Evening star., 1926-05-09
In the Spotlight.

OLIVER MOROSCO will have new
~ theater in Tampa, Fla, which he
expects to use as a stock-producing
house next Fall and Winter.
David Belasco started rehearsals in
New York last Monday of Fanny" Il
comedy for Fannie Brice, by Willard
Mack and Mr.. Belasco.
The Theater Guild has purchased
the Copeau version of the Brothers
Karamazoff" and expects to include it
in its repertory program next season.
The success Of "Tiptoes" in New
York has been so pronounced that
the producers announced six COM
panies will present the musical COM
edy next season.
A letter from Vienna brings the re-
port that Max Reinhardt will produce
there a new version Of Joan of Are"
Frank Harris has written the play.
Leon Enroll reopened last week in
Louis the 14th" in Chicago. His re-
Gently injured ankle nended much
more rapidly than was thought pos
sible.
VIII Rogers sailed last week for Eu-
rope on q five.month vacation. He
will again tour the country next Sea
son with the De Res2ke Singers, under
the management of Charles l.. Wag.
ner. SO profitable have been Rogers
wanderfngs that 1t is said he will
never return to musical shows.
Last week in London C. X. Munro,
whose Eat Mrs. Beams" and Beau
Strings" are now running in New
York, had a third play produced call
ed The Mountain" which was pre-
sented by the Stage Society for a
single performance.
Among fully dozen musical come
dies which will be produced this Sum
mer In New York or nearby resorts
and Ray Dooley, and Naughty Ri
quette," starring Mitzi.
Willie and Eugene Howard have
been engaged by George White to
appear. in d new edition Of the Scan
dals."
"The Milk Kings a three-act play
by Claude Habberstad. will be the
sixth production of the subscription
season at the Triangle Theater, New
York.
Richard Herndon will present four
new plays next Autumn-"Treat EN-
Rough" Up the Line" by Henry
Ffske Carlton; Strange Gods" by
Barry Conners. and Day Lady" by
Samuel Shipman. Genevieve Tobin and
Allan Dinehart will head the Treat
EN- Rough" piece.
"The Romantic Young Lady" was
given for the first time at the Neigh
borhood Playhouse, New York. last
Monday night. 1t Is by a Spaniard. G.
Martinez Sierra, translated by Helen
and Harley Granville Barker. Mary
Ellis played the lead.
Jimmy Barton, the we'll known CO.
median, has signed a three-year con-
tract with Florenz Ziegfeld and will
appear first in the "Follies" next
month. Later on he will be starred in
Il musical comedy.
A. II. Woods has purchased for pro-
duction next season God Incarnate,"
a play by Milan Begovic of Belgrade,
Servia.
Bertran Harrison, best known as q
stage director, will soon make his first
venture as producer with a farce ~
Can't Bear It." by Russell Nedcraft
and Norma Mitchell. co-autbors Of
Cradle Snatchers." The piece is now
in rehearsal.
Billie Burke will return to the fold
next Fall in Zoe Atkins play. Pardon
My Glove" The production will be
managed by the Charles Frohman Co,
Parker Fennelly, leading man with
the Herbert Stock at IVardman Park
Theater, who is cast for the part of
the aged General in Some Baby" has
essayed this role with two other stock
companies.
Romaine Calender Of the National
Theater Players had a wide experience
in social extremes In Little Old New
York" and in white Collars" In the
first he was Cornelius Vanderbilt, with
untold fortunes awaiting him, while
in white Collars" he was q pug.
nacious truck driver, talking double
negatives
Last Monday Director Clifford
Brooke Of the National Players had a
busy and varied day. First, he had the
Dig comedy part IN White Collars"
At noon he directed the company in a
dress rehearsal, boned up betimes on
his own lines, appeared in the per
formance at night: Just before the
show time he clowned and sang over
the radio with Dorothy Tierney His
'Coster's Lullaby" song made the
ether vibrate.
In "Thank-C." which the National
Players offer this week, it requires a
fly-talking beauty from Paris to show
Main Street what an ungrateful thor
oughfare 1t sometimes is
Harry E. Humphrey, who plays the
role Of Detective WEIGH in Square
Crooks" has just completed a one.act
play called SOS Your Old Man" It
is a comedy and is said to have a novel
twist. 1t is proposed to produce it
next Fail. Besides this play, Humphrey
has written several novels In the Bret
Harte style, "The Man" and ''Ivy
Gresham's Tenderfoot" being among
his best.
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