The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-29
7dles and 77diogs Of the 7beater =
The Talk of Broadway
By FRANK VREELAND

ing the Conan family from worrying
about coal bills at the rate OF $4,000
week.
However, Conan can drop Boston
from his calling list temporarily with
perfect equanirnity. since his musical
show is slated TO turn IN an alarm &C
the Liberty Theater here that same
Monday. molly Darling" the pres
ent incumbent OF the Liberty, may be
shifted TO another Broadway play
house II A(egley and Moore, its pro.
ducers. can swing votes for 1t. Other
wise Jack Donahue's trained feet will
start performing their miracles on the
road.
Captain Applejack" viii be sucs
ceeded at the Cort by mono other than
our old friend Merton OF the Movies"
which will be opened there on No
vember 10 by George c. Tyler amid
cheers from the adapters. George s.
Kaufman and Marc Connolly. 1t was
thought at first that John Barry
more's Hamlet" would start a coy
glow ct the Cort. However, 1t now
seems 10 be certain that Arthur Hop,
llins will throw the starting switch on
this at the Sam III. Harris Theater.
This house. by the way, was the first
in which Barrymore essayed a serious
role, that OF the clerk in Justice
back In the mad. glad Days when 10
was known as the Gambler.
TITS q Boy" now at the Harris, IS
expected to take wings on November
4 . 20
opens on November 10, this and the
other premieres on that date Will
make it a frantic evening for the In
corrigible first nighter.
Robert Edmond Jones is said TO ba
designing settings for Hamlet" which
are more in q rnodernistic vein than
the scenic investiture for Macbeth"
which can still make many O. face
light UP in recollection on Broadway,
They are OF the black and white type.
and in some scenes they take to tho
silhouette style.
The theatrical map is likely to loosen
UP some more the week OF November
20. ''R. U. r." will be propelled up
from the Garrick Theater TO the
F'razee. The wiseacres had picked the
Republic for it. but fate overruled
them. Her Temporary Husband
wiz quit the Frazee and alight in
some other town. The next Guild pro-
duction to stop the gap at the Gar
rick will be either The Lucky One
by a. a. Milne or Ibsen's Peer Gynt,~
with the chances in favor OF the Milne
play. Probably with this piece ana
his other plays, including THE Ro-
mantle Age" Milne will have so many
plays In circulation he will be able to
stop writing mystery murder tales.
On November % Charles Dillins-
hams next musical show, Tho Bunch
and Judy" with Jerome Kern and
Anne Caldwell as its immediate fore-
bears, Is scheduled 20 check in at the
Globe Theater. Edward Royce Is
staging it, when not counting UP at
the box Office OF Orange Blossoms
Joseph Cawthorn will be featured. and
others prominent in the cast will be
Fred and Adele Astaire, who thus
climb back on the Dillingham; pay
roll: ofaisic Gray, English actress.
Gus Minton and Delano Dell. the
young actor who was carried bodily
from the Chicago company Of molly
Darling"
William a. Brady will undertake a
departure in policy for him---os re-
cent years. that is-when he presents
shortly at the Playhouse up She
. .,,t1I @a1
show ever allowed IN at tilat theater.
The title is the choice of Frank
Craven, who made the book over from
the old fashioned model called TOO
Many Cooks" Probably the name
viii be changed by the time Brady
has smoked some more cigars.
This show was TO have opened last
Monday In Providence, but went
blithely on with rehearsals instead.
TIP the Ladder was suddenly thrown
20 the multitude TO I'll the hole in
Providence's culture. The latter play
is reported to have gone only a few
rungs UP In Philadelphia recently.
Alice Brady. Il appears. will Re keps
from contact with the spoken drama
for some time. Her contract gives her
exclusive services when needed to
Famous Players Lasky. and her vauds~
Vile engagements arc possible only
while tho director Is deciding where
the next pleasant trip on location
should be taken or tho property de-
partmeut is making another ballroom
scene. Recently Miss Brady closed
her vaudeville tour and was innmedi-
ately shunted down 90 Florida TO eya
the camera.
Tho Moscow Art Theater IS likely
10 como TO the Torty-fourth Street
after that house IS out OF bondage 20
tho films. Nine. Cecil Sorel. another
importation will also. II seems quito
certain now. appear in this city. aided
BY the good right hand or the Shut
bcrts. Her theater ana her date arc
still shrouded i. ssystaiy.
Leo Ditrichstein will probably step