Arizona republican., 1921-01-09
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A recent report from San Francisco states that Del Lawrence. stock actor who headed the company at the Elks theater here last season. was arrested in the coast city on a charge of de- | lfrauding a taxin driver out fof $11.0O. | The complaint wasetaoishrdlu etaoinsh The complainant was Leo Wright. q | chauffeur, who said he had taken
 Lawrence about the city, then driven him to the office of the steamship q Rose City, where Lawrence had gone to buy ticket for Astoria, Ore. Wright waited outside for a long time, but Lawrence disappeared. he said. The police the following day arrested Law renee on board the steamer as the boat was about to depart and Lawrence
 was brought to the hall of justice and
 settled, after which he was allowed to ldepart.
 George Gatts is planning @ revival of This play. The Daughter of the sun"
 which played in Phoenix last season.
 The piece is now in rehearsal under the
 direction of Lorin J. Howard. No open ing date or route has been definitely
 settled upon as yet.
 Gus Hill, it was learned last week has sent a special emissary to see Jack Johnson the former heavyweight
 champion, now confined in the federal
 penitentiary at LeavenwoTth, Kan.
 Billy Mclean is the person sent by Hill, who wants to sign Johnson up to
 head a colored minstrel troupe after
 his release from prison.
 "Pomeroy,' comedy by Clare Hummer, will go into rehearsal shortly
 with Ernest Truex in the leading role NIicho Itovv will present his series oi
 Noh dramas at the Garrick theater
 New York, commencing in January. Primrose Seaton. formerly witl "Dearie," will be featured in a new 8 revue at the Winter Garden, Chicago
 MT. and Mrs. Sydney Jarvis an
 lnounce the birth of a baby son. Mrs . Jarvis is we'll known professionally a b Virginia Dare.
 s Brook Pemberton has been engage' h by the Theater guild to design tn e scenery for the forthcoming production |; of Miss Lulu Bett."
 Billy Goldie of Goldie and Ward i
 reported to have married his partner t Miss Ward, in Philadelphia last weei . Francine Larrimore in Rachel Croth !. lers' new comedy, "Nice People, wi
 open in Atlantic City Monday nigh I and will go into New York early l .s the year.
 This from the New York Tribune = It is said that an author never know
 just where the laugh in his play wi . come. Still, he is apt to have at leas
 a suspicion when he has prepared '. Iquip calculated to bring down tn 't house. Such, however, was not th l' case with Zona Care. Miss Dul Be~
 had its first performance at Sing Sin 1t and held its audience throughout. bu W the truly triumphant road of the even e. ing came when sone of the character .- spoke the innocently intentioned line h "We've got to get out of here" a 'eWoman to Woman a new play b l. Michael Morton, was produced a n Stamford, Conn.,, December q. wit
 Ithree days in Pittsburg to follow. A. |
 Woods is making the production wit l. lHilda Spong and Charles Hillward 't the east. The staging is under the di e rection of William Gilmore.
 s- Lon Clancy, the brilliant characte D. actor who is the outstanding figure K s'The Penalty" which hayjust been re 10 leased in New York, may desert tn
 screen to appear on the stage in 90 dramatization of "Outside the Law a m underworld story written by Te ir Browning. Chaney's career of receI ,a months has been a series of successe t- His characterization of the repellai !, Frog in 'aThe Meiracle Man, the UT of scrupulous Ricardo in Victory u or llegless ruler of the underworld in ''Tl 1d Penalty" has created for him an CT x- viable niche.
 be Evelyn Blanchard has just comple
 ed a four set Wall street comec , drama called The Panther and Il ly Lamb which will go into productC :, sn early this year.