New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Movie Stars Move.
And This Time It's
Toward Broadway

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when its days were younger, all but
depleted the dramatic stage Of its IA
voritc players. Now they are coming
home again, and coming in droves.
This week Bessie Barriscale, the blond
beauty, who has been making fame and
fortune on the screen, has arrived in
New York as the forerunner Of the
small army Of film talent which will
follow. Miss Barrisca1e, like those
who have preceded her and who are to
ccme, Is due to appear on Broadway
in play in which her parked voice
will be conspicuous by contrast with
her recent appearances. She is to ap-
pear in "The Skirt" under the manage
ment Of Richard G. Herndon, manager
Of the Belmont Theater.
Broadway Stage
Filling With Them
The Broadway stage already is filed
with "movie stars" both men and
women. Doris Kenyon is one who has
taken a prominent place. She was one
OF the organizers Of the Players Fell
lowship, under whose direction "The
White Villa" was produced last season.
Marguerite Sylvia, the winsome widow
of "The Skylark," who seems to be
equally at home wherever she may be
placed, has just finished q screen sea-
son. The announcement comes from
the Charles Frohman Offices that Cath
crime Calvert, whose greatest fame is
from the films, is to be the leading
woman for Otis Skinner in "Blood and
Sand" which Iden Payne starts next
week.
Nazimova announces q repertoire
season Of Ibsen and kindred spirits,
while Olga Petrova will make her re-
turn in fortnight in . new play at
Asbury Park. Pauline Frederick and
Elsie Ferguson, as popular on the stage
as the screen, but Of late absent from
the former, are returning, and Lillian
and Dorothy Gish are now and highly IN
teresting contributions to the now ros-
ter Of dramatic players. Mac Marsh
is to act in new play under John d.
Williams'a management, and Virginia
Pearson, with Sheldon Lewis, and
Martha Mansfield, with Crane Wilbur. az
we'll as Beverly Bayne and her husband,
have each selected vaudeville sketches
for their gradual return. Mildred Har-
ris Is a new face to be seen this year,
and Thcda Bara. undaunted by "The
Blue Flame" will revisit the scenes Of
her former failure. Madge Kennedy
is already back, so is Alice Brady, while
Vivian Martin continues in Gust Mar
ried" to score one of her greatest sue
cesses. Claire Whitney is another.
Among the mon of the screen we still
have Carlyle Blackwell, Eugene O'Brien
and the corpulent Roscoe Arbuckle, tho
latter getting ready to make his appear
ance as low comedian.
Not Tired of Pictures,
Only Weary of Silence
Juno Elvidge already has announced
her return, and, according to the vera
Ciouc 1uioS paAhIoC%iCs tHSAS VIII bc bCV"
eral special cars filled with faces famil-
lar along the Los Angeles Rialto who
will become next season equally as con-
I spicuous on the Rialto in and adjacent
to Broadway.
at is not that we have lost interest
in the movies" Miss Barriscale says.
Rather is 1t because we wish to renew
our interest in the drama. 1t is not
natural for man or woman to remain
silent forever, and we want to talk.
We want to be part Of the audience,
to see them, to feel them and to hear
them. We want to feel that thrill
which comes to an actress when she
knows that her lines have landed and
to hear the report of applause which
follows, That is why We arc deserving
the films. Ard. besides, Los Angeles
seems million miles from Broadway,
and it is tasteless and unsatisfactory
to hear applause for likeness only
when we can hear it at the time we
score our points and can stop and drink
it in nightly"