Life — December 14, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

1E lady who, in two poses, is upholding the drama at the top of this page, is well known as Annette Kellermann, the ex- pert diver and living exponent of 1 fact that for the purposes of female loveliness physical exercise is a better ally than costume and cosmetics. In the new how at the Winter Garden she surprised her former admirers by appearing success fully as a toe dancer in a very prettily staged ballet and water spectacle entitled “Undin This was only one feature of a vastly improved entertainment at this place of amusement. In the feature called “ Vera Violetta,” Mlle. Gaby Deslys conveys a far more agreeable impression than on her first. appearance and makes somewhat more credible her vogue in Paris. Some é one has evidently been successfully at { work in providing the regiment of other y he entertainers with better material than they have had_ hitherto. The result is that the Winter Garden show is an un- usually hig collection of amusing frivoli FU FR FS HE row at the first performance of Mr. Synge’s “ The Playboy of the Western World” is now ancient his- tory, but two aspects of it do not seem to have had sufficient One is the excellent work of Inspector McCluskey and his policemen. If they had not been prompt and de cided in their action there would possibly a disastrous panic. The other is the ineffable cruc in the punishment of such of the rioters as were brought be- fore him. One of them was fined the whole of ten dollars, others two dollars each and some were discharged. Such horrible vindictiveness as this on the part of our minor judges against persons who nuse themselves with disorder and imperilling the lives of peaceful citizens is calculated to bring Magistrate Corrigan and others of his kind into ex- treme unpopularity with ruffians who are brought before them. It is strongly ¢ © discourage the spirit of nt in this town. Magistrate Corrigan ¢ one’s feelings notice ¢ been a riot and quite y of Magistrate Corrigan culated lawlessness so prev should be careful. He may hurt sor ‘The atmosphere in the theatre that ¢ culated to allow of a fair critical judgment of the perform- ance, but anyone who had read the play was able to glean from its acting a yet greater wonder that it should have pro- voked a demonstration of violence. The only satisfactory ening was not cal- A Whole Lot of Different Things theory in explanation is that most of the protestants were too dense to know what the piece was about. To the unprejudiced, Christie Mahon, no matter what his na- tionality, would be a delightful creation in the way of a braggart, and the Irish should be proud of the author who could write such a love scene as that between Christie and Pegeen and of artists who could interpret it as was done by Mr. O'Donovan and Eithne MaGce. The unique and naturally acted plays of The Irish Players are worth studying by students of the theatre. The silly ad- vertisement they have received bids fair to bring them a patronage they would not otherwise have sccured, so that particular cloud scems to have a genuine silver lining M* WILLIAM COLLIER’S new play, “Take My Ad- vice,” is even more dependent than his others on the idual exertions of the star. It is not much in itself and very little for the other members of the company to do. Fortunately Mr. Collicr’s fun is equal to the demands on it and the result is a cheery entertainment during which the audience is kept continuously bubbling with laughter. 0009800 02 R. WILLIAM H. CRANE is another American cot dian, but of a type that depends largely on the mate rial provided. In the present play, “The Senator Keeps House,” Mr. Crane is shown in his famil author has not overloaded him with mirth-provoking tions and lines. siderable enrichment before it can become for the star's abilities s+ Oo * * 3° “] ITTLE BOY BLUE” jumped into a field already over crowded with musical attractions and immediately gained a foremost place. Anything which can appeal espe- cially to the insatiable but jaded appetites of the lovers of this kind of entertainment must possess unusu r aspects, but his In these particulars the piece will stand con- popular vehicle al character: In this case one of the charms scems to be the strony contrast between the first scene Iaid in one of the ni: restaurants in Paris and the later ones in the simpler sur- ‘otch castle, The Scotch motive usic has not been overworked and had a re- Resides that the cast is an of its members had. singing istics. roundings of in settings, costumes and freshing appeal to eye and ear. unusually good one and. so comicbookMeol