Evening star., 1924-06-22
In the Spotlight.


duce a musical comedy with score
by Werner Jansen.
Three Boys and Judy" by Mark
July Z, under the management of
John Henry Mears
Hello Girls" a Sketch by Roger
Gray and Werner Jansen. seen at
York. will be in the next Music
! Box Revue.
THE Sable Coat" a new melo-
drama by Dorrance Davis. will open
at Atlantic City. June 80. under the
management of William A. Brady.
Stoops to Conquer" at the Empire
Theater. New York. recently. played
to receipts of over s25.000.
Her ,S,5;o Way Out" pa, a neW ;T, play by
New York tomorrow night
The Mask and the Face" an
Italian tragi-comedy by Luigi Char
elli. adapted by Somerset Vaughan.
Frohman Company next season.
Edgar Selwyn has written the
book. Dorothy Parker the lyrics and
Jerome Kern the music of new
musical comedy which Philip Good
man will produce next season.
Alan Brooks. who plays the part
of Toliver in Expressing Willie"
has written a one-act play to be
produced in vaudeville.
When A. H. Woods brings The
Fake" to this country from London.
George Probert will have leading
role This is the new play by
Frederick Lonsdale.
A melodramatic comedy by Hubert
Osborne, in which Sidney Blackmar is
featured, will be presented for the first
time tomorrow night in New York by
Charles l. Wagner.
Winchel Smith has been granted the
degree of doctor of letters by TRINITY
College, Hartford, Conn.
Edgar MacGregor has arrived at Los
Angeles to give a preliminary try-out
to open Gate" a play by himself and
Tadema Bussiere, which will be pro-
duced in September in New York, after
Keep Kool'' has grown cold.
Tom Johnstone and Will B. Johnstone,
who wrote the book and lyrics or III
Say She Does" are at work on mu-
sical comedy version of Extra
years ago. 1t will be called Try and
Get It."
"My Man." by William LIE Baron,
will be presented by Lawrence Weber
in August. 1t is characterized as "a
drama of American home life" Mr.;
LIE Baron has written also two musical
comedies, Cain and Mabel and 'Oh,
Baby" which Mr.. Weber Will produce.
A musical version of ''Six-Cylinder
Love" is to be made by its author,
William Anthony MCGUIRE.
Mrs. Stuart Robson has been added
| to the cast Of Love EN- and Leave
| EN-" the new j. v. A Weaven comedy,
in which Gertrude Bryan will be fea-
| tured.
BELLS of Yesterday" a new musical
play, goes into rehearsal shortly in New
York.
Thomas Duggan and Norman Fres-
colt. vaudeville actors, have completed
| a comedy, AN Ace in the Hole" which
| they expect to produce next season.
Three religious students who said
they came all the way from
| small town near Lassa, the famous
Moslem city in the Plateau of Thibet,
saw innocent Eyes" at the WINTER
Garden last week. Dressed in their
native garb, they attracted consider
able attention.
Charles r. Farrar, sports and the
atrical man, who sailed on the >. >.
| America with the Olympic teams
took with him a manuscript OF ''Ihe
Melody Man." the comedy in which
= Lew Field is now playing at the
| 49th Street Theater. He expects to
| find a landing place for the play IN
| Paris.
Cosmo Hamilton, English author
and dramatist, has a unique record.
In five successive years there was no
| time when one or more of his plays
| were not running in London.
Beulah Berson, soprano solo art
ist at Crandalrs Tivoli Theater this
week, comes to Washington direct
from seasons engagement as prima
| donna of 'Iollipop," one of the musi-
| cal hits that closed as a result of the
| controversy between the Actors
| Equity and the Producing Managers
| Association. Last season Miss Berson
was a featured member of the cast of
the Music Box Revue"