The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1920, Page 20

ot ‘THE NEW PLAYS © Heavy With Gloom BY CHARLES DARNTON vens “Jane Clesy.” ‘But Nike ter sth before her, kills herself. v AM H. HARRIS and Irving Ber-; dent and will need the Levy vote, | lin. bave decided to build a theatre, They have purchased a gite at Nos. 239 to 247 West 46th Street from L. and A. Pincus and M. I Goldstone, who bid it in at the re- fent sale of the Astor property, and Wil take possession on May 1. ‘work of erecting the theatre will be- gin immediately after. The now se Will be called the Music Box Swill he devoted to the prasenta- | tion of musical plays, the first of which will be a revue by Mr. Berlin. Harris and Berlin say they hope to build New York's most beautiful playbouse. ‘TO PRESENT “OH, HENRY!” re C. Deitrich, well known 48 @ producer of films, starring Doris Kenyon, ix to enter the field of spoken drama. His finst production ‘will bea farce-comedy called “Oh, Henry! Maroh 26 and 27. it “A Wak p b | When these Famous Players- Earico Caruso sent Lee Shubert a tee Mies heck, yesterday for a box for the |Poriet Mr ‘pert at the Century Th accompanying the check sal the tenor woyld not taxe the box if bis order happened to be the thir- ere. It wasn't, It was exactly the 977th, | the writer of this col- tted by Jeff Nutt. The play, “ig in rehearsal, will first be the Columbia Theatre, Far y, Friday and Saturday, It will then go to n for a week. In the cast ‘ excellent farceurs as Dallas ra ; William Roselle, Florence | Stranger,” will be used in vaudeville Carrette, Eva Condon, Perce Benton, | by Robert T. Hat Rial, Catharine Carroll and james Cormican, “Oh, Henry!” is as an antidote for the aded Bergenth ‘Amendment. George Y vidn iy staging it. CAST NOW COMPLETE. ‘Lee Shubert has completed the cast ak.Hnd, Marriage,” the new y by Owen Davis. In it are ‘Wallace, Marjorie Gateson, Kath- La Salle, Robert Ober, Maude , Emily Alden, Heyward Ginn, es Gotthold and Guy Nichols. , Davis will stage the play. ALONG COMES DURANT Crané Wilbur scuttered fou or fivé around among the producers recentiy) and now comes Harry Durant,'who has been writing for the Lasky Corporation, with four. He has placed “The Beau- Xirsine ‘with George Broadhurst, an Within” with Oliver Bailey, “Neither Do They Spin" with Law- ‘Webber and an unnamed melo- drame with A. H. Woods. As if it weren't enough to write ‘em, Mr, Durant announces that he has ar- Yauged to produce “Growing Pains,” a comedy by Sidney Toler. ACCEPTS “NOA LUA” E. Carlton announces that he has accepted a new musical pla: hx Philip Bartholomae and Lawrence ie Mr. Carlton will sail for London on March 20. ager entitled Noa Lua,” in wh Will, staf Edith Day in Septembe, CARUSO SUPERSTITIOUS formance of “Florodore tre April 5. HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. The film writers go into the work of providing spcken drama ez ey Have both hands full o is so simple that no one can imitate him, a fact sugested, If not) ized by “Musk” on Saturday night at the Punch and Judy | In entering the managerial field with this Scandinavian) » Mesure. Dodge and Porany may safely claim the distinct\on of hav- | juced the most unhappy play of the Woesn't matter so much that “Musi Heth the play and the characters, with a single except are hopelessly | TFeéonle de Souiny has seized upon the interesting idea that a husband | father may bring disaster upon his family by senseless and extravagant | ing, only to make it uninteresting. With much the same provinc!al | material that Ibsen has used, this author fails to be dramatic. Although wo People shoot themselves, the play ha» none of the tragic grotesqueness | 0 “Hédda Gabler.” It would be a matter of indifference—or perhaps relief 49140 Asnerican audience if all the people killed themselves, for they are | Roo pw ately for their bad manners and wholly lacking |o the humor j that e - ‘to be quite fair, there is one moment that has something big in !t. | ‘This ts fet when the wife claims her right to her husband after he has been | eit eda to be a forger and his son has offered him a pistol. To the woman is merely a word. What would be left to her through the long | empty years, with her children growing away from her and inaking their own lives, and her husband in his grave? Let him go to prison; she would | ‘wait for Aim to come out and be with her again. Her words have the ring | and justice, Then the play goes on again in its arbitrary, obvions | way. On the very day that the man is to return, his wife's long faith in him | tg destroyed by the woman on whom he Even in her cry of outraged faith, Blanche Yurka was a commonplace Wife, giving a conscientious though rather colorless performance, Yvonne Garrick was thoroughly alive and attractive as the naughty Antoinette, whose perfume gave Elizabeth’ a headache and the play its name, She might be described as a healthy actress. Vadim Uraneff played the moody gon as though he were an Oswald without the slightest desire to see the sun, and Henry Mortimer, as the foolish husband, was consistently on the ‘Tt was refreshing t» go out into the cold night air after “Musk.” _ About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ft ir y i i A “Attention, Limerickers! Before] jreasie ason. is heavy with gloom as that wandered money, and so Elizabeth, | here goes: | There was a young fellow named) Doffin, Who lied to his friends very offen. One day he took sick | And died kinder quick, And now he lies still—in his coffin. A STAGE ON A STAGE. In order to take care of some un- usual scenic effects in “What's In a Name," the new musical piece pro- duced by John Murray Anderson, Inc., a special stage is being built over the regular one at Maxine Elliott's Theatre. The stage crew is Deing instructed in the new methods of handling scenery called for by the show. The opening wil take place Wednesday evening. GOSSIP. Joe Weber has a musica called “Honey Dew" In re! Max Spiegel has accepted for pro- duction a farce called “Over Sun- day.” Mary Cecil of “Scandal” will join her husband in Cuba about May 16 Dr. Frank Crane's playlet, “The | show John McKee, age director for Henry W. Savage, Inc., has returned from’ Chicago, where he saw “See Saw" open, This is Irish week at the Capitol, Ono of the features is “A Bit of Blarney,” in which an Irish jaunt- ing car ‘is used. Marjorie Rambeau assumed the lead- ing fominine role in “The Sign on the Door” at the Republic Saturday and scored a triumph. Gilda Gray thas given a silver cup as a prize in an exhibition fox trot contest at the Terrace Garden Dance | Palace to. Capt. Dana Pond, begun work on a full-length 5 of Vivian Tobin, appearing in ings.” Irma Harrison, film star, has re- turned from Georgia, where she acted in a picture called “The Daughter of Devil Dan.” ‘ Serge Borowsky and other mem- bers of “The Russian Isha" will en- tertain at the Flower Show Friday | afternoon, | In honor of St. Patrick's Day Stella | Hoban, of “The Night Boat,” will aing her “Blues” song in Gaelic. | J. N. Tate has made Charles Dill- ingham an offer for the Australian rights to “Apple Blossoms.” | When “Happy Days," at the Hippo- drome paases its 350th performance Wednesday the treasurers will have | thanciled 1,845,900 tiek: The Wint have organized a They will have a show at the Street Theatre March 28 for their | baseball fund Fay Wallace will have a role in "A Week-End Marriage,” the new Owen | Davis comedy. i Corrine Griffith, Vitagraph star, thinks Jeff Nutt is « wonderful re- | Nutt says the idea is Morris Gest will s next Saturday on the retania, He is going on theatrical business, and also to try to locate his parents in Odessa, for Burope } ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. | Lyric Writer—Show your words to , the publishers. We never saw a girl with 4 ing to supply the missing word In| gouble ain in a chorus. pugele rhyn bakery and see wh ovens. It may giv you @ hint. sas possible, Now buckle in Nere’s the rhyme: “1 ogn't find the apptes,” said si, No matter how hard I may try. 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