Evening star., 1925-06-21
In the Spotlight

NTHE MYSTERIOUS WAY" by
Sam Forest. started it's tryout
tour at Stamford. Conn, last Thurs.
day.
David Belasco has engaged c. H.
Crocker-K King for one of his produc.
tions next season.
"All Wet" by Willis Maxwell Good.
hue, Is announced to open in New
York June 20 under the management
of John Henry Mears.
Caught" a comedy drama by Kate
L. McLaurin, will be produced by Gus
tav Blum in September.
Sara Sothern has been added to the
cast of The Dagger" which l.. Law
renee Weber will place in rehearsal
tomorrow in New York.
Dave Stamper has been engaged to
| write musical numbers for the Zieg.
field Follies exclusively for the ne0f
two years.
Basil Dean has bought the English
rights 10 Eugene O'Neill's Desire
Under the Elms." and is to give 1t a
London production in the Fall.
Artists and Models" the Paris
edition, opened in New Haven last
Tuesday and will have its Broadway Y
premiere tomorrow night.
Dorothy Wahl. who was in the
! "Follies Bergere" in Paris, will join
the cast of MY Girl" this week.
Lila Lee. the well known screen
star, now playing In The Bride Re-
tires" has been voted the most pop
ular actress" by the school children
of Jamaica. Long Island.
The Shuberts announced last week
that they had taken over the Olympic
Theater, in Chicago. The first at
traction there in the Fall will be
'Riquette," a new operetta by Oscar
! Strauss.
Rafael Sabatini will come to Amer.
| York of The Carolinian," his new
play. which will be produced by
/, Charles l.. Wagner, with Sidney
| Blackmer in the leading role.
| THE Harem' closed it's New York
| run week ago last night. 1t will be
| resumed August 3. and will then con
| tinue at the Belasco Theater until the
coming of the new play in which Mr.
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| Vivienne Osborne will retain the part
| of Carla when The Hsrem" reopens.
Sweet Rebel" musical comedy
| by Herbert Fields. Lorenzo M. Hart
and Richard Rogers, will be placed in
rehearsal tomorrow with Helen Ford
| in the leading role. Another musical
comedy by the same authors. with
Puck and White in the principal
po rt will q mo
! time.
Dixie Boatwright, of the chorus of
F., Louie the 14th." hailing from Geor-
gia and only Il years old, has been
signed by David Belasco to play a
part in one of his shows next Fall
| Mr.. Belasco has intimated that he be-
lieves he has made find"
Cissie Lotus, well known imitator
| and monologist, was really robbed of
| nearly $4,000 worth of jewels, taken
! from her room at a prominent hotel
| in New York, last Saturday night
| Miss Lotus remarked when inter
viewed that she only wished it was
an advertising scheme
Margot Kelly sailed for England
| last week for short vacation and
| before going on board the steamer
| announced production of Wede-
| kinds Pandora Box" for the Fall.
Arch Selwyn. the producer. an
nounced last week that Jack Bu-
| chanon. Beatrice Lille and Gertrude
Lawrence will head the cast of the
| new Chariot Revue when it opens in
New York November II.
Love for Love" had it's one hun.
| dredth performance last week in
New York. the longest run the play
| has ever had. 1t has been produced
only few times since 1880.
Elliott Nugent, who Is now starring
] in New York in THE Poor Nut" has
| just completed a motion picture called
'Headliner,' with Alice Joyce and
| Malcolm MacGregor.
William A. Brady is giving no re-
vivals this season, but Is keeping
| busy. He has started rehearsals of a
| new American play called "Devils:'
| written by Daniel n. Rubin. Stam.
| ford will see it's premiere.
One of the funniest episodes ever
devised for farce is the fight in the
| dark scene" in the last act of THE
| n IL h>>-l:-ll' -.