Life — April 1, 1915 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE “ GOOSIE, GOOSIE, GANDER, WHERE SHALL I WANDER?” amusement district. There may be a New York public for such monstrosities as female tenors and for a rendering of antique sentimental ditties like “ Silver Threads Among the Gold”, but even at the cheapest prices the Hippodrome seems hardly likely to find such a public. Of On nooo dp EEP-HUED pessimists connected with the business of entertaining the public predict that the theatre as we know it is doomed to virtual ex- tinction, They point to the decline in the character of the plays that are the only ones the public will patronize and to the decadence in the art of acting. No wonder the theatre is inartistic. Tt only reflects, as it always has done, the spirit of the times. Everything is growing to be superficial, even honesty. Thoroughness and conscientiousness take too much time. Serious effort is dis- tinctly unfashionable in this era of the shirk. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the theatre is going to disappear from the surface of the earth. Cheer up, pessimists. There are other generations coming along who haven't seen every- thing you have. Metcalfe. Astor —" Hello, Broadway!" Burlesques of current attractions at the other theatres, firland-music interludes of song and danc- the remaining sixty-eight per cent. bein; made up, of the personalities and persona careers of Mr. iam Collier and Mr. George M. Cohan, the author of the piece. Diverting and interesting to those familiar with the subject matter. Belasco.—Frances Starr in “ Marie-Odile ", by Edward Knoblauch. One of the revoltin aspects of war turned into religious an fomantic drama; well staged and well played. A convent episode of the Franco-German War of 1870. Booth.—Lewis Carroll's “ Alice in. Won- Stage version by Alice Gersten- ice later. “On Trial.” A not particularly novel melodramatic plot made highly inter- esting by the unusual and original method of its unfolding. Well, presented : Experience.” The allegorical methods ‘of the old morality play applied a spectacular setting-forth of the sins and vices of, our own time. Interestingly dore. Cohan's.—“'It Pays to Advertise.” Ex: tremely diverting farcical comedy in which romance and the laughable possibilities of the art of a yertalng are tty niously mingled. “The WV feather.” Clever possibilities of the spy-scare in England during the present war. ite worth seein; : : Cort.—" Under Cover.” Polite smuggling and the methods of the customs service com- bined as the basis of a polite and well-acted The Song of Songs” An ed stage version of Sudermann’s novel of that title. Detailed depiction of the career of a young courtesan. Enlightening, but not elevating, and not suitable for children. Empire. revival of next week with “ all-star” lebrated Case Forty-eighth Street.—" The Law of the Land.” A justifiable murder the starting of an absorbing melodrama; well acted and de- riving its numerous situations from police methods of unraveling mysterious crimes. Forty-fourth Stree! Eooma, Trenting aod Clifton Crawford in “The Peasant Girl". Pleasant Viennese musical comedy of the usual type, but musically a little more at- tractive than usual. Fulton.—* Twin Beds" A farcical argu- ment for prohibition, showing as its awful example a gentleman who, under the influ- ence of the demon drink, goes to bed in the wrong flat and is subjected to some very trying experiences. " Ganety.—* Daddy Long-Legs.” Clean little play based on the humorous and pathetic episodes in the career of a young girl who starts life dling. Globe. Laughable extrava- ganza built on the story of Aladdin. Elabo- rately staged and full of the fun of Montgomery and Stone. Harris.—Margaret Illington in “ The Lie”, by Henry Arthur Jones. An interesting and well-acted drama of domestic life in rural England contrasting the characteristics and careers of two sisters of opposite types. _Hudson.—* The Show Bhp. Amusing divulgence in farcical comedy form of the secrets of play-producing. ‘ell played by good cast. Knickerbocker.—" Fads and Fancies.”" Girl: and-music show of extremely ordinary kind with its appeal to the undeveloped id. Litwe—"'A Pair of Silk. Stockings” Ex. tremely Tight farce of the English school, pleasantly acted by entirely English company. Liberty.—" The Birth of a ion.” The most elaborate moving-picture show yet pre: pared in Ames Deals in thrilling fashion with incidents the reconstruction period just after our Civil War. Tongacre.—"Teside the Lines.” by Mr. Fart Derr Biggers. Spy, drama with the period the breaee, out of the present war and the scene the fortress of Gibraltar. Ab- Sorbing, well acted and the humor supplied by refugee Americans. Lyceum.—Closed. ; Tyrie" The. Only Girl.” Musical play with score by Victor Herbert and unusually merry book by Henry Blossom. based on 8 legitimate comedy. Tuneful and diverting. Manhattan Opera House.—Closed. Marine Elliott s-—Closed Park.—" Polygamy.” Interesting and _well- acted drama of present-day life in Utah, upholding the belief that the Mormon Church still encourages the practice of polygamy. Entirely American play with a new topic. Playhouse.—" Sinners,” by Mr. Owen Davis. Right pleasant sentimental melodrama of the old-fashioned kind, in which the good folks and bad folks get their just deserts as they do nowhere else in the world except on the stage. As usual, the bad folks live in the city and the good folks are types of rural virtue. Punch and Judy.— The Clever Ones,” by Mr. Alfred Sutro. Some of London's ad- vanced. thinkers made the subject, of not especially brilliant. satire Played by a company which is cleverer than the material it has to interpret. Republic.—" Kick In." Melodrama of the underworld of crooks and police. Slangy, but absorbing in a dime-novel way and well acted, with Mr. John Barrymore as a living example of Warden Osborne's. theories. Shubert.—Opens next week with a revival of Paul Potter’s dramatic version of Du Maurier’s good old “ Trilby", the cast in- cluding many_of those who created the parts and Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the title réle. Thirty-winth Street.—Mr. Lou-Tellegen in “ Taking Chances”. See above. ‘ailack's.—Exposition of Mr. Granville Barker's method as an art nowveaw producer. The repertory includes “The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife”, an eccentric but amusingly staged curtain-raiser; “ Androcles and the Lion”, a laughable skit at the ex- pense of the Christian martyrs by Mr. George Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Barker's curious notions of how Shakespeare should be presented, with “A Midsummer Night's Dream ™ as the awful demonstration. Shaw's “The Doctor's Dilemma” comes next and will be reviewed later. Winter ‘den.—* Maid in America.” Especially maid for the t. b. m. One of the usual extravagantly staged mixtures of girl, dance amd ragtime, with even less real fun and originality than usual. Ziegfeld's Follies.—Midnight cabaret, rather amusing and with more food, drink and dancing for the folks who can’t go to sleep without some more of those accessories. APRIL SHOWS AND SHOWERS comicbooks.com