Notes

The Breaking Point (by Mary Roberts Rinehart, without assistance from Avery Hopwood) with McKay Morris in the lead, met with high favor in its Atlantic City opening.

Borden Harriman (son of Oliver Harriman) joined the Wood Players at Providence, R. I., under the management of Leonard Wood, Jr.

Merton of the Movies, approaching its 300th performance at the Cort Theatre, is the only play of the New York theatrical season which has maintained its original company unaltered.

P. L. Flers, Parisian producer, arrived in Manhattan on his first American visit. He will put on Dede and Ta Bouche for Charles Dillingham this Fall.

The Provincetown Players announced that they will resume operations in their Macdougal Street playhouse in October as planned. (A year ago the Provincetowners suspended activity in order to search for suitable plays.)

The Neighborhood Playhouse group, similarly quiescent last season, is also expected to open this Autumn.

Julia Hoyt (Mrs. Lydig Hoyt) joined the Stuart Walker stock company in Indianapolis. She will appear there in Peter Ibbetson July 23, together with McKay Morris and Julia McMahon.

Ethel Barrymore, absent from Chicago since September, 1920, will appear there July 29 in Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look.

Mary Lewis, until recently prima donna of the Follies, will take leading roles in the Monte Carlo Opera Company's productions from January to April. Miss Lewis, who is 23, sang in a choir and gave music lessons in Little Rock, Ark., her birthplace, to obtain money to take her to New York. There, in 1920, she entered the chorus of the 'Greenwich Village Follies, was given the prima donna role after three weeks, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies the next two years.

Edith Kelley Gould, dancer, will soon appear in a Paris music hall on a twelve weeks' contract. She married Frank J. Gould when playing in In Havana in 1910, was divorced by him in 1919.

The London stage now offers the following: What Every Woman Knows, Partners, Oliver Cromwell, David Copperfield, At Mrs. Beam's, Robert E. Lee, So This is London, Success, Tons of Money, Lilies of the Field, Secrets, Ranny's First Play, R.U.R., Polly, The Beggars' Opera and at least half a dozen musical shows.

The Church Times (London) declared, in effect, that the London stage is now nearly as pure as need be.

Karel Capek's R.U.R. is likely to end its London run unless receipts increase.

The Chauve Souris owed much of its success to Nicolai Remizoff, its art director. His latest achievement is the " Balagan," a Russian cabaret replacing the old Little Club on 44th Street, Manhattan. Kotchevski, dancer of the Chauve Souris, appears there nightly.

Robert E. Lee, Drinkwater's other play now running in London, was approved by the critics. It is meant as a companion play to Abraham Lincoln, and the two have many points of similarity, both technical and psychological.

Frank McGlynn, who has broken all records for biographical drama by playing three years and two months in Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln, is writing a book about the emancipator based chiefly on material obtained from acquaintances of Lincoln who call after performances to congratulate, question or suggest.

The Winter Garden installed a roof removable by levers from the stage. By this means have the Messrs. Shubert achieved perfect theatre ventilation for the Passing Show of 1923.

The Paris season, just ended, showed more than a triple increase in net receipts over that of ten years ago, jumping from 7,000,000 francs to 23,000,000.

Most interesting of Summer projects is Mme. Beriza's semi-open-air theatre on the outskirts of the Bois de Boulogne, the Theatre Fiametta, which stages miniature pantomimes.

A strong reaction has set in among Parisian critics against the Russian fad (Balieff, Diaghileff, Rostov and a score of imitators).

Joseph Capek, co-author of The World We Live In, presented a novel drama, The Lana of Many Names, in Prague. The play is " a lively, spectacular review, but filled at the same time with long ethical monologues and lyrical addresses on the subjects of pacifism, imperialism and war." One long act satirizes Wall Street and the modern Stock Exchange.