Evening star., 1925-08-30

farce-comedy, opened in New
York last week
"All Dressed Up" Arthur Rich.
mans new comedy. had its first hear
ing last night In New York
Up the Line" by Henry Fisk Carl
ton, Will be produced this season by
the Geddes- Herndon organization. IT.
is Harvard prize play.
The cast of Friend Wife " by
Caesar Dunn, will include Donald
Foster, VIII Demind. Clara Moore,
Mayo Methot and John DAILY Murphy.
Rehearsals of The Passionate
Prince" i'm which Lowell Sherman
will be starred will begin Septem-
ber Z.
THE Little Mouse" with Mabel
Normand as its star. opened at STAN
ford, Conn. last Friday night and was
well received.
The cast OF "Gunpowder." by ]. G.
and Elliot Nugent, will include j. {.
Nugent, Frank Conroy. Mary Dun
can. Sue MacManamy. George Alison,
Brandon Peters. Helen Carew and Ed
win Mills.
The Green Hat" Michael Arlen's
dramatization of his own novel, is
announced to begin It's New York en-
gagement September Is. The cast
will be headed by Katherine Cornell,
Marealo Gilmore and Leslie Howard.
Blythe DAILY will have the only
woman's role in Maxwell Anderson's
Outside Looking In" al the Green
wich Village Theater early next
month.
Clifton Webb it is announced, will
sponsor a special production OF Ham
let with the east in modern clothes
during the coming season. A similar
I production was made in London last
Tuesday night.
Rose Marie" will celebrate its first
I birthday Wednesday night. September
>. at the Imperial Thcater. New
York. Arthur llammerstein. the pro
ducer viii play host tn the entire
company. Supper will be served on
the stage at midnight. followed by
dancing and entertainment.
Augustus Thomas play. Still
Waters" the first that he has writ
ten in several years, is now in re
hearsal and will he presented next
month. The cast includes John Craig.
Elise Bartlett, Mona Kingsley. Herb
ert Watrous. David Tearle, Georgia
Drew Mendum and Edward Emery.
Mrs. Samuel insult, wife of the Chi
cago traction maEnate. who was an
actress before her marriage. is return
ing to the stage this Winter. She will
| play the part of Lady Teazle' In
| Sheridan's THE School for Scandal,
which the newly formed firm of Druce
& Street, will produce. At pro
] J. IL L..
! bert Druce last Spring in Chicago
! Mrs. insult played the part so well
! that Druce wanted her for the New
! York production. 1t is only recently
| that she decided to come East for
| the play.
! THE FAN of Eve" play by John
Emerson and Anita Loos, will be
| presented in New York tomorrow
| night with Ruth Gordon in the leading
| role The cast will include also Regi-
! nald Mason Claude King. Diantha
| Pattison and Cora WitherspoOn.
! Michael Arlen's second play. These
| Charming People" will have its first
| showing at Atlantic City September
| IS. reaching New York a week later
/ Allan Dinehart not only IS the fea.
J tured player in Richard Herndon's :
/
| reaches New York October 4. but also
| its director.
/ Iaverne Lambert, last year in
| "Vanities." has been engaged as a solo
dancer for the new Earl Carroll show
| "How's the King" in which Joe
| Cook is to be the star.
"The Fall Guy" the American com
| edy in which Ernest Truck plays the
| title role, will end its New York run
| Friday evening. September 4, and the
company. headed by MIR. Truck, will
begin an engagement Sunday evening,
| September 6 at the Adelphi Theater
! Chicago.
Rufus lie Marie. co.producer with
| the Shuberts of Gay Paree." has
placed Leon Barte, male dancer. fea-
| tured with the Gertrude Hoffma mn
| girls. in Artists and Models, Paris
Edition" under contract to stage the
ballet numbers for his subsequent pro
ductionS Barte is responsible Ior the
direction of the old Lace number.
an outstanding scene in the Shubert
! Theater revue.
| Isabelle Brown. one of the prettiest
girls in the June Days" chorus, IS
now wearing a gold medal she received
| for writing the best composition on
| the art of dancing. Miss Brown grad
uated from the Washington Irving
| High School. New York. last June and
went directly to this play.
| AL Jolson, starring in Pig Boy,
| has announced that he will enter for
the first time his own thoroughbred,
named after his production. in the
races at Belmont. AS jockey he has
already engaged Nate Goodby of Eng
land, who is temporarily driving Big
| Boy in the handicap scene of the play.
For the final week of the National
| Theater Players run attractive SOU
venir programs have been published
containing interesting data and auto
graphed pictures of all members Of
! the cast
! Wagenhalls & kemper, original pro-
! ducers of why Men Leave Home, ="