The New York herald., 1922-12-03
More Talk
of Broadway
Continued from Preceding Page.


While the Russian troupe fell upon
evil days here. another foreign COM
pany has had better luck, possibly be-
cause they are the only French com
pany now AT large here. Mile. Cecile
Sorel and her Gallo associates, despite
the fact that their engagement in Bos-
ton was viewed with scsNe trepidation
by their hackers, are said during the
past week there TO have risen to the
heights OF $4,000 In the box Office.
For their end of Al Jolson's tour in
"Bombo" the Shuberts are said TO be
welcoming $4,000 net receipts to their
pockets weekly. Generally a manager
considers himself fortunes darling If
at the end OF each week OF show he
has $4,000 that he can call his own.
Augustin Duncan, having retired as
! general stage director of Equity Play
ers. will replace Sam Sidman in Aaron
F. Hoffman's comedy, Give and Take y
in which Sam Mann will be at the
other receiving end.
n Since Merton of the Movies" caught
on so richly. George C. Tyler. who
) owns the screen as well as the stage
rights, has received offers from sew
eral big film companies for the priv
ilege Of making the silver sheet KID
itself One bid went as high as
] 5000, which is fair enough in these
DAYS of low film prices However,
Tyler decided to keep Harry Leon
Wilson's story out OF celluloid bon
dage till II had worn out It's welcome
on the stage. When IL goes into the
movies, which will be in about three
wears. Glenn Hunter will probably be
sold down the river with IL.
George s. Kaufman and Marc Con-
nelly are represented in the Christmas
number of the Bookmdn with an
amusing skit on Dickens's "A Christ
mas Carol" just to prove that the
word interchangeable" has no terror for
them.
Ethel Barrymore will open IN
"Romeo and Juliet" at the Longacre
Theater around Christmas. and as
Jane Cowl will appear here week
later at the Selwyn in the same play,
New York will have rush of Shake
speare to the head as a Christmas
present.
Billie Burke is due at the Empire
Theater about the same time in Rose
Brier," which recently burst into
bloom. Before coming here. however.
Miss Burke will see America first, TAX
ing the play to Pittsburgh, Cleveland
and Detroit.
Meanwhile a situation has arisen
around "A Texas Nightingale" that is
almost delicate. The Office of Charles
Frohnnan, Inc. acknowledges frankly
that when this Zoe Atkins play was
booked there, with Miss Burke's ve-
hicle impending. the management
didn't imagine it would have as many
performances as regular opera
with music. However, the diverting
performance of Jobyna Rowland has
brought such a wave OF unexpected
patronage to the house that the Froh-
man agents are now making. diplo-
matte overtures for another house to
warm it during the winter.
For the Frohman firm. Gilbert
Miller has exchanged condolences with
Salisbury Field. whereby Fields latest
comedy, "Zander the Great will come
to earth under the Frohman auspices.
Lonely Wives" the musical version
Of the farce which Martin Brown
made over from the farce tried out
earlier this season. will get sociable
with Wilmington on January 4. A. IA.
Woods will disclose the name of the
composer who wrote the music when
he gets good and ready. The produc-
ton is being made in conjunction with
George Mcclellan. brother of the late
playwright, G. M. $. Mcclellan. who
has the musical comedy urge. He
managed to overcome Woods's inertia
in this respect Charles Ruggles is
back in his original role, while "A
Clean Town" is resting for "A further