major success: the Franz Lehár operetta Alone at Last. Herbert J. Krapp, who subsequently designed numerous theaters for the Shubert family, designed a canopy on the Shubert Theatre's facade in 1915. Jerome Kern's musical Love O' Mike, featuring Clifton Webb and Peggy Wood, opened at the Shubert in 1917. The Sigmund Romberg operetta Maytime opened later that year, featuring Wood and Charles Purcell; its success prompted the Shuberts to simultaneously stage the production at the 44th Street Theatre. This was followed in 1918 by the drama The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore, as well as the Rudolf Friml musical Sometime with Francine Larrimore, Mae West, and Ed Wynn. The musicals Good Morning Judge and The Magic Melody both had several-month-long runs at the Shubert in 1919, and Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern presented a four-week-long program of Shakespeare plays later that year. 1920s and 1930s The Shubert hosted the drama The Blue Flame with Theda Bara in 1920, followed the next year by the play The Trial of Joan of Arc with Margaret Anglin. The Shubert also hosted several revues in the mid-1920s, including four editions of the Greenwich Village Follies and the 1923 edition of Artists and Models. Besides these revues, the musical The Magnolia Lady with Ralph Forbes and Ruth Chatterton opened at the Shubert in 1924, though it had a relatively brief run. The Shakespeare play Othello with Walter Hampden opened at the theater in 1925, followed the same year by the revue Gay Paree with Charles "Chic" Sale. Next, Emmerich Kálmán's operetta Countess Maritza opened at the Shubert in 1926 and was highly popular. Further hits arrived in 1927 with the musical Yours Truly, featuring Leon Errol, and the revue Padlocks of 1927, with Texas Guinan and Lillian Roth. Zoe Akins's play The Furies with Laurette Taylor was a flop in 1928, and Ups-a-Daisy had a short run the same year, with the then-little-known actor Bob Hope in the cast. The revue A Night in Venice and the musical The Street Singer both were staged the next year. Subsequently, Fritz Leiber's Chicago Civic Shakespeare Company came to the Shubert in 1930, presenting three plays in repertory. Walter Slezak had his musical debut the same year in Meet My Sister. The musical Everybody's Welcome opened the next year with Ann Pennington, Ann Sothern, Oscar Shaw, and Frances Williams; Sothern, then known as Harriette Lake, had her musical