Evening star., 1924-09-21
In the Spotlight.

SnEAR SIR" viii open at the
Times Square Theater, New
York. Tuesday night.
Tom Powers will have the leading
male role in Martin Browns new
play. Great Music"
Sweet Rebel" a musical play by
Lorenz NJ. Hart, Richard Rodgers and
Herbert Fields, will open in 'Novem-
Der.
.Tn His Arms" by Lynn Startling.
will open in Newark tomorrow night
with Margaret Lawrence as its star:
The Awful Mrs. Jackson" by John
Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet.
will have its New York premiere
September %.
Rehearsals of the Tiger Cats"
which will have Robert Lorraine and
Katherine Cornell in its leading roles,
we're started last week by David Be
lasco. 1t will open in New York the
middle OF October
William Courtleigh and Marjorie
Gateson will be featured hereafter
in Strange Bedfellows."
"Minck." new comedy by George
s. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. based
on short story by the latter. will
open in New York next Wedn esday
night Winthrop Ames is the pro-
ducer.
Maxine Brown has succeeded Lor-
saine Manvile as leading woman in
Plain Jane" which will leave New
York for a road tour.
Louis Casavant and Walter Abel
have been added to the cast of The
Saint" which opens next month at
the Greenwich Village Theater.
The Proud Princess" a new play
by Edward Sheldon and Dorothy Dom
nelly, will be produced on Broadway
this Fall by Stuart Walker, after
early try outs in Baltimore and Gin
cinnati by stock companies.
"Iazybones." owen Davis's latest
play, will open at the Vanderbilt
Theater. New York, tomorrow night.
Arthur Richman, the playwright,
made many lasting acquaintances in
this city during the time he was
member of the offcers' training camp
at Camp Humphreys.
Robert Milton. whose first produc-
ton. The Far Cry" will be seen this
week AT the NAtlOndl, lnme eCldlSiy
after the Arthur Richman play is
launched in New York. will start on
his second venture, The Dark Angel"
which will go into rehearsal within a
few weeks.
leading role in Cock of the Roost."
has had long and honored career on
the American stage. AS a boy he
was the dashing tenor in The Belle
Of New York" and recently was fea-
tured in Three Wise Fools" and
"Thank-U." His natural talent came
as heritage from his father, the
late f. L. Davenport. who was con-
sidered one of Americas greatest
tragedians. His sister Fanny also
was a famous actress star % years
ago.
Elizabeth Risdon, who is enacting
her first character role in Cock of
the Roost." was the chief support Of
George ArliSs in The Green God
dess'' and a featured player in The
NightCap."
Miss Helen Fox, who plays the role
Of Babe La MARI in Sitting Pretty"
is said to be one of the few women
in or out of her profession who can
take an automobile completely apart
and reassemble it again the same as
an experienced mechanic.
Miss Emma Haig, the little come
dienne Of +. Ray Comstock and Nor
ris GeSt current musical comedy,
boasts of being a real dirt farmer,
and is given to welding a wicked hoe
in her back yard. Miss Haig has no
real hobby other than her profession,
and appreciates being thought of just
like any other of her American
sisters.
Stewart and French, producers of
The Show OF" will soon place in
rehearsal a dramatization of En-
chanted April" by Kane Campbell.
Ernest vajda's The Little Angel"
was placed in rehearsal last week by
Brock Pemberton. The piece is being
directed by Herbert Druce.
Clubs Are Trumps" is the new
name OF d play formerly known as
Around in Par" in which Harry
Green is being starred by Walter
Hast.
Tom Barry's Dawn" Wilmer and
vincents second offering of the sea-
son, will go into rehearsal tomor-
row, with Emma Dunn as the fea-
tured player.
William Gaxton has been engaged
as leading comedian of That's That"
musical comedy to be produced by
Rufus La Marie.
Eugene O'Neilrs "All Gods Chillun
Got Wings" Is to be played in Ger
man this season by Max Reinhardt's
Berlin Deutsches Theater.
The Selwyn Office announces that
Helen Hayes is under contract to
Edgar Selwyn for the run of "Danc-
ing Mothers" in New York. and that
she may thus be unable to appear in
the Theater Guilds announced pro-
duction of Caesar and Cleopatra"
with Miss Hayes as Cleopatra.
s"Bewitched," by Sidney Howard
and Edward Sheldon, will be pro-
duced by John Cromwell in New York
October l, with a cast including Jose
Ruben, Florence Eldrfdge and Glen
Anders.
: kid Boots which had it's inau-
Gural in this city early last season,
attained it's three hundredth perform
ance in New York at the SeIwyn The
alter last Tuesday night.
Joseph NJ Gates has a play called
This Is My Boy" in rehearsal in
New York for an October opening.
Robert Williams has a leading part.
In 1901 Purnel Pratt made his stage
debut in "Mam'Selle Atkins 'Awkins,"
and every year since 1902, when he
had his first speaking part in "Foxey
Quiller," this sterling actor can boast
of a character creation on Broadway.