Fiddlers Three Star 4-Belle Surfaces in New Operetta Plan
4-Belle, premier danseuse in John Cort's operetta Fiddlers Three, at the National this week, was born in Sheffield and raised in London. She declares she is by choice a real American after a trip to England to settle family matters. The piece is part of a slate bridging the dog days and 1918 19 season with new theatrical plans and government aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secret Service
Creel Committee
Belle
Danseuse
John Cort
Fiddlers Three
The
National
Sheffield
London
England
Mignon Ranseer
National Theater
New York
War era stage and screen notes from Washington to Paris
A broad montage covers wartime theater and cinema buzz from Washington to Paris. It highlights Morosco and Griffith productions, Royal and aristocratic involvement in The Great Love, stars like Lillian Gish and Marguerite Sylva, Newman’s war photography, and actors preparing for fall engagements in New York and Atlantic City.
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David Wark Griffith
Moore's
Strand Theater
Great Britain
England
Britain
France
Griffith
Frederick Treeves
British
Red Cross
Baroness Rathschila
Havre
Paris
Henry Stanley
Earl of Derby
War Council
Queen Alexandra
Diane Manners
Mr. Griffith
Jong
Princess of
Monaco
Countess of
Lillian Gish
Robert Harron
Henry B. Walthall
Georges Siegmann
George Fawcett
Gloria Hope
Rosemary Theby
Maxfield Stanley
The American Soldier Fights Clean in War Effort
A wartime feature shows how US forces maintain cleanliness in gear and uniforms. Factory-like salvage operations repurpose old shoes, hats, socks, and uniforms for soldiers and refugees, with 750 French widows and orphans stitching garments. Garments are sorted into four quality categories for reuse or repurposing, as soldiers are said to fight clean and be properly equipped.
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United States
America
Belasco Theater
Battlefelds
Faria
Uncle Sam
Gillette to star in Barrie comedy Dear Brutus this season
From Charles Frohman Inc comes word that William Gillette will be presented this season in Sir James M Barrie's Dear Brutus, a London hit running a year. Gillette to play the lead at Barrie's personal request, marking a major dramatic event. The piece, originally produced at Wyndham's Theatre, reflects Barrie's joke on retrying life and features a cast transition with H V Esmond now leading, following Gerald du Maurier. Also noted are 1916-17 musical season plans from the Philadelphia and New York orchestras, and hints that Alexander Johnstone, lyricist of Fiddlers Three, is Johnstone, brother of William Johnston, cartoonist of the New York World, with several musical comedies in their portfolio.
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Polra
Leon Gordon
Gordon
London
America
Mr. Gordon
le Roy Clemens
France
New York
Charles Frohman, Inc
William Gillette
Brutus
James M. Barrie
Gillette
Barrie
Crichton
Wyndhams Theater
Gerald du Maurier
Cver
Ibn Maurier
H. V. Esmond
Julius Caesar
Alexander Johnstone
Thea National
William Johnstana
New York World
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Stadt Ore
Norma
Her Onur
Etn
Kwickerbocker
Cranadlis
Menard
al Little Sheffield
Lieut
Buford
Newman
Italy
Frank P. Mor
Washington
Poli‘'s
Morosco
Seventh Commandment
Geneva
Griffith School of Camera Art
Bell
Hammond
Chicago Tribune
Miler Sod
Miss Chatterton
Collier
Miss Cowl
Ma Belle
New York Hippodrome
Winter Garden
Chanticleer
Rence
Tom Moore
Moore's Theaters Corporation
Strand
Garden and Plaza
Rialto
Bretton Woods
Virgina Hot Springs
New London
Will Moore
United States Coast Guard Forces
RH M Newman
No Man's Land
Chateau Thierry
Europe
Mme Marguerite Sylva
Keith
Philander Johnson
Marguerite Sylva
Mme. Sylva
Oscar Wilde
John D. Williams
Fpoll
Bill Hart
Vivian Martin
Tom Forman
Pauline Frederick
Sessue Hayakawa
Pacific
Jack Pickford
Bald Bennett
Famous Players—Lasky Studios
Marie Loulas Walker
Actors and Authors’ Theater Company
Enid de Milo
James Ellison
Atlantic City
George M. Cohan
Boardwalk
Cohan
Charlotta Walker
Nancy Lee
Eugene Walter
Flo Capaemter
Wwe
Peilock
LY CeIn
Newghe
Polis
T Arthur Smith
Philadelphia Orchestra
Tosca Seidel
Olga Samaroff
Pardova Fritsch
Thaddeus Pich
Saiaasta
Poli’s
Oliver Morosco
Leon Gordov
Leroy Clemens
Arthur Hammerstein
Rida Johnson
Young Nepou
Friml
Nora Hella
Pat
Tavie Belge
Becl
Malouise
Groody
Jos
Clayton
Skelly
Hacked Kirke
Henri Leont
Whomas
Conkey
Echlin Gayer
Joseph Willer
Henry Miller
Ruth Chatterton
Alexandre Olmas
Columbia
SPM Tell
William S. Harten
Saturda Dorothy Dalton
Labor Day
Camp Meigs
Naval Gun Factory
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