Notes

Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York.

Helen Hayes, attractive heroine of To the Ladies and other plays, will soon appear in Loney Lee, a comedy by Sophie Treadwell.

Eugene O'Neill, generally regarded as the foremost American playwright, has fused a number of his early one-act plays into a longer drama. Scholars will remember them mainly as sea sketches, with The Moon of the Caribbees the major representative. The long play will be given by the Provincetown players, who first accorded O'Neill metropolitan recognition.

Playgoers who were aghast at the announcement that Lionel Atwill and David Belasco had split, will be relieved to learn that the former has not ceased doing things "worth while." He is rehearsing a drama entitled The Heart of Cellini. The action is largely set in the senescence of the historical goldsmith, philanderer, swordsman.