Life — November 25, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“HERODIADE” OF MM. BARBERED AND MANICURED THE JOUN 18 PROPERLY made it possible. Fortunately the idea back of The New Theatre is big enough to enable it to survive in spite of pin- It has a distinct and useful mis- sion. I!l-nature and envy cannot prevent its accomplishment. It cannot be denied though that in New York the Lend-a- Hend Socie ¢ largely out- numbered by ick Bunch. pricks the Give-a- a z o t UN and nothing but fun is to be found in “Seven Days” at the Astor. It is farce ab- solutely, but it farce of clever lines and unusual ingenuity of situation. When the old tricks are used they are furbished up and given new turns and twists that make them as od as new. Better than all it is clean farce and gives the lic to a belief prevalent in some managerial quarters that to please the big American public fun must be risky. “Seven Days"? isn’t refined humor and it’s very far from being intellectual, but it cer- tainly is laugh-provoking almost to excess In the cast are no names blazoned high on the roll of dramatic fame but the company has been chosen with ex- cellent judgment. Florence Reed, as a lady who by a remarkable series of cir- cumstances is convinced that she is another con- veys her belief to the audience. Hope Latham is almost as funny in the pre- dicament of finding herself rigidly quar- antined and imprisoned in the house with her newly divorced husband and his prospective bride. Georgia O'Ramey and Lucille La Verne them- selves competent laugh- nd Mr Herbert Corthell’s rotund personality is made to add to the general joy. The authors—Mary Roberts Rinehart and Mr. Avery Hopwood—have achieved a rare accomplishment. To construct three acts of purely dramatic farce and have the fun absolutely continuous is no mean task. And Mr. Collin Kemper is largely responsible for the result, for to stage sincerely Eusapia admirably also show kers, MASSENET AND HAMMERSTEIN A NEW SALOME FROM THE MAGIC HAT successfuly such a quickly moving picce and never permit the people to let the action even lag is a difficult thing in stage management. “Seven Days" wil of a good dinner and victim up afer a bad one. aid the digestion will cheer the Reducers 743 should keep away from the Astor if there is any truth in “laugh and grow fat A correspondent informs Lire that he saw ticket-sepculators using the public front of The New Theatre for conducting their private sidewalk in as a place business and thereby obstructing a public thoroughfare. Also that this in the plain view of policemen who made no attempt to abate the nuisance. If this 38 true, and Lire’s informant seems to be a reliable person, Mr. Shubert has an excellent oportunity to demonstrate the converse of a statement hitherto made that A speculator on the sidewalk means a crooked manager inside, Metcalfe. was done CONFIDENTIAL ,=42 Guive fi Full Mr. teresting ana well acted drama of New York life. Astor— e Days.” Belaseo— commuters amusi See above. lure?” Our and their social existence made —" The Midnight Sons." Laugh- . The “Girl and. the Wizard.” Comic opera of the Casino brand, with Mr. Sam Bernard as the comedian. Up to the standard. Comedy—Mr. Israel Zangwill’s “ The Melt. ing Pot.” One Jewish view of America and Americarism Criterion —" Israel." Bernstein drama fixed over for the American market. One strong _Daly's—" The Belle of Brittany,” with Mr. Frank Daniels. Melodious comic’ opera. Empire" Inconstant George.” Diverting farcical comedy from the French, with Mr. John Drew in the title part. Garrick—" The Harvest, Moon.” Another of Mr. Augustus Thomas's psychical theory plays. " Interesting Hackett—Mr. George timus."”” Notice later Herald Sauare—Mr. Lew Fields in “Old Dutch.” Notice later. Arliss in Sep. iMliancy ia “The Buill- of a pleas. spectacle Hudso er of Bride ant little 9 ive French detect: ightly har dled. on Mojestic— d Williams and colored company in laughable musical piece, Manhattan’ Opera grand and comic, ope: faxine Elliott's —" The Third Floor Back.” The admirable acting of Mr. Forhes-Robertson and english company in Mr. Jerome's interesting mystical play New Theatre—Rep: cl tony, and Cleop: Air” and “Strife S House—Repertory Passing of the : ding“ Ane he Cottage in the Miss Margaret Anglin in good ing, version of popular novel _Stuyresant — Concluding weeks of Easiest Way.” Drama_of the 1 _ Wallack's —" The Fourth. E: interesting newst na welll pre rs * Music and to- “The ACCORDING TO WFATHER comicbooks.com