Notes

One thousand citizens of Mauch Chunk, Pa., engaged special trains to come to New York to see the Hippodrome production of Better Times.

A. E. Thomas, "Theatre Tsar," asserted in a communication to The New York Times, that 99% of the enthusiasm lavished on the Moscow Art Theatre was "pure bunk."

A German adaptation of Channing Pollock's The Fool, by Frank Reicher, will be produced in Berlin in the fall.

Edith of Nantes, a risque French play, was closed in Paris, following an energetic protest by indignant spectators. This is the first play to be suppressed in the Government's clean-up of Paris playhouses.

A revival of Bernard Shaw's Candida, which many eminent critics consider his finest drama, will open in New York on May 7. Next to Shakespeare, Shaw is revived oftener than any other dramatist.

William Harris, Jr., will produce John Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee in New York next autumn. Mr. Harris was the producer of Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln and Mary Stuart.