Evening star., 1922-09-03

| ultra in style.
Three famous beauties are included
| in the cast of the new Avery Hopwood
| play at the Belasco this week. They
Fare Florence Shirley. winner Of six
and magazines; Isabel Leighton. ad-
| Judged by Howard Chandler Christy the
| most beautiful girl graduate from an
| American college in 1921. and Theresa
Maxwell Conover. generally acclaimed
| as among the handsomest and best
| dressed women of the American stage.
! Avery Hopwood pays one Of the fat
| test income taxes of any american
! playwright. His royalties last year
shows running simultaneously on Broad
way He will be in one of the back
rows tonight at the Belasco
THE Bat" will this season pass the
| So. OOO. 600 mark in gross receipts for
Wagenhals G. Kemper. The New York
| company closes at the Morosco Theater
! next Saturday night, after continuous
| run OF two full years. why Men
Leave Home is scheduled to succeed it..
| The children of Trinity Community
House last Monday afternoon pre-
scented Harry N. Crandall hand i.
| some silver tray as an expression OF
l
| entertainment Mr.. Crandall has af-
! fcrded them gratuitously.
The auditorium Of Crandall's Metro
! politan Theater has just been beauti-
| fed by the installation OF a marble
wainscoting. six feet in height, across
the entire back wall of the build
| ing. Marble encasements for the col
! umns that rise from the rear and
| center side sections of the first floor
to HA vo
| to carry the marble establishment
| down the side walls of the theater
/. when the present silks are replaced
| by new satin wall tapestries. The
consequent enrichment of the audi
! torium has already ELECTED much fav.
I orable comment from the patrons OF
! the house.
Crandall's Strand Theater in Cum
berland, Md. one of the handsomest
structures of its kind in the state.
| will be reopened to the public to-
morrow after remodeling and beauti-
fcation.
Albert E Ruff, an obscure New York
! laryngoiogist. has recently come into
| fame and comparative afiuence through
his success in treating Miss Geraldine
Farrar's voice. The system Of muscle
exercises he prescribed. it is said. has
restored the lovely tone Of the famous
singer 8 VOICE
! The national conference of the
Musical and Dramatic Guilds Of
| America will be held on Saturday.
! September 80. In the evening two
one-act plays will be given at Cen
trail High School. Francis A. Nc
| Cam is secretary pro tenn for the
, convention. On october IL, at the
Central High School. will be pre-
sented Daniel Easter Doran's three
! act drama-pageant. Columbus"
The longest Jump ever made by
a burlesque company will land Jean
i Bedinis "Chuckles of 1922" in Buffalo
August IS, to inaugurate the regu-
lar season of Columbia burlesque at
| the Gayety Theater.s "Chuckles'
season. opening at the, Oxford Music
Hall early in June, and remaining
there until August IL. scoring great
success for. American-pian burlesque.
The centenary of Brazilian inde-
! pendence will be celebrated the night
of September at Keith's Theater.
The orchestra will play "Il Guarani,"
; by the Brazilian composer. Carlos
Comes The theater will be decorated
with Brazilian and American flags.
In the boxes will be diplomats rep
resenting the South American re-
publics.
Fifty Shubert theaters in New York
may be obliged to close. according to
Lee Shubert. for lack of coal, unless
conditions remedy rapidly. Mr.. Shubert
saws that theaters have only a small
amount of coal on hand. and that as
they can only use anthracite the outlook
! Is not promising.