Show t PERCY m AMt OND'S LEllER I NEW NE YOUR YORK Aug 10 WIll Will Rogers I proposes to desert the g- g gf feld felI f ld Follies next year car and to visit l the Ie e suburban and Chau- Chau accompanied by h a male I oriel He lie will take tale with hint him hima a 1 basa tenor a II and an nn alto I whose voices when raised in I Ir ng r will it Is prophesied enter enter- entertain tain 1011 the audiences while he he enter I is I i his lariats Mr departure will he hei het i t grave loss to the better Broad Broad- y life His Ills appearance I in its the habit make going a II fit nt for adults His humorous sneers meers ut at our 1 national weaknesses sire arc almost as helpful as the editor editorials talc In the new Many In Ingenuous ill In- drama lovers lors lo rs have been beds inspired by his monologues to doubt that things are arc really as they thy eem em to be to beAs As Mr 11 Rogers Hogel's decamps for far far- farther farther farher ther her neighborhoods I wonder why hy Ar Mr r does docs not try tr to en- en enge Mr Iii c gae ge a substitute Though Rogers Hogus Is 19 tho nonpareil of his class others exist t. t Bereft of Mr Ir Ho Mr might with little more expenditure employ an artist well-nigh well as potent I ha have hn c cIn In mind for Instance Irvin Cobb Bud Fisher Clarence Claience Darrow George orge Ade Claire s Brigga or H H. L L. If between the tableau of the tile Ring Lardner should per per- perform form how ho much mu h less would Mr Air Rogers be missed ed Or If Mr Lardner I. I were unavailable inter Inter- interest Interest est and amusement might be aroused d by Scott Fitzgerald W. W O. O 0 McGeehan Buggs Duggs Baer Daer or Stuart Pratt Sherman The crowds at the New V Amsterdam might be Just jU au nl numerous if Samuel Hopkins Ad Ad- Adams ams aisle Wallace Irwin or Rupert hughes wore vere lvere fei fe lIres along with Miss Ray Hat hta Dooley and and Mazet All Alt of nem anent have some some- something something something thing to say 55 sa and they the know to say it when and if paid Since Ince Mr 11 Is my 10 favorite fa showman excepting Winthrop Ames George Georce C C. Tyler Iler and Arthur Hopkins I claim the right to tomake tomake tomake make hints to him while he Is 19 ab ab- absent absent ab- ab absent sent in Deauville the Long Lons- Beach of Cof France If none of the fore fore- foregoing foregoing I going possibilities appeals to him bins himI I 1 suggest that In the stead tead of Mr 11 Rogers he appoint that other wholesome cynic Edgar A. A Guest Gust to lasso the tho Follies as they the fly tI What a slogan this would bp he upon the facade of the New ew Amsterdam TILE TUK FOLLIES Glorifying the American Girl With WHit W. W V. V C. C Fields Mary Rob Hob Roberts Roberts erts RInehart Leon Errol Motley Gertrude le G Michael lId Arlen J Billy III V. V Von on Ilio ilie Dolly Doily DoU Sisters and anil Curl Carl Van an echten A. A H. H Woods Wood the eminent pro pro- producer ducer thinks as you OU know that few w pla pili u are arc complete unless they contain i a it bedroom scene Ills His prestige and his s large fortune u are I I 1 founded on the tho t belief I that drama lovers layers overs are arc alwa 8 s Interested In nightgowns n and pajamas Give Mr lIe I Woods a plot ever so lively and Ll Isis his realistic I predilections Ir rl will put it ito it to o bed Most of his dramatic Jour Jour- meeting at atla atIt atHa 8 11 end in lover jour jour-j It Ha la hotel where few fes' questions are arc asked I Mr Ir Wood pursues this boudoir policy successfully successful e c I suspect In tnt n his nl I production c of Spring I Fever one of the works of Vincent Lawrence Though himself an Indoor man he Is cognizant of the the- fact tact that golf Kolt Is one of the slices of life So for two acts he hc makes as much aio to Golf as Grantland Rice Ricel 01 l alter Walter Hagen He lie He fills Ills the play lilay 10 with and deep de p breathing long strolls between shots and angry controversIes contro on ontie tie the putting greens But Hut golf Is to Mr Ir Woods Woods' mere mere- mer iy jy a lure toward his isis traditional parlor bedroom and bath The Th h. h ii rome Miss 1 Marion Coakley Coakle Is Isa Isa Isa a mercenary little blonde The hero James Jam I is a II grim shipping clerk clu who says aint and shoots a CO GO at Van Cortlandt Park After both of them provo prove themselves to be cheap Ill bred vulgar and nasty Mr Woods ap ap- appoints appoints ap- ap appoints points them to Suite Six There following numerous fleshly In- In Innuendos Love conquers All If I were asked to give an in opinion of Spring Fever I should say sa that It Is i more a contrivance than thana a 0 play pia But Dut I must record that It I Iwas was vaa as received enthusiastically by b Its first and ond least Important cud aud- I lence 1010 |