Notes

The New Grand Guignol (Paris) program includes a horror play The Crucified, and a broad farce The New Below, both of which have scored enormous successes. The Grand Guignol Theatre is known all over the world as the most spine-chilling chamber of theatrical horrors in existence. Every known variety of human agency is depicted by the Guignol players with blood-curdling realism.

Of the American musical plays in Australia, Sally and Mary are making the biggest hits. Sally is now in its 14th week in Sydney.

Balieff's Chauve Souris, now in its fourth series, has played over 500 performances.

Conferences which may have a great bearing on the future of the American professional stage are being held between representatives of the Actors' Equity Association and the Producing Managers' Association, concerning terms for a new contractual agreement, The central point at issue, which was the cause of the actors' strike in 1919, is the continuance of the closed shop. Some of the managers, led by George M. Cohan, are again threatening to retire from the stage if the closed shop policy of the Equity is not modified.

Henry Miller will again try out several new plays at the Columbia Theatre in San Francisco this summer. Blanche Bates and Ruth Chatterton will appear with him.

The leading feature of Brighter London, the new Hippodrome revue in London, is Paul Whiteman's American Jazz orchestra, "which succeeds " (says one critic) " in making jazz music almost melodious."

New York has nearly sixty legitimate playhouses.

Helen of Troy, N. T., by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connolly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies, and adapters of Merton of the Movies, has gone into rehearsal for its metropolitan production.

Bertha Kalich and Jacob Ben-Ami have left the English stage for a brief period. During the Passover season they will star in Yiddish companies which will produce the leading Yiddish classics.