The Denver Jewish news., 1922-12-13
Stage, Screen.
g. Music Notes

isheS her present vaudeville engage
ment In the United States.
June Mathis. who adapted BLOOD
and Sand" as well as other powerful
plays for the screen, has been engaged
to put Ben Hur" In motion picture
shape for the film makers.
Madeline Delmar, the fiery young
actress who has done such good work
on the New York stage, is scheduled
for a strong emotional role in n play
which will be disclosed early In Jan
uary.
Ben Greet, the most famous Of the
Shakespearean scholars, who did much
to take the tidings of Shakespeare to
the playgoers of the United States. will
return to America early in the spring.
The Irish Band, the organization of
musical Celts which has been travelling
in the United States for the past eight
weeks, is to make tour across the con-
tinent, returning East by the way Of
Texas and the Atlantic coast line.
"The Red Poppy" the play from the
French, staged under the direction of
Iden Payne with Estelle WinwOOd play
ing the leading role. has been favOrably
received ut Atlantic City according to
the rural reviewers. 1t is to be brought
to New York in a fortnight.
Frederic Warren, New York singing
teacher and manager, will give New
York new cOloratura soprano this
year when Olga Warren is heard at
Carnegie Hall. This brilliant American
singer made a strong artistic impress
sion in two New York recitals last
season.
Marguerite Sylvia, the only grand
opera singer to make a success Of the
dramatic stage, will return to the
spoken drama when her concert en-
gagements have been completed. She
appeared at Broadhurst's Theatre, New
York, last week with particularly bril-
liant success.
Emanuel Reicher, the veteran Of the
German and American stage, who Is
spending some months in Germany, has
deferred his return to the United States
in order that he may appear in series
of film plays. His New York engage
ment in the early spring will include
revivals Of king Lear" and "The
Merchant of Venice"
The play which promises to be the
most original of the many original
plays produced, or to be produced, In
New York this season is Johannes
Kreisler" Lotus Robb, of late a strong
favOrite among press and public, will
have the leading feminine role and BEN
Ami, late Of the Yiddish Theatre, will
be the leading figure.
There will be few good actors left
for modern plays II they continue to
desert to the standard of Shakespeare.
Barry Macollum, one of the best Of the
younger character actors, is scheduled
to appear in one Of the early revivals
of a Shakespearean play. He gained
his experience in this line of work in
England under Frank r. Benson.
The timely tidings may be divulged
at this time that Grant Mitchell the
star of "Kempy' and many popular
produced in New York, made
his first appearance on the stage in the
support of Robert Mantell in a series
of Shakespearean roles, and it was in
where he now plays, that this
event was chronicled.
Among the Shakespearean players
for stellar engagements in
New York is Tyrone Power, who is now
with John Barrymore in
Hamlet" Mr.. Power, one of the most
Shakespearean players
using the native language, has given
to the role of the King in Hamlet"
dignity and impressiveness which has
much to the great artistic
success of this Arthur Hopkins re-
vival.
Remy Carpen, the French actress,
who co-starred in "The Plot Thickens,"
which was produced by Brock Pember-
ton, may be one of the groups of Juliet's
this season. Mile. Carpen left the
United States four years ago to make
her professional debut in Paris, and
before her departure a revival Of "RO-
meo and Juliet" was contemplated un-
der the direction of Iden Payne.
1t is interesting to music lovers in
the United States to learn that New
York, the center of musical activity if
not culture, is slowly yielding prestige
to the symphony orchestras of Detroit
conducted by Ossip Gabrulowitsch, and
Philadelphia. conducted by Leopold
Stokowski. The Philadelphia orchestra
has long held commanding position,
but it has been through the efforts of