Life — September 12, 1912 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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1770 sort of al ward polities pists on other countries as our repre- sentatives abroad, All the sa has a certain dash and go to men our n. © the play It has for its setting the Panama Canal neigh borhood, all interested, and, strenuous in love of probability will pass for a melodrama of contemporary interest. With a chuckle-head for a a temale chump for a heroine, the ience. of these roles Mr. Hale Hamilton, recently known Wallingford get-rich-quick play, and Katherine Kacl- red do not do much to dispel the lack of The cast aging claborate, old-fashioned in which we are if one is not and possibility, hero not can be expected ol in way art-interest from the In the acting the in usion created by the authors. is a large which in elodrama should one and the si a period when is about due for revival help make up for the general crudeness of the play as a play & & we YOUNG dramatist like Mr, Philip Bar ©, who has chosen his might do well recognize that from their necessarily and in their propositions, taken ca] farce - writing as sphere, to as farces are nature 8 incongruous main should and improbabil- details, In“ Lit- for instance, the under a is con- mprobabl utmost care be to incongruity the minor Brown,” climinate ity tle from Miss lience with its in strain to digest the 1 jarred by the lack of respect for little things. For stress is laid upon plainness of the outer and under wear trunk of a ar on the 1 story ality. in stance, great the arel taken from the le character about When she the attired to appr it is in the Harper and comes on charming Olive the very person. of latest fa business, Thorne, in most stunning creations of the fashion The trunk hip to the other characters all call for erly dof that, and probably able dressmaker. her relatios and T frump. lines an e Instc istic idea of satisfying a the cha of th with some ina fancied public demand, thrown out acter is picture. the lack 1 in totally ignoring umerable exits and At bes: farce, thor should go back to his French completely Part shows same nto det in the of things are difficult plausibi entrances his. characters. these in bur this APE CE models and study a little their methods with the the sercen: ore closely adjacent rooms, the closets and other para phernalia of working up laughable com- author has ever situations, one of which, iginal have been eficetive with a little claboration on his part and a better han- dling by the stage mechanics and artists The curtain goes up, showing part of the facade of a hotel, the back drop bein punctured to make a practical open win- dow on the From this one of the characters is supposed to lower the heroine by a knot gles, as she locks down on the supposedly devised some ver very ‘in conception, could ade much more fth floor. d shee Her strug great distance to the ground, are part of but unfortunately ed and lighted as Jea of actuality the humorous business, the to convey very little i scene was so pa These defects are al to Miss methods is not Its and with laughable. The + the part, is on tle Brown.” fun pointed of its s facial of Madge pretty girl who has the t of the among which Mr. Williar the eccentric! are many versatility very play's. most valuable assets, also be included Morris's in should enuousness and y of Mr. Ned § fi hotel clerk with Sherlock Holmes tendencies. Mattie enough to of Irish commonplace But Mr. how could erence for th from its final resting of the girl the cocktails and cherries, and put it in a play on Sew York theatre in this, century, when s's of- Ferguson the place chambermaid out of has artis- try raise commo: role the an oh, Bartholomae, how could little eas to drag you, you have s reve lead and go place at story and the the living progressiveness? Metcalfe stage of a twentieth we are in an era of true G ON FIDE of Music. Notice Academy Brighton.” —" Hanky 2 Girland. of the usual kind, elaborately * The musical xim's” Girl from Montmartre. show using “The Girl s_ libretto. Criterio Ordinary from } Daly's." Discovering Edward Knoblauck John Drew in Mr Perplexed Husbard.” for Amer Mr Notice later. by Mfred The Notice —"The Rose Maid.” Diverting mu w, with catchy Viennese score Harris. —" The Mode Mr. See above Under Many Augustus Fla See Marine ENiott's—Mr. James Mont =fd Ae, we JL) S) WEATHER NOTE PALL Tue 18 COMING SooN Highly amusing ar of he Passing Show sic galore, Merry Cos vung, an aking altogether ge of music, riusic well excell girls ard fur Pulls the satirical Last week of Clever Scotch comedy Forty-ciahth Street," Little Miss Brown." treating asly than Very ew York's most people are Lyceum. * Mind the © later Miss Billi Paint’ Gi Pinero. rie The Ne'er-Do-Well,” by Mr Chai See above. My Test Girl by noted Wolf, Chan- virg Po later. Playh Clever which comicbooeen