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4D THE BETWEEflfcSEASON Another All-Star Troupe Arrives SUNDAY NEWS, MAY 27, 1923 DRAMA Mr. Tellegen Gets Out His Old Velvet PantsA Critic's Passing By BURNS MANTLE. I don't suppose Lou Tellegen could live, professionally, without his artist's outfit, any more than Tom Mix could live without his chaps and his sombrero. Once I caught a friend wearing plain glass lenses in his white gold bows. "What's the idea?" I demanded, "why the cheating cheaters?" He smiled a little sheepishly.

"I had to wear Vs I- 5' ttJ glasses for several years," he explained. "Then my eyes strengthened and I was able to do without I them. But I discovered the glasses had become, in I business, a part of my trademark, even a part of i my so-called personality. Without my glasses even mv friends felt strange in mv nresence. Customers! I I from out of town, who had seen my picture printed 0 in trade journals, thought I was one of these here New York confidence fellows.

So I comDromised i with the window glass and business picked up." Last week Tellegen, back temporarily from the movies, got out the old velvet jacket, the corduroy pants and the long sash and became a sculptor Jndith Anderson again, just for the night and matmee trade. j- The play "Anna" is a trivial dido from the William Faversham, Helen Gahagan, Frances Starr, and Rollo Peters Come to Town In a Modern Clothes Revival of an Old Time Drama. ONE GOOD REVIVAL deserves another evidently George C. Tyler's theatrical philosophy of life for he will present his second in two weeks when Sardou's "Diplomacy" succeeds Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" tomorrow evening at Erlanger's theatre with a cast including Ben Ami, Charles Coburn, Helen Gahagan, Frances Starr, Rollo Peters. The present acting version, that of studio of the Hungarian Lothar who wrote "The Command to Love" and "The Werewolf." This one, however, as adapted by Herman Bernstein, has no more than a touch of the naughtiness that distinguished the other two.

Anna (Judith Anderson) is the name of a rich man's determined daughter who falls in love with the picture of a sculptor and decides on the spot that he is the boy for her. A Kiki with the Skin You'd Love to Paint. Disguising herself as a Kiki of the studios she invades his diggings and applies for a job as a model. He makes note of her good points and curtly -bids her go behind the screen and undress. She does, stand- i urn I Hi 1 Hi i -l-i mA'MU ins forth (off stage) all her birthday loveliness.

Of course we have only Tellegen's word for it, but it seems her beautiful skin is exactly the kind you'd 4ove to paint if you were an artist. Maybe you wouldn't even have to be an artist. "You have never posed before!" observes the startled Tellegen. "Your lovely skm is not yet accustomed to being stared at." From Sir Gerald Du Mauner, ran for more than a year in London several seasons ago, with the players appearing in modern clothe, as they also appear in the Tyler revival. Faversham is probably best remembered for "The Squaw Man," Miss Gahagan for her work in "Young Woodley" and "Trelawny of the Wells," Miss Starr for "The Easiest Way," and Peters for his Romeo to Jane Cowl's Juliet.

which we assume the heroine was eoose-fieshing in protest. BRITISH ACTORS Thereafter the romance follows conventionally. They make one those first act wagers, the sculptor and his model. She knows that he is being sought by the daughter of one of his richest patrons. And FORM AN EQUITY The British Actors Equity ass-' SCHNEBBE LEASES HUDSON THEATRE Howard Schnebbe general manager for the late Henry B.

Harris and still serving in that capacity MIRIAM REFUSES BOTH WAGE CUT AND HER HUBBY Miriam Hopkins refused to take a summer salary cut along with the rest of the cast of "Excess Baggage" and ciation was recently formed in London, patterned along the lines of the American organization. Although well attended, the meeting did not get anywhere particularly, because of a division of opinion as to what was wanted. Representa although he professes to hate the lady, Anna bets him that he will be holding her in his arms within the month. Gold can never buy, nor goofy rich girls attract him, swears Lou. He will bet her anything she likes her prophecy never, never comes true.

But, if it does come true he will give her anything she demands, even unto his most desirable self. If it does not come true she will have to pay him a like reward by becoming his mistress. (These Hungarians certainly -do have the most original Anna, knowing her little secret, that she is herself the rich patron's daughter, as even, the "ushers guessed, wins easily. His pride hurt, the sculptor tries to back out of his bargain, principally because there has to be a third act. But Anna wins.

tives of the Actors association, Stage Guild, and Variety Artists Federation put forward claims that for Mrs. Harris, has leased the Hudson theatre for an indefinite period commencing August 1. Mrs. Harris is retiring after a period of active; producing which has lasted" for over sixteen years, but her retirement is only- temporary. She will spend the interim making a trip around the world, passing considerable time in Japan, and Paris.

While away she will complete her memoirs. their organization was the one best fitted td serve the needs of the legitimate actor. so withdrew from the leading feminine role. She has gone to Chicago to secure a di-vorce from Brandon Peters, who is now acting; in Australia. Al Jolson may once more steD into the Lou Tellegen SECOND REVUE HERE Grand Street Follies" Again Lands on Broadway.

Miriam Hopkins "PORGY" RETURNS Director Staging Five Plays Next Season. A silly business any time in the season. Bufc better suited to the spring than to the fall trade. Personally, I'm in favor -of getting rid of as many bad plays as possible before what is known as the heated term arrives. The Alan Dale Influence.

-For all the brave note of utter independence sounded in Alan Dale's writings he was by nature a shy man. He hevei? mingled with the profession of which he wrote for so many years. He knew few of its promoters, fewer of its actors. In the old days, when the Alan Dale interviews were famous, he made numerous contacts, but these dwindled as years went by. Professionally he has cast of "A Night in Spain" for its Los Angeles engagement.

He replaced Phil Baker during the Chicago run, when the accordion-player became ill. Speaking of playwrights, the name' of Mae West's new play, which Morris Gest promises to pro siooa atone pracucaiiy an ms lixe. xie never, bo far as I know, courted favors nor rendered them unless to him they were In this way, his was an independence as a writer j4 days, when he was establishing a style in light and i occasionally flippant and stinging criticism, his com duce next season, is The Mad Mae, presumably, will carry off the title role. And then consider Dwight Taylor, brilliant young son of an equally brilliant mother, Laurette Taylor This lad has turned out two plays, both of which have been accepted by the firm of Brady plete detachment gave him, I assume he felt, the privilege of making personal observations that hurt and that often were unkind. This freedom of expression made him many enemies.

But for twenty-five of his forty years Alan Dale i Wiman. They are called "Lipstick" and "Phyllis Gets Fright service he was the most read and the most feared of the writers of his day. He praised the players whose work he liked as extravagantly and ened. THE GOLDEN DOZEN as freely as he scorched those to whom he took a dislike. And I am not so sure he did not keep many bruised but obstreperous egos in narrowed paths they were the better for having followed.

Dale came into play reviewing at a time when it Was overweighted with the ponderously literary criticisms of the better writers. through journalistic doors that Hearst bombs had blown down he began intelligently to lighten the tone of play reviews. Soon he had a public reading him for the entertainment he offered as well as the news he imparted. He was the first of the so-called chatty reviewers, and his worst sin was that he created many imitators. Amateur Alan Dales spread over the country with something of the devastating effect of a flight of locusts.

Without Dale's intelligence, experience or Hearstian alibi they attacked plays and players, did great harm and caused much nnhappiness. But, though it was charged against him, that was not Alan's fault. I wish he might have lived to have reached his boyhood's home in Birmingham. Each year he has made the pilgrimage to visit kinfolk and old friends. It was like him to try for itj even after the physicians advised him to rest in London.

He died on the train between jobs. He had finished a season's work, and was about to pick up the European season for the information of his readers. He would have wanted to die at work, I think. Current attraction In New York theatres that have recorded longr-CKt rui. Dramatic.

Name Performaneea "The 617 "Burlesque" 320 "The Ivory 307 "Trial of Mary 292 "Shannons of 280 "Coquette" 236 Musical Comedies. "Good 310 "Five o'clock 268 "Connecticut 247 "Funny 218 "Show 178 "Rosalie" 163 MARY WILLIAMS doesn't consider it much of a comedown from the "Ziegfeld Follies" to the "Grand Street Follies," which opens tomorrow night at the Booth theatre, for Ziggy's show isn't running any more this season and actresses must live anyway. The sixth edition of the former Neighborhood playhouse series will inhabit its second Broadway theatre, for last it was seen at the Little. It will be the town's second summer revue, the "Greenwich Village Follies" being already installed. ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, youthful director of "Porgy," colored play which returns from the road to its old home at the Republic tomorrow night, will stage three more plays for the Theatre Guild next season as well as two dramas for Sam H.

Harris. Ma-moulian also put on "Marco Millions," which starts its final week tomorrow evening. One of Mamoulian's' 'directorial perfections is handling huge crowds of actors on the stage..