Judge — August 30, 1924 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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On with the Show! (Continued from page 26) Europe and that Molnar is coming to America the following month. Mr. Miller will also produce 372 press stories an- nouncing that he has bought a play in Spain from a hitherto unknown Spanish playwright which is a great dramatic masterpiece. When the play is even- tually put on, it will be found to be a British adaptation of a German play by a well-known Stuttgart dramatist re- adapted for the American stage by Avery Hopwood. eee Mr. Sam H. Harats will, in conjunc- tion with Lewis and Gordon, produce four plays fashioned from expanded vaudeville sketches. Lewis and Gordon will, in addition, themselves produce three plays fashioned from expanded vaudeville sketches. Mindlin and Gol- dreyer, in conjunction with Lewis and Gordon, will produce one play fashioned from an expanded vaudeville sketch. What vaudeville sketches are left over will be expanded into three-act plays and produced by other managers in conjunc- tion with Lewis and Gordon. eee Mr. Ricnarp Hernpvon several new play: be included this play. vill produce among which will not year’s Harvard prize 4% Mr. Davin Be asco will produce, in the newspapers, a great revival of Shakes- pearian plays. Among the plays that he will thus produce will be “Romeo and Juliet with Frances Starr as Juliet, “The Taming of the Shrew,” with Lenore Ulric, “Othello,” with David Warfield, and “Twelfth Night,” with Judith Anderson. What would happen if our Pilgrim Fathers had approached our shores during the summer of 1924. On the stage, Mr. Belasco will produce two plays, one an adaptation from the French by George Middleton and the other a play that was tried out during the summer by the stock company at Des Moines, Ia. wae Mr. Lee Suvusert ‘will produce ten interviews in the Sunday newspapers arguing that critics can neither make nor ummake plays and will then send each of the critics an elegant box of cigars at Christmas time. eae Mr. Winturop Ames’ plans are still indefinite, although it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that he may pro- duce Hauptmann’s ‘The Weavers,” with a pantomimie ballet by Deems Taylor incorporated in the second act. The Boss's son, who has been out in the great open spaces all summer, takes off his ylass.s und wrist watch. 28 Tue Setwyns will produce a second Charlot revue that will not contain Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan. This second revue will not achieve the suc of the first one. Whereupon the yns_ will conclude that the public is tired of the English form of revue. Iw e448 Mr. Brock PemBerton’s plans are definite. He either will or will not produce another play by Pirandello. eee Mr. Artuur Hopkins includes among his more important plans the daily catch- ing of the two-forty-five train back to Great Neck. eee Mr. Georce M. Conan has retired from active producing on account of the situation brought on by the Actors’ Equity Association and will hence pro- duce nothing but a couple of musical shows of his own writing and maybe three or four little comedies. ee % Ir wit thus be seen that the season premises to be an exceptionally interest- ing one, even though Mr. Wendell Phillips Dodge’s and Mr. Will Morrissey’s plans are still in abeyance. But few further details remain to be learned before the picture of the season flashes brilliantly before our e} It is important, for example, that we know the exact plans of the Threshold Playhouse, the Cherry Lane Pla se and the management of the West Fifty-second street Theater, since without them we must obviously remain completely in the dark. So, too, is it all-important that we know the definite plans of whoever it was who last season produced “The Right to Dream” and “Two Strangers from Nowhere.” comicbooks.com