The New York herald., 1922-12-17
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The Talk of Broadway

Shakespeare with the stage virtually
set. which is a novelty for rehearsals
as well as Shakespeare. As the
scenery consists mostly of draperies
this has been fairly easy to do. and e
gives the actors not only a greater
stimulus for their work in the actual
surroundings, but also more time In
which TO learn to avoid getting tangled
up in the hangings. Instead of jump
ing right into Broadway. Miss Cow
will warm up out of town, where her
calling list will be as follows:
Toledo, December 21-23, inclusive:
Cincinnati, the following week. and
then New York at the Selwyn, OPEN
ing about January Is.
John Halliday, one OF the charmed
Circle" company. instead Of appear
ing with Miss Cowl as Mercutto, was
last observed accepting an engage
ment to appear with Helen MacKellar
in THE Masked Woman" at the Ell
tinge the coming week, and seemingly
quite reconciled.
Florence Reed. who left this house
last week in East of Suez." will be
returned as a Christmas present by
A. Fl. Woods to Charles Dillingham;.
She was under contract to Dillingham;
earlier in the season, but he permitted
Woods to induct her into office in the
Vaughan melodrama. II is reported
that Miss Reed will engage daunt-
lessly in a series Of Pinero revivals.
Apparently she has forsaken her urge
toward Shakespeare for a playwright
a bit more up TO date.
The East of Suez" company is ex-
pected to be recast somewhat and then
sent out on the road and told to do
It's darnedest by Martin Herman.
Genevieve Tobin is to be escorted
into the Little Theater early next
month with Winchell Smith and Il.
Ray Goetz as the guard of honor.
This is a new producing combination,
but evidently Smith has found 1t an
easy step from Golden to Goetz. Miss
Tobin will appear in Polly Preferred
by Guy Bolton, in which Patricia Col-
linge turned from sweet PoHydnn0
into satirical Polly when the play res
Gently burgeoned at Cleveland.
Another Sam II. Harris star, Frans
cine Larrimore. has stopped exposing
the young girls of to-day on tour in
Mice People," now that the fiapper
subject has, been pretty well ex-
hausted. She is back in town, but al
Harris just now has no play ripe for
her, he is thinking OF letting her keep
In training in some other managers
production until some glad new work
bursts over his horizon.
Edith Day, in THE wildfower."
opens late in January at Baltimore for
week, and then Arthur Hammerstein
will let .ate decide about New York.
Hammerstein has another musical
show ready 10 his hand, which he has
not yet fitted to the measure of any
star. It was written by the same lads,
Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein
I'd but so far it has escaped n name.
Georgia O'Ramey has dropped out
of the tour Of Frank Tinney's show,
possibly through being unable to mus
ter the breath for the fast pace which
the show is expected to hit in Boston
next week.
Willard Holcomb. manager, hopes
the Ku Klux Klan won't think poorly
Of him when he presents a new play
soon in Richmond. Va. since he orig
stock company there and played the
role OF UncIe Shad. the negro butler.
with his own voice. The play which he
will set in motion there will be Alias,
Mrs. Pepp" with none other than
Marie Cahill putting ginger into the
| title role. The comedy is by Edward
| A. Paulton. who did the penmanship
! for Her Temporary Husband" and IL
will be lowered into position on Christi
mas.
! Christine Norman, who appeared IN
"The Love Child" out OF town. has
written play for which she will
choose her own star. consisting of her.
self II is understood that her husband
will present her to the world in II.
It's not often that an understudy
/ succeeds a star when the creator of q
| role steps out for usually somebody
| is imported by the manager into the
role who hardly heard OF it. But sorne-
times It happens in the best regulated
managements. When Joseph Schilds
kraut steps out OF "Liliom" on tour in
/ about two weeks in order TO get in
tune with Peer Gynt" and the in>
finite. Sam RI. Harris will let his uns
derstudy. Charles Ellis. follow the nat.
/ ural course OF events and roll right
into the part. Ellis played the role
only once before. during an afternoon
/ at the Garrick Theater when SchildS