RREN STREET
YORK CITY

Guild
Mears Fun List
Subscribers
The Players Guild, which own its
retty theater on Sutter street near
teiner, has nearly reached goal set
or it by Stanley Macher, who
as labored unceasingly for two
years to establish an art theater in
San Francisco. He wants a the¬
ter that will have a season entirely
subscribed for before the curtain
goes up on the first of the fifteen
plays be proposes to present in
thirty weeks.
More Than 2000 Have
Already Subscribed
As the matter now stands there
are considerably more than two
thousand subscribers, with 3000 set
as the limit possible. A committee
of prominent people is heading a
final drive for members, and invi¬
ing the present subscribers to select
their seats for the season. Its mem¬
bers are Mrs. Florence P. Kahn
Mrs. Fremont Older, Mrs. Frank P.
Deering, Mrs. Powers Symington,
Howard Speckels, Joseph O. Tobin,
James A. Bacigalupi and Joseph D.
Grant.
If the drive fills the list of sub¬
scribers the house will be sold out
for the entire thirty weeks before
the season begins.
In connection with the theater
Machewee will conduct a free train¬
ing school for young actors. They
will not appear at the regular per¬
formances, because only professional
actors will be used. But the young
players will be given opportunity at
special matinées.
Comprehensive List of
Dramas Chosen
Machewees list of dramatists on
whose works he will draw for the
plays to be acted during the season
is a comprehensive one, and in¬
cludes the names of the most fa¬
mous playrights of the world. The
season will open early in September
Among the authors who will be rep¬
resented are Oscar Wilde, Alexander
Sergegevitch Pushkin, the Russian
pot and favorite Catherine the
Great; Arthur Schnitzler of Vienna;
August Stringberg, strange Scandi¬
navian genius; Luigi Pirandello
founder of the school of Grotesques
in Italy; Sach Guitry, popular
actor and playwright of Paris;
the Brothers Quinter and Jacin¬
to Benavente, representing Spain
Franz Werfel, author of the wird
Goat Song," and Gerhart Haupt¬
mann, distinguished dramatist of
Germany
Modern authors, such as Robert
Emmet Sherwood, Noel Coward,
Alan Alexander Milne, W. Somerset
Maugham, Frederick Lonsdale and
Philip Barry are also included in the
There will also be occasional bal¬
les and an opera or two, if possible,
to give variety to the season.
The prospect is alluring to the
lover of fine things in the theater,
and the two productions of the
spring, Lonsdale's "On Approval
and Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children
of Darkness gave earnest of care
in casts and decorations. G. C. W.