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Show STAGE GOSSIP Th London correspondent of Variety aaya th Rusalan dance seem to b a bit frayed over her. Th eras la now two-year-old. So whan "Tha Dream Itance" with a Russian ballet opened at th Aihamhra Monday, th hail did not catrh on fir. Cathertn Oeltaer and M. Ttchomtmff are admittedly great dancers; th production pro-duction is brilliant, although lacking a big climax, but tha ntlrAMggregatlna cam too late. An American comdy bicycle bi-cycle turn acorvg a genu in bit, see TMll'a Nightmare" may be nt out on th road one mora next aeaaon. but without Marie Dressier, tteveral women hav been mentioned In connection with th stellar rol of th piece. Th parting between Mlaa Dr easier, th show and her manager arrived with tha abandonment of tha proposed summer run of th pro-ductlun pro-ductlun at th Herald Square. It waa to hav commenced laat Monday. Mlaa DreaiOer refused to open at the Herald fkjuar. leaving for hr frm in th country. coun-try. So reason waa aaaigned. Law Fields declared he knew of no reaaon for It The tour of "T-1 lie's Nightmare.' em-bra em-bra ring an eight month stay In New fork and a tour of th country to th northwest and return; waa highly profit able. In that time Mlaa Drees ler played nearly all hundred performances and her share of th rclnra amounted to about $5A,oo. When Mlaa Dreealer waa apprised ap-prised by her management that for her return New Tors en as cement th price war to be II Ift Inatead of II, ah balked as only th tremjoua Maria can. Not only that, but ah Insisted that th organisation or-ganisation be recoat u med at a enat approximating ap-proximating $tm0. Tha polnta wer argued ar-gued for several daye between atar and management until finally, finding that the Meaare. Fields and flhubert could not see U her way Mlaa Dressier quit, e e e Arch I Lvy, th booking agsnt and manager of th Richmond theatr her, waa arrested and found guilty before Judga Sullivan of San Kranda-o of employing em-ploying child labor at hla theatr. Levy was remanded for aentcne until later tn j |