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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. 28, .1922. THEATER TOPICS SCREEN NOTES CONCERNING PLAYS AND PLAYERS NEWS OF PLAYS AND ACTORS About the Theater By ARTHUR POLLOCK rf llt -iNv A LITTLE grave reflection shows us that our first duty Is to establish a new and abusive school of criticism," said the sharp-penued Rebecca West back in writing on "The Duty of Harsh Criticism." She believes in the necessity of salutary nastiness and she would, if it existed, probably become a 8-ember of a society Barrie once wrote stout, a society established for the imrpose of doing without some people.

The members of the organization strangled the objects of their distaste. Rebecca West would tear them critically limb from limb. If, for instance, she had seen "The Rotters" at the Thirty-ninth Street Theater last Monday evening, or "Abie's Irish Rose" at the Fulton, Tuesday, she would have considered it her duty to describe them by some shorter and uglier term than "rotten." "There is now," she continued, "no criticism in England. There is merely a chorus of weak cheers, a piping note of appreciation that is not stilled unless book is suppressed by the police, a mild kindliness that neither heats to enthusiasm nor reverses to auger. We reviewers combine the gentleness of early Christians with a promiscuous polytheism we reject not even the most barbarous or most fatuous gous.

No economic force compels this vice of amiability. It springs from a fuintness of the spirit, from a con-veution of pleasantness which, when attacked for the monstrous thing it permits to enter the mind of the world, excuses itself by protesting that it is a pity to waste fierceness on things that do not matter. "But they do matter. The mind can think of a hundred twisted traditions and ignorances that lie across the path of letters like a barbed wire entangle, ment and bar the mind from au important advance." There are, for in O'Neill had any humor In him the critics would have him in jail. He Is saved by his deadly seriousness.

Miss West believes not only in being disagreeable toward dolts and doltish-ness, but toward genius also. "There is a more serious duly than these before us," says she, "the duty of listening to our geniuses iu a disrespectful manner." Iu other words, she believes it a critical crime to allow anybody, good or bad, to get away with anything. It-is the critic's duty to wallop. THE Provlncetown Players produced O'NeiU's "Emperor Jones" and "The Hairy Ape," without any noticeable trembling, for the consumption of the public. The Theater Guild is presenting Gcorg Kaiser's "From Morn to Midnight" as a special production for its subscribers, having done, presumably, some eon-, elusive trembling at the radical thought of its being suitable for regular production, at.

regular performances, at the regular times, for the regular public. Any trembling that was done where these three plays were concerned must have been a result of the fact Unit they are radical in fornr and treatment. O'Neill had, it seems apparent, been reading German or Russian expressionist drama when he wrote "Em-peror Jones" and "The Hairy Ape." If they are not an imitation they are evidence of his absorption of ideas cur-rent on the continent of Europe. His plays were almost as radical as "From Morn to Midnight." Our point is that this new method of treating dramatic material appears to cause more trembling at the Garrick Theater than at the playhouse of the Provineetown Players. Which Is perhaps an indication of the difference in temerity of the two organizations.

The Theater Guild is cautious, timid the Provineetown Players are afraid of nothing. Each, of course, serves its purpose, but we for one admire most the attitude of the poorer group of producers. Though "From Morn to Midnight" would be a better play if Georg Kaiser had taken less pains to explain carefully the end of his work what it was all about, it. strikes us as a more interesting experiment in drama. If it were not desirable to be consistent we should express a preference 'for it because it is more extreme than the plays of O'Neill.

It is crazier. Probably it is easier to write a crazy play and call it sound psychology than to write sound psychology itself. O'Neill lias attempted the latter and succeeded very well. Kaiser is thn more facile, O'Neill the more profound. Certainly it is not exhibiting great profundity to show seven vivid sections of a man's life and then attach at the end of the seventh the statement that the whole business proves that money can't buy happiness and that life is futile.

Who said it could? Who said it. wasn't? Ossip Dymow did better VETNITA FLAT BUSH 9 stance, the many so-called men of THE NATIONAL. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday the National presents Booth Tarkington's "Pen rod" with Freckles Barry. On Wednesday and Thursday, two features will be offered; Frank Mayo in "The Man Who Married His Own Wife" and Pola Negri in "Intrigue." Friday and Saturday Pearl White in "Without Fear" and Buster Keaton in the comedy, "High Sign" will be the attraction s. LOEWS BREVOORT Thomas Meighan in "The Bachelor Daddy," from a story by Edward Peple, and Johnny Hines in a new comedy, "Torchy a La Carte," will be the attractions today at Loew's Bre-voort.

Monday and Tuesday will bring Alice Lake in a modern story of business life called "Kisses," and1 "On with the Dance," a revival, with Mae David Powell. Doris May in a rollicking comedy, "Gay and Devilish," and Conway Teaiie in "The Referee" are scheduled lor Wednesday and Thursday. Norma Talniadgo in her new success, "Smilin' Through," adapted from the stage success of that name, will be shown Friday. Saturday und Sunday. Miss Talmaclge plays a dual role and has two leading men, Wvndlutm Standing and Harrison Ford.

van if -am P. iPZ SISTEttSXI GLORIA SWANSON INJ BRIGHTON BEACH PARK. The season at Brighton Beach Park will get into full swing this afternoon with a band concert by Harold Stern's Band and a number of athlelle features. Preparations have been completed to handle a record crowd on Memorial Day, for in addition to the band concert the first outdoor swimming meet of the season for women will be held in the pool. 'JiJEYQND THE OCK5, fix i wf A 1 a 1 LOSVJS Mi- IMPQI I TA A Where Movies and Vaudeville Make Up the Week's Programs NEW PLAYS THIS WEEK Monday.

"The Drums of Jeopardy," a dramatization by Howard Herrick of a novel by Harold MacGrath, will bo Fannie Brice, Vivienne Segal, Eddie Leonard, Donald Kerr And Others Head Bills Here presented at the Gaiety Theater. U'illinm fViirt leirrli Muiunn fnr.lr- 1 ters who rehash the platitudes of history and science, decorate their bromides with hot the least original thought, turn out "book English," get themselves admired for their dullness which passes as profundity and succeed only in giving what few readers they have a decided ache in the ear. "We must dispel this unlawful assembly of peers and privy councillors round the wellhead of scholarship," says Miss West, "with abusive and, in cases of extreme academic refinement, coarse criticism." America reeks with such privy councillors the institutions of learning are alive with them. The only purpose they serve is to make the word "learning" a source of comedy. Quite a number of them write about the drama.

"That is one duty which lies before lis. Others will bo plain to any active wind for instance, the settlement of our uncertainty as to what, it is per. missible to write about. One hoped, when all the literary world of London gave a dinner to M. Anatolo France last year, that some writer would rise to his feet and say: 'Ladies and gen.

tlcmen, we are here in honor of an author who has delighted us with a scries of works which, had he been an Englishman, would have landed him in jail for the term of his natural That would have shown that the fetters of the English artist are not light and may weigh down the gesture of genius. It is not liberty to describe love that be needs, for he has as much of that as any reasonable person could want, so much as the liberty to describe this and any other passion with laughter and irony." To describe these things with laughter and Irony is the one thing American critics will not allow a dramatist to do. Witness the reception of French comedies in this country. If Eugene Fannie Brice and A'lvienne Segal Head Bill nt Quphpum. After five years' as star of the Zieg-feld "Frolic" and "Follies," Fanny Brice has returned to her old love 'than that in a play of much the same Holiday Bill at Henderson's.

Jack Norworth, musical comedy star, is the headliner this week at Henderson's. Coney Island. Mr. Nor-worth's home is in vaudeville. Kvery now and then his umbitions lead him to other fields where has gone the actor manager one better by becoming an actor-author-manager, but always Mr.

Norworth comes back. He heads a bill of live acts. The feature picture is Rex Beach's latest, "Fair Lady." Murray Kissen and Co. will iie. seen during the last half of the week.

Also on trhi bill arc Gears Musical Ten and three other acts. May Murray in "Fascination" is the film offering. sort produced here some five years ago by Ordinski, though he has done no better, so far as Owen Davis allows it ley, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Everton and Reginald Barlow are in thj cast. "Red (Pepper," with Mclntyre and Heath as the stars, will appear at the Shubert Theiter, It is a musical comedy by Kdgar Smith and Emily M.

Young with lyrics by Howard Rogers and Owen Murphy and music by Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy. In the cast arc Mabel Elaine, Vivian Holt, Lillian Rosedale, Florence Rayfleld and Fern Rogers. Thursday. "A Pinch Hitter," a four-act comedy by H. M.

Harwood, will be presented by Allan Pollock at, Henry Miller's Theater. Mr. Pollock is the star and the cast includes Charles Waldron, J. M. Kerrigan, Kdgar Kent, Pamela Gaythorn and Helen Stewart.

to appear, in "Bronx Express." Georg Kaiser is a clever gymnast hut no giant intellect. "From Morn (o Midnight," nevertheless, proved one of the most interesting plays staged during the season. It is comedy farce. "Oh, Chetney;" Foster and Seamon in nonsense; Homer Sisters and company, and others. The feature, photoplay for the last half of the week will be "Shackles of Gold." a screen version of Henfi Bernstein's stage success, "Samson." It is the story of a man who roe from dock laborer to be a financial wizard.

The production was made under direction of Herbert Brennon. Klinor tilyn Film at Loew's Metropolitan. "Beyond the Rocks," a romance by Elinor Glyn, the author of "Three Weeks," with Gloria Swanson and Ro-dolph Valentino as stars, will be the film offering all week at Loew's Metropolitan. Nat Nazarro with his own com- pany of ten, including his selected sextet, the little dancer, Helene, and the singer, Buddy, will top both vaudeville programs, making his first pearance in Brooklyn at popular I prices. Other attractions on the program Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be "Smiling" Billy Mason, the movie star person, featured with Christie comedies, and recently with Ziegfeld's Frolic, appearing in "in and Out of Bunnin Sisters: Senna and Stevens and Ruge and Friend and Downing in a skit, "My Friend Middleton and Spellmcyer and Company in a one-act comedy drama called "Lonesome Phil Fein and Flo Tem0son, late of the Aborn Opera Company in a revusical musi-A cale; and the Elgin Brothers, athletes, will be on the program beginning Thursday.

too bad it is being presented for a limited public. It might even make money on Broadway. The play gives seven flashing views Manhattan Movies Ixni Tcllcgen in Vaudeville at the I'latbusli. Keith vaudeville has secured Lou Tellegon for a tour. He will make bis first vaudeville appearance at the Flatbush this week in a one-act version of his success, "Blind Youth." In addition to Mr.

Tellegen and company, the B. F. Keith acta will Include Venita Gould in her impressions of famous stars of the stage, the two Sams, Lewis and Dody, who will appear with their humorous ditty, "Hello, Hello, Shaw and Lee presenting a comedy act entitled, "Nature's the Hickey Brothers in an offering of legomania; and Frances Fitzgerald and company in an offering of aerial daring. Raymond Hitchcock in a pic-tuiization of "The Beauty Shop," the musical comedy that enjoyed a long run on Broadway, will be seen on the screen. In the cast are Billy B.

Van, James .1. Corbett, the Fairbanks Twins, Montagu Love, Louise Fazenda, Diana Allen and Laurence Wheat. titled, "The Flip and the Flapper." Lou Hundrnan will be their chief assistant. Billy Arlington, the eccentric comedian, will be seen in "Mis-t'lkes Will Happen," a burlesque in which Arlington offers a droll characterization of a highbrow hobo Eli-nore Arlington, Charles Taylor and F.dward Hennessey constitute the comedian's support. lames McLaughlin and Blanche Evans will be seen in their musical absurdity, "On a Little Side Street," in which they impersonate typical Fast Side youngsters.

Hershel Meniere will make his Brighton debut. Meniere is a piano virtuoso. Four other vaudeville attractions and the usual short screen subjects will complete the holiday bill. The first Sunday concerts of the season wilt be given this afternoon at 2:311 and tonight at 8:30. "The Stars of Yesterday," Frankie Heath.

Lewis ard Dody, Wells, Virginia and West, and all the other features of the opening bill will appear at both perform-nnces. Howard and Clark and "Stars of Yesterday" at Bushwlck. Joseph E. Howard and Fthelyn Clark, popular composer and his partner; Mae West, the, Broadway favorite; and "Stars of Yesterday," the old-time variety stars, will share the pinnacle position on the bill at the Bushwlck. Howard will be heard in the songs that made him famous, together with his more recent song hits.

Mac West will appear with Harry Richman in a little skit called "Bits of Comedy." The offering was specially written by Neville Flee-son. "Stars of Yesterday" is a reunion of the, music hall stars of the fast century presenting Barney Pagan, the original Corinne, Sullivan, Tony Williams, Lizzie Wilson, of the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties and little Mae Kennedy of the present. The veterans will appear in an offering conceived by Milton Hockey and Howard Green entitled "A Breath of Old Times." Frank Davis will appear in a comedy skit from his own pen called "Birdseed," with Adele Darnelie; and Moss and Frye, the darkey funsters, will offer "How High is Up" How Come?" Sidney Phillips, in "Songs and Cleo Gas-coigiie, Cross and Santoro; Aesop's Fables: Topics of the Day, and Pathe News pictures will make up the remaining portion of the program. vaudeville, and will be the star of the bill at B. F.

Keith's Orpheum tliis week. She will lie heard in a new collection of sours and bits of comedy, especially written for her by Blanche Merrill and grouped together under the title "Around the World." Vivien no Segal, formerly Ziegfeld "Follies" beauty and more recently well known as a musical comedy star, will be an important feature of the bill. This is Miss Segal's fir'st fling in the two-a-day. She will be heard in a song program with Charles Ambler serving as accompanist. Paul Morton and Naomi Glass, recently reunited, will, be seen in a new comedy sketch by Paul Gerard Smith, called "April," presented in two "showers," and William L.

Gibson and Regina Connelli, assisted by 10. J. Brady, will appear in a one-act plav-let by Will Hough, called Debutante." Harry C'onley will appear with Noami Hay in "Rico and Old Shoes." by Grace Ryan, and Edward Miller, a Brooklyn boy, will offer a program of semi-classic songs arranged by Louis Silvers, with outs Pilami assisting at the piano. Frank Ward and His "Dollies," Sansone and Delila, Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day, and Pathe News Pictures will complete the program. Kddie Leonard and Donald Kerr Head New Brighton Holiday Bill.

Kddie Leonard, "Prince of Minstrels," has been selected to head the holiday week program at the N'ew Brighton Theater. He will unpack a bundle of new dance steps and some hitherto untried songs of his own composition, which he expects will surpass in popularity his "Ida." VRoly Boly Kyes," "Rweetnoss." and other favorites of previous seasons. They are "Mary Where Will You Be," "Come Down My Rosie Lee" and "The Dancing Moon." The Leonard offering is called "The Minstrel's Return," and he is assisted by Stewart and Olive, dancers, and Carroll Levan, pianist. Donald Kerr, late of "The Greenwich Village Follies." will be' reunited with Kffie Weston, and together they will entertain seashore amusement lovers in a terpsichorcan travesty en Eddie Leonard Lauds Unknown Composers The Capitol. An adventure melodrama, Gouver-neur Morris' "Yellow Men and Gold," will be the feature attraction of the program at the Capitol.

The action starts in Los Angeles and shifts to two rival expeditions, both headed for an island in the South Seas, where a Spanish galleon, laden with treasure, was known to have been sunk 300 yens ago. On the island, the two rival bands of treasure-seckeds meet in single-handed conflicts. Helene Chad-wick and Richard Dix are featured in the leading roles. "Supply and Demand." the first of a. series of IS two-reel productions, brings back to the screen Johnny Jones, star of the Booth Tarkington "Kdgar" comedies.

"Abraham," the fifth old Testament narratives, and the Capitol News complete the list of films. of a busy day in the life of a bank clerk. It in fact, the life of a bank clerk. A slave to routine, a man starved emotionally, he goes suddenly off at, a tangent when a bright-eyed, unconsciously seductive woman happens into the bank. He steals a huge sum to follow her, and he follows her only to find that she is an eminently respectable mother.

That is his first disillusion. He gets five others. The first illusion to lie shattered thereafter is that he can laugh at death and disillusion itself; the second, that a commonplace home is not the best place for him: the third, that lie can, by spending money freely, make men less slaves to routine ahd convention than they are by nature; the fourth, that wealth will turn women into more alluring and complaisant creatures than they are, and the fifth, that the rest of humanity has learned, as he has by now, the worthlessness of money and the futility of living by it alone, or. in fact, living at ail. In these seven scenes Kaiser has spurned detail, striving to disclose only essences.

The role of the banker ought to be played by a genius. Frank Reichcr's only defect is that be is not a genfus. The Guild has staged the thing with its customary good sense, and Lee Simonson has decorated it with the scenic beauty that has become a habit with him. In Person. Alpheus Lincoln, screen leading man, will appear personally at several of the picture houses in Brooklyn, in connection with the showing of the melodrama.

"Determination," in which he plays the dual stellar role. On Thursday, May 25, he was scheduled to appear at the Marev Theater, 320 Broadway; and on May 31 and June 1 and 2, at the Parthenon Theater, Wyckoff and Rldge.wood June 14 and 15. at the Kismet and State Theaters. Franklin and DeKalb and on June 20 tnd 21 at the Gem and Imperial Theaters at 237 Broadway, "Making the Grade" at Keeney's. "Making the Grade," featuring the athletic actor, David Butler, in a film adapted for the screen from Wallace Irwin's story, "Sophie Semcnoff," is the feature at Keeney's.

It Is a typical tale of a regular American youth in search of adventure. He finds it in far away Siberia. It is not a war story but a mirthful, romantic and dramatic episode in the. life of a two-fisted American soldier of fortune who makes good. Topping the vaudeville, attractions will be Bobby Hin-gins in a musical Eddie Leonard, the popular minstrel comedian, who will head the New Brighton Theater Decoration Week bill, often indulges in reminiscence and talks feelingly of old times, old artists and old songs.

Caught in one of these moods, he said: "An extraordinary improvement in the musical side of vaudeville has taken place in the last fifteen years. Go to any vaudeville theater any night and you will almost certainly hear something of Wagner, Mendelssohn, Weber, Mozart or one of the other masters. 1 think, too, th-the songs are infinitely better than in the old days; not only in the direction of melody, but in orchestration, which is olten incomparably subtle. "But it seems to me one of the greatest tragedies in the vaudeville world that a man should compose a song that puts a girdle round about the world: a song that is sung on liners; in faraway Singapore or Bombay; a song that inspires men in battle; a song that, like was the slogan of an Empire: that a man should create such a thing and live and die without one in ten thousand of bis srhgers knowing even his name. "Who composed 'Tipperary'? You don't know.

I thought not. Who composed "Let's Ail Go Down to the a song that should have bqrn adopted as the anthem of London? Who composed 'Hot Time in the Old Town the song that led the Americans to victory in Cuba and the Philippines? We know the names of The Klvoll. "The of Pharaoh" will be brought back to Broadway for a week's run at the Rivoli Theater today. This photoplay, in which Kmll Jannings. Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener and Henry Lledtke play the leading roles, ran nine weeks al the Criterion Theater.

"The Sparring Partner." a Max Fleisrher-Out-of-t he-Ink well cartoon comedy, will be the lighter entertainment of the program. JACKIE COOGAN STAR ON STRAND PROGRAM "SHUFFLE ALONG" STAYS AT MONTAUK THEATER "Shuffle Along," the musical extravaganza that has been such a success in Manhattan, will continue for another week at the Montauk. There will be an extra matinee on Decoration Day in addition to the regular matinees, making nine performances for the week. This musical show, with its all-colored cast, has been attracting large audiences to the Montauk. It has many catchy songs, including "Wild STEEPLECHASE PA UK.

A special holiday program has been AT DAXC'KLAXD. Coney Island's newest amusement enterprise, "Danceland," will hereafter be open to the public every weekday night, according to an announcement made yesterday by Man-againg Director Joseph Johnston. A scries of matinee dances every Saturday. Sunday and holiday afternoon also will be inaugurated, so that afternoon pleasure seekers or bathers at Coney Island can enjoy a dance or two on Danceland's spacious floor, before returning to their homes for dinner. A unique feature of these matinee dances is that the patrons can dance as often or as long as they please, the afternoon and evening dance sessions hein? continuous with no extra charged to the dancers arranged for George C.

Tilyou's Steeplechase Park, Coney Island. To concerns Joe Peters, a former poolroom owner who had given his dying pal on the battlefield a pledge to take his place in life in order to spare the blind mother in the rich Westchester home the grief of knowing her only boy was dead. A new edition of "Odds and Ends, a compilation of short subjects of general interest: comedy cartoon. "Felix in Love," and the Mark Strand Topical Review are also on the program. The Criterion.

"Missing Husbands" begins the third week of its engagement at the Criterion today. The picture, which had long runs in Paris and London, is an adaptation by Jacques Feyder of "L'Atlantide," the novel by Pierre Benoit which was awarded the grand prize by the French Academy. The Lyric. The William Fox film, "Nero," which, was presented for the first time at the Lyric Theater last Monday night, begins its second week tomorrow. "Nero" is a story dealing with the last of the Caesars, and was produced in Italy.

Many of the scenes were taken in Rome and vicinity, some in Naples and some in the Alps. The cast is an international one, including French, Italian, Spanish. Russian and other players. In includes Jacques Gretillat, Faulctte Duval. Alexander Salvini.

Edy Darclea. Violet Meise-reau is the only American in the caat. hundreds of finicky little poets and novelists and pianists; but their work never shook a nation one bit, or cheered men in sickness and despair, i The Hinlto. Agnes Avres plays the stellar role in the first story written by W. Somerset Maugham especially for the screen, "The Ordeal." It will be the principal screen attraotlon of the program at the Rialto.

"The Ordeal" is a study of a girl's desire to keep her brother and invalid sister in luxury, marrying a brutal man as a means toward comfort and. on his death, refusing to marry a man she loves because it will compel her to return to a poorer scale of life. Clarence Burton plays the brutal husband and Conrad Nagel appears as the young lover. Charles Chaplin's "The Count." a revival: Toy Sarg's silhouette comedy. "The First Earful," "South Sea Sc.ige Dance," a music film in prizma color with settings by Millard and choreograph by Ted Shawn to the music of Montague Ring, and the Rialto Magazine will be other film numbers.

Jackie Coogan, America's smallest screen star, his "mutt" dog Queenie, and his colored playmate Sherbit arrive at the Brooklyn Mark Strand. Theater today for a week's' stay in Jackie's new five-act motion picture comedy, "Trouble, in which Gloria Hope and Wallace Beery have grownup parts. The watch-charm comedian is seen as a stepson whofl among other things, tries to act as a plumber in the absence of his brutal stepfather. What he does to a leaky pipe Is comparable only to what be does whon he attempts to thrash the bully of a stepfather. There Is an orphanage scene in which he attempts to find homes for all his pals, including Sharbit, whom he whitewashes.

Jackie has the role of a little orphan adopted by a good-for-nothing plumber, whose wife, feels that the child's presence, may develop the brute's finer qualities. The management has provided ether film entertainment, including "Missing Men," a Robert C. Bruce sce.rc the second of the Bruce series called "Wilderness Tales." The IvTark 'Strand Topical Review pictures news matters of importance. Lloyd Hamilton in a comedy, Rain makers," Is also on the bill. About Harry;" "If Y'ou Haven Been of the men who really captured and interpreted the national soul we know nothing and care less; and how much they get tor their copyrights is a matter that even they themselves do not regard with sufficient seriousness.

Vet Vamped by a Brown Skin, 101 Haven't Been Vamped at All." "Gypsy Bliss:" "Love Will Kind a Wav," and "Honeysuckle Time." Besides the song hits there are a number of dancing novelties: in fact. dance-soiiKS. including "Shuffle Along." arc the main features of the day and Tuesday capacity attendance is looked forward to by the management, and many novelties have been arranged for the entertainment of the visitors. A continuous concert of musical selections will hp played by two military bands this afternoon and evening and also on Tuesday. Other features have been arranged for Decoration Day.

The "barrel of love," one of Coney Island's tamous attractions, is acai 1 in operation at Steeplechase, and each afternoon and evening a large number of the visitors enjoy a trip over thU old love route. A cablegram was received during the pa.st week at Steeplechase frorn Mine. Maggie Murphy, in Paris, announcing that she will again visit this country during the Bummer months, appearing at Coney Island. show. remaining for the late session.

I The Original Memphis Five and Rusoni's Society Orchestra are play-i al "Danceland." Thi1 Selwyns have arranged for the I American production of "Harle-; oiiin," a play by Maurice Magre which personally 1 have on infinite tenderness for these unknowns, for they haw done me more good than other I trifWs with art forms. I should like to know and shake the composer of; 'La Maxixe' by the hand, and I owe i many a debt of gratitude to the ere-ateir of 'Red Pepper' and 'Robert K. In the cast are Jim Burns. Fre-I Beni-y, Sinn. Margaret I.ec'.

Al P. Wat 13, Theodore McDonald. Anna South. "Short Robinson. BuriiH, Henry Saparo.

Roberl Mills. Fanny Wilson and Leno Roberts. The Dixie Four also contributes a rood share of the singing. The Strand. George V.

Hobart's stage play. "Son-ny," will be seen in a screen version at the Strand this week. Richard Barthelo-ieaa is the' star. The story I 'Btll Bailey' and others loo numerous to mention. Amtrira may not have added great store to the world's music, but at least she has added to the gaiety of cations," i has coneluried a long run in I'jnis.

The Rncl if.li adaptation is by I Louis N. Parker and will be presented here next season..