Life — April 2, 1914 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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“THE CHURCH MILITANT” camels combined into a really impressive disolay makes a really new attraction. This new development naturally cuts down the time allotted to the regular cir- cus features, although the equestrian and gymnastic exhibitions are retained in quite sufficient quantity. Perhaps the regular, annual circusgoer will welcome this departure from the same old thing that he has seen year after year since boyhood. As it is, the Barnum & Bailey circus is a more interesting entertainment,’ for grown-ups anyway, than it has been for a number of year: A’ i ~O-OS E'VE had so many mediocre. far- cical comedies this season, with the laughs separated by long stretches of the commonplace, that it is real pleasure to encounter one where the merriment is practically continuous. This is the case with “A Pair of Sixes” by Mr. Edward Peple. One forgets entirely its absolute improbability in the quick succession of clever lines and laughable situations. The pair of sixes which gives the play its title make the winning poker-hand that condemns one of a couple of quar- reling partners to be the other’s butler for an entire year. The ensuing com- plications are mahy, and all laughable. The farce is interpreted by an unusually good company with Messrs. Hale Hamil- ton and George Parsons as the partners, Fritz Williams their lawyer, Ivy Trout- man the wife of one and Ann Murdock the fiancée of the other, Caree Clark, a typical fresh typewriter and Maude Eburne, a funnier slavey than has been seen for many a day. There need be no undte haste getting seats for “A Pair of Sixe: it is likely to run all summer and then some. Metcalfe. Seven Keys to Baldpate.” Curi- ous dramatization of a curious book. laughable farce made out of a mystery novel in which process the audience finally finds that it is the, victim of the joke. Belasco.—" The Secret.” Close the character of an unpleasant woma : fally done by the French author and expert! staged by Mr. Belasco, but with a total result that is not, entirely agreeable. by Monckton Hoffe. t, Casino.—" High Jinks.” —_Girl-and-music show done with a little more dash and vigor than usual... Century Opera House.—Popular-priced opera in English, presenting the best-known compositions in fairly good rendition. Cohan’s.—" Potash and Perlmutter.” ish commercial life i very laughable, farce comedy. Well acted and extremely diverting. Comedy.—" Kitty MacKay.” Scotch village life ‘made intensely humorous and leavened with a bit of pathos. Enjoyable and well acted. Cort.— Peg o' My Heart.” ners's demonstration that for stage purposes the English nobility may easily be twisted about the little finger of a clever and engag- ing Irish-American girl. Well acted light comedy, ; Eltinge—" The Yellow Ticket.” Rus persect of the Jews made the basis of a very interesting and well presented melo- drama. ji Empire—Maude Adams in J. M. Barrie's “Legend of Leonora”. Combination of comedy and burlesque with the English law courts as the butt of the author's wit. Amus- ing but not in the best vein of either author “* The Midnight Girl.” Russian r star. Forty-fourth Street. 603 Unusually agreeable entertainment in the irand-music line. Funny, tuneful and well jone. Forty-eighth Street.— Today.” Not par- ticularly clever drama giving a mistaken view of New York life and depending for its ‘one very lurid scene. The Misleading Lady.” Fairly diverting farcical comedy dealing with the adventures of a flirt who thinks she can amuse herself with a primitive man. Gaiety.—" Along Came Ru Belgian comedy transplanted to a Maine village. Well acted and rather amusing. Globe.—" The Queen The moving pictures furni plot for a more than ordinarily diverting Sirl-and-musie_show. Harris.—" The Rule of 3.” A lady with two ex-husbands and one de facto made the heroine of a mildly laughable farcical comedy. Hippodrome.—Preparing for a. spectacular production of “Pinafore” with the tank representing the real ocean. Hudson.—Margaret Anglin in Shakespear ean repertory. See above. Knickerbocker.—Julian Eltinge in“ The Crinoline Girl)”. See above. ngacre.—"'A Pair of Sixes,” by Mr. rd Peple. See above, iitle—Closed pending, the appearance of Grace George in Mr. Clyde Fitch’s “ The Truth", Lyric.—" Omar the Tentmaker.” A poetic, fantastic and fairly interesting drama based on the quatrains of Omar. Khayyam. with M iuy Bates Post in the tile part. Spectacu a picturesque. Madison Square Garden.—The Barnum and Bailey Circus. Marine Eltiott’s. sition of the tempt young women with ambitions to become the confidential - stenographers of millionaires. More amusing than impressive, Playhouse.—" The Things That Count.” Agreeable little play of elementary sentiment ind comedy showing that upper New York is not entirely out of touch with lower New York. | Princess.—" Marrying Money,” by Wash- ington Pezet and Bertram Marburgh. See above. Thirty-ninth Street—" Too Many Cooks,” by Mr, Frank Craven. Cheerful comedy of the suburbs, original in its fun and treat- ment of a novel theme. Wallack’s—" Grumpy." Interesting melo- dramatic comedy with Mr. Cyril Maude’s finished acting in the portrayal of a senile but lovable barrister Wis Garden—" The Whirl of the World.” Girls and ragtime galore, dancing, glitter and gorgeousness in unlimited quanti- ties. THE TANGORILLA icbooks.com