Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-07-13 | Page 2 | The Perennial Selwyns

oo THE PERENNIAL SELWYNS. A little serious thought bent on the announcement that rehearsals of Edgar Ed-gar Selwyn's new comedy "Rolling Stones" would be called within a week, turned up an Interesting fact concerning the Selwyn season It has never ended, since It began, a memorable memor-able night In early September, three years ago, with tho premiere of Bayard Bay-ard Veller's "Within the Law." Each year a run has been long enough to lap over, from one season into the next, so that the first new play of the coming season ran side by side with the longest run of the closing one. "Rolling Stones" will overtake "Twin Beds," long before the latter farce will have outlived Its mirthful-ness. mirthful-ness. Selwyn & Company became Selwyn & Company with the production of "Within the Law." Tho most monumental monu-mental adjectives pale and shiver before be-fore the task of describing that gigantic gigan-tic run. Long before it was concluding conclud-ing its second year at the Eltinge Theater. "Under Cover" had had the statisticians of Boston beach-combing tho files to find another such run as the Megrue drama was having there, and "Under Cover," in its turn, "followed "fol-lowed through" with its Boston run, then camo over to the Cort Theater here and paralleled "Twin Beds" with a run a season long. "Twin Beds," having already the longest run of the present season to its credit, is Inducing happy througs to -turn themselves toward the Harris Theater. There is not tho dimmest chance of its ending its run before the summer has passed, and Selwyn & Company are in the field again with "Rolling Stones," "Under Fire" and a group of other plays. This is a summary only aimed at the peaks. Not only does the Selwyn season swing in full cycles it is a season as,is a season while it's about It. Their "Four Big Hits" challenged all comers during a season universally universal-ly admitted to be a calamitous one, and of the ten plays which had any considerable vogue in New York this year, "Twin Beds," "Under Cover," "The Show Shop" and the "The Lie" made almost half. Of tho four plays which ran from August to the following June, Selwyn & Company had two, "Twin Beds" and "Under Cover " All of which gives "Rolling Stones" a golden spoon to dally with.