Life — January 29, 1914 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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“There's wert Araminta OUGHT TO BE, ESRY. SHE'S HAD DANCIN’ LESSONS FOR A WHOLE YEAR” R. WILLIAM COLLIER has asso- ated with himself Mr. Grant Stewart in providing “ A Little Water on the Side” as the new container for the Collier brand of fun, The result is a fairly good skeleton, suitable for the Col- lier filling process which makes his farcical comedies what they eventually become, This time the scene of opera- tions is a suburban town on Long Island, and the title refers to the water on one side of a picce of real estate which is part of the thrilling plot. The piece is no departure from the usual kind in which Mr, Collier has appeared for the past few seasons and gives the usual op- portunities for his quict but risibles-reach- ing methods. The younger Collier also is in the cast, but not so constantly in evidence as last time. Those who like Mr. Collier's methods, and almost every one does, will find “A Little Water on the Side” and its performance quite to their liking. > oa > 7 SG “"THE QUEEN OF THE MOVIES” has a distinguished ancestry of six authors, composers and producers, And with all this its distinction rests on about three extremely catchy airs in the Austro- Germanian branch of the comic operetta school of composition. In the other par- ticulars of the girl-and-music form of entertainment it is much like its innu- merable predecessors and contemporaries, the concerted numbers having something “EAP Ree more than the usual dash and go, owing to the direction of Mr. Julian Mitchell. Its comedians, headed by Mr. Frank Moulan, are of better than usual quality, and Valli Valli is the attractive prima 191 donna. It goes without saying that the costumes and scenery are brilliant, and that there are varied and numerous speci- mens of the genus chorapuella. Metcalfe. LIFES CONFIDENTIAL UIDE to tHe THEATRES! “Seven Keys to Baldpate.” Farce of mystery with laughable episodes and hold- ing its ingenious joke on the audience to the very en jelasco.—" The Secret,” by Henri Bern- stein, Drama of the close analysis of the character of a rather repellent heroine well acted by Frances Starr. Not exactly the kind of play one looks for with the Belasco trade- mark Casino.—" High Jinks." Girl-and-musie show of a little more originality than usual, and done with dash and vigor. Century Opera House.—Operas of the older and newer schools creditably done in English at popular prices. Weekly change of bill. ‘ohan’s.—"" Potash and Perlmutter.” New York's commercial Jew, his joys and tribula- tions, humorously ‘set’ forth and well pre- sented in dramiatization of the Montague Glass. stories. ; Comedy.—* Kitty MacKay," by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. A delightful Scotch comedy admirably done and bound to be en- joyed by everyone who sees. it. Cort.—" Peg o’ My Heart." Showing how a clever Irish-American girl, as portrayed by Miss Laurette Taylor, can’ scale even the formidable bulwarks of English society. Criterion.—Mabel and Edith Taliaferro “Young Wisdom. A bright and well-acted comedy in which’ some telling blows are landed on some eugenic theories Eltinge.—" The Yellow Ticket,” by Micbael Morton. | Notice later. Empire.—Maude Adams in “The Legion of Leonora”, by J. M. Barrie. Curious com- bination of comedy and burlesque, but not up to the former accomplishments of either author or star. Forty-fourth Street—" The Girl on Film.” Clever company from London in ex: cellent presentation of girl-and-music show of the British type. Forty-eighth Street.—"" To-day.” | Messrs. Broadhurst and Schomer’s remarkable con: ception of New York life with an extremely lurid and disagreeable last act as its peculiar * punch Fulton —" The Misleading Lady." Mixture of strenuous drama nad farce. Extremely laughable in places, and calculated to keep its audiences guessing. icty.—Elsie Ferguson in “The Strange Woman". “A charming star doing good work in a not impressive comedy dealing with life in a small Jowa town Gerrick.—Mr. HW. OV. Moore in “The Dear Fool Globe—" The Queen of the See above. Harris.—" Adele.” Most agreeable, taste- fully done and tuneful comic operetta. Hippodrome," America.” Big, spectacu- Jar, interesting and thrilling composition of the kind never seen anywhere but at the Hippodrome udson,—Mr. mond and Eva Notice later. Movies.” William Collier in “A Little Water on the Side”. See above. Knickerbocker —" The New Henrietta.” Last week of the staunch old Wall Street comedy with Messrs. William H. Crane and Douglas Fairbanks in the leading réles. Longacre.—" The House of Bondage. dramatized from the book of Reginald Wright Kauffman by Joseph Byron Totten. See above. Lyceum.—Miss Billie Burke in “ The Land of Promise". Interesting and well-acted somewhat serious drama of the strenuosities of life in the Canadian Northwest. Little. —" The Philanderer,” by Mr. George Bernard Shaw. English company of good quality bringing out from its. verbosity” the really amusing points of a very readable comed Lyric.—Mr. Guy Bates Post in the Tentmaker™, by Mr. Tully. See above. Manhattan Opera House.—The always in- teresting melodrama, “ Within the Law", with the regular New York cast, comes back for a fortnight’s stay at popular prices. Marine _Etiiott’s. Bee Deadlock,” by Margaret Turnbull. , Notice Jater Playhouse. The Things That Count.” A sentimental and clean little comedy of up-town and down-town life in New York. Very well done. Princess.—A new bill of five playlets. No- tice later, Shubert—" A Thousand Years Ago,” bj Mr. Percy Machaye. Gorgeous but high: browed fantasy of Oriental life elaborately presented Thirty-ninth, Street.—Dorothy Donnelly in * Maria Rosa", from the Spanish of Eche- gary. Notice later. Watiack’s.—" Grumpy.” Dramatic comedy well acted by London company, and with Mr. Cyril, Maude’s ‘finished impersonation of the aged barrister. Winter Garden.—"* The Whirl of the World.” One of the big combinations of girls, music, dancing and costume for which this theatre is celebrated. “Omar, Richard Walton IF FASHION DECREES THAT YOU WEAR THIN SKIRTS AND SILK STOCKINGS DUR- ING COLD WEATHER, WHY NOT ONE MORE MUFF? comicbooks.com