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aX Negra and Players By BIDE DUDLEY N institution known as The Shu- bert Academy of Dramatic and Musical Art will be established om the roof of the 44th Street Theatre bout the middle of June. The echool ili have room for fifty pupils, twen- ty-five in the dramatic section and « Wke number in the musical depart- ment. These fifty will be young peo~ working for the Messrs. Shubert minor capacities in the various Bhubert shows They will be given instruction free of cost by @ faculty made up of seasoned actors and a0- New plays and musical coun- edies will be tried out with the pupils. ‘The Messrs, Shubert say they have taken this step because they find it necessary to develop talent for thelr many attractions, Tho war has cur- tailed the supply of young stage peo- | ple 60 per cent. at least, it is stated, JOLGON’S NEW VENTURE. Al Jolson has decided to try his hand at producing as a side line. In association with Harold Atteridge, he will stage a musical comedy in tho feli based on the farce, “The Third Party.” Mr. Atteridge, who writes the books for the Winter Garden shows, is transforming the farce. | A NEW ONE FOR MITZI. | Mitzi Hajos, the little Savage star, will conclude her season in “Pom Pom" at Portsmouth, N. H., Saturday night and come to New York to begin rebearsing in her next starring vo- hicle. Her new piece will be one that was tried out in stock at Hartford last summer under the title of “Whoopla.” The name will be changed, however. tour, which was remarkably success- ful, was unusual in one respect at least; despite the movement of war materials and men and tho resultant tax on railroad facilities, the produc- tion did not lose a performance. Miss Hajos’s new piece will go to Boston for @ summer engagement. | MANDY INSTRUCTS ‘EM. Mandy's due, to gredamte i, mouth et eo! ‘me's invited down. ‘Spophed to make Sn, CE ie writ me how to act— | bow to drew — be =) ge Fae to jook the part shew be comer ut, to ‘pland, ‘ma off the eat, ut to bare some sense, it's mighty pein ‘there high-toned cullege Ive turved her brain, acot her anrteg! Rome.” oye’ talk oo uben W we it ber bome, SOLDIERS TO SING. The Camp Wadsworth soldiers who ave to present “You Know Me, Al” for ten days at the Lexington Theatro, beginning to-night, will sing war wongs late this afternoon at the Divi- sion recruiting tent on Fifth Avenue, near the Public Library. SHE HAD TRIED THEM. The women who sweep tho theatres efter performances find all rorts of things Reoently a sweeper ap- proached Herman Moss, manager of the Vanderbilt, and handed him a set of falno teeth. “I found ‘em in the theatre,” she maid. “If nobody claims ‘em can I have "em?" “They wouldn't fit you," sald Mr.| be fi “Oh, yes, they will,” sald the woman. | “1 deen usin’ ‘em for two days.” | A STATUE OF BOOTH. A statue of Edwin Booth will be) . unveiled by the Players’ Club in Gramercy Park on April 23, the date gonera.iy recognized as’ William Shakespeare's birthday, Edwin T. Quinn, the sculptor, was at & loss for models for the Booth hands, One day, while seated in the Players’ Club, he saw George Gaul, of the "Seventeen" cast, light a cigarette. Gaul's hands seemed to be exactly like those of Booth, whore portrait hung in the room, and the sculptor immediately tmduced the actor to pose for him. Go! 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