Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
In the Spotlight.

MED WAYBURN'S musical comedy,
Fee" will have its premiere In
New York October 10. instead OF In
Chicago, as first announced.
Ralph Kellerd. Helen Spring and
Frank Beaston have been engaged for
she Couldn't Say No." B. NJ. Hayes
farce now in rehearsal.
Arthur Deacon has been engaged for
the Chicago company Of "yhe Vaga-
bond King" which opens on Labor
day.
THE Dancing Duchess" a Eiennese
operetta, which has been produced In
Berlin, Vienna and Hamburg. will be
presented in New York in September
by Paul NJ. Trebitch. Joseph J. Gar
rem, who wrote the book. lyrics and
music, also made the American trans
lation.
Since Brock Pemberton has renewed
his option on Galsworthy's THE Silver
Box" Eva La Gallienne announces
that this play has been dropped from
the schedule of the Civic Repertory
Theater. 1t will be replaced by an
American work soon to be made
public.
DR.. Louis Sunshine will present II.
Q. U. One Woman" which was tried
out last Winter in Buffalo and in
Philadelphia August 80. The play is
scheduled for New York two weeks
later. 1t is now rehearsing under
the direction of Clark Silvernail.
Sour Grapes" with Alice Brady
as its star, is announced to open in
New York Labor day. September s.
The play is the work of Vincent Law.
renee and is being produced by Will
liam Harris, jr.
Henry Stillman has been engaged bv
Earl Carroll to stage and direct mo.
l., play by J. Jefferson Farjeon,
winch Will have a. New York opening
the second week in September, accord,
ing to present plans.
If the verdict of the papers mean
awning at all in the matter Of Broad.
way forecast David Belasco has an
old shioned melodramatic hit in "All
the way From Texas" the play by
Willard Mack, which opened last Mon.
DAY night In Atlantic City. Beth
Merrill. especially, comes in for ex.
uberant praise.
1o!i (odkley mas been engaged
as reading woman in Service for
Two. the play by Martin Flavin
winch Is scheduled to open the new
season in New York August 80. Iden
Payne Is rehearsing the cast.
A rather tragic item comes from
the office of the New York Theater
Guild announcing that IS students
have been dropped from it's school
of acting after preliminary month.
Fifty are left to continue their work
in this course. to which apparently
many are called but few are chosen
The school begins it's new term in
September.
A sister to One Mans Woman"
late offering of last season, is an
nounced for this season in ANY
Mans Woman which will. as was
the first. be written and produced
by Michael kallessor.
Richard Herndon will start re-
hearsals at once of Treat En-
Rough" a new play by Frederic and
and George Gaul will be featured
in it.
Una O'Connor. who appeared in
Autumn Fires" during it's London
run. will play her original part in
the Irish play in this country.
Sam H. Harris latest play went
into rehearsal last week. 1t is called
Sisters Three" by John Willard, au-
thor of The Cat and the Canary"
Sam Forrest is staging it.
The Playshop will start its season
in one week with a comedy called
"Herman's Harem." the first of four
plays on the schedule. This group
is the new organization which opened
to more than fair success with mot
Herbert" last season.
1t now seems that the much herald
ed season of Sacha Guitry. with
Yvonne Printemps and his company,
will not be devoted entirely to MO
Fart A. II. Woods is announcing
"a limited season in repertoire
though the list of the other plays has
not as yet been announced.
One girl in Washington was tickled
to tears that Gertrude Ederle won
her way across the English Channel
Rhea Dively, with the National
Theater Players. herself an expert
swimmer. hoorayed when Miss Ederle
showed up a victor. How thrillingw
she crooned.
Having staged over 300 plays. Cliff
ford Brooke. director of the National
Theater Players the past two sea-
son. thinks he has hung up an
enviable record. lie has directed
everything from musical comedy to
Shakespeare and back again In his
time, including "How's the king?"
the new Anne Nichols production.
Dorothy Tierney Of the National
Theater Players. mounting as their
next production, "Applesauce." is a
mixture of Irish and French. From
the Celts she gets her humor; from
the Gallo branch of the family she
draws her sense of the artistic,
which has come to excellent account
in work of designing interior decora-
lions for the National stock produc-
lions.
Crosby Gaige and Hugh Ford. will
start rehearsalS within the next two
weeks. Of 1.-THE Man Who Forgot"
by Owen Davis and 8. N. Behrman.
This play is unique excursion, in
dramatic form. into the realm of the
subconscious made popular by Drs.
Freud, Brill, Jung. Tridon and others.
1t was performed last month at
Skowhegan, Me-, by Howard Lind
says stock company. with Arthur