Notes

"Indefinitely Extended." The acclaim by Manhattanites of Raquel Meller (TIME, April 26) soared last week to a pitch at which the box office announced that her original engagement will continue indefinitely--at a scale of prices ascending from $1.

From the Two-a-Day. While appearing in vaudeville at Minneapolis last week, Miss Ethel Barrymore let fall that her next Manhattan appearance will probably be as Helen in a dramatization of Erskine's recent best-selling novel, The Private Life of Helen of Troy. (TIME, Nov. 23, BOOKS).

Leon, Al and Eddie. Leon Errol, whose mirthful clowning centres about a well-calculated trick fall, fractured both his ankles while appearing in Chicago. An advance sale totaling $100,000 for Louie the 14th, in which he was appearing, did not prevent producer Ziegfeld from closing the show. During the past winter both Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor have suffered accidents in Chicago which forced similar curtailments.

Where the Plots Come From.

The attempted suppression of the American Mercury in Boston (TIME, April 19, PRESS) for printing an article concerned with a prostitute known as "Hatrack" or "Fanny Fewclothes," resulted in the announcement last week that "the dramatic rights" have been acquired by Harold Atteridge, a musical comedy librettist.

The Dybbuk. The question "What is a 'dybbuk'?" raised by Mr. S. Anskey's morbid Yiddish thriller, The Dybbuk, found answer last week at the pen tip of Amy Leslie, a Chicago critic, when it opened* in that city: "A dybbuk is a spirit doomed to fight its ghostly way until it finds rest in another's body, in another's congenial soul; a spirit loosened too soon by one who died too young, unappeased, unmated."

"Joan" Clemens. At Hampden's Theatre, Manhattan, the title role of a play called Joan of Arc was poorly "created" last week by Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, who had caused it to be adapted from his Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Miss Clemens announced that the French Government has invited her to present the play in Paris on Bastille Day, July 14.

^*It first opened, and still runs, in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 28). An accomplished company from Vilna, Russia, toured the U. S. during winter months, giving the play in its original Yiddish.