The Theatre: Musical

Annabelle—Billie Burke will be starred by her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld, in a new musical comedy by Clare Kummer. The comedian is Ernest Truex.

Rue de la Paix—The most imposing revue of the season will be headed by Raquel Meller, Spanish girl, who is the sensation of Europe; Maurice and Hughes; the Russian Lilliputians and Crock, the great Swiss clown.

Greenwich Village Follies—The annual production will be headed by the Dolly sisters.

Ritz Revue—Hassard Short, director of the great Music Box-Revues, will produce his own, with the lanky Charlotte Greenwood highly concerned.

Be Yourself—George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly have written a new one for Queenie Smith.

Pompadour—Martin Beck's new and pretentious theatre will open with this great Continental success. Hope Hampton, cinema celebrity, deserts the films to sing the lead.

Topsy and Eva—Western reports credit this musical Uncle Tom's Cabin with vast possiblities. The Duncan Sisters share the spotlight.

The Purple Cow—Gelett Burgess and Carolyn Wells have concocted a piece in which Dorothy Francis (opera) has the lead.

Come Out of the Kitchen—Ruth Chatterton usually plays straight comedy. But this is a musical version of one of her great successes.

The Grab Bag—Ed Wynn in a review of, by, about and with Ed Wynn.

The Comic Supplement—The Ziegfeld factory will turn out a musical comedy by J. P. McEvoy, starring Leon Errol.

The Passing Show of 1924 comes along on schedule with Jim Barton and George Hassel prominently present.

The Music Box—Another hardy annual. This year with Clark and McCullough and Grace Moore.

Vanities—The second edition will boast mainly about Joe Cook and Margaret Hawkesworth.

The Dream Girl—Victor Herbert's last operetta will appear presently with Fay Bainter in the lead.

Al Jolson, after three years in Bombo, is at work on something new.

Clo-Clo—Franz Lehar's success from Vienna will be naturalized and, a little later, his Paganini. Another Viennese importation will be the highly successful Mariza.