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Last year the Craig Prize was not awarded. Two years ago it was given to J. F. Ballard, also an ex-member of English 47. His play, "Believe Me, Xantippe" had the longest run of any of the prize plays and was also produced in New York by Mr. Belasco with John Barrymore and Mary Young as the principals. Mr. Belasco is now preparing the production of another of Mr. Ballard's plays called "What's Wrong...
...Heart"; Wallack's, Mr. Cyril Maude, in different plays; Empire. Ethel Barrymore, in "Tante"; Astor, "Seven Keys to Baldpate"; Lyceum, Grace George, in "Half an Hour", preceded by "The Younger Generation"; Geo. M. Cohan's Theatre, "Potash and Perimutter"; Eltinge, "Within the Law"; Long Acre, "Adele"; Belasco, "The Auctioneer"; Republic, "The Temperamental Journey"; Knickerbocker, Donald Brian in "The Marriage Market"; Globe, Richard Carle and Hattie Williams in "The Doll Girl"; and New Amsterdam, Christie Macdonald in "Sweethearts...
...very long while since Blanche Bates has appeared here in a play that remotely approached comedy. But last night found her at the Hollis in a part that is all comedy and of a very light and pleasant sort. Avery Hopwood wrote "Nobody's Widow" and David Belasco put it on the stage. Consequently it is very difficult to say who is the more responsible for the grace and brightness of dialogue and atmosphere that almost make the play seem high comedy instead of very superior farce. It has little body, to be sure, but it has a light touch...
...Sheldon '08, President of the Dramatic Cub, has written a play which has been accepted by Mrs. Fiske as one of her productions for next year. The pay, which is a drama of modern American life, will be produced by Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan Company at the Belasco Theatre about the middle of September. The title and subject are withheld until the time of production...
...matinee witnessed by them, they gave loud calls for the author. In the Boston production at the Hollis Street Theatre, there will be shown as perfect a reproduction of the ancient Greek theatre of Sophocles time as is possible on a modern stage. Yet under Mr. David Belasco's stage management, the "Electra" will have a complete theatrical finish, with a thoroughness of stage effects, lights, casting and ensemble never before attempted in a classic play. The music and choral movements are as near to the Greek models as possible. The latter especially, are very intricate and conduce much...