Show i r i i 1 I I i I LI i t f r THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE THE TH E THEATRES TH EA TRES sd er i Monday Tuesday S Sand di lay and Wednesday day mat j I fola la From Berlin BerUn Berlini t i All week beginning to gH matinees Wednesday and andu s u day The Girl of the Golden Goldens GoldenA A 4 y J s i All week beginning i in sM matinees daily dally vaudeville t GrandAll All week beginning to s sis ir is night 11 matinees Wednesday and s Cunning 4 I L ri All week matinees dally daily t s spi pi in titres BY FRANKLIN FYLES N rw York Jan 8 SAn An actress who I until sandy rails calls herself Mrs James z mn n Potter although her husband rt against her use of his name and another who willingly cuts of off the i dint noK lIk k word in n Mrs Maxine Elliott Elliottr i r idin odwin are arp stirring that portion of v V York society which likes to be bealle alle i the th f Smart Set Maxine Elliott ii i a was n theatre with a new play limit r rations whimsical leal favor Cora CoraT T tI I print it i to show you by Its familiarity why she ahe sticks sUcks to her exploited wife wiCe name of Mrs its n r it turns returns to the stage from which IP w 11 has Las been absent twelve years In London she was a petted grandniece I marriage of one Bishop Potter and andi i f of r another you may remember hn she he passed from amateur to pro nal alai acting under Kyrle Bellev s se Jiant e was disowned by her husband d 01 I 1 family and now our miili it h are going goin to a vaude aude n Ii e to see ee how she looks a ozen ozenar drs ars ar l after their last sight of her The Thew w thew n w is theatric to the utmost pos shio ihl me A dark curtain hangs I ri r s stage ten feet from fr the front behind that a minute mite of over overplayed I Ire r is played d on a piano pano Next all aU are aro turned out After Arter a black meat a brightly Illumined face ap apas wars ars It is Mrs Irs Potters and so o very ery un so Sn n whitely whittly painted so weirdly lit p G t r it looks like a spooks visage tic ar a x Tit Tr rh of the concentrated reflect ht i is attained by aiming two reflect l cab eal rams from the upper corners of p proscenium while a third from the thet t tor r or f the balcony strikes exactly there II her Hi ih 1 h two others cross Mean lIean Mr Potter has placed her feet i a marked spot so that her face Is IB r i t at the point of the three haa haft intersection I hate to be me ham il tl in describing this ghostly s revelation of Mrs Potters d lu lu u the device of those three beams striking her face faces 1 1 s v ij that side and is isto fp r to let l t go unnoticed Besides I ro s that the once belle bello among ho hs hM h hn caned called d themselves the Four Hun i l k Is willing to sacrifice personal r ss c for fr the sake of a profession 1 I start Starts for the Intensity of the il 11 while It does away awa with rf f disfiguration of shadows makes the 4 arting of f he the face the makeup with j i bla blak k and mostly white stand out outa T T a smudge and a glare of disillusion 4 q ari arit tu tic though and after the thea rf a ao He has been exposed while you your youg ou r St g t rt t five fin slowly the th spotlight t e jd P 1 ny Iny is enlarged to cover Ver Verr r if i y I N k 11 1 JOHN HELD Who Wh 0 has taken the management of the Grand theatre i her whole figure while the two others I are kept on her face and there develops a woman of the latest mode topped by a plumed hat of picturesquely enormous size I 1 gowned In flowing grace all white and profusely Jeweled 1 After Introducing herself so spectacularly spectacularly spectacularly Mrs Potter recites three pieces during fifteen minutes Her deep full voice Is used in very ery like a travesty of elocution beginning with Captive Memories a panegyric of love with a plaintive piano accompaniment a half minute of dramatic silence between verses and her Intensity of facial ex expression exI I ex devoted to phases of o passion not to say spasms of erotic agony A blithesome relaxation well might come with A Lesson With a Fan In which she shows show how that ostensibly cooling article may maybe be bc used to kindle a warm flame of flirtation but her manner is that of o a tragedienne luring a victim to horrid deed Little Boy Blue is a apathetic aPathetic apathetic pathetic account In rhyme of a childs death that seems to call for or simplicity in recitation but she intones it as though In imitation of her uncle and granduncle in a church service and the gallery laughs at what It seems to conclude Is while the parquet Is divided d among quizzical at attention attention attention puzzled interest and real r al ab absorption absorption absorption sorption And the lady herself She weeps Yes she does docs Tears come out of her eyes trickle down her cheeks and drop on her bosom Does Docs she sho think of the child lost to her in n the separation separation tion from her husband Is it the tho es essence eSsence essence sence of a temperamental actress readily aroused emotion Does Docs she put water under her eyelids and wink It out Anyway Anwa they are arc wet drops Ill swear for I 1 sat In the tho second row and reinforced the tho spotlights with an opera op ra glass 3 3 The chaperon personated by Maxine Elliott In The Chaperon the new play of wedlocked hands across the tho thes sea s is an American countess through marriage with a European she has quit him In disgust and come home to get a divorce If she can and the audience makes her acquaintance in the Adirondacks where she becomes transiently a matron to a houseful of girls and boys Inclined to pair off The chaperon is distracted from her duty of watching the young folk by the arrival of both her detested husband and the I beloved fellow whom she gave up to become a countess To escape from them she paddles impulsively a away ay in iq ina 11 a canoe on a lake is ashore on an island and It is at day break next morning that we see her there with her true lover damp cold and bedraggled Then her husband tags along catches her hel in the other chaps cha s comforting arms and there is a triangular row But It Is all for fun The Chaperon Is a comedy of many little incidents and no big episode This middle act on the Island Is preceded by byone byone byone one inside an Adirondacks lodge with an even dozen of girls and boys bos In an evenings frolic and Is followed by byone byone byone one In the camp where whore six couples come to st espousals e and the countess rotting flatting tUng rid of the count sees the way clear to happier conjugality with her native lover It Is giggle girlie sort of foolery by Marlon Marion Fair Fairfax Fairfax Fairfax fax wife of Tully Marshall an actor and being of Itself rather bright is made to shine by the brilliance of its presentation US So wide and shallow shallo Is Maxine El Elliotts Elliotts Elliotts theatre that the box fronts art arc a aset set at a very flat angle with wah the pros proscenium proscenium proscenium frame The audience therefore looks at a broadside of ornate omate archi architecture architecture architecture In white and gold which with the stage and box openings suggests a amat amat mat of enormous size cut out 7 r pic pictures pictures pictures tures that are alive On the night of the houses dedication these five fie aper apertures apertures apertures tures held what were like great groat por portraitures portraitures In to water colors of lovely wo women women men Maxine Elliott was the plays center figure of course but in the midst of graceful groups and In a suc succession succession succession cession of paintings that were right good art Tricky Trick too was the picture of the island for It came very slowly out of the night with the first light of dawn flickering in the sky then glim glimmering glimmering mering 1 i the water and finally show ing that bright streak along the lakes further rim which Is as sure as moon light on water or sunlight on snow to set spectators wild with enthusiasm The upp upper r box spaces showed scarcely less pi groups of women and girls In gayer gowns than are often seen at ata ats a s theatre other than the opera In one louver lower box DOX DO aperture was Geraldine Farrar regarded as the among this seasons at the two opera houses and here posed showily in ina ina ina a dress It tas as the box opposite though that held the picture at which all glasses were directed in the plays intermission Intermission intermission sion for it contained Mary Anderson with her husbands Navarro family Yes there was our Mary famed as aJ the most beautiful American actress who whoever whoever i ever gained world renown and now for fora a hang while out of American sight In England The years since her impulsive sin sive abandonment of the stage leaving i a t tour unfinished have effaced no more i f her beauty than they had to and we wew Wew wew w a handsome matron with no token In toilet or attitude of ever having teen leen sn m actress actIo 9 She Sh betrayed no con cons s 5 k that she was on show and favor us once with a full view cf of her face There was some guessing I 1 why hy with her seeming dislike for con conspicuousness I she was there in a box Her only other attendance on an open tog ing first night that I recall was at Maud Adams first playing of Juliet Several millionaires had been men mentioned menI mentioned as having lent money mone for this I enterprise and now it was whispered that Mary Mal Andersons husband or was the capitalist The i family own on much real estate and It was nas argued that a business might ac RC account account count Junt for the presence of the famous firmer farmer actress I am ted to write about ray plays and their presentations I nut not about theatres and their manage tre met t but this theatre now i t ope t m to or adjacent to Broadway is the sine sinN Laura to bear a wo woI name has one named I for Mary Iary Anderson Anderon and Chicago one for Julia Marlowe and somewhere up upI in the northwest is a Lulu namesake of ofa ofa ofa I a local actress but th the playbill asserts positively that Maxine Elliotts thea theatre theat t tre tn Is owned by b Lee Shubert and Miss lIIM Elliott I Do you ou know that Bennington Brent BrentIs Is serving erving his fifth term as mayor maor of or Omaha that he used to be a washer and Ironer In a laundry that he Invent Invented ed cd a wringing machine and that as r x r T a Jt t 4 a q lr m t I Ir 1 f i r sw i 3 i I 1 L 1 s r ty I y yr Scene from David great play The liThe of the Golden West owner of hundreds of laundries in western cities 1 ho has become eight or orten orten orten ten times a millionaire Those Thole are facts unless An International Marv Mar Marriage is fiction I get et it from George Georg new play too that a aSen Sen Senator I ator Williamson of Nebraska strove for fora a nomination to th the presidency last year And if you dont know those things likely you ou are aTe not informed that thata a Congressman Oglesby from the tho same state has won the heart and amI hand of Mayor Brents daughter who was waR famously betrothed to the nephew nt phew of a Miss Katherine Elkins with a slight blend of Miss MIllS Anna Gould The oddity of her story is 15 that unlike the Elkins Abruzzi affair alTair a way is found to over overcome overcome overcome come the kings objection to an un untitled titled bride for his nephew A needy count is 18 hired to marry her quit her herat herat herat at the altar let Jet her get a divorce and thus become a countess qualified by title to wed woo a duke That program is carried out to the tho point of divorcement She Is 15 staying with her fiances par at their ancestral palace and has won their hearts nor do they the resent her u il y a ern r m j jF 4 R F r r h k rF l Y ra i ir iF 1 r L F k f el si r gw x xa 4 b a n e BLANCHE DOUGLAS The girl in The Girl of the Golden West at the Colonial this week European king just jut as at Senator Elkins daughter was to the Duke of o tj tn t Broadhurst makes Brent brag brog of being by b his wring wringing wringIng wringing ing machine The proudest day of my life he remarks when congratulated congratulated congratulated on his daughters engagement to the possible heir to a throne this one but the day da that leading Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha men banqueted me after ray my last reelection to the mayoralty and every evory everyone everyone one wore a shirt done up In a laundry of mine When the duke asks him for his daughter and she wants him to say yes CS he ho blurts out to the young oung fellow ellow You look like the goods all rights right but butI I wont ont know now you for a sure good thins thing till tm Ive re run you through my m wringer And then again when the duke Is II spoken of as likely U to fool his daugLer ier ter er the mayor casually remarks He stands as much chance as a dog with tallow legs chasing an asbestos cat through hell D Bell plays Brent much ashe he did the homespun father of or orthe the fashionable girls in The Tile Education of Mr r Tipp The Brent Bront heiress made pretty and charming by b a new Christine Norman is recognized d readily as 39 an Imitation of rude crude slangy and abusive father who comes cornell to visit her but she has grown homesick the duke proves him himself himself himself self not a noble man the arrival of the Nebraska congressman convinces her that he Is 18 the only man che the loves and to marry him she Jilts the duke Tho The play is not well regarded T An opportunity comes along to prove proc the superiority of American theatrical morality over oel the European There Is no denying that the foreigners have led ledus ledus ledus us in dramatic art or that only lately are we catching up with them in tho the use of literature on the stage but our sense of humor is not only keener tItan theirs but much cleaner When a new German farce fane The Blue M Misuse juse e was picked out for production here in Eng Engling Engling ling a plain straight translation W a 1 handed to Clyde Fitch to edit freely fr l Unless he in is unreasonably slow alow a work the Job occupy more than thana a 3 month and probably was Vas done In a fortnight and that without slight or haste baste iy y the way see what it Is to tobe tobe tobe be a TT Tr dramatist Fitch is peste pest J by actresses s for plays to fit Ot them HP Hf provided tv two to o for Maxine Elliott El EJ Elliott liott that th t hr hf r t i t year ye lr ach each and now Is writing a third to follow The Chaperon So I dont doubt that for forthe forthe fOrthe the Americanized version of The Blue Bl e Mouse which I described two weeks ago he gets an ordinary playwrights minimum royalty for original matter at a quick estimate 1300 OO a week w k for a sure season of forty weeks and likely a total of for the whole life of a play which he has merely overhauled I am not saying saing that he heis heIs heIs is overpaid either cither for his work Is skilled his name is a trademark and his income in this instance In depended on his ability to take enough of the nastiness out of a foreign farce to ren render rendor rendor dor der It agreeable to Americans without removing also its humor Like an American I have drifted from the question que of merit to that of money So St does Fitch too else ho turn aside from original composition for fame and taketo take to farce cleaning for forcash forcash forcash cash Ie With The Blue Mouse fresh in memory I went to see Die Blaue Mali Maus performed by of our German stock companies in the original text The pith of the fun is 18 that a railway presidents pr secretary schemes to get promotion by offering his own pretty wife to his lecherous boss but he plays a trick by hiring a wanton to Imper Impersonate impersonate his wife Fitch transferred the scenes scones to New York Y rk and took easy ellS ad advantage advantage advantage vantage of the ill III repute of choruses here to make this Blue Mouse a show showgirl showgirl showgirl girl As created by the German au authors authors authors 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