Theatre Notes, Mar. 3, 1923

The celebrated French historical drama, Pasteur, by Sacha Guitry, arrives at the Empire Theatre on March 14, with Henry Miller in the title role. Historical plays have had a stormy career in this city. They have passed all the way from the triumph of Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln to the tragic defeat of Mackay's George Washington.

Mr. A. H. Woods scores a scoop. He is the first to exploit upon the stage the current excitement about narcotics and the narcotized. On Thursday Mr. Woods produced a Viennese play entitled Morphia, with Lowell Sherman. The play will continue, in matinees, every afternoon save Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Lowell Sherman is one of those villains whose very dressing gown exudes a purple and intoxicating charm. In his person the seething repressions of the timidly virtuous find a delighted escape. He is an inexhaustible well of vicarious sin.

Some popular favorites now appearing in Manhattan: Ethel Barrymore (The Laughing Lady); Jane Cowl (Romeo and Juliet); Lenore Ulric (Kiki); Helen Menken ( Seventh Heaven); Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies); David Warfield (The Merchant of Venice); Lowell Sherman (The Masked Woman and Morphia); Margaret Lawrence (Secrets); Billie Burke (Rose Briar); Peggy Wood (The Clinging Vine).