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

F." A MOTHER DAY" by William J.
Perlman, author of MY Coun.
try," will be produced in New York
next week.
Treat En- Rough by Frederic
and Fanny Hatton. opened at the
Harris Theater. Chicago, last week,
and got away to a big start.
Oscar Strauss will write the score
of a new musical play in which
Allan Prior. recently seen in THE
Love Song will have the leading
role.
Howard Marsh and Evelyn Herbert
will head the cast of Princess
Flavia," on tour this season. Winnie
Lightner has been engaged for the
new edition of Gay Paree.'
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine re.
turned from Europe last week and
started rehearsals of "Juarez and
MaXimillan," which is to be the
Theater Guilds first production this
Fall.
Wanda Lyon, Edward Crandall and
Hubert Druce have been engaged to
appear with Holbrook BIinn in the
pls1y hllOW1 III lIle CT6FIIldil
as Spiel i'm Schloss."
A London revival of Madame x"
in which Pauline Frederick is to ap-
pear. is a recent announcement. Miss
Frederick is now starring in the play
in Los Angeles.
B. F. Withbeck, producer of 1.-THE
Little Spitflre," will present another
comedy by Myron c. Pagan, entitled
THE Fascinating Devil"
Naughty Riquette" opened last
week at Long Branch with MitA and
Stanley Lupino in the principal roles.
Ernest Truck sailed last week for
London to make his debut before Eng
lish audiences in THE Fall Guy"
Beatrice Noyes also is going to play
opposite him in London.
Helen Hayes has received a cable
asking her to star in London in
new play by +. Tennyson Jess,
author of Quarantine" Owing to
her success in What Every Woman
Knows" Miss Hayes has declined the
offer.
Mrs. William Anthony Mcguire,
wife of the playwright, is playing a
Hole in "1f I Was Rich" in New
York.
Honeymoon Lane Eddie Dow
in Atlantic City. THE Ramblers,"
with Clarke and McCullogh, got under
way in Brooklyn at the same time.
Irving Caesar and David Freedman
are announced as the authors of the
Ziegfeld production in which Belle
Baker will be starred.
Pauline Fain in her play. whats
the Use?" opens in New York this
week. 1t is described as a character
comedy" and Yvonne Manon, Lillian
Shrewsbury, Helen Gropper and
Henry r. Irving are in the cast.
Miss Bo-Peep." a musical comedy
with book and lyrics by Thomas F.
Fallon, author of "The Last Warn
ing" and music by Maurice L. Albert,
will be produced in November by
Lyle d. Andrews. 1t will be pre-
sented on a larger scale than Mr..
Andrews previous musical produc-
tions.
Owing to delays in the completion
of the new John Golden Theater in
New York, 1.-TWO Girls Wanted will
open at the Little Theater Thursday
night of this week.
A second company will act "The
Great Vagabond," in Chicago begin
ming tomorrow night, and a third
company, now in rehearsal, will open
in Detroit in fortnight.
Chamberlain Browns production
of Kept" by Pierre Gendron, will
reopen in Providence, r. l., tomorrow
night and IS expecting to go into New
York late in the month. The cast
will include Minnie Dupree. Zola Tai
ma, Edmund Elton and Valerie Va
laire.
Jed Harris has added to his list
of contrasted productions a. new COM
edy by Maxwell Anderson called "Sat-
urday's Children" The central figure
is a stenographer and the plot con-
Germs her activities in an office, in a
boarding house and in a somewhat
turbulent matrimonial venture
A new pair of collaborators is re-
ported in Ring Lardner and Robert
f. Sherwood, who are working togeth-
Nest" the tale that gives it's title to
Mr.. Lardner'S latest volume Of short
stories.
The response to the innovation by
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