Daily News from New York, New York • 497

NT Lyceum Theatre Is Here for Show Hoffman Loses in M. Many Write In WHIhie Former Governor Harold Hotrnian. of Now Jersey, yesterday conceded defeat in Tuesday's Republican Slate primary, leaving the fight for the governorship up to his primary opponent. State Senator Robert ('. Hendrickson.

The Democratic candidate will be Bought by Showmen; Has Had Long Career By BURNS MANTLE. On June 1, it was announced yesterday, the Lyceum Theatre in 45th St. will pass into the hands of a new group of owners headed by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Sam II. 'St A 'V- A -V I OPENING TONIGHT "Keep OfT The Grass." revue starring Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Ilka Chase and Jane Froman, at the Broadhurst.

Balanchine choreography and Nat Karson scenery. Music by Jimmy McIIugh and Al Dubin. Robert Taft, seven V. S. Sena-tor Arthur 11.

Vandciibiix and even one for Senator Kurtoti K. Wheeler, a Dcmncmt. Three votes were cast for Col. Charles H. Lindbergh and two for Mayor LuCuardia.

Most toiler weren't even bothering to count scattered write ins. In the Republican race fur nomination as United States Senator, W. Warren Haibour, the incumbent, snowed under his two opponents, C. Dan Coskey and Ceoijt O. Pullen.

Steeplechase Opens Steeplechase Park at Coney Island opens for the season Saturday afternoon with new rides and musical features. Secretary of the Navy Charles E. Edison, 49-year-old eon of inventor Thomas A. Edison. To make his first race for elective office, Edison will resijm his Cabinet post.

Hendrickson has been a State Senator since 1934. Hoffman admitted defeat shortly before noon. Complete returns pave Hendrickson, Hoffman, 248,197. A feature of the Republican primary was the write-in vote opposing District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey aa Presidential candidate.

Dewey, whose name alone was printed on the ballot, won as a matter of course. In Bergen County, however, a nearly complete write-in count showed for Wendell L. Willkie, 60 for STAGE PLAYS At THf FAIR STAGE PLAYS Tk Nw York World' Fail ol 1940 prmfmlt ALBERT JOHNSON'S Production ol MEBICfllf JU JULES', OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II ARTHUR SCHWARTZ Stood br LEON LEONIDOrr IUCT MONROE RIH UMI Produced A Df.ioerd fcr ALBERT JOHNSON TODAf .1 5 30. 6 30 i 10 M. waa at Mk 1M Mini Harris and Max Gordon.

This is, according to statements at hand, a bona fide sale, and not one of those trick leases, trimmed with publicity, such as have figured frequently in the disposition of this theatre. The Bowery Savings Bank is the present owner. If it is a sale, then the news is important both to Broadway and the theatre. Kaufman and Hart represent most ably the newer forces of an American theatre that is taking on new life. Harris and Gordon have long been associated with play production on Broadway, and are sympathetically in touch with newer theatre trends.

Thirty-SeTen Years Old. By the Broadway calendar, the Lyceum Theatre is thirty-seven years old. It opened in 1903 with E. H. Sothern in "The Proud Prince," which had been moved up from the Herald Square Theatre.

William Gillette, playing Bariie's The Admirable Crichton," was the new tenant. Because the house was for so long the proud possession of Daniel Frohman its history has frequently been confused with that of the old Lyceum, which stood at Fourth Ave. and 24th St. and housed Mr. Frohman's original Lyceum Theatre Stock company.

This company brought many a later star to prominence. Georgia Cay van and Henry Miller, E. H. Sothern and Virginia Harned, May Robson, Henrietta Crosman, Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon, Isabel Irving and William Court-leigh had their beginnings there. It was at the 45th St.

Lyceum where Sothern played "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "The Highest where such history-making he-and-she dramas as "The Wife" and "The Charity Ball" were played. Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Bowes. Eleanor Robson (Mrs.

August Belmont) played her most successful New York engagement in "The Dawn of a Tomorrow" there, and it was there that Margaret llling-ton (Mrs. Edward Bowes) and Kyrle Bellew played for months in "The Thief." It was here Ina Claire played "The Gold Diggers" for two seasons, and it was the scene of Lenore Ulrich's rise to fame in uch romantic confections as "Tiger Rose" and "The Heart of Wetonah." It was at this Lyceum that a rowdy piece called "Sailor Beware" added something to theatre history by scoring a huge surprise success in the early nineteen-thirties. At the top of the Lyceum is the long famous Daniel Frohman Btudio, stuffed with theatre relics, papered with autographed photos i of hundreds of beloved old-timers. The news-reel photographers Fhould have a shot at it before it is demolished. Birdseye View.

Mr. Frohman still makes the studio his headquarters, and, by the terms of the theatre's sale, he is to tay on there on a $l-a-year lease to long as he lives. Which is as it should be." In the baseboard of the studio, 44 SEMEN TS along the north wall, a panel was cut when the house was built. Through this opening what is literally a bird's-eye view of the performance on the stage can be had. But a listener's ears had to be pretty good to hear it.

The new owners should have a joyful experience with their purchase. It has been reconditioned and seats 993 persons. A perfect home for one of those intimate Kaufman-Hart comedies. Local British Actors Seek War Service The theatre also furnished war news yesterday. Brock Pemberton announced that several of his lead ing players in "Lady In Waiting" Jane Froman Lacy Monroe notably Stephen Ker Appleby have registered with both the British and Canadian recruiting offices.

Should their age classifications, which have already been called, be actually recruited, the theatre would lose several of its current stars and leading men. English players on Broadway include Laurence Olivier, Patrick O'Moore, Maurice Evans (touring), Richard Haydn, Alan Napier, Bramwell Fletcher and many others. Laurence Olivier's production of "Romeo and Juliet" cuts the top price for its three matinees to $2 beginning next week. A Thursday matinee replaces the Monday night performance beginning Monday. The Shuberts yesterday ridiculed reports that Jane Froman, out of "Keep Off the Grass" for two performances in Boston, won't be back for tonight's premiere.

She has seven songs and caught cold in Boston 1940" has been temporarily abandoned. Marion Willis replaces Charles McClelland as Lov Bensey in "To- AMUSEMENTS TOP OFF THE WINDY CITY! i A 9 I 0 1 lif I raivraiwnt KUION I KHT SATUtPAT MARTHA RAYE returns from Hollywood Monday to bp co-starred with Al Jolson anil Ruby Kecler in the new musical "Silks and Saddles." It's her first local musical since "Calling All Stars." which furnished her first "break" hereabouts. bacco Road" Monday night. McClelland as been eating the Bensey turnips for four years Lucy Monroe, of the "American Jubilee," has been named Queen of N.Y.U. Commencement Week Paul Althouse, Metropolitan Opera star, has offered to coach the Salvation Army street Fingers free The Velero Sisters join Monte Proser's Zombie cabaret at the World's Fair.

Plan Paderewski Drive for Poles A nation-wide campaign for greetings to Ignace Jan Paderewski on his 8th birthday next Nov. 6 is being inaugurated as the latest phase of the $1,000,000 Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief, Col. William J. Donovan, fund president, announced yesterday. Every birthday message will cost its sender fSO, one dollar for each of the pianist's years, and the money will be deposited for purchase of supplies to be shipped to Polish war areas.

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