Evening star., 1924-06-08

MIsT1NGUE1T' star of the Paris
Casino, whom Washington saw
in Innocent Eyes''-she of the mil
lion dollar underpinnings"-ha de-
clared that she proposes hereafter to
spend six months of every year in the
United States.
The SelwynS announce that Raquel
Meller, who has conquered the world
elsewhere including Paris and the
music halls of Europe, will certainly
come to America next October. The
French critic Nozier made her famous
with the phrase. This woman brings
beauty into our lives" She is Span
ish star.
James Bernard Pagan, British play
wright, is to collaborate with Myron
Two Strangers From Nowhere"
upon new play for the American
stage. 1t was James Bernard Pagan
who dramatized The Garden of AL
lah" and who wrote The Earth" a
play of London newspaper life.
Frederick Lonsdale's daring COM
edy, Spring Cleaning" will reach
its 350th performance in New York
June 10. A second company, Just as
good as the original" will present it
on tour next season.
The Artists and Models having
thoroughly tested New York patron
Chicago. whence the company has
gone.
S: Jay Kaufman, newspaper writer
Town." the new Century Roof revue
has gone abroad with David Burton
in search of new material.
las Wexford, the well known come
dian, has signed a three-year con-
tract with F1orenz Ziegfeld and will
head the new "Follies''
Early next season Eddie Cantor
will produce a new comedy, REST
less Joe Malone" by and with ]. c.
Nugent.
Love EN- and Leave En-" a new
ing Gertrude Bryan, will open in
Asbury Park the last of this month.
Mrs. Leslie Carter. whose failure
night at the Palace, New York, was
due to the disappearance of her lead
ing man, started Tuesday night with
Edward Arnold, late of The Nervous
Wreck
Lenore Uric closed her season in
Newark last Saturday night, with
"kiki," and this week sails for Eu-
rope for a prolonged vacation. She
will have a new play for next season.
John Murray Anderson, who has
been abroad for the past two months,
returned to New York on the Majes-
tic last week, with James Reynolds,
nual Greenwich Village Follies." :"
Many surprises are promised in his
new show.
Lew Fields is minus the first five
chapters of his stage memoirs, which
he lost when thieves broke into his
Times Square office Saturday and
rif1ed his desk. Besides the manu-
script he lost also a bookful of valu-
able press clippings.
Although the New York premier
of Dancing Mothers' is six weeks
off. Edgar Selwyn, producer and CO.
author with Edmund =. Goulding, is
fer for the screen rights, the title
alone being unusually valuable.
$50 This Is Politics." a comedy, by
Barry Connors, will open in New
York this week SO as to be ready
for the Democratic convention. The
cast includes Marjorie Gateson, Glenn
Anders, Alice Fleming, J. c. Nugent
and Lolita Robertson
The right to produce "The Melody
Man in Germany, the comedy in
which Lew Fields is starring at the
Forty-ninth Street Theater, New York,
has been sold to Adolf Won Koenig. a
German theatrical agent residing in
New York now, who will begin trans
lating the play for production next
fall. ''The Melody Man. has proved
popular to the native German popu-
lstion because it's. the first play
since the war in which there is .
sympAthet3e German character