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Show FOOTLIGHT FLASHES. That Edgar Selwyn's early experiences experi-ences in staving of starvation "read like a book" has been said of him in every quarter of this country. That some of them also sound liko a play will be disclosed In "Rolling Stones," his newest comedy, two or three of the most vivid incidents of which Mr. Selwyn took from his memory and not from his imagination. Margaret Illington's tour in "The Lie," which began last- week at Atlantic At-lantic City, was distinguished at its start by rivaling the "Follies" as a money-maker. The enormous audiences audien-ces before which Miss Illlngton played the latest Henry Arthur Jones play at the seashore broke the year's record for miscellaneous entertainment, thus establishing the facts of Atlantic City's dual nature and her own power as a magnet. "Under Fire," the newest play by Roi Cooper Megrue, author of "Under Cover" and "It Pays to Advertise," which Selwyn & Company will present pre-sent with William Courtenay and a distinguished cast including Frank Craven and Violet Heming will begin a short preliminary season at Long Branch on August 5. Walter Young, who will play the irascible stage director in "The Show Shop," the ames Forbes comedy of the stage, which Selwyn & Company will have on tour next season,' with George Sidney and Zelda Sears featured fea-tured In their original roles, has spent his vacation in Los Angeles. Tho fifty-two weeks' run of "Twin Beds," the recoid-breaking farce by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo, will be terminated at the Harris Theater Thea-ter this week by Selwyn & Company In order that the theater can be overhauled over-hauled and house-cleaned for the advent ad-vent of "Rolling Stones," the new comedy by Edgar Selwyn, on August 17. Florence Malone, who will have the role of Ethel Cartwright in Roi Cooper Coop-er Megruo's thrilling melodrama, "Under "Un-der Cover," when it goes on tour this season, has been spending her vacation vaca-tion at Summit, X. J., in a sequestration sequestra-tion so complete that not all the strenuousness and emotional tensities of Mr. Megruo's favorite heroine can now daunt her. Miss Malone's season last year with the Alcazar Stock company was so arduous that a rustic interlude between be-tween it and "Under Cover" was far more a necessity than a luxury. Ollie Kirby, Ihe actress who appears in Kalem's series, "The Mysteries of the Grand Hotel," is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most capable players In the motion picture field. She Is seen to special advantage in "The Substituted Jewel," the fifth episode epi-sode of this series. Since the first episode of Kalem's "Mysteries of the Grand Hotel," was released, hundreds of photoplay patrons pat-rons have forwarded their experiences while stopping at various hotels, to the motion picture producers. The great majority of the writers are un-stinted un-stinted In their praise of the manner in which the modern hotels safeguards the property of its guests. The newest new-est episode of this series, "The Substituted Sub-stituted ewel," shows how a crook who endeavored to victimize the guests of the Auditorium Hotel was brought to justice. A. S. Katz, the houso detective of this Chicago hotel, furnished Kalem with the details upon up-on which tho ejisode was based. oo |