AUaUST 5, 1916.

The Billboard

Orestes in Open Air Fairy Spectacle

William . Farersham Prepares for
WELLS HAWKS Films Will Be Shown Coincident With
Modern Version of Greek Drama Its Production Near Christmas Tune
New York, July 11.—William Fa- Billboard's Feature Writer Discourses on the New York, July SI.—A new op-
vers-iam la planning to have his wife,
Maw Julie Opp, take the part of Cas- Longevity of the Clown's Career and Inci- eretta, aald to have been in construc-
tion for the space of three years, and
sandra In the blc outdoor perform-
ance ha la to direct and appear In this dentally Submits a Brand New Elephant designated a "muslcal-falry-spectacle,"
la to be presented either here or In
fall before producing Bernard ShaWs
Getting Married. The drama will be Yarn From the Illuminated Imagi- Chicago about Christmas time. It is
from the pens of Mrs. Carter H. Har-
Ore* tea. and will be a new version of
the old Aeschylus classic.
nation of Dexter Fellows rison, wife of the former Mayor ef
Chicago; L. Franklin Baum and Hugo
Mr. Faveraham has made arrange- Felix, Venetian music master, com-
ments to produce If on the grounds of .Do clowns ever grow old? Do the comics of the sawdust ring ever attain poser of Pom Pom. The operetta la
Roland R. Conklii. s estate at Hunt- a respectable old age and live happily ever afterward? What becomes of founded on Mrs. Harrison's fairy tale
ington. L. L Mr. Conklin has just clowns anyway? and is to be given an elaborate setting
finished the construction of an open- It is altogether out of reason to Imagine a clown retiring from the busi- and production. A film company 1*
air theater, which combines the old ness of falling down stairs or joyfully taking a slap stick beating twice a day to share the expense and films will be
Greek and Roman architecture. He Is and then give it all up and seek some other occupation. In a wild fancy we made which will be almost identical
hoping It may be used for unusual can hardly picture a son of Momus going to look for a job in a commercial with the actual presentation. It la
pert rmancea each year. concern with a reference for clowning. Then there are no clowns' old men's possible that the films will be released
Mr. Faveraham will have the title homes and no one has yet originated a pension for the aged, infirm, wounded coincident with the production and
role Miss Julia Arthur, the part of and Injured heroes, who, in the battles of the circus ring, have become dis- will run as a counter attraction, one
Clyt mnestra, and a number of other abled from continued eeltser squirting in the left eye, the persistent paddling playing to two-dollar and the other
lead ng stars will have Important of the alap stick or worn out from years of vigilance in guarding off the to one-dollar houses.
part*. Mr. Faveraham hopes to ar- stage or ring restrained kick or incapacitated from many blown bladder bat-
range for a aymphony orchestra, a terings under the stretched dome of canvas.
large ensemble, a chorus and a num- I do recall one very successful business man who retired from clowning. To Star Mabelle Estelle
ber of Greek dancers. The orchestra This was the late Frank Ellne, who for many years was in the stage lighting
will use the music written for the play and electrical novelty business in Baltimore. But he always had the joyful New York, July 29.—Out of a score
by Massenet mood of the clown at work and even when busiest made you think that on of applicants it has remained for Ma-
the slightest provocation he might jump through a paper hoop. Marceline belle Estelle to attach herself aa the
has become a business man and he has often told me that it was his ambition
Emma Dunn To Be Starred to go back to his native Spain, have a nice little farm and raise pigs. But I star of The Girl He Couldn't Buy, de-
scribed as a melodramatic comedy In
will bet my souvenir slap stick that he wouldn't have the pigs four months four acts, the work of Sumner Nichols,
New York, July 19.—Lee Kugel an- before he'd.have them trained to tell the time of day, picking out poker hands which will be sent on a tour of the In-
nounces that Emma Dunn wil make and telling the colors of a variegated bunch of ribbons. Now Ma-celine is ternational Circuit by Arthur C. Alston.
her debut aa a star In his forthcoming keeping a table d'hote dining place, but I never go Into it without expecting Rehearsals are scheduled to take
proc action of Rachel Crothers* play, momentarily to hear him falling down the stairs with eight dollars' worth of place next week, and the opening will
Old Lady SI. Miss Dunn has hereto- cracked crockery and rushing Into the dining room rubbing his antiquated o c c u r o u t o f t o w n o n Labor Day.
forei never been starred in a produc- 8 U k n ** and smiling a broad hippodrome grin. »Ph6 Q\r\ He Couldn't Buy Is ex-
tion Her work in Peer Gynt, The As a matter of fact you can't Just get over i t No matter how their years pected pected to cut a wide swath on th«
Governor's Lady, Mother and Sinners may accumulate and birthdays come and go clowns do not grow old. In their the In-
has established her aa an actress of fun and their mimicry they aeem to ever linger around the edge of the foun- tern at tonal Circuit.
the first rank. Kugel plana to make tain of youth. Making laughter seems to drive cares away, yet meet a clown
an annual production for his new when he is not working and he is about as sad looking and as serious faced as a Onanges in Oast
•tar, Rehearsals for Old Lady SI Methodist minister who haa been removed from a church in the city to a
wil begin August 7, with a preliminary congregation in the backwoods at the behest of a rotund bishop. New York, July 20.—Two changes
tour out of town beginning Labor 'Day, Nine times and a half out of ten the clown is born into his profession. were made this week In the cast of
and *>mlng Into New York two weeks Few youths start out in life with the direct purpose in view of becoming a Fair and Warmer at the Harris Thea-
late successful clown and they don't encourage such ambitions with a course on ter. Rose Winter replaced Janet
clowning in the correspondence schools. The men who have emulated Humpty Beecher on Monday night and the next
Dumpty falling off a wall can usually point back to a long line of clowns aa evening Richard Sterling joined tee
Want Members their ancestors. Can you Imagine Al Miaco or any Miaco having been any- cast.
thing else but a clown. And Al now approaching the three score year and
New York, July SI.—The Commu- ten mark la still clowning. He can fall down a flight of steps with agility of a
nity Players, of Richmond Hill, I* I., small boy and get up smiling, only to be hit on top of the head with a per- DRAMATIC NOTES
want members and have Issued a call, cussion cap loaded club. And la there any better pantomimist than Al Miaco?
hoping to recruit their ranks thereby. Tell Jules Tumour that he is getting old and he will run you off the lot. Ren Teal haa been encased by Frederick
There are four classes of members, Spader Johnson may get fatter, but he will never be a day older and he will Kay to be state director (or Broadway
life, sustaining, subscribing and active, always be his lovable self. Harry La Pearl will let you call him "kid" and Buttermilk, In which Blanche Bine opena nt the
and the dues, respectively, run $100, mean it, and he la one at that George Hartsell has the mien and bearing and Marine Ralph
Elliott Theater In New York oa Augunt f.
Banker haa been engaged to play t i e
SS5, $S and SS. The players have es- gray locks of a chairman of board of directors of a subsidiary to the steel leading Juvenile role In Two J anoe. a farce, with
tablished a community theater in trust, but don't you tell him he's getting old. You might as well try to con- mode by Norman Lee Swartoot, which wm
Richmond and expect to make four vince any of them o s this point as to tell the citizens of Crawfordsvllle that
open Labor Day oet of town and come to Mow
public productiona during the follow- Lew Graham doesn't look like all the Ringling Brothers blown into one. York September 15. The production wtU ha
ing- year, each to run two or more Waa there ever a more eternal boy than Slivers ? Could you ever imagine made by the Beoerre Producing Oompanjr. of
nights. In addition to these there will him passing across the line that means the doublet and the slippered panta- Cleveland, Max Paetkenbener, director. Mr.
be other special performances, and loon of old age? Even now as you feel a pang over his sad death you aee him Banker waa last eeen In New York In a promi-
lectures on various phases of. the as a clown and I who knew and loved him-often think of what must have nent role In The Girl Who 8miles.
drama. transpired in his confused mind that moment when standing on the brink he A Delicate Situation, a three-set comedy-
looked back and saw in smiling array the millions he had made laugh. And drama, by Grant Stewart and Robert Raker,
I wonder, too, when he saw their smiling, happy faces, if the thought waa tried out at the Broadway Theater, Loaf
Sunday Evening Concerts countless did not come to him, as it comes to all of us who knew him, did one in that Branch, Monday night, July 24. In the cast
throng he had made laugh drop a tear when he was gone? were Cyril Scott, Fay Balnter, Henry Vogel,
e e e e e e Wallace Woraley. Ethel Intropldl. J. Malcolm«
New York, July SI.—The Metro- Modestly, but with determined tenacity, I have always possessed myself Dunn, Jane Meredith. Elisabeth Hunt. J. Hooker
politan Opera House will inaugurate with the idea that I knew all of the elephant stories in the world. I waa Wright and E. M. Dresser.
Sunday evening concerts, beginning in proud of it, for I have been following them ever since the first one I saw and Otto Haucrbach's first attempt at dramatic
September, under the direction of Mor- wondered at a solitary attraction in the menagerie of the John O'Brien show work waa tried out Monday night. July 24,
ris (est, Theodore H. Bauer and Alex- on the vacant lots of the Valley of Virginia. But I must confess that I have when Blood Will Tell waa pat on the boards.
andtr Kahn. fallen, one has been put over on me. It comes from that resourceful, creative Henry Kolker had the leading role. The play
brain and iridescent imagination of my life-long friend and pal, Dexter W. waa originally known as The Victim. In the
Fellows, who can turn out more real ideas for good circus stories and shake cast were: Panl Ererton, David Higgins. Fred-
Miss Sparkes To Sail hands and be cordially welcomed by more real newspaper men than any erick Kehrwald. Henry Dnffey. Will Gregory.
circus press agent I know. Richards Hale, S. Hatakenake. Nathaniel An-
derson,
And I will ever insist that the circus agents have the best newspaper ac- l'orter and Entitle Polini. Miriam Doyle, Margaret
New York, July SI.—Miss Lenora quaintance of any agents in the show business and they are a set of men that Florence Neark.
Sparkea, soprano of the Metropolitan never fail to deliver. You can't keep a scrap book on a good circus agent. It Clara Morris, the actress, who many
Opera Company, la packing her grip would take an extra car. I know that I have been one of them, but I am not ago was a famous favorite, and who la
tor a quick trip abroad for a few writing about myself. I am referring to all my associates and opposition more than *e\enty years old, Is to more
weeks' rest before the fall season gratefully just because they let me be one of them—belong to a set of publicity her old home, known aa the Harriott homestead
opens. She expects to sail August S men who don't have plushed-lined offices and union hours, but a lot of on Long Island, and is to spend the rent of hat
for England, but will return la time hustlers who work out in the open and go after apace with real stuff no day* la Tnckahoe, Weetcheeter County,
tor i he Metropolitan opening. (Continued oa tegs U) (Continued ae page 14)