The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
CHERRY LANE IS GOTHAM REPLICA OF MONTMARTRE
SciOns Of Arts Live In Houses Over Stables
 And Factories

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-The Cherry Lane Colony for artists, poets and king spirits, as Christopher Morley would call them, is located just west of Sev- enth, avenue, where Bedford street crosses Commerce. Commerce street, originally called Cherry Lane, was in Revolutionary days a mere cOwpath. Here stables, factories and foundries have been turned into studio apartments and built around the Cherry Lane theater. Nearby is perfume factory, which must wait inspiration.
 This colony is not only friendly town, but it is composed of simon-pure artists It is not unlike Paris own Montmartre. There are no young ladies, or for that matter young men either, who play at painting or acting while daddy sends them their weekly check. Iu fact, not even the relatives of these artists can live in this chosen spot. We have this information from Alice ONeil herself. One would think that a young ady who has designed costumes for dite" and Kid Boots" should be enti- tied to bring in her whole family, if she so desired. But tuch is not the case, for although Miss ONeill wished to have her mother live with her, the lease did not permit it.
 It seems, however, there is an excep- tion in the case of a husband. For MT. Boissevain is allowed to occupy the same house with Edna St. Vincent Mil lay, although as far as we have been informed the husband of the poetess has made no contributions to art. The Boissevains, by the way, live in three-story house only nine and a half feet wide which was formerly. sweat shop. This and the two other apart ment houses which face Bedford street have a charming courtyard in front, with trees and a fountain made from a horses drinking trough. The en- trance to the court is through a blue wOden gate and down wide wooden steps. Letter boxes are built in the garden wall; and lanterns welcome wis itors to the houses. '
 Bride Five GrOOmS
 The artist clause has no bearing on Helen Redington and Horace Johnson, bride and bridegroom of over a year, who live in the third group of apart ments. Helen RedingtOn is a writer of short stories and Horace Johnson a composer of songs. Miss RedingtOn teaches a short-story class at Columbia. has written short stories for Good Housekeeping, EverybOdy's and the De lineatOr and one of her stories, ''Ques- tioning Thirty" is in Blanche COltOn Williams collection of Thrice Told Tales"
 Her husband is an associate editor on Musical America and has published twenty-five songs since 1917, the best known of them, perhaps, being ''Thy Dark Hour" and his song cycle of four song fragments. Mir. Johnson has also set Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, Thursday to music. He has arranged music for pantomimes given by Madame Eva Alberti in the theater at the zoo in Cincinnati, and has recently been asked by her to compose the music for Marble Fauh," which she is going to produce in pantOmime form. Much of the incidental music in the plays produced by the Inter-Theater Arts has also been written by Horace Johnson.
 Types of Theaters
 The Inter-Theater Arts, which has been in existence some three and a half years. has it's school on the floor be low the JOhnsons. In addition to con ducting a school for type actors and actresses it produces plays with pro- fessionals in the Cherry Lane Theater.
 Now we must speak of the Cherry Lane Theater itself, which Rainey, Travers and Miss Vaughn built. The building was originally a box factory, but it has been remolded into a strictly up to date little theater with large and well equipped stage, convenient dress ing rooms and foyer. The theater is run on subscription basis similar to that of the ProvicetOwn theater.
 But we have not given you any bio graphical data about either Miss Vaughn, Rainey or Travers all three of whomare very well known on the West ern coast. William $. Rainey is pro- ducer for the Players Club in San Fran cisO, Reginal Travers, of the Bohemian Club, of the same city, has put on many of the famous Bohemian Grove prOduc- tions and plays iR. the Greek theater in Berkeley, California. Miss Vaughn has played leading roles in the Greek theater for a number of years. The Cherry Lane Theater is planning to produce William Congreve's Way of the World the second week in October.