Show f 1 y 1 4 i 1 t 4 l lt t 4 I r i i ia I a t 4 t i M y of N Y r i j rY Y Y r rr r rY Yh I I HN BY FRANKLIN PYLES EW YORK Jan 22 Merry plays NEW N dominate the new output another week but there Is a variant In The Prince ot of Bohemia from the hum humdrum humdrum drum ot of tenor young monarchs In imaginary countries for although Bohemia Is another one ot of those fan lands Its prince Is a B Bohemian in the sense of the word and the place w where ere we meet him Is rural England Besides all that heis he heIs Is Andrew Mack In a shift from ro 10 romantic mantle mantic Irish mel melodrama drama to musical comedy What Is Mack without his brogue An Irish answer Is that he with without without out It Mack now comes forth with his American natural speech for a while a 0 correct enunciation polished perhaps when as a choir boy he was headed for tor forthe the priesthood but he trickily re resumes resumes his more familiar brogue He personates a New Yorker in love with witha a English girl The girl Is daintily played by Christie MacDonald who cant help lt it Christie has just stopped being the wife of at a 0 son ot of Joseph Jet Jef I ferson and looking at her in this play I marvelled that the husband had given grounds for tor a 0 divorce In this fiction it seems more natural that Andy Mack really a neighbor of the Jeffersons at Buzzard Bay should as assume assume sume to be such an ardent lover that thatto to get near her he takes service In her home In the disguise ot of otan an Irish butler That is J Hartley Manners deft trick to let him do some wooing In his accustomed brogue antI and he wins herbut that Is many songs later The Prince of Macks singing of those songs Is the best reason for enjoying The Prince ot of I Bohemia They give gio him a chance to tobe tobe be gay with one about to be humorous with one about the ad ot of a 0 fiat over the extolled rural cottage to be alluring allurIng Ing with just a little bit of blarney ambitiously operatic with such songs as La Ja Mabile and cap the climax of it all with a 0 coon dUty ditty about need I say Moon And Mack it all his own way wayby wayby by any means in this departure tram from tramone one stage level to another It If It were not for the difference in the sizes of type one might accept Christie Mac MacDonald MacDonald Donald as his co costar star and be glad to They match up nicely Chris Christie Christie tie is so demure that she almost apolo apologizes apologizes for being charming She sings singa with Mack and by herself and together they turn a calcium glare into an et ef effulgence fulgence of poetry what I thought but others on the opening night found the proceedings rather weak and slow It Is the truth I admit that neither Andy nor Christie made the evenings hardest hit Eighteen or twenty chorus girls and men did that They hasen had a song on a Thames boat about a a sen sentImental Tommy which recalled the furore over the Florodora li sextet The catchy lilt ot of the music males It due to name A Balwin Sloane as the composer for The Prince of at Bohemia Wraith of Sheridan It If the wraith of Richard Brinsley SherIdan walks Into the New theatre o 0 nights when The School for Scan Scandal Scandal dal ms ia played there what are his ghostly thoughts abo about t a performance that seems singular to the live audience Anyway the Lady would look to him like a a stranger for he created her in the tho Image of a tall talland Vl and portly actress ot of his time and that first fixed the physical form ot of her ladyship for tor a century and anda a third No matter which of the new embodiments of her he encounters Ln nie Russell or Grace George he finds her not the buxom lass described by Sir Peter as jogging heavily to market marketon on the back ot of Dobbin but n a slim woman ot of young girlish shape and carriage In the Mrs Candour he finds a Lady familiar famUlar to him and ot of the corporeal cor corporeal type that has been so long the standard for tor I take that he used to haunt theatre when JohnJohn John John Jphn Gilbert was the Sir Peter with a palpably dominating wife and Rose Coghlan who during years posed for the only a accepted portraits Even the much admired Ada Rehan I In Augustin Dalys presentations of the comedy did not modify th the personality appreciably Well the same ame Rose Coghlan wl with h her beauty not damaged d unreasonable and her mellifluous voice not at all stands aside as Mrs Can Candour 1 dour and Z a radical change wrought t In Lady by two actresses whom PROGRAM FOR WEEK Salt Lake Lorimer In The Shepherd King beginning tomorrow night and continuing the week with matinees Wednes Wednesday Wednesday day and Saturday Orpheum Theatre Vaude ville all the weer new bill opening this afternoon with matinees dally daily Colonial Theatre King Dodo beginning tonight and running the week with mati matinees matinees nees Wednesday and Satur Saturday Saturday day Bungalow Mack Maud Mauds Leone and the players In Tile TRe Royal Mounted beginning tonight and running thee the week with matinees Wednesday and Saturday Mission Theatre Vaude villo all the week with mati matinees matinees nees dally daily Including Sunday Change Chango of bill Thursday aft afternoon Grand Manof Man Manof of Mystery beginning this afternoon and running the week with matinees Wednes Wednesday day and Saturday and Daly would have cast for forthe forthe the gentle Maria but for the hectoring never I can at least tell you quickly and easily how Annie Russell enacts Lady which Is precisely as she did Elaine and Esmeralda thirty years ago also as she has every other role gently evenly winsomely Her banter with Sir Peter Is quizzical tantalizing but never As to Grace George dId you ou see her In Divorce She Is like that in The School for Scandal crisper and brisker than Miss Russell with touches of saucy Impudence but with no suggestion in manner of the Lady we have known New School for Scandal Tree In London make Sir Peter old or testy but a rather man of 60 50 and so does Charles Calvert here but if he were old John Gilbert with his old i comedy ebullitions of furious rage gentle gen gentle tle Annie and Grace would be scared to submission before the play was half over Miss George has gone off touring and Miss Russell Is announced officially as the New theatres Lady while the play is kept In the repertory At a matinee the audience was consid considerably juvenile Many of the sub subscribers subscribers scribers boxes were occupied by par parties parties ties of children The growing sons and daughters of New York wealth there therefore therefore fore are getting a new conception of oa quarrelling couple They are seeing the play mounted more art artfully artfully fully than ever I oha ve before More Moreover Moreover over they are hearing It spoken word for word ns as written although some ot of the I f t 1 Scene from the Shepherd King Xing which appears at the Salt Lake theatre all this week I chorus men for the soldiers Although the scene is In some supposedly Germania Ger Germanic manic mania prIncipality the kaiser high knee step used during the fl 11 rehearsals here the director learned that it was being practiced for The Jolly Bachel Bachelors rs An afternoons drill qualified qualified fied the tho troopers In The King of Ca donla donia for the goose waddle as it is called in Berl Berlin and so we have it here hereIn In duplicate A New Theatre Opened A new theatre is opened with The TheOld TheOld Old Town One of its oddities Is Scotch and as Harry Lauder has made New York eyes and ears keen to kilts and melodies the way was prepared for Montgomery and Stone to hit hard with a travesty both musical and com comical comical ical FIrst the familiar pony ballet depleted from an to a but lively as ever enters In as bagpipers next they dance a High Highland Highland land fling and thus the way is opened for the principal two comedians to mak Lauders of themselves Well VeIl just as The King of grabbed the goose waddle from The Jolly Bachelors for Its soldiers so in turn The Jolly Bachelors jerked the Scotch stunt out of The Old Town and so hastily that on the opening Licht nr hc p His fF 21 I g 1 0 a v s y N x r 4 a s a s sI a b y I ar aa aak V t I 0 k x k kp so T f 5 f p 3 t k y A b 0 k William Herman West as Dr Fizz William Friend as King Xing Dodo Zoe Barnett as Annette and chorus in a scene from Act 1 of John Corts ma mamoth mamoth moth new production of the Pixley Luders comedy opera King Dodo r dies and gentlemen nt at the drawing room scandal school would be tabooed I now In even smart set parlors In n the strife for novelty In plays ot of frolic the masers magers ot of them grab things from one another I told you last week that a military parade was the finest sight in The Joll Jolly Bachelors also the Ithe most grotesque with its reproduction tion of the German kaisers review step In which soldiers while passing his majesty lift their knees high In front an effect that In Berlin Is called the goose waddle the men men came 0 phalanx of chorus girl stepping with the same eccentric knee action and tossing their skirts at each stride before them like a surf surl running In on nimble legs Another antic play of the week Is The King of brought from London and over there It contained a military display which is more than duplicated here by means of a brass band led by a grotesque drum major and too the engagement of at tall che chesty ty r w o re tS tSp Ef t T e p f ws g ta w tsa J b k a Att t ct r ig c r 4 r 4 Z 4 Sn to k td Yn s t 4 et k kJ p if H 1 J t X I 5 r b I 1 jr 3 F k w r rL L Lt L p t A Aa a vs 8 F Ft t E e n a km t 6 vYa 4 g a s sJ y w 4 15 J P t e nor the bagpipers bagpipe were re ready dY and anel It I was a fiasco until rehearsed These plays Illustrate two ways or of making librettos for musical pieces The King of as I saw it in London was an comic opera with excellent music sung well by favorite fa favorite vocalists and that had been suf sufficient sufficient to popularize it a whole year The Tho libretto was of no account what whatever whatever ever A mythical little tittle monarchy was wat about to crown a young king but hE hEran heran ran away to mingle with and stud study the common people so the next heir apparent seemed likely to be put on the throne and for awhile both fellows were menaced with assassination all except that of course course there was some Incidental The version made for America Is wIth the foolery of William Norris and other George Ada has used no familiar stuff to In The Old Town which gives 8 the ad two fellows who go aw away y ventures ot of two fellows who g go away birth It 1 Is t full of like IS this mere example A handsome girl garbed in neat street clothes saunters into and out of scenes without a word to anyone and every time she does that an admiring fellow gives an ejaculation of rapture and hurries oils after atter her No one on the stage pays the slightest heed to these two but under the repetition the audience be becomes becomes comes interested In them and just be before before fore the plays end the mysterious girl turns on her intense admirer with the disenchanting remark Look here cull youse chased me long ICIng enough Quit it right now nosy or Ill sick a man onto No Indelicate Nudity None of the dancing in those three musical plays Is Indelicate through nudity That sore ot of stage Indecorum is being chaperoned by the Goddess ot of Art if there Is such a lady FOllowing on after the exploits of Lote Loie and Isidora Duncan In Grecian exer exercises exercises and still greater nakedness or of Ruth St of them sheltered and defended against police Interference interference ence by the authority and modishness of the opera house and with music played for them by famous orchestral comes Maud MaudAllen Allen Alien at the same temple of the muses with n fi 1 f u ks d dX X M iI Y Ys Yz z s S SA Sr A to r ri X K r Jr A a f Ethel Kent prima donna with King Dodo our eyes the subtle meanings of the symphonic melodies of the masters It makes a moral difference maybe whether nudity like that is shown to the rich for dollars In an opera house or to the poor in movIng pictures for tor nickels Anyway the police keep their hands off the dear shows of stripped women and lay them on the cheap pictures pic pictures tures of them I had to grin though when I read an advertisement of a dime museums art exposures and I went straight there to see If as I guessed the device to defy the police pollee was effectual It was and funny be besides besides sides Artemesia and her company of at Athenian maidens the promise read will appear In the dances of ancient Greece as lately with acclaim by con of art at the Metropolitan opera house The promise was kept but with scrupulous care not to do any more than that for dont you see that even police pollee discrimination dared not arrest Artemesia and her maidens for doing exactly what four dancers of celebrity had been pe to do without molestation And a bid fur both safe safety ty from the law and a bigger attend attendance attendance ance by adults was made In a placard Persons under sixteen years of age positively excluded I did the grand by taking a whole box exclusively to too toI o I u if t r I one from there watched the stage with one eye and the auditorium with the other Artemesia was a 0 left leftover over from th the ballets of long ago go butt she forgotten her training and she copied precisely the Grecian poses and movements that I had seen at the opera house And the old lady being ot of a rather plump figure made as go goa a a showing ot of uncovered limbs as any of at the sIx girls who were were with her or Of course the art studies were nothing but living pictures to the rabble and they seemed to regard th the scant Grecian draperies as sheets sh t to wrap the figures In scraps of modesty but butas butas as a duplication of what had been let alone in Broadway It had to be per in hl the Bowery The Barrier as Melodrama A melodrama of the northwest has bas been made out ot of Rex novel The Barrier and after a tour in the middle west it comes to New York before going to you beyond the thc The gist of It lathe is the grouch that t Juhn Galok Gale keeps canned I I I T I a mo k kh f 1 h i jt j jn jj dk n q t x ca caR a d R arf 1 1 pJ I n aY aYi j a i 1 spy i EoS t tw I w 3 r Y d BENJAMIN CHAPIN Who will present Lincoln in the White Rouse House at the Orpheum all week beginning this afternoon 1 In his stock of goods at his l trading post to be opened whenever the object ot of his murderous vengeance shall come along that way I first saW Theodore Roberts as the grim old Sat sika sworn to kill all white men came way in The Girl I 1 Left Behind Me M He Is less red of complexion in the new play but quite as although content with the assassination of one enemy Instead of the massacre of every pale face at atan atan an army outpost It is nearly all straightaway excite excitement excitement ment Gales Gale slaughter of his enemy in a darkroom fight for life lIte and death The only gleam of so social social cial problem or ethl ethical al purport Is the question that comes to the young he heroine roine s fiance when he learns that she Is a halfbreed Shall he regard her het aboriginal blood as a disgracing taint as though it w were re negro in which case she will revert to the blankets and leathers of her squaw mother or shall he thinks that halt half of her Is good as the other in a wife which would make her an army belle as a 0 captains wife and enable her to keep on wearing such fine gowns as the black satin one In which we see her ner at an Alaskan AlaSKan social function Shall she cuddle and squat In the corner of a wigwam with a deerskin held close around her beau beautiful beautiful brunette shoulders or amiably let folks see them in dresses Yes is the answer by both sweethearts Most of the Interest is placed with Gale and Theodore Roberts is starred In that role yet his foe Stearns |