Evening star., 1926-06-06
In the Spotlight

John Il. IIAZzARD will be seen in
- Ziegfield's palm Beach Girl" due
| In New York the latter part OF this
| month.
Eddie Cantor left last week for Los
Angeles to make a motion picture OF
the musical comedy kid Boots"
Betty Pierce, who appeared in
White Cargo" will soon be seen in
THE Devils Tattoo" which Is de-
scribed as University Of Southern
California prize play. 1t was orig
inally a vaudeville act.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is due
in New York In the Fall. Edgar Sell
wyn announces that the Anita Loos-
John Emerson comedy will open there
on September 20, with June Walker
as the blonde.
Edward Goodman, general director
Of THE Stagers," will direct Patrick
Kearney's dramatiZation of IAN Amer
lean Tragedy" Theodore Dreisers 8
novel, which Horace Liveright will
present next season.
A. II. Woods will be interested in
the London production Of "Give and
Take" which he presented in this
Louis Mann and George Sidney in
the cast.
Judith Anderson, who has been tour
ing in 1.-THE Dove this season, will
appear in Keith vaudeville during the
Summer. Her playlet will be "Al.
most" by Vincent Lawrence.
A play called 1.-The Eskimo" by
Gene Markey and Samuel Hoffenstein,
is in rehearsal in Detroit. Ann Hard
ing and Rollo Peters will appear In
it for three weeks. 1t will be pre-.
serted in New York next season by
A. Fl. Woods.
William Anthony Mcclure. pro-
ducer, will have four new plays for
New York next season. Three, Of
them are his own--"If Was Rich"
now playing in Chicago; Mother,
Dear" and 1.-THE Ladies Man." The
fourth will be Peace Harbor," by
William II. Mozart. He also will be
occupied with a musical show to sue
ceed his kid Boots" Mr.. Mcclure
began his career as producer this
season with Twelve Miles Out"
A new comedy, Home Again" by
George Barr McCutcheon, is an
nounced by A. l.. Erlanger for its
premiere in Brooklyn June 81,
Olive Reeves Smith, daughter Of II.
Reeves Smith, has been added to the
cast Of STRAY Sheep" which opens
in Brooklyn tomorrow night.
David Belasco has accepted d play
by William Hurlbut, author Of Bride
of the Lamb for production next
season. Its title has not yet been de-
cided upon.
Gertrude Lawrence will desert her
London associates next season and
play for Aarons and Freddy. in their
unnamed musical comedy, with Gersh-
win melodies. Aarons and Freedley
thus far have favored America and
England with Lady, Be Good" and
"Tip-Toes.''
Mrs. Dow Cunier, whose stage name
was Ada Dow, and who died recently
in New York, Is credited with having
discovered the talents Of Julia Mar
lowe on a river boat on the Ohio,
where ''Pinafore" was being pre-
sented. Mrs. Cunier also introduced
Hitchcock, Marie Cahill and Marie
Janice.
Winthrop Ames' production of Gil
bert & Sullivan's comic opera. "Iolan-
the" celebrated its fiftieth perform
ance in New York last Tuesday night.
Mr.. Ames has decided to extend the
engagement through the Summer.
THE Spanish Nightingale" Which
Garlic Carlton will produce in New
York soon, has been played for eight
months in Vienna. Rudolph Schanzer
and Ernest Welisch wrote the book,
Leo Fall the music.
Cowboy Crazy" by Pearl Franklin
and George Abbott, is to be produced
by l.. Lawrence Weber, with Regina
Wallace in the lead.
Rhea Dively, here only a week with
the National Theater Players, and al
ready called the Venus Of the troupe.
is teaching Miss Lane and Miss Tier
ney her own version of the Australian
crawl. a stroke which allows an expert
to swim unheard-of distances without
fatigue.
The Joker, herself. is bitten in Lit
tie Miss BIuebeard," and bitten hard,
but in a rather ecstatic way, for it's
the love bug that bites her. What
begins as prank terminates in a
matrimonial melange.
1t would be no trick at all to recruit
real song and dance act from. the
ranks of the National Players. Miss
Tierney and Miss Dively both sing
and dance. Karl Nielsen and Ade-
laide Hibbard are both acrobats on the
piano keys.
Sam II. Harris has established re-
ceipts records with Cradle Snatch
ers," the comedy now in its tenth
month at the Music Boz Theater, New
York. and ''The Cocoanuts," j" featuring
the Marx brothers.
Jeanne Eagles, after four years,
will retire from Train" In August and
will be provided with new play.
Comstock and Gest are considering
the possibilities of bringing to Amer.
lea the company from the Imperial
Theater in Toxic and the world
famous Cherry Tree Dancers from
Kyoto as another facet Of the Theater
International as developed by them in
the last Ave years. The Toxic players
are famous for their posture dramas.
George Jessel will close his season
in 1.-The Jazz Singer" within q few
first motion picture, Private ley
Murphy" for the Warmers. He will
60 on the road with 1.-THE Jazz Singer"
next season.
Owen Davis new play. "The Dono-
van Affair." g. mystery play. will be
prepared for New York presentation
after Labor day, with Carol McComas
In the leading role.
'"rhe Countess Maritza," the new
vienneSe operetta, adapted by Harry
B. Smith. who wrote tho book and
lyrics. will be a Summer attraction at
Atlantic City, beginning July 8. The
musical score is by Emmerich