Show d b bc J 1 c 1 J t I Y 3 J 1 III fir l 1 V r f e 8 a r j f j I t vJ r rr rr AEA i r 7 r r tt 1 91 T I PROGRAM FOR WEEK Colonial Bev Beverly Bevrly Bevrly erly of Graustark begin beginning beginning beginning ning tonight and continuing through the week with mati matinees matinees matinees nees Wednesday and Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day Orpheum Theatre Vaudeville Vaude Vaudeville ville The Orpheum Road Show during the entire week bill opening with mati matinee matinee nee today and with matinees daily dally Bungalow Theatre When Knighthood Was Vas In Flower continuing during tho the week resented presented by Willard Slack Mack Leone Leono and Mack Leone players beginning to tonight tonIght tonight night with matinees Wed Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday and Saturday mission Theatre t Vaude Vaudeville Vaudeville ville during the week with matinees daily dan including Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day Change of bill Thurs Thursday Thursday Thursday day afternoon Grand Theatre In a n Womans Power opening this afternoon and running the week with matinees Wednesday and Saturday I ISalt Salt Lake Theatre Press club show Wednesday mati matl matinee matinee i inee nee and night The Terrible Frost Father and the Boys Bos opening Thursday night and running the re remainder remaInder remainder of the week with Saturday matinee I MERRY PLAYS IN GOTHAM I BY FRANKLIN FILES s Special to The New York Feb 6 With Twelfth Night ight the New theatre company has made its third classical revival and thereby it has reaffirmed a peculiarity n none of the three plays plas have the ther r roles been as well played as asen F f jen en n before in each the subsidiary parts farts have been lifted to an unfamiliar i ir prominence r e a and effectuality The rea reason j son un JD Is of or course easy to find Good actors tors can be had always alwa s for money mone great actors are rare and hard to catch Batch We Ve do not have to expect to toce ee ce and Viola as well played as by Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in j order or er to be dissatisfied with Oswald I Yorke and Annie Russell whose per performances pert t are careful intelligent and competent but no more Usually such J upon a performance of Twelfth Night would mean damnation ton tion t no But in my m opinion anyway an wa that thata a 3 s not so at the New ew theatre This band of actors is avowedly a stock company and as 88 such its first duty is iso iso t o give a s per performance We Ve are used to see Twelfth Night for the sake of a stellar Viola Violar or r Il volio or at best cOstars As Ast t r the other roles the rest Is si sit t No X scene seene at the New theatre has g grit off with such merriment as the ht carousal l of Sir Toby and Sir mire with the sympathetic Feste rid Ill Maria aria and the interrupting out rag I 1 Louis Calvert and andr andI I r Gottschalk were the us 3 ln knights Jacob Wendell the clown c Jessie oJ Je Busley the serving maid I Ji Aai Ht t think I can better suggest to you fil i ac of ot these four than just to tn tell teil a t thought they brought to me meU met U t Shakespeare one unconsciously f c oneself considering how i dots dOt or does not read that line or ort t t speech Beech welL This quartette gave gaver gaveT r T n no Ih idea of reading anything T 1 j a were We talking laughing singing Vr r r nut rt reading They gave one no of handling well some i speeches set down in a book three hun hundred hundred hundred dred years ago They might have been boon Willie Villie Colliers and May Irwins Irwing rat rattling rattling tUng off the humor of the day da If any anyone anyone anyone one thinks Elizabethan merriment a tradition rather than a fact f ct let him see Gottschalk Calvert Wendell Vendell and Miss Busley Busby Surprises In Store The oddity of seeing per performances performances performances of plays pla s which we have come to look upon as star vehicles re i I minds us of if it does not quite ac acquaint acquaint quaint us with no end of minor beauties be ties It is almost a surprise to find Violas brother a Ii mildly interest interesting Interesting interesting ing wholly character instead of a necessary evil generally played pla ed by an incompetent amateur who may ma or 01 may not resemble the star actress And who of us has not come cometo cometo cometo to hall hail the approach of Antonio with determined patience for a boredom that must somehow be gone through Yet here we ae e find him to be a human rea reasonable reasonable reasonable old man who has his place in inthe Inthe inthe the structure of things and plays It without holding up the action for in intolerable Intolerable intolerable tolerable periods What this latest Twelfth Night most lacks is the overhanging veil voil of romance Annie Russell strives for it but charming and accomplished as she is she has neither the presence nor the voice for tor poetry Besides she sho fusses Nor is she helped to romance The Or Orsino OrsIno Orsino sino on the one hand the Olivia on the tho other are arc competent performers yet both are of the earth That vague veil that should hang between reality and romance that did hang there when Henry Hen Irving or Augustin Daly staged the play and does when Julie Marlowe or Mrs Patrick Campbell ap appears appears appears pears In it ItIs is never there to ethereal ize the voices or to throw ian mists before the very positive al almost almost almost most garish colors of the scenery Much has been made of the novelty of Olivia played by a young girl I have not the tho slightest doubt that Leah daughter of II I I I A At the Orpheum Theatre Theatres s x Y fp 3 4 Y ti d tb x p e Z 1 r j jc Y Yv v 4 c P f I I f 3 1 ti f r ii i iq q qi i i f i 1 rr rrY 1 t L a v Y s fM Ir t wA wAIda v y yv yIda Ida ODay who will star in A Bit of Old Chelsea at the Orpheum all I week beginning be inning g with matinee this afternoon I 15 Coming ere W k I IA a i w k M 1 A 9 r I 4 r e w hr 4 4 A group of the principals in the big The Top o 0 the World that comes to the Colonial theatre i next week I Harrison Hunter and granddaughter of the famous Kate Bateman is only 17 li But and grease paint are great levellers If they help tho aging to look young joung they also minimize the I value vahle of real youth Painted and pen pencilled pencilled and necessarily gowned in black Miss might as aswell aswell aswell well be 28 oS 8 or 30 as well as seventeen And without the advantage of a dozen or ten years in looks she has the dis disadvantage disadvantage disadvantage advantage of the lack of them them in ex experience experIence experience Two trails to success have havo been blazed through unbroken stage forests by pioneer American playwrights One way war is occult with telepathy hyp hypnotism hypnotism and all the other known kinds of abnormal mentality the dramatic elevator going up The other way is materialistic commercial and sordidly stingy with plays that can get along with short casts It came to toa toa toa a drama enacted by four persons Think of oJ it it A really fine tIne piece was taken all over the country with forty eight actors or about the tho number re required required required in a extravaganza ganza but divided into a dozen com companies companies companies for tor a dozen separate routes Scheme of The Watcher The scheme of The Watcher Is to togo togo togo go up high in the dramatic lift with much cult and come down in it with little cost The psychic weight is spir spiritualism spiritualIsm spiritualism The stingy lightness is a cast of six characters only And they appear in a Ii scene requiring no stage stagehands stagehands stagehands hands to make shifts And a seventh important personage is kept off oft the payroll That seventh one invisible and inaudible becomes a spook Cora Maynard writer of The Watcher meant that creature to be potent but impalpable During the first act she sho is a mentally stricken woman in an off offstage offstage offstage stage bedroom Her lIer daughter is so closely clo ly connected with her mentally that when she dies suddenly alone the younger woman knows it telepathic telepathically ally Therefore the drama is haunted by bythe bythe bythe the watchful spook and there ther is a aplenty aplenty aplenty plenty for this monitor to do Her lIer used to be her daugh daughters daughters daughters fiancees mistress The fiance is isa isa isa a millionaire wholly devoted to the good daughter but his former sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart tells him he must get off with the new love and get on again with the theold theold theold old The son is a drunkard gambler and blackleg who grafts on his pros prospective prospective prospective yet et hates him jealously on account of the vicious wife The rhe daughter too is made miserable by doubt of her really true lover So the spook mother Is a very busy watcher of a complex family af affair affair affair fair Pause to think It over overTo overTo overTo To put the spook on view might be worth a seventh salary and a second set of scenery for The Watcher owing to lack of genius in the making fails to realize the promise of its scheme and andas andas andas as the audience titters anyway at the most moat serious passages the risk of or laughter outright at the apotheosis of ofa ofa ofa a ghostly austerely con confronting confronting confronting fronting her fier sons wicked wife might like a rIsky surgical operation savo the life of a stricken drama Billy Burke Burko Fits Part It is a fat old bachelor who fights off the slim young maiden In Mrs Dot He is a droll London comedian Fred Kerry and she sho Is the notably pretty BillIe Burke who has been In this country several years In The Watcher the young woman who pleads for tor endearment is sensual about It her behavior Is gross she suggests a feminine Baron assailing the heroine in La Tosca Tosea but Billies Bibles widow Is as pure of im impulse Impulse impulse pulse as any maiden malden and her object Is anything but carnal She chooses a aman aman aman man to be her second husband and knowing him to be more than willing she declares her love for him tells him theres no use in his denying that he adores her and asks why not marry mar marry marry ry One reason Is his con contrast contrast contrast with her wealth How now sensitively averse poor mop men are arc to marrying heiresses sometimes on the tho stage In this fiction however the man In Inherits inherits unexpectedly an English estate and title Mrs Irs Dot all but sends out wedding cards but he says saya wait tt to hear the still more positive reason why they cant mate In an nn hour of mawk mawl mawkish mawkish ish moonshine as he now recollects he engaged to marry a girl he ha care for and who is careless of him That knot will fall loose without untying Billie thinks but It wont for the mans sudden wealth renders him de desirable desIrable desirable to his fiancee and ana the tho play Is made up of Billies cuts and slashes at that pesky knot her tricks to undo It and devices to break It and the en ea of ot other persons in the snarl Somerset Maugham is a Frohman author Billie Burke is a Frohman actress and Maugham has written into Mrs Irs Dot a role that fits Billie like the modish gown she wears Lotta celebrity was before your theatrical time likely and I cant name a present resembling mixture of naive and saucy soubrette To incite jealousy in the lover whom she dotes on she makes believe to pursue the disdained like a girl satyr What with the nicety of Billie the wit of Maugham and the drollery of Fred Kerry an actor brought from London the encounter makes the best beat of the fun The fat old bachelor eludes the hugs and dodges the kisses of the dainty little lit little little tle widow and she is so insistent that he thinks her in earnest whereupon he turns upon her with a pretended outbreak of real passion It fools her herShe herShe herShe She believes that her mock endear endearments endearments endearments ments have roused a libertine to mad madness madness madness ness and Is scared to a panic It is a travesty of a weak girl versus burly villain in many man a melodrama Kerr chases Billie around chairs and tables holds her struggling In his arms and her lover coming to her rescue is so jealous at last that he lie begs to marry her This Maugham Is the English Clyde Fitch in his deft way wa of delineating women In comedy unconventionally Mrs Dot is s a creature oftener come across In reality than in mimicry Fitch used to pick out an actress s for his every heroine as a soon as he lie had settled set settled settled on the type needed and I am told that Maugham wrote this latest of his pieces with Billie Burke in mind She Is Mrs Dot to a T Five pounds more of flesh would make her too heavy A Atone Atone Atone tone higher or harsher In her voice would grate on the listeners to her audacious talk A perceptible trace of sensuality would render her coarse For ForIn ForIn Forin In the course of ot the play she declares her real love to one man and her bogus love to another hugs and amI kisses both In genuine or Imitation zest and not many actresses even cven with a hundred times her skill could do that and be agreeable with it The Inferior Sex It is a 3 coincidence that the beautifully beautifully beautifully fully brunette Maxine Elliott like tho the prettily blonde Billie Burke appears simultaneously as a slow but sure be witcher of a n man who hates women generally but falls down before one in particular or at least a particular one They get together aboard a yacht In where moonlight makes a rippling gleaming path across the water from the tho vessel to some faraway realm of joy Their encounters of caustic wit merging steadily Into sen sentiment sentiment sentiment constitute the delightful new comedy of The Tho Inferior Sex which introduces to us Frank Stay Stayton ton an English dramatist and restores our own Maxine Elliott to New York The little fantasy Is witty and Joyous alive alie with youth and merriment and romance If you insist on the strictly reasonable in a play dont go to this one But If you care for a trifle very like a cool laughing breeze in summer summertime summertime time timo dont miss it The title of The Inferior Sex Is ia derived from a book that a woman hater Is writing to ex expose pose poso feminine inferiority He Ho has come alone in his yacht for a long voyage so as to suffer no distraction by that sex But a very beautiful embodiment of It Is picked up almost starved in a drifting catboat That Is Maxine Elliott and Arthur Byron hate hato her as he lie may ma has to take her aboard though he lie let Jet letup up snarling at her Tho The two are the only persons on the yacht acht except a valet and the crew so the whole play Is their wrangling the mans mans belief In his hatred of women the womans womans delight In playing with him teasing him making him prove himself wrong Of course he ends by b loving her But Stayton shows a new freshness of ot humor and Invention In keeping off oft the conclusion without a moments tedium The young woman is a writer of ot fic fiction fiction tion and after her first fear tear she be begins begins begins gins to enjoy the situation hugely But sha feels more should happen She de dc decides the tho crew should mutiny They are so well paid their hours are so easy that she has to search her hor lit literary literary literary for a provocation Of Ot course tho kegs of brandy beneath the cabin floor always alwa 8 the In Incentive Incentive incentive And the bags of gold In the lockers Unfortunately the tho crew orew does get enough liquor though from rom cutglass decanters decanter and the tho like to try mutiny But nut their object Is the beau beautiful beautiful beautiful girl She however thus comes to find the woman hater something of a hero while the audience stays Itaya to find that two tw acts of healthy alluring mer merriment merrIment merriment have hae not left Mr Stayton Staton with but wit and 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