Evening star., 1922-06-11

as burlesque comedians. have been
ieneaged for THE Music Box" for
next season. They sailed last week
for a brief engagement in London.
! Elsie Ferguson has been engaged
I for the leading role in THE Wheel,
the play by James B. Fagin that has
i req Ally beeh running in London.
Marc klaw will produce the play IN
this country Under u different title.
| Lionel Atwell will head the bill at
the Palec. New York. this week in
, The White Faced Fool by Edgar
Allan Woolf.
Michio Itow. the japanese dancer
and actor. will present The Pin
Wheel" at the Earl Carroll Theater.
| Now York, tomorrow evening. He
calls II IAN artistic revel' and it is
in twenty parts. 1t will be produced
under the management of Richard u.
| Herndon
Robert T Haines. who is appearing
with Marjorie Rambeau in The Cold
| fish" has been elected president OF
the Actors Order of Friendship. the
organization established in 1Si9 by
! Edwin Forrest.
| A cable report from Paris that
jGeorges Carpenter was going on the
stage led tho Shuberts to wire an
offer to hi mlast week to appear at
the New York Winter Garden next
| season.
Glowing reports have come from
New York about the opening of the
new "Follies" last week. With a few
! exceptions, almost d new company
has been secured and the scenic
effects are said to be wonderful.
Eugene Powers, who plays the part
| of Dick Baxter in The Bronx EX-
press" now running in New York.
has written a farce entitled Hush
1t Up which has been accepted for
production.
Plans are being made for an elab-
crate celebration of the three hun
dredth performance of Blossom
Time" next Wednesday at the Am
bassador Theater. New York. Among
the features will be special adapta-
ton by Sigmund Romberg of Schu-
bert's famous songs. Who Is Syl-
<ia?" and "Hark. Hark, the Lark
sung by a trio consisting OF Bertram
Peacock, Olga Cook and Howard
Marsh. Souvenir portraits of Schu-
bert will be given away.
The Theater Guild has acquired
| American producing rights for lie
L. r. a Czech play by Cam CapeK.
and ''Masse Mensch," by Ernst Toller.
Both plays Will be presented early
next season.
The Australian rights to The Cat
land the Canary have been bought
Hy The veteran producer Of that coun-
TRY, ]. C. Williamson
Reports from san Francisco are
that Henry Miiie's production OF
Bataille's LA Tendresse" has scored
hie Tho more
THAN $4,000 last week. Mr.. Miller
and his company repeated the sue
cess in Oakland last week. The piece
Will be seen in the east in the early
! days of next season.
Grace La Rue and Hale Hamilton
are booked to open in London late
this summer in Dear Me" and will
remain Abroad just as long as the
line forms to the right of the box
office.
Barney Bernard is to appear next
season in. series OF matinees OF
The Merchant of Venice" under his
own direction at one of the SeiWyh
theaters in New York.
Lenore Uric appeared for the two
hundred and twenty-fifth time as
Kiki last Thursday night in the play
of the same name at the Belasco
!Theater, New York. The play is still
drawing large houses and will con-
tinue through the summer.
b F. Keith theater managers In
New York city are to he given prizes
of $500. $500 and $3.50 for origina!
Entertainment features this week
Land o. Romance" by Anna Mich
OILS. author and producer of "Abie's
Irish Rose now showing in New
York will have its first performance
; in Stamford. Conn. next month. with
Fiske O'Hara leading the cast. This
will be Miss Nichols seventh play for
Mr.. OHara in seven years.
The next play by Somerset Vaughan
IS to be produced in London next fall
under the title East of Suez. the
, action of which takes place in China.
Notwithstanding that a heat wave
ihas struck London and almost emp
tied majority of the theaters. The
iBat" continues to pack them in az
the St James. and Producer Gilbert
Miller says it will run until the first
of the year and perhaps longer.
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, with
their company of dancers. have
scored a big hit in London and Will
remain throughout the summer.
Alice Delysia. who has been ordered
|
she wishes to preserve it. has left
the big production Mayfair and
Montmartre," that caused sensation
in London this spring, and as a re-
suit the production had to close down
Ma bel Green, her understudy. did well
with the part, but the patrons would
have nothing but Delysia.
What Made the Lambs Love Mary"
! a miniature musical comedy by Jo-
| seph McCarty and Harry Tierney.
authors of Irene" will be part of
! the program presented at the Lambs
| Public Gambol. al the Knickerbocker
| Theater. New York, tonight.
| The Shuberts are organizing two
companies to play Blossom Time" on
| tour. The original company will con-
tinue at the Amba ssador. New York,
| over the summer.
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