Life — March 30, 1911 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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good looks of Jean’ Aylwin and the al- ways reliable “coon” humor of Stella Mayhew. The best fun of the evening was furnished by a Parisian cab-horse, but the names of the two artists who played the part were omitted from the programme. The Winter Garden has an attractive auditorium and is conveniently located. In spite of the evidently lavish expendi- ture on the great mass of entertainment offered for its opening, there was an evident lack of judgment in selection. If the place is to become anything but an ordinary vaudeville house it will have to add to its forces some one who can get away from the old ideas and supply something in the way of originality. “Quality as well as quantity” might be a good motto for the house. DS LDSTERS will be carried back in years and the youngsters will learn something about the kind of music their daddies used to enjoy if they go to the Majestic to hear Balfe’s “ The Bohemian Girl,” as produced by the Aborn Opera Company. In spite of our musical ad- vancement under the tuition of Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, ct al, “The Heart Bowed Down,” “I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” and “Then You'll Re- member Me” have not entirely lost their appeal. Devilshoof is still sinister and the red stockings of The Queen of the Gypsies are as brilliant as ever they were. Horses and other animals, in- cluding a real actor dog, are introduced for spectacular effect, and the joy is en- hanced by the inclusion of a miniature ballet. If one is not too insistent on Metropolitan standards, this presentation of “The Bohemian Girl” is good old- fashioned opera. NLESS one is a Roman Catholic “The Confession” is nothing but the crudest melodrama. If one is a Catholic, it might be imagined that the constant introduction of the symbols of that faith and the repeated use of its most sacred institutions for stage effect would prove rather shocking. Lire is so frequently rebuked by Roman Catho- lics for well intended references to their church, that it is difficult to understand why this free employment of its spiritual Properties on the stage has not created a whirlwind of protest. The play enlists the services of such competent artists as Messrs. Theodore Roberts, Orrin Johnson, and Mr. Ralph Delmour. It is to be wondered whether GETTING BACK AT SI. Motorist: sip, 1 FIND ON EXAMINING YOUR $200 PRIZE COW WE UNFORTUNATELY STRUCK, THAT IT HAS DROPSY OP THE EQUILIBRATOR AND JAUNDICE OF THE MAG- NETO, THE PENALTY EXACTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR HAVING SUCH AN ANIMAL IN ONE'S POSSESSION BEING $500 IN EITHER CASE, YOU GIVE ME NOT TO REPORT THIS APFAIR? the first two are compelled or permitted to do so much acting in their rdles. They each elaborate every detail to the point of fatigue. It is fortunate for them that that scholarly stage director, Mr. Abe Erlanger, is not allowed to apply to them his only theory of acting, which is embodied in the rection, “Faster, d——n you, faster.” “The Confession” is an excellent play for critics in the season of Lenten penance. Metcalfe. P, S.—Forgive haste, The circus has come to town. SERA sr Astor—" The Boss,” Mr. Sheldon’s drama of low politics, with Mr. Holbrook Blinn’s good work in the title part, Belasco—" The Concert.” Well acted and laughable comedy with a satirical drive at one of women’s weaknesses. Broadway—" The Hen-Pecks.” Musical show, elaborately staged, and with Mr. Lew Fields as the comedian." Cosino—* The Balkan P: , opera with stirring Hungarian music, and Louise Gunning inthe leading part. “Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” Funny exposé of the confidence man and his methods. Comedy-—T'll Be Hanged if I Do”, Amer- light comedy with Mr. William Collier's jual brand of fun. Criterion —“ Thais,” ‘with Miss Constance Collier, See above. Daly's —* Baby Mine.” Farcical comedy laughably portraying a dilemma of the newly- wi red. Empire—Mr. Gillette as the hero in a rev NOW HOW MUCIE WILL Ield by the Enemy.” Gaiety—“ Excuse Me. Much ‘fun with life-on the Overland Limited. ldred Holland in “The Tris a otice later. Hobe—Last week of * The Slim Princess.” Elsie Janis and Mr. Joseph Cawthorn in di- verting musical piece’ iptedrome Marching Through Geor: sia” added to the usual ballet, circus and Spectacle. Hudson—" Nobody's Widow."" Well acted and amusing American comedy, with Blanche Bates and good compan Hackett—" Over Night. trifle risky, Herald | Souore—" Everywoman,” Inter. esting and iuminating morality piay applied to the New York of today.) PP Knickerbocker —* Chantecler.” Rostand's poetical allegory fitted over for the American Barket, with Maude Adams in the title part Lyceum—Mrs. Fiske in her effective in: of Becky Sharp, New York's The Deep Purple.” game exploited in well acted melo- Slender farce, a drama, Madison Square Garden —Barnum and Bailey's ‘cireus Majestic—Aborn Opera Compan, tacular, presentation of Balfe's mian Girl” in English, See above. Masine Eliiott’s—“ The Gamblers.” Very well’ staged. drama with modern financial methods as its theme. Nazimova—' As a Man Thinks,” by Mr, Augustus Thomas. Cleverly written and well acted drama with the Jewish race ques- tion in America as a side issue. New—Repertory including “The Piper” and" The Blue Bird." fwo of the best things done by the New Theatre. Republics Rebecea of Sunnybrook Farm.” Char! ald Thompeon's aeomrte and whole- some dramatization of the well-kno te $ of New England child life on" Wallack’s—" Pomander Walk.” Uniquely staged and well acted romantic comedy’ of life in England a century ago. Winter Garden—Vaudeville and review: an elaborate scale, See above YS" in. spec- i¢ Bohe- comicbooks.com