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Show Will Archie, Thurston Hall, Sydney Booth. Joseph Tuohy. Gilbert Douglas, Franklin Roberts. Ernest Truex. J-Haves J-Haves Hunter, Ellen Mortimer. Mary Elizabeth Forbes and Annie Buckley. - . LILLIAN RUSSELL AT THE GRAND MARCH 10. Lillian Russell Is underlined at the Grand and. will be seen there Wednesday Wed-nesday evening in the racing comedy "Wildfire," piesentcd by Joseph Brooks, and which was "written by George Broadhurst and George V. Ho-bart. Ho-bart. - The play comes from a long run at the Liberty theater, New York, where Miss Russell scored a triumph trr It. Her work in straight histrionic endeavors has been a revelation. The play concerns the adventures of a beautiful widow who has been left a racing stable, wcretly operated by -her husband in his life -time. The machinations machi-nations of crooked race track men and tho needs of concealing her identity make the task a ticklish one, but tho successful manner" In' which the widow comes through tind pets It' all straightened straight-ened out to the satisfaction of her admirers makes "Wildfire" a play" of abhorblng Interest';- It Is beautifully staged in three acts, the second of which shows. the Interior of a racing stable at one of the big tracks. MIsk Rus?ell is gowned -.exquisitely- and Is provided with a company of popular . favorites, Including Frank Sheridan. |