Life — March 18, 1915 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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“The Clansman". No one who cares for the history of our country should miss seeing this stirring exhibition. yi MESS8s- Klaw and Erlanger u have found a vent for their well-known intellectuality and exquisite taste in the pro- duction of a girl-and-music show called “Fads and Fan- cies”, the title presumably sug- gested to their brains by a literary work which not so very long ago figured prominently in a celebrated court pro- ceeding. These experienced uplifters of the stage have evidently learned that it is not difficult to secure at a weekly wage of fifteen or twenty dollars a large number of female persons to display themselves on the stage in scant attire. Although this is a staple bait for the tired business man, it is not always in itself sufficient even for him. He doesn’t actually clamor for it, but he shows signs of intelligence when some- thing new in a musical way or at all clever in lines is forced on him. His intellect won't be strained to appreciate these things in “ Fads and Fancies”. It is a stupid conglomeration even judged by the not lofty girl-and-music standards, and certainly below the standard of the Young Husband QUICK, WHAT 1s 17? AM 1 A FATHER On A MOTHER? (greatly agitated) : ‘LIFE: Knickerbocker Theatre. Its only re- deeming features are an automobile act by two blackface veterans of the vaude- ville stage and the artistic dancing of Lydia Lopokova. 467 Oh, yes—there’s one other good thing in “ Fads and Fancies”, although it must be an oversight. No one sings “It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary ”. Metcalfe. Astor—" Hello, Broadway!” The per. sonal careers, business experiences and family connections of Messrs. George M. Coban and William Collier set out before an amusing background of burlesques on plays of the ‘season, intertwined with a diverting girland-music ' show. Belasco.—Frances Starr in “ Marie-Odile ”, by Edward Knollauch. Drama with the set: ting in a French convent and the period that of the Franco-German War of 1870. Well staged and well acted, but highly im. probable episode. Booth.—" The Trap.” Story of blackmail told in rather crude and melodramatic fashion. but interestingly acted by company headed by Mr, Holbrook Blinn and Martha Hedman. Candler —" On Trial." Very original way of unfolding a melodramatic plot based on a murder, its cause and consequences. Absorb- ing. and well done. _ Casino.—" Experience.” Spectacular moral. ity play’ following the ancient methods of allegory, but applied to conditions of our It Pays to Advertise.” Farcical comedy, well staged and well acted, developing the humorous phases of the art of advertising. Comedy.—" The White Feather.” The Ger- man spy-scare, lately prevalent in England, turned into material for a well-presented and interesting drama of the, day. Cort.—" Under Cover.” High-class smug- sling and custom-house methods providin material for a well-staged and well-play. parlor melodrama. Eltinge.—" The Song of Songs.” Detailed history. of a young courtesan’s progress. Dramatized and Americanized from Suder- man's novel of the same title. Cleverly done, but not recommended except to those interested in the unsavory topic. pire.—" The Shadow.” Drama of in. yalidism and marital infidelity, with Ethel Barrymore in the réle of the deceived wife. High flavored, but interesting and fairly well done. Forty-eighth Street—"The Law of the Land.” Untangling a murder mystery in good society, with amusing sidelights on police methods. Well staged and. well_played. Forty-fourth Street—Emma Trentini Clifton Crawford in “The Peasant See above. . Fulton.—" Twin Beds." Spicy farce deal- ing with the geographical puzzlement of a gentleman who has indulged in the pleasures of Bacchus to the point that he navigates himself into the wrong flat. Gaiety. —" Daddy Long-Legs.", Wholesome little play, mingling pathos and bumor and dealing with the fancies and life history of a girl foundling. Globe.—"* Chin-Chin.” | Musical extrava- fanza, elaborately staged. Very, diverting and with most of the fun supplied by Messrs. Montgomery and Stone. a Harris.—Margaret Mlington in “The Lie". by Henry Arthur Jones. Well-acted and well-written drama of English life, the plot hinging on the relations of two sisters, one good and one had. Hudson —" The Show Shop." | Funny a pects of the interior life of the theatre, with most of the humor based on the ordeals connected with the business of play produci Knickerbocker.—" Fads and Fancies.” Sec above. ; . Little —" A Pair of Silk Stockings." Light English farce, amusing and well acted by English company iberty.—" The Birth of a above. tion.” See _ Longacre.—" Inside the Lines.” by Mr. Earl Derr Biggers. Americans, Germans and English mixed up in complications of the outbreak “of the present war. The scene Gibraltar and the moving factor the German spy system. Well presented and diverting yceun Outcast,” by Mr. Hubert Henry Davis. Elsie Ferguson and Mr. Charles Cherry heading an excellent company in fred. performance of a drama of London achelor life, in which the heroine is a girl of the streets. Lyric.—" The Only Girl." Musica! play made over from a legitimate farcical comedy by Messrs. Herbert and Blossom. Funny, tuneful and well performed. Manhattan Opera House.—Return _ of Macterlinck’s “ The Blue Bird”. Poetic and spectacular fantasy of child life. Maxine Elliot?’s.—" The | Adventures of Lady. Ursula,” by Anthony Hope, with Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the title part. Ex- tremely pleasing costume comedy unusually well acted: Park.—"Polygamy.” The plural marriage of the Mormon Church made the topic and supplying the interesting incidents of a play pplying the i dents of a pli that purports to show the possibilities of life in by | Mr. Sinners,” Owen ‘fashioned emotional melodrama, well cast and showing us once more in irre: futable depiction that virtue is of the country and vice of the cit Punch and Judy.— The Clever Ones,” bj Alfred Sutro. Not brilliant but fairly ‘well- acted satire on some of the sociological fads that were fashionable in London before the w: ital serious problems to consider. Kick In.” Crooks and coppers ina clever and interesting but slangy, melodrama of the underworld. ‘Shubert.—" To-night’s the Night.” Tune- ful and daintily done girl-and-music show of the kind that we import from the London Gaiety. Tiety-winth Street—Mr, Low-Tellegen in “A Clever Fellow”. Notice later. Weilack's.—Repertory, including | Shaw's Androcles and the Lion”, Anatole France * The Man Who Married a’Dumb Wife.” and “A Midsummer Night's Dream". Shaw's play is ‘lever inthe tual, Shaw way, apd Sil ‘the plays. are principally interesting as the freakish teethods announced by Mr. Gran- ville Barker and his associates as the new art of the theatre. _ Winter Gorden.—"* Maid in America.” The latest thing in the way of appeal to the in- fellect of the tired business man. Big, glittering and chorus-girly. ‘but not the least bit clever. THIS TALK OF NOT BEING ARLE TO MUZZLE. A PEKINESE 18 ALL NONSENSE. THE COR- RECT MUZZLE FOK » PEEK comichooks.