Evening star., 1924-11-02

Dr. Rudolph Lothar. author of The
Werewolf has completed four new
plays, Fair Melusina," King Harle-
qutn." 'Casanovas Son." and "The
Black Mass" The first two are ready
for New York production.
Manager Lyons OF the Gayety
announces that Tuesday. election
night, an extra midnight performance
of "NiftieS of 1925" will be given
beginning promptly. at midnight. dur
ing which election returns by "a direct
wire installed in the theater will
be read from the stage. This per-
formance will be just the same as
a regular performance running the
full time with nothing left out.
A new character will be intro
duced at the Gayety Theater this
week by Will II. Ward. a veteran
comic of Columbia burlesque. 1t will
be in the form of a 'wise-cracking'
boob. Ward expects his new charac
ter to gain many friends.
Violet Mckee, who is making her
initial Columbia burlesque bow with
"Nifties of 1925" has been acclaimed
the greatest dancing soubrette in the
show business. She was formerly
featured member of Earl Lindsays
Dance Creations"
Negotiations have been completed
by Walter Jordan, producer of
Ashes" the drama starring Florence
Reed and J. c. Williamson, Aus
tralian producer. whereby the latter
will present Ashes in Australia
Reginald Goode. the playwright, is a
well known Australian actor.
Ruth Chatterton will have asso-
ciated with her in The Magnolia
Lady" an actress who has been her
mascot since she made her first i'm
portant appearance on the American
stage in THE Rainbow" The actress
is Ethel Martin. who made her own
stage debut in Brown OF Harvard,
and who had important roles in THE
Rainbow" which gave Miss Chatter
ton her first big chance, and Daddy
Long Legs" in which Miss Chatter
ton was first starred. Miss Martin
will have a particularly stately role
in THE Magnolia Lady.
Few leading women in present day
burlesque have had finer experience
than Nellie Nice, the prima donna
with "Grown-Up Babies" of the Mu-
tual circuit. After playing in Keith
vaudeville, with an act of her own
that was billed as Nellie Nice and
Her Boys" Miss Nice appeared in
The Wizard OF o." The Ginger
bread Man" and other musical COM
edies. Her personality and splendid
singing voice have brought her dis
tinction in burlesque. "
Crane Wilbur has always had d
hunger for writing rather than for
anything else. He explains that his
education was gained as a reporter
on a Rochester paper. Some of Mr..
Wilbur's successful plays are The
Winged Cod Arabian Nighties,"
AN Eye for an Eye" The Unseen
Hand" and his new production, The
Imported Wife"
That o1d-time burlesque is wanted
in Washington is said to be evidenced
by the capacity patronage Of the Mu-
tual Theater on Pennsylvania avenue
near Ninth, where attractions of the
Mutual burlesque circuit are being
presented.
1t is not a miniature revue in imi-
tation of those offered by such men
as Ziegfeld, George White and Earl
Carroll. 1t is simply what the name
"burlesque" implies. with the claim
that each attraction that plays the
house Is different from its predecessor.
Miss Buena Vista Of the New Music
BOX Revue stepped out from the
chorus one night in New York and
replaced for the evening one Of the
principal dancers, who was ill., She
had long waited for the chance and
she made good. AS a result she will
be seen at the National this week in
"The Waltz Of Long Ago" as "The
Little Girl of the Party" and in sew
eral of the dance numbers. She be-
gan her dancing career in the ballet
of the Eastman Theater, an institu-
tion established by George Eastman,
and presented by him to the Uni
versity OF Rochester for the promo
tion Of the arts of music and dane
ing.