we'll.
Varying Shores" a play by Zoe
Atkins. has been purchased by Sam H.
Harris. and will go in rehearsal early
in the fall. II is reported that Elsie
Fersuson will be seen in the leading
That Homely Henriquez" is the
title Of the comedy that will be tried
on the road by Leo Ditrichstein dur
ing the summer. Mr.. Ditrichstein will
again appear in Toto" in the fall and
the new play will be reserved until
later.
The cast of Mile. Milo which the
Shuberts are producing. will include
Grace Valentine. Dorothy Clay. Mary
Brandon. Helen Sinott, Stewart Baird.
James Spottswood. Ben Hendricks and
others. Frederic and Fanny Hatton
are the authors.
The Elton Case" by William Dev-
ereux. will be tried ovt at Long
week Of July 4. The play is being
produced by George Broadhurst and
will have Chrystal Herne and Charles
Waldron in the leading roles.
Edgar Selwyn's The Love Chef" in,
which Leo Carrillo will have the star
role. will be shown in Chicago in adI
vance of its presentation in New
York. 1t will open in Chicago Au-
gust 90.
Kenneth Hill. Burton Churchill and
Eleanor Gordon have been engaged
for 'Six-Cylinder Love-" in which Err
nest Truck and Jane Walker will have
the leading roles.
Lynne Overman. who is Robert Adams
in Just Married" now playing in
New York. declined an offer last week
to go to London next season and ap-
pear there in a series of recent Amer
lean light comedy successes.
A New York paper says that Goat
Alley" a play by Ernest Howard Gull
berson; said to portray the life Of the
colored folks in Washington. will be
presented next week in New York at
a theater to be announced later.
let" a drama in three acts by Ario
Flamma, to be produced in New York
in August, are to begin this week
Signor Fiamma is one Of the leading
italian dramatists Of the day and
many Of his plays have been produced
Robert Edmond Jones left New
York last Wednesday to spend two
weeks in New Mexico, after putting
the finishing touches to the designs
for Swords" the play which Brock
Pemberton' will prod1ce early in the
fall.
Jeanne Eagles Eagels. in a cable
gram sent from Paris to Sam H. Har-
ris. the producer. who is to present
her IN new play next season, de-
MES the report published recently that
she is engaged to be married
Hermine Shone. one Of vaudeville's
headliners, has been engaged for an
important role in Back Pay" a new
Woods will star Helen MacKellar next
season. ts-
Owing to-the absence Of Ina Claire
Se sTed oss an The eFass Feas
in the near future. with Mary Serviss
in the leading role. Miss Claire will
act this role when the piece opens in
New York in September.
=. Isabel Leighton will play the lead
ing feminine role in "The Puppet
Master" which the Selwyns, will pro-
duce next season. with Alan Dine
hart at the head Of the, cast.
Oliver Morosco will present next
season a Harvard prize play. entitled
'.The Copy" and also plans the pro-
duction of three other plays in New
York. These will be-.'-The Madonna
Of Monterey. by Mra Fremont Older.
wife Of the editor of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin"::' Poor Lefty" with
Charlotte Greenwood as ITS star, and
q play entitled "rhe Rebound"
Mall Coward. EnrIish actor and
playwright, has arrived in1New York
from London. He has; recently been
appearing In the St..JarpeE Theater.
London. in Polly wftha Past" He
played the leading. role last season
in It'll Leave 1t to You.", his own
three-act comedy. 'The Rat Trap"
another four-ac play by Mr.. Coward,
viii be produced in London in No
vember, with Owen. Mares: A. H
Woods has, the American rights TO