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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.

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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 Are reach legitimate stage after its success Commended to Producers of 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 to write "The Goldfish'' are to move. Th<« play opened at Maxine Elliott'*? comedy for the "?" 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 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. 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 , 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 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 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 , 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 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" 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 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. is so diffl- (though whimsicality and elusiveness of the TUESDAY.At Village Theater Paul Dupont wili present Typee It tour HAZEL DAWN will again be in IIOl'SlM'S *'Tho Star Sapphire" It in whose was that of a observant and skillfulshowman revue West as this between Wolf, ability shrewd, Barrie creations. This was too much, "The Ginger Box" with Mae the featured comedienne. cult, differentiating the cast, as will LK.W ANDERS. KEN¬ reported that WILLIAM FAVERSHAM rather than that of a humorist. None of the Smith The is in two acts and twenty scenes with book and Barrie and his other selvesl NETH DOUGLAS and ALK E Kindred, Harry B., and the father of Peter Pan, Mary Rose production lyrics HEGK- .vi'il strir in the play. . Alt- Robert B. or Edgar, were so much humorists as they were "lyricists" and and a host of others of dear memory by Mr. Dupont and music by Arthur H. Gutman. Larry Cehallos Once again Barrie spoke for youth MAN. . . . SOMERSET MAUGHAM*! TBtnt GOODRICH'S "How Verv manipulators of easy "situations," if they will forgive me the lethal post stood up and spoke his mind. staged the dance numbers. Some of those in the 'cast are Frank [and appealed to the critics to encour- "East of Suez," in which FLORENCE Aniericnn"' is va be presented by term. The most eminent of the present-day librettists, if not the most A few weeks previous Sir James, in Davis, Adele Darnell, Billy Wayne, Ruth Warren, Moss and Frye, age young dramatists. He sees much ELDRIDGE will appear under the man¬ GEORGE M. COHAN at th« Hudson ' at Bernice Dave Richman, Ruth Fred to encourage him in the new field of of A. H. will is Harold the speaking St. Andrews, had sought Speer, Appolon, Harry* Hazelton, agement Woods, begin Theater in September. , . A, H. comic, the Benjamin Gay of his period, Atteridge, established he admits bel esprit of the Winter Garden and similar hippodromes, tossing off to escape responsibilities for this same \ Easter, Roy Chase and the Clef Club Orchestra. One of the features writers, though present-day rehearsals a week from to-morrow. WOODS has engaged EDNA GOOD- on of the are "abomin¬ . . of elfin nrankishness by de- / of the revue is a travesty the stokehole scene of "The Hairy conditions stage . The play, the way, will be RICH to tour "Bombóes" with one hand and "Whirls of the Worl<3" charge by in "Lawful Larceny.** "Passing «Shows," that his other one Mc- with Mae West as Yank Smith and the chorus as able." "The young writers," he said, in London at about the same claring self, Ape," girls the produced , . . "Hunky Dory.** en English and of 1921" with the other. Yet Mr. Atteridge is not so much "know as much about as we "Gayeties . . Connachie, was to blame.a delicious stokers. "Real coal," the announcement says, "will be used in this nothing time that It is done here. . "The production, is te open at the Kiew The- famed or noteworthy for the jokes he has cracked as he is for his dex- bit of quite Barriesque. But travesty." ab«Mt everything." And then he Cat and the Canary" will be seen i«>r ' ater fooling [know written early in September. .«Wrjty in providing hospitable spaces for voiceless ."girls at song" and op¬ now Sir James has quite surpassed said he Vvjught the best play the 200th time at the National Thcu _,-:.'-.-:-1 in his time was Pinero's "Trlf".a portunities for the general scrutiny of the convexities and concavities of himself in the realm of delightful ter to-morrow night. . . . AVER Y Another If.- Russell's latest picture for William bleak solitudes of musical It was said above that he had to land at seems to a 75 St. comedy. pleased It is a remote retreat that he paints. others who are permitted Typee be composite of all James's Court, Buckiogliar- You hare Me?" has just been pn-duce«! Fox, is the first work of fiction pro¬ Mr. his contributions to the because Mr. Ziegfeld, there dwells this enchanted island (probably one the wonderful ladies who have visu- London, S. W. 1. Ziegfeld by Follies, It is called Typee, and he Gate, by the Edward Robin» Stock Company duced by Richard Harding Davis to be after looking them over at the first performances, set sail for foreign Toronto. Miss who has In Morrison, screened xinco his death four years »g* parts, carefree and full of the exhuberance of a sure Like tradesmen of the show business. The scene is that remote lighting humor, is that many persons are able to enjoy it noiselessly. One been a member of "The But" prosperity. the expert company Roland V. Lee is the director most showmen, however, Mr. Ziegfeld is fond of melancholy, an appetite section of a "ball park" whereon cold pitchers endeavor to become hot by of the most sinister traditions of the theater is" that which persuade« sinco the play opened, t iok a tw<- "«?hich at present he assuage;-- in the absence of other sorrows, with dis¬ the process of "warming upr'" Andrew Tombes, representing a vain and the impressarios that the happiness of their customers is always illus¬ weeks' leave of absence to be present

at the . . comforts over the fragrant amours of Miss Marilynn and Mr. Pictèford, recruit from the "bush leagues," is tossing a ball to a catcher, trated by primitive outcries and the barbaric impact of one hand upon the try-out of her play. neglected "The it be Murray Andenon'ê her with all the of a self-satisfied understudy, other. The quiet smile, however rippling, persistent and eloquent of com¬ Bat," may said in pausing king. sneering contemptuousness is its ni«mtîi One of Mr. Lardner's for the Follies the students of while Will a veteran of the game, "kids" him fort, is as nothing compared to loud and dissonant sounds as proof of beginning twenty-fourth Recipe for a Revue essays perplexes Rogers, counterfeiting grim at the Morogen Theater. It has com¬ two contains But Mr. the calmest as well as one of the What is a revu«? Here is a for¬ laughter in the theater. This is twenty minutes behind the scenes of base¬ with a cruelty most amusing. The conversation between the popularity. Ziegfeld, being six months at St .lmir: ing "Greenwich Village F«'l!>e»": the about the on the of used to atMiss Gilda audiences an eccentric babbling, so Mr. Lurdncr's thoughtful amusement TILZER and NEVILLE multitude's yearning curiosity happenings edge of Thebes put it, immoderately Gray's gymnosophy MJMMM "Take a score of bright munic. mis the of and observe a recess in the Follies, if one may be again to say so, with several cast and re game.the gossip and comment on the field, on the players' bench, in and at the cadaverous capers Gallagher .Shean, persists shining, permitted change» it with lyrirn that are pleasant ta a deed in a world. is to in Stam the shower baths and dressing rooms. Being a humorist, he was not so from their applause and are silent. like good naughty, naughty visions, reopen the ear. add an intelligent bcselt and on 4 and fi. It much interested in the fadt that an error was committed as he was in Members of Mr. Ziegfcld's outer entourage, detecting this silence, In another part of the Follies Mr. Lardner is pleasantly extravagant ford August will g< throw in about i>0 per cent comedy. t«j Boston on 7 arid the follow what was said between the to him who was erroneous. He un¬ deemed it an evidence of and advocated the omission of the upon the topic of the supremacy of the Jews. Although one may be preju¬ August garnish with beautiful girl* and . innings inefficiency, ing month is scheduled for a of the Follies. "It I heard one of them diced, one thinks that Mr. Lardner's turplinade is much funnier than Mr. Broadway few clever cook this to¬ covered in his fiction the baseball player as human being rather than sketch from the program proves," When REX INGRAM'S produ« principals; as a a At he there are Hilaire Belloc's solemn extravaganza upon tho «ame «subject entitled gether for about five week«, end silent automaton which performed base hits and feats of fielding say, "that baseball is superstition." best, said, only "The Prisoner of Zends" movfs int< Jew." success been so so then serve it in ord*r and with and with little The Anatole France of the diamond, 40,000 who go to the games, and even they don't care for anything but portentously "The Mr. Lardner's having odd, the Astor Theater to-morrow good mechanically gusto. r,ikh «**.i*ed on a that the as he has and at final scores. This advisor contended to Mr. Ziegfeld that applause is silent, so artistic and so money-making, one may hope tljat in future revues platter delights nicknamed it, Mr. Lardner took it apart grinned it, and the there will be eleven Broadway theater A production of this kind by his like baseball and the an infallible indication of enjoyment in the theater and that the absence the important, thoughtful serio-comic chaps may have a chance to express landlord to the Mm«. Sow imparting studies to the world he became, playing should he of good tant* and so pal- a ennui. themselves. How wonderful it would be if we could have a libretto by of these house», of course, house mo Follies, a national institution. of it is equally testimony of languors and atabl«' that it would no on« in- .* -t * give * * * the well known humorist and a score Jerome Kern or other tion the round. , by any pian- pictures year digestion, n<-* even the crit'c* case the wh» about Mr. aside from its de- in Victor Herbert is too tired to write the obbllgatoe«. MAURICE, dancer, becam -_-¦-..--,_. But, as I started to say, his baseball skit in the "Follies" confounds The peculiar thing Lardner's cartoon, gelist, expected .¦_-