This week is a particularly busy one for First Nighters. This evening George Abbott will offer and act in “John Brown” at the Ethel Barrymore. If all the books, plays and pictures about this pre-Civil War martyr were laid end to end-well just try and imagine it. Tuesday night at the Booth, A. E. Thomas’s “No More Ladies” will have its premier and on the same evening, at the Playhouse, “Mackerel Skies”, the work of John D. Haggart, will commence what is hoped will be, a run. Wednesday evening, Aldrich & De Liarge will offer “By Your Leave” at the Morosco and the following night which, by rapid calculation, I figure will be Thursday, Hardwick Nevin’s comedy, “Whatever Possessed Her”, is scheduled to open at the Mansfield.
DEVIL DELAYED
“The Devil of Pei Ling” which was supposed to open on Thursday has been held over and will commence, all things being favorable on Friday, January 26. This is the play which Wee & Leventhal are sponsoring. It is a draamtization of Herbert Asbury’s book, done by Howard Chenery.
NOT A MOVING PICTURE
The other day in announcing the opening at the Warner Theatre of Messmore and Damon’s spectacle, “World a Million Years Ago”, the impression was created that this unusual history of the evolution of man and beast and this recreation of models of pre-historic monsters was a moving picture. This is not so. “World a Million Years Ago” is an exhibition which was part of
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