Show Patrons Return Often to See I. I Y Gilbert and Sullivan Oper Operettas Author of of- Journeys Journey's End Dramatizing Another Historical Event Tragedy Again Motif I By DEMING DEWING SEYMOUR V NE YORK YORK YOEK Mrs Samuel T. T Peters of Park avenue has established some ROme sort sorL of ot a record for tor forthe tl the e current theatre season in In the six months or f so o that FrancIne has bce been l playing the the cynical al and nd sophisticated young di divorcee divorcee dl- dl of 01 Let Us Be Bo Gay at the Little so theatre so caU called d because Its It's small and not because Its It's am ama ama- tour tear eur or arty arty l Mrs Peters has hasse se seen n the play Z seventeen times She Intends to see It some somei more before it closes and for fOI no better J son than that she sho enjoys enjo's Its Us com comedy y and likes Miss L acting One One often reads twice or I twenty wenty times a book that one ono especially cs es enjoys s 's w wiy not see a play playas as often But if ie Mrs Peters as the tie most Indefatigable Usable of oC contemporary repeaters at tho the theatre her he- record records Is s not yet vet one oue- to stand for tor iii all time Rear Real Admiral Glennon of ot the nay navy vent went twenty seven times to see Frank Ba Bacon on play produced Incidentally b by John Let L t U Us lie le Golden sponsor of oe c Gay Car CarMany Many u a New ew Yorker went half hal a dozen times Jo oto to ShowBoat Show ShowBoat Boat Bont and this writer knows of oC a a. broker who returned to to it forty forty- three times d during its cl eighteen eighteen- ht month NOW York run THE CHAMPION REPEATER Few Fe plays of or merit vun un more morel han lhnn sIx ix weeks celt bet before re they begin to to jet et what box office men know a as repeater trade trad trade people people who having having Ilk liked d the thc piece com come back to se see it gain Street Scene th the current Pu- Pu tzer prize pIa play N Jias lured auditors lJ train ln and Ethel again again Ethel Barrymore Owen Dlen yen Davis and Helen Hehm HaY Hayes fit ar are those thos who h have ve t J twice e t. t P t I 9 or oftener and so so unless I err Is Alfred E. E Smith who after being a n. guest at Us its Its Its' premiere B sent nt his whole family on successive nights t to witness the drama of the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks of ot New York But tho the pieces that aro arc surest purest of drawing the the same same audiences time and again are arc Gilbert and antl Sullivan operettas WInthrop Ames nies can tell ten any number numb of ot anecdotes about Gilbert and Sullivan an lovers who almost almost al al' al- al most denied themselves U- U the Ue e- e necessities slUes of to see nee te The rhe Mikado Pinafore rc and Iolanthe two or three a week weak l Probably the thc champion of oC all aU the repeaters repeater Is Robert F. F isk now nois press representative of ot the Theatre guIld ant and formerly a a aNew New York and Baltimore newspaper man Helias Ho He Hohas has lias seen The ThO Mik ho times SHERRIFFS SHERRIFF'S NEW PLAY It U. C C. Sherriff the young Englishman English I I man who suddenly found round himself ono one of ot the most talked about playwrights play wrights wright of ot the season last lat winter when his Journeys war wal via play En End became an overnight hit In London and New York Is hi working on OIL a new th tragedy gedy containing someo some gome o of the thc same bleak elements and elements and dealing again aguJa with English h gentlemen gentlemen gentle genUe men and their behavior amid hardship hardship hard hard- ship and privation This time his theme themo la is taken from an episode which occurred during an Antarctic expedition of ot Captain Falcon Scott Scott set out with a a. party for tor or the south pole ole and arrived ed there after trekking hundreds of niles miles over tl the Ice fields only to find that Amundsen Amunds Amund Amund- s sen n had re reached th the before beCort On tho from rom an Antarctic c penetration Scotts Scott's men mell were ppe pf pt their t number one ono Captain L Leaving behind him kiln a aUs ote hIs Us- fellow explorers t th ti become a IL nuisance e to tl the that hat he be was as leaving it ft to It to to away to himself he crawled The They found his bodon pUts pupa and over it they P. P probably only to tobe b marker f. f soon on the awa way away Inscribed ihl th whIch was epitaph A very I man Clan interesting to fin find blIn bl It It Is t drainS In to historical n a P pa ests what of or Dt John him and tween Sherriff was an 1 he before In Surrey Surre and and wright ct WaS waa nn turned to DrInkwater dl lied m and nd No 1 P Ps pla ls 13 s a h rt 1 m |