| Show a AGAIN AGAIN THE GRAND MANEUVER j TO REACH I BROADWAY FIRST i By JAA JAMES S W DEAN NEW YORK YORK July IS S Tho 6 of ot the tile various iTt Broad Vay producers will wll be put to Lle 0 test In these thess next few weeks I Much Much ot of o the success of a Illon depends on when hen and whirs where i it is or opened ened to the public Sometimes a n good food play tans tails alls be- be bc bauso ause the he circumstances ot of o time and place aro are against It a poor play phy succeeds because rho Lhote reverse te erst condition meets fleets It premiere A certain Bright pini-Bright told me Inc In the theother theether theether other ether da day that he had refund refilled to sell his Ills play ploy to ono one ot of America I formost producers because It woud hot bot be bo produced this vear ear and that hI hC knew It If lL it were held over nice 0 er to toi noth r year vear ear tor for production It not be a success 6 In la n this connection there Is 13 nn an race on between two good food Irishmen George 3 M If C Co- Co Cohan han Ca-han han and William WIlham A Drad Brady Brady- Cohan Is s rehearsing a comedy called So This Is fa Broadway Brady Is pha- pha pan pan-hins bingo hing to open his season with Sa h this Is 13 r ew w Yo kl Th The ono on who first has his play ready r for tor audience will III hold hod a decided ael advantage an- an rage tage Cohan is opening opening- Two T o s and a Girl this week while stills Gil- Gil Wil William Gilliam liam Ua Harris Jr Is trying to I t an even eves break besot alfh In Love Lore LoH a similar play Other plan that have ben try try- try try-in Dg out in the the- th sticks are doser closer to Gotham so that they the maybe may maybe maybe be rend to jump lump Into 0 a c Broadway thea theatre re ns as soon as the permits the season to open While the Jockeying Jockeying- for far by the various arlous cers goes on L L Lawrence T Is pia play mg ing L t t- t tie t-tie tIe ale Jessie James a 0 musical com com- comedy comedy comedy edy In Long Iong Island tC towns teeny s 's Lot Lotmore ot more than 15 minutes from way Brod d c way a 1 Elsa Petersen came to America from Denmark three years ago I I She couldn't speak n word O of ot Eng Eng- EngI English i I lish Ish She has just ben pro not promoted d from the of the Follies to the rho role rolo ot of prima donna Sho I succeeds Mary Lewis who Las has graduated to grand opera All Ail of r which goes to prove girls iris that r l 1 k i ie e i 1 za I Iw V Y w i k Y Forb orb 3 n i F w t y w tl r p hw 39 w a t a a ea il Il I I G TO LY RI Bl c 1 I i I r every eel step on Broadway isn't 1 pitfall Helen FIelen Westley Las has gone cone one to Eu Du Europe i rope for tor a vacation Por ten years i i ii she has Las playing been on 01 Broadway without n a brea break She has pia played ed 26 roles In four years 1 II q 9 of ot them In Theatre Theat-e Theat Gulfa productions and when she she returns the bho will wilt start r in t 8 a IL John Galsworthy pIa play which will well ope open opoa the tha Guild season in October The I second play on the Guild calendar will be The Failures s with Ith Ja- Ja Ja Jn Jacob cob Ben Ami In the lead Iad It ll Ii a translation from R K II H Lenormand s Les Rates Pales David Belasco has accepted n a play b by Mrs Airs Brewer De- De Foe De-Foe 1 Foo 00 widow ot of the lets late Louis Louts Do- Do Foe De-Foe Poe Foe dramatic critic ol ot the NewYork Ne Nea York World cariou ly by tho tha revue writers writer theIr desire to ha haw o tho play play- bills read Dresses and undresses byJ by- by Victor Herbert or Jeromo Kern and to have bare the tho ro- ro re words re-words wU ot their ot-their theIr go to them instead ot of to the Inert men of ot let let- letters letters let letters I Is fe a nugget of ot brilliant br dla togas logue extracted from Helen of Troy NYI N Y which Is la sired by hy no noless noless noless less redoubtable wit wit mongers mongers than tha th Ie Kauffman and Caa Con Con- Connolly Con nolly Holly nolly fret First comedian Im Just lust an average man Second comedian Who promoted pro pro- promoted pro promoted you A And d Ih this lorn om Lewis referring to enemy and business rival rival- rh rival al Tm Im going to be nice to him I m to lisle Heir him It if I can go to hi Tho The LI transposition Is tree bee but tile the Joko Is as good as when tho rho thoI I audience yawns at aL It if Con Consider lder for an Instant the rho et- et ef of efforts torts forts of oC Joe Coo Cook In Tho The Vanities ot of 19 1922 1928 3 Mr Ir Cook indulges with his n feeder In the rho following engaging en engaging ing repartee III His 1119 feeder ceder How Hows your uncle Mr Cook I have no uncle Ills Flea feeder Well how Is h he Mr r Cook Coak Hos nos tine tins It f Larry will alii turn the crank tic the thelast last exhibit for the tho evening ng will from The The Passing Show This splitting splitting side quip Is as liS follows First comedian cre on the Inside of a n big proposition Second comedian Yes So was Jonah Ot such uth Is the tottering kingdom ot of revue ref re ue humor That rho newspaper reporter Isan Is 15 Isan an able instrument after aCter all la Is occasionally demon demonstrable Thero tins has seldom been a better example or 01 the effectuAl magic of his favor than is contained in to the announce announcement ment meat th that t Miss Patricia Salmon has been urged to Join Mr felds feld's I The lady is the lame IThe Dal of the provincial honk honk-a- honk tonk I tonk that bUl at Shelby Mont front in the tho days immediately pre pre- pre pre Dempsey and Gib- Gib Gibbons Gib Cb Gibbons bones bons s to set-to in that thai unfortunate She danced she sang she acted she was ads the rho Great Girl Show i herself hersel Her capacities were so 10 disquieting that she bhe guided the hell h e a t y W e l I g h 1 t through the macs ma ml es o of the shimmy and son vion on for tor some somo of ot them a new and anol unanticipated fame tame as men All occasions conspired for loti Salmon It t took the debacle o of an entire community an ot of the cro crown croon n prince of pugilism against an Illustrious rival thel l e co etl gende o of at wind ennui and the public demand for tor columns of news where here little news was to transport her from Crom the shows to Broadway lecture 1 arit- arit writ writers ers ere must ha haw have 0 features S to write about and those of ot Miss Ails Salmon were more thane the conformations ot of o the rho vl- vl vi vicinage 1 The lady from the rho frontier dance halls hails tot for almost as much publicity in fn two necks as a mere prima donna gets in fn a year Every I Everybody body wrote about Miss Patricia Salmon lImon Even Dpn D en the name lent Itself piquantly to the f of of les-of o the as- as assembled assembled as assembled chroniclers and her ver versatility er- er and charm were bruited b by bythe bythe the wise olse guys from the east as unique So the urban magi played pia ed et ex ct explorer plover diviner and and- and more practically press practically press agent And the sorcery of ot the printed word worked In a particularly manner mannel The he little s airy godmother found a glace IIa s slipper just the th right size In Prince Ilo s hands and so she may live lve happy ever after alter |
