The New York herald., 1922-12-31
The Talk of Broadway

and has commenced casting for the
play In which he got San Francisco TO
rally around him few weeks ago.
The theater. il is said. has already
been hand picked. but is hiding its
electric light under bushei OF
anonymity.
The Keenan, play was written by
Frank NJ. y. Dazey, son OF G. ps,
Dazey. who will always have place
in the worlds history as the author Of
I'm Old Kentucky" While Second
Lieutenant with the A. T. f. young
Dazey contributed two poems to tins
Stars and Stripes. which became fa-
vorite songs with the soldiers, regard
less OF the fact that they had been
written by a shavetaIl
The regular legitimate theater into
which A. T. IIrlanger and Florenz
Ziegfeld. Jr, have been converting the
New Amsterdam roof will be finished
in two or three weeks and ready for
musical comedy high jinks. Lonely
Wives" now bearing down on Broad
way under the title of Diana Comes
to Town" was picked along the Rialto
as the likely offering with which the
steam heat would be turned on here.
But il now appears that another ru-
NOR has gone bad
Two plays which recently took the
road into their confidence are not
likely to be gathered to the bosom OF
New York, at least during the present.
chill weather. One OF them Is "Ene
Moreland Case" which Is reported tx
have found the way of the tryout Z
be hard The Amber Fluid wasn't
even uncorked on the road.
In the burial Of "The Romantic Age"
recently lies another of those tragedies
OF hope deferred which break Que
every once in so often. One OF those
who had large interest in the show
was Jed Harris. who under the name
Of Horowitz some time since had dcuet
Office work and rustled Photographic
for publicity plotter. lie hoped witr..
the Milne comedy to shoot up to tlit
eminence of plush furniture, like Nike
Godreyer and Mike Mindlin. CntlA
that time he wished to keep the nas4f
of Horowitz in reserve, serving under
the more inconspicuous appellation Of
Harris. Now it looks as though he
would have to wait while longer be-
fore signing $1,000 checks with the
name OF Horowitz. f
lee Kugel has decided to take his
new thriller, "Zeno," into Chicago,
since the various mysterious effects
promised by the author came to pass
without calling on the help OF the
movies to get characters 10 dissolve
into thin air. &C So this play will put
teeth ON edge at the Great Northern
Theater on January 8.
The play is by Joseph +. Rim, hith-
erto best known as a magician and a
dabbler in spiritualism, who exposed
some OF the tricks OF Paladino and
other advance agents for Little Bright
Eyes. He set forth to demonstrate in
a play that creepy effects could be
achieved by any one who knew tbs
proper materials to mix, even if he
didn't claim he was in tune with the
infinite How far he went toward this
goal is thus disclosed by a reviewer i'm
the Patriot at Harrisburg, Pa, where
the play recently sought to encourage
shivers
After THE Bat" The Cat and tire
Canary" and plays OF that kind.
what could be more battling?
"Zeno.'
There was about this creepy play
which opened three day run at the
Orpheum last night an appeal to the
reason as well as to the nerve CEN
ters. 1t was presented by cast
which included such finished play
ers as George Nash, Effie Shannon.
James Crane. Ned a Sparks and
George Probert, who gave small ev1-
dence that the play was in its stage
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