Show Clever New Play t Is Orpheum Headliner In the days of ot yore ore when few people wrote there was a prof profession of ot letter writing The one person In a village mage or town with sufficient education to put Ink upon paper legibly ca carried on a cor correspondence correspondence cor- cor I cor-I for lor all of ot the inhabitants For drama dramatic tic purposes purposes purposes' Ed Edwin In Burke Durke and j S. S Jay Kaufman created a a. similar condition condItion condition condi condI- tion tOda today that Is Js they have a letter Jetter writer a person capable of or writing their letters business sentimental and otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise which others are not rot capable of ot phrasing This Is the basic Idea of their clever little The Letter Writer splendidly 1 lin linI played I bb by a Harold Elliott I g Ann Walters and Jacob Kingsberry coming ln to the Orpheum this week A A. very bashful youth too bashful to tell the girl of his feelings goes to a letter writer to o write that which he dare not say The Tho Letter Writer is a II cunning cunning- cre creature creature crea crea- I ture and suggests e that t the boy Impersonate imperSonate Imper imper- e sl I ut J him for awhile He d does so so and d among others who come In n to have their letters written is the girl girt herself hersel bent ona on a 0 similar mission and so of ot course everything ends happily Mr Mt Burke and Mr Kaufman Kautman are bothWell both bothwell well elt known authors Both have written a number of successful vaudeville acts and some plays Mr Kaufman's Round the Town column In the Evening Globe It is one ono of ot the most widely read columns of comment published by any New V York newspaper He I-fe is the author of High lowbrow Kisses and Mr Burke wrote Poor Rich Man Predestination Money Talks I I Heard and many others |