Life — January 24, 1907 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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MR. FITCH'S CONTRAST BLANCHE WALSH IN “THE STRAIGHT Way" has a less pronounced personality than Blanche Walsh, and the author’s task in fitting her with a part, while more difficult, is equally successful. She is a piquant little liar, and her absence of conscience has such a stamp of fashion that we almost forgive her vices as being in perfect harmony with the empty and frivolous world in which she lives. Women who are fated to do nothing but follow the life of fashion may naturally be expected to seck some relief from its con- ventionalities, even to the point of getting themselves and others into scrapes, out of which they have to lie, Clara Bloodgood grasps the author's idea perfectly, and by her own efforts robs it of some of its improb- ability. The father, admirably portrayed by Mr. John Emerson, solves the problem of what finally becomes of certain gentlemen who sport not wisely, and in their declining years are forced to disappear from the neigh= borhood of Broadway and Fifth Avenue. “LIFE« Zelda Sears gives a delightiul rendering of the lady who shelters him in her flat, in con- sideration of basking in his “swellness"”—a truly Fitchian creation, “The Truth” is amusing and in many points a faithful light commentary on things of the fleeting da! * 8 * THE renewed hubbub over ticket spec- ulators, Lire may be permitted once more to remark, in a small, still voice, that the speculator on the sidewalk means a crooked manager inside. Metcalfe. Academy of Music—Last week of “The Girl of the Golden West.” Mr, Belasco’s original company, headed by Blanche Bates aod Mr. Frank Keenan in stirring and well-staged drama of early mining days in California. Astor" The Straight Road,” with Blanche Walsh as the star, Mr. Clyde Fitch slums, Interesting play well acted Belasco—* The Rose of the Rancho." The sleepy atmosphere of lower California and the eflect of Yankee annexation. Interesting and admirably staged drama with good company. Casino—Paula Edwardes in “Princess Beggar.” Mediocre comic opera. not well done. Criterion—Clara Bloodgood in Mr. Clyde Fitch's comedy, "The Truth.” See above. Empire—Ellen Terry and English company in Mr George Bernard Shaw's “Captain Brassbound’s Confession.” Notice later. Garden—"The Student King.” Comic opera in its earlier and better form, Well sung and well pro duced Garrich—Mr, William Collier in “Caught in the Rain.” Unusually good cast in merry, farcical comedy. Hackett—Rose Stahl in “The Chorus Lady.” Life behind the curtain and in the Tenderloin, Laughable and well done, Herald Square—"The Road to Yesterday.” Fan- excursion inté the The Old Bord: ww eyes MUst DE GETTING Pook. 1 CAN'T @EE THE WIRES ON winclE THOSE BIRDS ARE SITTING. The Young Bird: Your EVES AWE ALL RIGHT. THAT'S A WIRELESS TELEGRAPH 143 MR. FITCH'S CONTRAST MRS, BLOODGOOD IN “THE TRUTH” ciful transition from our own time to three hundred years ago in England. Unusual and interesting. Hip podrome—Gorgeous ballet and water spectacle, preceded by “Pioneer Days,” with real Indians, Lyric—Mr, E. 1. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in Sudermann’s "John the Baptist.” Notice later. Madison Square—" The Three of Us,” by Rachel Crothers, Charming play of Western life artistically acted by Carlotta Nillson and well-chosen cast. Majestic—" Brown of Harvard,” with Mr. Henry Woodruff as the star. Bits of Cambridge student in amusing dramatic form. Manhattan—Mr. Wilton Lackaye as Jean Valican in his own dramatization of Hugo's** Les Miserables,” entitled" The Lawand the Man.” Elaborately staged, and interesting melodrama. Princess—Miss Anglin and Mr. Henry Miller in Mr. Moody’s “The Great Divide.” Mr. Moody's scholarly drama of Western life, Very well presented. Proctor's Theatres—Naudeville. Weter's—""The Dream City" and “The Magic Knight.” Mr. Weber's annual production on a little more pretentious plane, Good music by Mr. Victor Herbert, pretty girls and considerable fun comicbooks.com