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Eview? eview? o/tKo Arts SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1i>22 Ti§ Sketches Midi t JStöGQhy <*Jo£fèrsQn MíMihíMiriet?Peopleil Captain Ambrose Wallace Applejack Eddingcr. as we like to think of a pirate. In the play Captain Applejack really doesn't wear one eye in a sling.tee made it that tray because it makes him look tougher and more swashbuckly. Mr. Eddingcr has made stich a success of his role that he could play it with one eye in a sling anyway. Lenore I Iric, garbed (as John F. Hylan? would PI autobiographer, say The it) in her Kiki ayfoill outfit. A Bulletin of Who's Who and What's What W~Bf"**""*! ~*"3g KB <B -4» FANNY HURST has left her summer home and is on her way to Hie 1 heaters New York to select a cast of players for "Humoresque," which is now scheduled to the The Humorists Are reach legitimate stage after its success Commended to Producers of Comedy on the screen. From a trustworthy source romes the whispered and guarded information that LAURETTE TAYLOR is to be in the cast. By Percy Hammond . .v. For the second time this season MARJORIE RAMBEAU and R. ZIEGFELD'S brash experiment in hiring a humorist to write "The Goldfish'' are to move. Th<« play opened at Maxine Elliott'*? comedy for the "Follies?" seems to have been a satisfactory bit Theater, then it moved up town to the Astor and now it is to occupy th«"* M . of pioneering. Although producer:-; frequently have been known Shubert, beginning to-morrow evening to engage musicians to do the music for their operatic shows, few of them, . GEORGE M. COHAN'S musi-l «rf*rio-J-*íy ill while dancing at Deauville cal "Little N'elüe .' since the far-off days of George Ade, have been sufiiciently unconven¬ comedy, Kelly," opens on ¦*.' July -S, Is re I at the Tremont to- tional to think of enlisting in the service of their librettos any of our Theater, Boston, and out of danger, according to word morrow himself wrote more notable Now that Mi*. Lardner's in the night. Géorgie which has been ¦-¦ CHAS. DIL- persifleurs. Ring tomfoolery the "Follies" has to both the and Mr. it book, lyrics and music. ELIZA¬ I.'' GUAM. MAUDS Fl I.TO\ proved enchanting public Ziegfeld, BETH HINES. who hail the role be that other famous leading appearing in a revival of her own clay. may madcaps will have opportunity to exercise in "The O'Brien Girl," al«=o has the their nimble gifts of facetitiousness in the literature of antice enter¬ Humming Bird," at the Eagan lead in "Little . Nellte Kelly." 1 ¦. i angeles. >he is said t tainment. MARIE !I TEMPEST In ARTHUR RH bo writing a row play in which sha» Think, for instance, of tunes and dancing 'flavored with the juniper MAN'S "A Serpent's Tooth," which arred by 01 N BB MOROSCp. jokes of «Stephen Leacock, or a Winter Garden revue replete with the rec- John Golden is preseniin,., open who presented her In "The Brat' and reactive jocosities of "Bugs" Baer or Claire Briggs! What a romp would morrow at Asbury Park. .é .Open¬ "The Humming Bird." BARNES ensue from an espousal of the fecund muses of Irvin Cobb and Irving ing at Long Branch to-morrow is KATE BERNARD is not playing Shylock after L. M'LAURIVS Berlin, and how suitable, one to the other, would be a set of high-class "Whispering Wires," all. He has received so many letters Ever since we saw which is to come to the . nlrns his snickers by Harry Leon Wilson and a jubilant score by George Gashwin "Captain Applejack''' we've been wondering what would happen if he should bump into Captain ¡\idd on some palmy, balmy Forty-ninth A the for pro- a . treasure isle. The two are our Street Theater here week later. , re? in "The or Victor Herbert! With what inspiration could the composers, Louis A. captains favorite heroes. We didn't want any bloodshed at such a meafing. We left the matter to our reflex Merchant instinct and tied a GEORGE WHITE'S "Scandals," no*« r» of Venice" th«» wintatf after Hirsch and Jerome Kern, invoke the straying harmonies to together picture blindfold ever our eyes and let the spirits of the Spanish Main more our hand. After a while our hand ceated its during get work. We the hearsing will again occupy the Liberty have been called off. if were the huzzas of so a removed blindfold and there was Captain Kidd laughing till his ribs rallied, while could do but "S-s-s- they encouraged by invigorating whiplash wit Captain Applejack nothing Theater. CHANNING POLLOCK HENRY B. WALTHALL. «if the screen. as s-s-scum-m-m-m! ! !" him up one side and down the other. The treasure on arm is Phoebe Foster and it at George E. Chappell, author of "The Cruise of the Kawa," or of Robert Cappy Applejack's isn't all queer has returned from California, where he '<*nt \t to that the of the Main her into the reports, E. Sherwood, the motion picture editor of "Life"! ghosts Spanish put picture. saw the try-out performance of his play come to th*- legitimate »tag«? in a plsv * * * < i-'.-.¦-.1 "The Fool," in which RICHARD BEN¬ rHBL I.IFTON. JOE Until Mr. Lardner's engagement to the Follies the librettos of recent Man in alized the Barrie characters. Ho had NETT is to star for the i'ehvyn«. FLYNN tr-,m««d down an offer to go musical comedy have been as waifs upon the» doorstep of Art, as some¬ Every New Theatrical not yet decided whether he would per¬ . JANE COWL, who is «-xpected ahead of the House of David band th<- Offerings to arrive from ft thing, so to say, brought in by the cat, disheveled and indistinguishable. His Own Humor mit Bernard Shaw to land at this isl¬ Europe in few day?, other day. One of the term» ef the con- is to start rehearsals on her new play tract was that he grow a beard and The minor merry Andrews have been the motley engines of our dubious *. MOND.\Y.-At the Little Theatre Mitr-hic Itow will again offer "The Pin and. No, he had never forgotten that as soon as she gets here. That is, she Joe objected. And season Frank in routine but to the The South Seas Barrie Wheel which was earlier in season la*£ risibilities, experts shenanigan, predisposed shallow, Revel," presented the at the when the Shavian one was a critic will work as soon as DEAR SIR: What a begin the play is Tinnry wanted Joe to go ahead of rather than the Mr. one of Mr. problem, this Earl Carroll Theater. The Japanese dancer will bring a revised profound, guffaw. Channing Pollock, of James he had written of an early Barrie play, selected. It is understood that the "Tick!«« Me" in blackface. Jt«e, the Sir Barrie's! Here and augmented program of dances, songs and art features to the new by Lardner's most ample predecessors, put little of his great heart into his "This is worse than Shakespeare." choice lies between two or three in way, has loft Arthur Hammerstein to all these years he has been try- home of his production. The travesty, "Lilies of the has work for the a he is of the Field," the ... Follies, for, though brilliant, funny man, to were had rankled sensitive SELWYN office. The first join the Shubevt organisation. ing write p«,nyb that direct and been retained, and "Prohibition Blues" and "Tropical Night" have And this the acrostic type, preferring the grave charades of melodrama to the ribald and will insist see¬ production of the season by the SEL- The Motion Picture Directors' Assist- lucid, people upon been added. Mr. Itow is to appear in several numbers. Margaret young Scot, by his own admission. gobangs and of revue and musical comedy. Referred to, as in them the whimsical and the WYNS, one can announce almost defi¬ ants are to hold a studio revel for the penny-antes ing Petit will give her "Masked Bacchante" dance and her "Repetition de Barrie has now another name for Mr .Pollock and as he should have "The London Times" elusive! Even when the eminent Scot nitely, will* be MARTIN BROWNS fund benefit at the Willat was, been, by la Danse." Helen Cutter, Frank Curran, Hunter Felicia was ¡clubhouse was the of the Critics' in Sawyer, himself. McConnachie terribly "The Exciters." It is a modern crook Studio In Fort Leo on as "the American Sardou," he found comic postures uncomfortable and guest Circle, Sorel, Rosalind Fuller, Anita Enters, Senia Gluck, Yuji Itow, Hazel Thursday night, a few no less within a fortnight; so comedy in which no one steals any¬ August 10, Then» are to be vaudeville he relinquished them for the more dignified attitudes and heavier emolu¬ London, evenings ago, Wright, Phyllis Jackson, Josephine Head, Issye Bonek and John Burr ¡overworked now he dubs himself "the inoffensive . no is . a person than Mr. Walkley, of "The thing and crime committed. , boxing und dancing. E. RAY ments of the solemn drama. I do not recall the name of any other Follies are among others in the cast. Times," arose to remark upon the one." Or rather I should say that When "The Demi-Virgin" starts its GOBTI !. to produce ROBEitT librettist you will, of course) save that of the sagacious Rennold the Greenwich so dubbed him.
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