The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-22

Sonia Seroya, premiere danseuse oi
the Russian school, is to direct New
York theatre which is to be built with
/ special reference to the wills of dane
! ers and dancing.
| Michto TOW, the noted Japanese, will
| give a series of farewell performances
| Of his celebrated Noh dramas before
! sailing for Toxic, where he will pre-
| sent these plays with his American
company.
| Whitford Kane, the versatile charac-
| ter actor, appeared last week in the
| Spanish drama, CRADLE Song" He
gave a performance which ranks with
! the greatest character impressions OF
the period
There is only one thing worse than
| singing a naughty song, was told to
Georges Plateau by a new acquaint-
| ance, and that is whistling it so you
don't know what the words are"
Richard C. Herndon, producer of
The Passion Flower has new play
for early production which promises to
be a sensation. It's theme is anti
lynching and already has been pre-
| sented for trial purposes.
Langdon Mccormick, who has been
in Chicago hospital for several weeks
spent the time between operations in
blocking out new spectacular melo-
drama which he is finishing for Broad
way production early next season.
Theodore Spiering, one of the fam
GUS orchestra conductors, is the guest
conductor at st. Louis this week with
the local orchestra which recently suf-
fered the loss by death of it's venerat-
ed conductor.
June Mathis, formerly one of the
pretty and popular ingenues in the
Broadway plays is the writer of the
scenario of The Four Horsemen"
which the Metro produced on Broad
way last week. Miss Mathis is now
one of the most intelligent film writer's
engaged.
Frederic Warren, American impre-
sario, who gives unusual musical pro-
grams in New York, is to build up a
series of special musical programs con-
sisting mainly of ballads for presepta-
ton in the cities of the east. He.
will have the assistance of more than
fifty artists.
Ian Maclaren, and actor who several
years ago was rated one of the best
on Broadway, added a new success to
his repertoire in New York last week
in the revival of Arnold BENEFITS The
Great Adventure" at the Neighborhood
Playhouse, where he had just complet-
ed another brilliant engagement in
John Galsworthy's The Mob"
One of the individual performances
recorded among the best of the season |
was contributed last week by Louise |
in Cradle Song" Miss Ran
doIph is by no means a stranger 10 |
Broadway, but of all the work she hith- !
erto has done none compares in sim |
plicity, sympathy and effectiveness
with that she is now doing at the Times |
Square theatre.
THE Passion Flower" after almost !
a year on tour, is coming back to
Broadway where it ran for a full sea-
season with Nance O'Neil acting the
highly emotional role of the distressed
wife who finds her cecond husband
looking upon her daughter by a for
mer marriage. The play is also in the
films
Ethel Newcomb, who is one of Amer
ica's favorite piano artists, is doing
good work in arousing interest in the
in Washington of a de-
partment of fine arts under whose di-
rection may be encouraged and estab-
lished musical. dramatic and kindred
Institutions where American art may
prosper.
The film 1.-THE Four Horsemen OF the
APOCALYPSE adapted by June Mathis
from the Spanish version of Ibanez. set
l. new record on Broadway this week
when it was first shown. 1t cost ten
dollars to see this and there were no
ack of applications. 1t is a million
dollar masterpiece, and Miss Mathis