Saturday, Apr. 07, 1923

Notes

The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw, promised for production last season by the Theatre Guild, but crowded out by Back to Methuselah, will be given at the Garrick two weeks hence. Basil Sydney will have the role of Dick Dudgeon.

The Moscow Art Players left New York to present their artistic wares in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and smaller cities on a six weeks' tour.

When A. H. Woods presented his Light Wines and Beer in Chicago, he reconstructed a bar, brass rail and all, in the lobby of the theatre.

Booth Tarkington's Bristol Glass (comedy of life on the Maine Coast) will open at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, April 9, with Frank McGlynn (of Abraham Lincoln], Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon and Frederick Perry in the cast. The piece is scheduled for an autumn opening.

Rosalind and Celia in the National Theatre's production of As You Like It will be played by Marjorie Rambeau and Margalo Gillmore. The production goes to Washington for a preliminary run April 6.

Walter Hampden announced definitely his intention to play repertory in the National Theatre, New York, next winter. Among the productions now planned are Othello, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Black Flag, by A. E. Thomas, and an adaptation of Browning's The Ring and the Book.

Decameron Nights, after nearly a year's run in Drury Lane, is to be withdrawn in March. Its place will be taken by the many-scened Johannes Kreisler, which will be produced under the name of Angelo. It has already been produced in Berlin and New York.

Shakespeare is popular in Bucharest. A Midsummer Night's Dream has been presented at the National Theatre, attended by their Majesties, Ferdinand and Marie of Roumania. Several other Shakespearean dramas are promised.

The Kamerny Theatre has arrived in Paris. It is another theatre from Moscow, with methods exactly the opposite of those of the Moscow Art Theatre, just departed from Broadway. Where the latter is conservative, the Kamerny is ultramodern. Where the players under Stanislavsky are minutely realistic, those of Tairoff eschew all realism.