Show s qty w ni N Now Nt I t ON ow By LORRY JACOBS X N. E. E A. A Staff Correspondent NEW YORK Dec Samson 11 Samson and De Delilah ilah featuring Jacob Ben Ami Amt s should be added to the list of I ally any satisfying plays New Year night Frank Bacon and will have reached the one thousandth consecutive performance Moving picture theatres es along along- Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way are up In arms arms against the plan to curtail all an amusements on Sunday Colonel Henry Savage is going to present t t plays at once on Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way way way- Billy with Hajom Hajo o. o ant and Cornered with Madge ladge Kennedy I Otis Skinner in KIsmet Kismet is the hit movie of ot recent date and Jimmy from the play of ot the s same ame name is the prize song Spanish and Mexican color have to todo todo todo do with four tour of ot the Gotham pl plays s 's The Bad Man Spanish Love Thy Name Is II Woman and The r e Broken Wing Margaret Clark who announced her return to the screen is in New York at work on her first picture r Passion the first production to be shown in Am America of ot Ernest the European Griffith is Is' Is due to flicker flick flick- er forth soon lIoon Monsieur Beaucaire the ton romantic opera now playing at the Illinois theatre Chicago and Chicago and doIng doIng doing do- do Ing a capacity business there by the way i is 15 is described by Charles Collins the man who writes things about the theatre for forthe forthe I Ithe the Chicago I Evening Post as the best thing in light opera since The Merry Merr- I Widow In its musicianship I its deft blending rig n of ol lyrical l and dramatic Y i episodes Ts Its romantic atmosphere and Its genearl tone it is perhaps an article of ot theatrical cal Virtu superior to the famous Viennese waltz-show waltz and comparisons are useless as well as unnecessary but for tor the purpose purpose purpose pur- pur pose of arresting attention upon this brilliant production the two titles may maybe maybe maybe be linked Like The Merry Widow this musical version of ot Booth romance will become a focal point of plays memories It has baa the quality of ofa a popular classic |