Show BOY AND I ITHE THE DRAMATIC GERM I It Is IG wonderful how an incident creates tho the germ that incubates Into a play pia Some of the biggest successes I ever eer seen on the stage grow out of some slight Incident picked up by br a playwright and made Into a vehicle that afterwards attracted worldwide attention How Ho Edgar Selwyn picked up the in incident Incident that grow grew Tew Into a sketch and thence into a It play which Henry Henr HenryD B D Harris will produce early this com coming comIn coming ing In season under the title of Tho The Country Boy Bo is worth recording Lc a la Newburg and Chick Chicken en CD en CD Casserole not on tho the dally bill of or fare faie handed to Edgar Selwyn when he was living at a lit little little tle lie boarding house on street t New York At this time he had not made his hit hll as Tony Ton In Arizona nor had he written a n pay play that brought cheeks checks weekly from managers man managers agers ayers offices in return for or royalties nor n r had hod he been elevated ol to star stardom stardom dom om One day in this little typical I I New York ork boarding house something happened that seemingly soon after arter was forgotten Ton Ion years passed when he was called upon to contri contribute contribute bute a one act sketch to a Lambs Gambol and this Incident was resurrected resurrected resurrected from its lodgment and made Into a sketch that turned out to be he beono ono one of the biggest successes ever over pro produced prOduced produced at one of these events There were four characters in the theon on act sketch a chorus girl a news newspaper newspaper paper man a n landlady and a country boy played respectively by h Joseph J Frank Fronk Sheridan John Dab Daly Murphy Murph and Donald Donnld Brian H Henr Henry nry B Harris who Is IB also a Lamb wit wll witnessed this gambol and immediately after the performance suggested io 10 Selwyn that he elaborate Ills his sketch and make It Into a play Mr Ir Selwyn agreed and immediately set get to work Now the play Is 13 completed and au Mr Ir Harris will produce It early carl In Sep Sap September Lem er Such Is the story stor of the growth of a u dramatic germ |