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Show .. AMUSEMENTS... J CHEP-IDAH SIMPSON, tho well-known comic opera singer, who was hero In "King Dodo" two years ago, lllcd n suit In Now York lat week, for iui annulment of her ""EJ..nXno Don Berg, tho musical conductor, on ino ground that at the llmo of hot - mar lago to him. Juno -X. V.Oh ho nj " In England from whom ho ,,,alI'J;n1? " divorced Miss S mpson Is now sinning lu Tho new Plxlcy-Ludcrs production. "Woodland." 0 u 4 Though nobody here, says London . OIh-patch. OIh-patch. 1ms had the temerity to a"56"; . l; irobablv the reason why Alfred Austin lTdn't -dm his name to tho curtain-raiser o rcocnlS- Submitted to Arthur Bourcliler was that ho was afraid It mlg ht bo refused. re-fused. Doubtless Mr. Austin thought that It would nevor do to let a London man-aper man-aper " urn down" the poet aureate But when Bourchlor's official "rewlcr camo to tho anonymous manuscript of A Lesson In Harmony" ho found It so promising prom-ising that ho at once commended It to the aetor-manngerB attention. In a loiter that accompanied tho playlet t .n less dramatist wrote "Should this Httlo pieco bo ncoptcd, tho author mokes It a condition thatjilr. Bourohier will himself P BourohlcMlkPd the pleco so much that he wrolo asking the anonymous author to call and was electrified at tho appointed hour to find himself facing tho pool laureate. lau-reate. It was arranged quickly that Austin's Aus-tin's comedietta should bo produced as a curtaln-ralaer to W. S. Gilbert's "Tho Falrv'a Dilemma," now tho attraction in tho Garrlck. Hitherto tho poet laureato has not enjoyed great succcsb as a dramatist dra-matist His "Floddcn Field" had a lavish production by Bcerbohm Trco at a special jcrformanco In His Majesty's, but It was "roasted" by tlio critics. 19 "I am In a quandary what to do with that bC of mlno. I know that ho is an actor born, yet he boa been on tho stago two seasons and has yot to malec a hit 'Ho belongs on tho Detroit baseball team." Dotrolt Froo Press. Lillian Rus3cll. It Is announced, will appear ap-pear next Booson in "Lady Teazle," which Is a musical version of "The School for Scandal." This 3hould blazo tho way for musical versions of all the classic plays, "A Winter's Talo" would afford the adaptor adapt-or an excellent opportunity to Introduce topical songs, and a good coon ahoutor and cake walker might mako something real line out of Pcrdlta, Autolycua could bo tho fat Dutchman, an apparently essential es-sential part In all modern performances, while the Prlnco could cosily bo turned Into a spendthrift N' Yorker. Portland Oreconlan. |