Show rI v rr p k J Jg g tr I 7 J SL t I 1 4 t V 1 I 7 if c W YORK April 16 There is no k NW N I off tiff s sealOn aon eaon here In stage how I Irm am rm more but they get lighter and during spring so 80 as to be at attrill a trill trai live me for br summer We te have haye four IK nw i examples just now nou and each takes an ui tress from vaudeville to make a dramatic star of They are Clarice dance Vance Lucy Luty Lu Weston Veston Grace LaRue and Emma Erima Carus Caruso In the transit they carry carryover carryover carryover over old stuff from their specialties for forth forth th Hi new audiences to accept as novel tie if f they will viii and thus the risks of the ventures are minimized I have 4 found it Interesting at the first per peI perfo i fo mance of these pieces to watch the charge change that comes over the novice at playacting when wh n after an uneasy spell at the th unaccustomed una service she gets L easy with familiar mate l vanishes Confidence ap appe appE pe irs rs Stepping out of the scene and turning her back on her comrades she advances to the footlights with blithe step and gladsome smile to interpolate he 11 stunt Lucy Weston Once Again Lu Lucy LwY y Weston Veston is the illustrative wom worn woman an nn in an The Lady from Lobster Square title of that play was so alluring I to thi th of ot the Tenderloin that tho th v had to buy their seats from ped dit dIns d at tt doubled prices for the opening lb show ho disappointed them but they theyo o Z t lit ht at its new nickname for what L is 1 g 11 to ti be Longacre but became Times Sq qt in r and contains the shiniest sec see sect t tN CD if t the Great White Way The TheT T i f newspaper following the ex ox arr nm V of the changed name of Groele 6 ni il to Herald square successfully re r Menril Longacre Now the Hor Han Horal Hanal al all i is tM bo bought ight a site on Times square i i t big plant and I am wondering t i hr i r it ill undertake to take down I I us leS from the thc street lamps and put putu in u 1 Herald Anyway It wont won t accept tl tI instantly popular designation of 1 Lt rt f i tr r suu sq Ili rr rC s i il ij have to roast roat this L Li 3 s v L l ter said a cynic be bet t tw n actio of broiling it and taK a i t sousing sous ng of champagne to add adda a asp sp ep bl le Hows flows it going at A Sky Skylark lark ri hi chap who had come from froni that oU mus at farce after its first act ref d Theres nothing in it thus tar jar so Ive Iv shifted to here hero Arc And Im going poing to hustle over there thera therein in i ne me to hear ha r Clarice Vance sing a aCM ac CM c song in the role of the goddess Ji Jt n 1 i t for Lucy Weston Teston She I cr er d a lT In i u L w who ho was a lady tady from fromI L I i f r s iu u and tried to be a real li lv hut but c uld she with the songs 1 t I ad HI d t ing ng One was about a ay ay ay y n 1 14 e husband a 0 naval of i r ha had i t had a shore More leave in two yf is tS yet et wondered that the neigh i iber ber b t nil ail 1 to congratulate her herI E I TV W Wi he got git twins Another had for forn fora n a tin Everyone gives it to Mary bu Mary wont wint ont give sive it to me me So far faren ar 01 arso so en good and to t the satisfaction of those w wi vv i liked that sort of thing but the ex Cx t station tation of general cussedness T n t satiated as you may be glad to hc ir The play was vas a fi fl fie e translation fr n the French author of The Girl Fr m Maxims but less salient In salacious alcIous effrontery Fritz Williams Undresses j Fritz Williams the facile and usually comedian had to half halt un undress Undress dress himself twice but luckily the two constitute one entire dis disrobement disrobement The first time a girl poured some wild oats down his back to make him frisky and after a minute behind a f reer to dislodge the grain he be ap appeared appeared I p ared li IiI i undershirt and and drawers and andi 1 the second time he took a shower bath i I by mischance in the same attire but butI I perhaps In this Instance the pink Ink shirt na a meant to be mistaken for his skin Clarice lance Vance appear In A ASki Skylark klark Ski lark until It is half halt over and a i shipload o of American tourists on a lark have mounted skyward on Mount Olympus to hobnob with the gods and goddesses Clarice dance is the big Jovial young woman whom youve probably heard sing coon and other colloquial ballads nasally but so humorously in vaudeville that I believe she gets three hundred a week The idea of ot the funny tunny Clarice dance as Juno Jun with Jupi Jupiter ter tor to and flirting with an American runt I of a comedian struck the author favor favorably favorably favorably ably He Is William Harris namesake son con of ot the manager So her salary was written at the top of the payroll Preparatory to the reckoned on for tor much fun lance Clance sans sang In the robes of 0 Juno and the dialect of ot a negro wench wendl about a black sweetheart Jea Jeaan an ah but butI I 7 J WEEKS PROGRAM Orpheum Theatre Vaude vUle ville all the week with mat matInee matinee matinee Inee daily dally including In ludIng Sunday vl New bill opens today Colonial Theatre David J Higgins In His Last Dol Dot Dollar Dollar lar Ian beginning tonight and J running the week with mati matl matinees matinees nees Wednesday and Satur Saturday Sat r day Bungalow Bun gal 0 w Theatre Blanche Blancho Douglas and the I Istock stock company In Esmeral Esmeralda da beginning tonight and running the thc week with matt nal nees noes Wednesday and Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day Mission Theatre Vaude Vaudeville ville yule all the week with mati matinees matinees matinees nees daily dally including Sunday Change of ot bill Thursday afternoon Roosevelt In Africa moving pictures be begin begin begin gin Tuesday afternoon Grand Theatre Theodore Lorch and stock company In Lost Paradise beginning this afternoon and running the tho week with the usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees Shubert Theatre Roose Roosevelt velt veU In Africa moving pictures I ures Luna Isle Isis and Elite Thea Theatres tres Moving pictures and 11 II songs afternoon J Jand and evening daily dally Including Sunday Casino Theatre Vaude Vaudeville yule ville and moving pictures afternoon and evening In eluding Sunday t I 1 NEW MUSICAL COMEDIES J BY FRANKLIN PYLES FYLES how dat man can love On the open openIng opening opening I Ing night she had a cordial greeting and the she like a monologue artIst but no noI play actress faced the audience and I threw a smacking l kiss to it with the sweep of a baseball pitcher i ii i Then as Juno she had a tiff tift with her I husband Jupiter vengefully flirted 1 with small Bob Slavin and imperiously y commanded him to love lova her with the ardor of the darkey In the ballad The scene had been elaborated with con considerable pantomime Slavin awed by bythe bythe bythe the size and dignity of the goddess wooed her timidly and to incite him to abduct her she picked him up laid him across her lap and spanked him hard with a slipper sUpper When the start of A Skylark gets to be as brisk as the finish it will run a swift and long longra i race ra 6 View Vew of Mount Olympus The most Ingenious sight In A Sky Skylark Skylark Skylark lark Is that of ot a hundred persons flat flaton flaton Ion on the ground of Mount Olympus One third of 01 them were Greek gods and goddesses In classic robes i were modern American tourists on a I visit to the Garden of the Gods with 1 show girls dominant In modern gay attire The whole hundred placed side by side with bits of space between made a line like the letter letterS S across and around the scene Jupiter at one ne end cuffed Juno next to him and she fell feli over against a show girl at her other side When p a child chUd you set bricks on ends In a n long zigzag row rov so that by tipping over the first the rest would be bl knocked over rather slowly one after another till the last fell In the same manner the men and women In the curved line went down and for a moment lay like a winnow of mown grass Then they sat up and fell over oyer the reverse way It was a curi curl curious curIous ous foolery and an odd sight suggestive suggestive suggestive tive of a huge varicolored writhing reptile that rose and fell In convolutions convolutions convolutions throughout its whole length of connected human forms It lasted less than five minutes however even with repetitions that wore out Its novelty yet it was the most singular of ot the sights In A Skylark People who look at musical farces with careless eyes and grumble at the sameness of ot the sensuous exhibitions of pretty women dont perceive the value of that falling line Une of human bricks Within a month it will be copied into a SI nf ni the tho th Amorton burlesques bur it ii will i ibe be grabbed as soon n for London Paris and Berlin extravaganzas extravaganzas anzas of the first grade and as likely as not one or more of our own musical farces will duplicate it and professional courtesy be hanged It will be a shame too to rob A Skylark of a mite of its ScOut scant originality that is effectual for seldom does a show come como Into Broadway with less dependable material coupled with more mona expendi expenditure expenditure ture tune of ot money in beautification Here Is an example from Mollie May A human figure not much less than thin six feet in length nor much more mon I Ithan than one In with no curves in Its slimness to mark It feminine i swayed and swerved In graceful un undulations i I recalled seeing It last lest i summer on Grand Prize day In Paris It Is a custom of f Parisian fashion j makers to exhibit original toilettes at that annual race They are worn i by women of shapes best calculated j l to display the designs effectively and who also are Just then celebrities of I me sort or another arother Grace La Rue was wast i i at t that time talked of In Paris as an J American theatrical enchantress who had married an American or was going to as soon as a divorce made It feasible Exquisite and Picturesque So Grace sauntered out on the lawn lawnin in a toilette the particulars of which I wont undertake to tell but so ex cx exquisite exquisite that women gasped and so pic plc picturesque picturesque that men man stared It was minutes before the days big race and three before a tremendous downpour of rain Half the tle people scudded to cover Half Halt stayed out like true sports to watch fi flOm om close by the run of the horses Which should Grace do Savo avo the fine gown g wn or lose it in a drench drenchIng drenchIng drenchIng Ing The instinct of the actress pre pro prevailed prevailed Standing on a stool she viewed the race as though It made her forget her hat and gown but next day the newspapers described her stunt to an advertising extent that made good over and nd over the cost of the ruined finery Clad In a duplicate of that costume Grace La Rue proved In Mollie May the practical value of ot a novelty in n song on the stage Neither verses nor tune was of any account but the words i Clap hands recurred several times n t 1 5 e x V Y v r s V 0 k k Ay S c k S DAVE DA VB R B HIGGINS Who Opens a Weeks Engagement at a t the Colonial Tonight in His Last Dollar in the refrain and at a cue from the singer the audience au lence clapped its hands with her Like grownup children In Ina ina Ina a nursery game the people responded to her call to clap hands through so many encores that I forgot to count them Too trifling for me ue to make so SQ much of Well when another actress would have hav forestalled this one with a imitation in another play playa I Ia a court stopped It with an Injunction Thus tomfoolery becomes tangible property In the show business s sIn In this play an artists model Mollie i May bewitches men and tantalizes i women in ways devised by a new author Walter WaIter Brown to tunes by fa familiar familiar I Julian Tullan Edwards but the strenuous ous purpose pu pose Is to let her get at the audience as an Individual entertainer and especially as a dancer with her arms as well as her legs Both pairs of limbs are long and limber Umber She does I Inot not compete with the recent barefoot dancers Her skirts are so long that the most violent commotion cant flop them above her ankles Modest Mo Well they are so close clos that every slightest motion within them Is visible If ever she falls taUs shell have to be helped to I her feet for shell heil be as aa helpless as asa asa asa a man in trousers A Pair of Dancers Her arms are bare and free however and very active One has only to Im Imagine imagine Imagine agine her upside down to see her dane dancing dancing ing on in her hands She is a humorous dancer too and cracks jokes with hands and feet In eccentric pantomime A man quite the equal of Grace prace in agility Sydney Grant works with her like a partner In vaudeville He is as short as she Is tall and their exaggerations exaggerations of the waltzes of The Merry Widow the Apaches and other eccentrics i tries are remarkable It Is the team teamwork teamwork I work by La Rue and Grant that wins for Mollie May in the game of ex cx extravaganza exI I here called comic opera They wont be likely to go back to vaudeville vau There is much voiceless humor in this foolish voiceless evening A tipsy dance by a town rounder founder Is as dizzy and fud fuddled fudI I dIed as in the old comedy A AI I of fun In a photograph gallery Is sightly too with girls In pretty poses The old trick of live faces In otherwise painted is elaborated to a suc sue succession succession cession of tableaux in a studio A serenade that begins with the fond fondI I phrase of Sleep on ends disenchant with Snore on when the first injunction Is nasally obeyed Yet the hodgepodge of nonsense has twenty twentynine twentynine twentynine nine musical numbers to dignify Its Us claim to be The Motor Girl has been woven out of ot two pieces of ot fabric left over ver from fron last year One of at them was called The King of and the others name is retained Among the several musical frolics put on for the warm weather diversion of ot New York last summer was The Motor Girl Girt It fall but then it succeed It was an agreeable entertainment but I the other novelties were so positive In v their attractions that the public forgot about it Tho The same sort of thing hap happened happened happened a few months ago In the case of Tho The King of ot Now observe one of or the benefits of centralized man management management I Instead of losing the good oot things of these plays because they won overborne by the Ineffectual we get them thorn blended in a really single bright and lind new version of The Motor Girl GirlA A New Motor GIrl Not only the starred Emma Carus but the entire cast Is new The prin principals principals made their reputations in vaude vaudeville vile ville and bring their own songs into Int extravaganza In the first act Miss Carus leaves the leading role much as asIt asit asit It was written for Georgia Caine Calne and while she so pretty she sings much better Hearing her deep tones lifted musically up to the alluring waltz song the most m st attractive of ot the Julian Ed Edwards Edwards Edwards wards score one Is reminded that Jon Jan Jende Jande Jondo de do is a trained up to toa toa toa a tenor Later Carus has her ups and downs following in Caines footsteps but things go all her own way when she introduces new matter made to suit her herI I might say that the buxom Emma might have less trouble If It she followed In only the footsteps of the svelte Georgia But she follows her Into trousers And a amore more unpleasing boy I than this short pudgy ful actress makes It would be difficult to fancy It Is more agreeable to recall how much more humor she gets out of The Queen of the Dairy Lunch than did her predecessor True the song is none too delicately or neatly phrased with Its line She was broke in by the brokers But the th shrinking violet Is not Emma Carus CarusI |