Life — March 15, 1906 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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“LibPE- HIS PRIVATE View, Mrs, D'Aubrey Brown > W#UL, HOW DID THEY HANG YOUR PICTURE? Mr. DA. Bo wow? THEY LYNENKD IT man, intentions. who is always cut off just before he can realize his wicked The new burlesque is really funny and isa valuable improvement to the bill at Weber's. R. LAW E D'ORSAY in a curtain speech delivered at the opening performance in New York of Mr. Augustus Thomas's “‘ The Embassy Ball” admitted that he was simply playing himself. It has long been an open secret that both “The Earl of Pawtucket " and the present piece were written by Mr. Thomas about the personality of Mr. D’Orsay, his heavydragoon peculiarities being only slightly exaggerated to emphasize the lines and situations adapted tothem. Therefore the burden of novelty rests on Mr. Thomas, and in The Embassy Ball” he has succeeded in giving us almost another “Earl of Pawtucket.” The characters are made in almost the same moulds and the fun is supplied in very much the same way. The story is more complex, hinging on what was supposed to be a bicycle permit turning out to be a marriage license and causing no end of complications. That old Daly favorite, Mr. George Clar back to New York much changed in appearance and providing in the piece almost as much fun as the star. that Mr. Clarke is only playing himself, as his Senator Bender is very different from anything familiar to his New York friend: licious piece of acting. ‘The cast is a good one, the women headed by Miriam Nesbit and Rose Hubbard rising admirably to the opportuni- ties Mr, Thomas has given them, In “The Embassy Bail Mr. Thomas has given us a worthy suc cessor to * The Earl of Pawtucket,” that is to say, a clean, delightful American comedy. And, strange to say, it is an evening's entertain- ment without a musical féature or a chorus girl in it. No one can suggest, however, isa de- IPE wishes to make a correction—entirely of its own volition and simply not to vary from its standard of truthfuiness, [9 a re- cent notice in this column it was stated that Lire was informed on good authority that Mr, George M. Cohan had assumed the name of Cohan for stage purposes, his real name being Costigan. that Lire’s informant, although acting in good faith, was m formed and that Mr, Cohan’s real name is Cohan, the mistake having arisen from the fact that his mother’s name was Costigan, It seems It is not A matter of great moment except as affecting Lire’s veracity. In other respects the article was correct. Metcalf leademy of Music.—" The Heart of Maryland.” Exciting and emotional drama of the tim@of the Civil War. Belas The Girl of the Golden West." Absorbing, well acted and well mounted play of the early days of California Bijou." The Music Master." David Warfield and competent cast in delightful contemporaneous comedy. y.— "The Vanderbilt Cup." 1 piece. sino.— Happyland."” Pleasing and musical comic opera. y Ball." See above. Empire with Maude Adams as the star lightful fooling with the myths of child life. Fields's.—" Julie Bonbon," with Clara suitable parts. Light and diverting comedy. Garrick, -Mr. David Gray's "Gallops.” with the life of the hunting set. Herald Squarc.—" George Washington, Jr.” what appeals to the vulgar multitude. Hippodrome A Society Circus” and “The Court of the Golden Fountains." Spectacle and circus on a scale of great and gorgeous magnificence. Hudson, —" The Duel.” Interesting drama translated from the French and well presented Knickerbocker. —** Mlle Modiste."’ Fritzi Scheff in amusing light opera by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom. i The Redskin.” See opposite. i Well staged and tuneful comic opera Madison Square.—"The Title Mart.” Rather commonplace | comedy. Princess. badly done. Proctor's Fifth Avenue.—Stock company in weekly change of bill. Savey.—* Me. Hopkinson.” A really funny farce-comedy of English life. Weber's Theatre.— Twiddle Twaddle “* and a Relasco's and Wallack’s. See opposite. Thomas rot in the way of a jpman and Mr. Louis Mann in Agreeable little play dealing A nauseating example of " Brown of Harvard."* Fun and sentiment of college life, not rlesque on the plays at comicbooks.com