Life — March 30, 1916 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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SIR HERBERT TREE AS “ CARDINAL WOLSEY ” an unusually original and interesting ro- mantic comedy. The scenes representing Henry VIII, tormented but indomitable, irascible but far funnier than his own jester, are conceived and written in true comedy vein. Best of all, these new authors have gone well away from the beaten path, and the production of such a play shows unusual managerial courage on the part of Miss Bonestelle, the pro- ducer. qa ay ay HAT has happened to, charming Elsie Ferguson? Is she trying to show in “ Margaret Schiller” that she is versatile? If so, it was not necessary to go to such an extreme in change of voice and manner—certainly not to so Pronounced an abandonment of the charms that have given her so strong a hold on the affections of the public. Mr. Hall Caine has given her an unpleasant play and an unsympathetic part, which she is perhaps trying to differentiate from anything she has done before. If this is so she succeeds in that particular, but it is to be hoped that she will abandon it before the habits of her present voicing and the suppression of her gentler attrac- tions become fixed upon her. “ Margaret Schiller" gets the laugh on the hyphenates. Their boisterousness over the pro-German sentiments in the early acts is acutely snubbed before the play ends. Metcalfe. —“\Cohan’s Revue 1916." Real and laughable burlesque applied to familiar. suc- cesses of the season and backed up with a very good girland-musie show. “Bandbor.—The Washington Square Players. New bill of playlets. Notice later. Belasco.—" The Boomerang,” by Messrs. Winchell ‘Smith and Victor Mapes.” Cleverly written and well-presented comedy having as its theme some welledirected shafts at medi. Cine as it is practised, Booth. Pay Day.” by Lottie M. Meaney and Oliver D. Bailey, Amusing combination Of the movie-picture play seriously intended, but! now taken as more or less of & satire. Candler —Last_week of “The House of Gass,” by Max Marcin, “The memory of the police for criminals made the basis of an in: teresting and wellacted drama. Casino. "The Blue Paradise." Comic operetta of the Viennese type, tuneful, divert: ing and with something of a plot. Cohan’s—Mizzi Hajos in ** Pom-Pom." A really clever, original and. well:presented comie operetta. Comedy. —"The Fear Market,” by Amélie Rives. Clever and well-written comedy hav- ing for its theme a celebrated case of jour: nalistie blackmail in New York. Cort." The Blue Envelope,” by Messrs Hatch and Homans. Farce ‘written. along familiar lines. Criterion—“ The Merry Wives of Wind: sor.” ‘Notice later. Eltinge. —" Fair_and Warmer,” by Mr. Avery Hopwood. “An extremely fanny, farce of ‘apartimenthouse life, which is very well acted and just escapes being very riskey. Empire. —" Margaret. Schiller,” by Hall Caines and with Elsie Ferguson ‘as the star. See above. " Forty-fourth Street. —" Katinka.” Comic operetia of tbe conventional sort, but fairly Stusing and well staged. Forty-eighth Street—" Just a Woman," by Mr. Bugene, Walter... Very dramatic expost- tion of the troubles that may come to a per- fectly well, arranged married couple when great wealth drops in on them too quickly. Fulton —Mr. Brandon Tynan play, * The Melody "of Youth,” with the author as star. Arecable and pleasantly acted Irish comedy Something in the style of the late Dion Bowel: aul, i: Gaiety. —Mrs. Fiske in “ Erstwhile Susan,” by Marian de Forest. The star's comedy abil- ity displayed ina new field which introduces to New. Vork some of the peculiarit! s of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Globe—Pavlowa in mo Mute of Portici™ Herris —"Wit-the-Trail, Holliday,” by Mr, George M. Cohan ‘and others. “Amusing and wellscted’ farcical comedy dealing with the Reancial motives of professional revivalists and prohibitionssts. Hippodrome—" Hip-Hip-Hooray.” The bi entertainment house ‘showing a mixture 0 Spectacle, ballet, vaudeville and. ice carnival, alton a brilliant basis. Hudson.—"" The Cinderella Man,” by Mr. Edward. Childs Carpenter, Pleasant) and sentimental comedy agreeably presented. Knickerbocker—Composite bills of moving: picture. plays. with well-known legitimate Sectors in ‘the leading réles. Longacre.—" The Great Lover," by Mr. and Mrs Hatton and Leo Ditrichstein.. Extremely interesting and weil-acted drama of life among the artists of grand opera. ceum.—" The Heart of Wetona,” by Mr, George Scarborough. Sex drama relieved from the commonplace by the introduction of an Indian atmosphere and the excellence of its presentation ‘Lyric.—" Abe and Mawruss," by Montague picture of “ The Glass and R. C. Megrue Further laugh able adventures of those amusing heroes of the Jewish cloak-and-suit trade, Messrs. Potash and Perlmutter. Marine Elliott's, — Notice later. New Amsterdam. —“ Henry the Eighth, done in a spectacular form by Beerbohm Tree, See above. Playhouse.—Grace George and her excel lent company in a new production. Notice later, Princess —" Very Good, Eddie." Divertin| and cleverly done girband-music show based on the successful farce Over Night.” Punch and Judy. —“ Treasure Islan Spectacular and highly entertaining stage set- ting of Stevenson's famous pirate story _ Republi Common Clay,” by Mr. Cleves Kinkead. “Interesting and well-acted drama with a new twist to the much-staged theme of the injustice of the double standard. in the law of the sexes. Shubert, —"The Great Pursuit,” by C. Haddon Chambers. Notice later. Thirty-ninth Street—Lou-Tellegen in “A King of Nowhere,” by J. and L. Macpherson See “above. Winter Garden.— Robinson Crusoe, Jr." with Mr. Al. Jolson as the featured comedian, Girland-music show of the usual elaborate staging and with the usual appeal to the in- tellect of the tb. m Ziegfeld's Frolic. — Food, drink, dancing and a clever vaudeville performance calcu lated to make pass cheerfully the dreary hours between midnight and breakfast See America First." MENKY " AND E. BULLEN ” MR, LYN HARDING AS WILLETTE KERSHAW As “ comicbooks.com