The New York herald., 1922-07-09

all these years. In one ne has a stock
company doing $50 Long, Lefty" for
the current attraction in the other a
cast Is presenting "Abie's Irish Rose"
marking the third company to be
spreading this play abroad over this
fair land. Charlotte Greenwood is
still much in evidence with Lefty
Pepper" and is said to have done the
best business last week of any recent
attraction in Los Angeles, making due
allowances for the effect of the Cali
fornia sunshine on causing even press
agent statistics to grow.
THE Bat" has finally made up it's
mind to move and will leave the
Morosco Theater on August &c after
the longest series of chills and fever
that has ever been known to occur
without resulting fatally. The entire
company now there will fit to Boston
to give that city a refined case of the
horrors. After a week of darkness
which will hardly be different from
most Of the course of this play-the
lights will finally be switched on to
illuminate the subject of why Men
Leave Home" Wagenhals and KEN
per are the sponsors, and Avery Hop
wood, as might be expected, wrote this
treatise on domestic relations
Marie Tempest and Graham Browne.
who were recently married in Aus
tralia, have not decided yet, it is
learned. whether they will return to
America, whence they have been abb
sent 10! these ten years. They have
been gravitating through the Anti
podes for three years. and by now
must know every subject of conversa-
ton there by heart.
Winthrop Ames is expected to open
his season at the Booth Theater with
"Will Shakespeare" the play which
he obtained from Clemence Dane Eng
lish authoress, but there is still plenty
of time for the Baconians to sharpen
their arguments and cudgel their
brains--the phrase is an apt one-for
ideas.
Prof. Max Reinhardt, the David Be-
lasco of Germany--and vice versa
will. it is reported, come to the United
States next fall. So far no manager
has laid claim to him. Maybe those
importers of foreign talent, the Sell
wyns. will oblige.
Speaking of the Selwyns. Edgar has
been spending the spring and sum-
mer taking French lessons, in order
that he may greet the Guitrys in De-
cember without giving the typical mu-
sical comedy pronunciation of Mon
sieur."
A. L. Erlanger, according to report.
will become manager of the Fulton
Theater around October. when Oliver
d. Bailey's lease expires. Thus will
pass one OF the few so-called "inde-
pendent" theaters in the city. Prac-
tically all will hereafter be aligned
with the Erlanger or Shubert inter-
ests.
incidentally, 1t is said that the affilia-
tion between Erlanger and the Shu-
berts Is daily growing closer. One of
the sights of Broadway nowadays is
to see Erlanger and Lee Shubert. once
bitter foes, lunching amicably to-
gether. Their pooling arrangements
in the rest of the country appear to
be working most smoothly, and next
season may even be applied to lin
tied extent to New York city.
Mrs. Richard Bennett, wife Of the
star. who is now In Los Angeles, has
gone to Vermont to teach an art class,
proving that all theatrical folk do not
sit around at Great Neck and talk
about curtain calls during the sum-
mer.
"a Gentleman's Mother" the play
by Martin Brown tried out in Stam-
ford a week ago Is reported to be a
hit. and every one on Broadway is
now shaking the wise old bean and
making the standard remark: well.
Sam III. Harris certainly knows how
to pick 'em. How does he do it?"