| Show COUlDN'T T SEE MISS T TAYLOR YlO OR OBIS O THE PUY PEG Combination Which Is Making Mak Mak- x ing a I Month for Producers Was Turned Down Cold Just how little even the most astute h theatrical producers producers' c cah can n tell teh in In advance nee whether an actress or a play is going to make a hit is shown convincingly in tho the course of Rennold Wolf Volf article discussing the unique e personality of or Lauretta Laurette Lau Lau- rette retta Ta Taylor Talor lor of or Peg o 0 My 1 Heart fame in the Ma May Green Book Magazine One of or the decorations on the walls ails of ot Miss 1 Taylors Taylor's dressing room Is a telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram of or good wishes and congratulation purporting to have come from Lee Shubert Shu Shu- bert Den Miss Taylor Talor keeps it sho says saje be because because because be- be cause it is runn funny In Tn Its wording Jt t Is Is' tho the usual sort port of first night message messaS' but Miss Talo Tailors Tailor's s idea la li that it didn't spring from the heart She h was v once under contract to Mr Shubert and durIng during during dur dur- ing that perIOd was not ha happy ha p chiefly be because che Me cheas was as given nothing worthy worth to do Mr Shubert permitted the tal talented talented talented tal- tal young oung woman to slip out of his hands and hence ehe he is of ot tho beller that the message was perfunctory rather than an expression of ot This example of managerial shortsightedness shortsightedness shortsightedness short short- sightedness says sas Mr Wolf calls to mind another bearing upon Peg which never ne before has been re revealed It relates elates too to G George orse M. M Cohan and Sam H. H Harris than whom hom there are are arc no keener showmen show show- men inca In this country Hartley Hartle Manners was of the Cohan and Harris entourage long before big success cess came to him 1 Miss Taylor a lor was nas under contract to them at the same time They rhey did not underestimate her worth wort but the they committed a grievous error of ot Judgment hen when th they y decided that no play pay to which she was as suited was vas available 1 Tho The tact fac Is that Peg Pes o d' d My H Hearty Heart arC was available and wa ns s a-s submitted to them They had pl previously ly produced r. r Manners Manners Manners' Manners Man Man- ners ners' ners Tile The House J Next t Door with sat sat- results and really eager were viere eager to acquire re another play from his pen lie He arranged d a reading of at Peg p s two acts of or which were cre then completed Both managers listened ned attentively until Manners Manners Man Man- ners reached the end of or th the second act I I dont don't want vant to hurt your sour feelings Hartley said Cohan but no ro nO matter how good the third act Is Is It Wouldn't save sa this piece Theres There's nothing In It ItIs ItIs itis it- it Is there Sam Not a a thing replied Mr l H Harris There is no punch VC Very likely Mr Manners anners was crestfallen crest crest- S fallen at th the moment The error of Judgment Judg judg- meat ment was as not unusual William A A. rady sold Within the Law outright for tor 10 after Its Us production One of Americas America's Amer mer ica's s foremost producers forfeited J an advance ad advance ad- ad vance ace payment on 01 ArIzona because h he did not ilot think the play worthy worth and The Lion Jon and the Mouse Went nent be begging ln until it it was wan aB f submitted to the late Henry Heno B. B H Harris And LAnd If Cohan Coban and ad Harris didn't l guess right about Peg the they have hae guessed right about th the merits of oth other r plays plaS with a a perspicacity eo so keen that their thell batting a average a erase is exceptionally bl high h. h When the tile play was completed it contained contained con con- tamed suggestions suggestion ug s from Miss Taylor Meanwhile she and Mr 1 Manners had fallen Callen In love lo arid and were engaged to be married The rhe final t touches were put on the play one ono summer at t busted Winsted Conn Coun Only Onh three months were consumed in its writing With five road companies In 1 full swing besides the No Ne New New- NewYork York company company com coni- pany Peg Is said faid to he ha netting Oliver l more mor than per pr r month in ir pr profit fIt Jt 1 |
