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Show S' ' . r 4 HI NEWS SATURDAY OCTOBER U 1922 THE DESERET SECTION FIVE 1 ALANDALESAYS: 1 WriMea Tor t n SoOorOnj No TORK CITT. Oct. effort waa ever made to save the famous old theatre at Broadway and Thirtieth street, know c as Dalys for so many yean. Daly s along with tha Bijou, Wallacka and Weber and Fields, waa sacrificed to the Invasion of trade, and nothing no remains to remind one of the old N I rwi by Alan Dais and Alfred Goodman, and he hri Harry Graham and Cyrus A oort The Interpretation Is faultiest Walter Woolf and Wilda Bennett sing . rioit delightfully. Ai the close of the second act, Mr. vv oo'f makes something of a sensa-'te-n He sings with his magnificent method, and his exquiaite voice to the pu (ure of the Lady In Ermine, and then amending to the spot where the Pulure is placed he fails headlong dqajv the steps to iht stage where he rid over Inert It is an almost rhrnomenal feat. Nor ta there any thing vulgar or "vaudeville' about K. It i done legitimately, and artistically, ind it certainly arouse the enthusiasm of the audience. The story Is Just good enough to cam the beaut. ful music. There la no horse play comedian but the humor is entrusted to P.obert Woolsey who la very funny In a quiet and sedate manner The trouble tilth the "regu-la- i comedians, la that they hold up the action and disfigure the book. In 'The Lodj in Ermlne"there are none of those hateful" topicalities dealing wlh the subway, or baseball or pro-- h bitlon. or politics The comedy la ill relevant to the eubjecr oftha opera itself The Shuberts outdid themselves In the matter of production Tn support if Walter Woolf snd Wilda Bennett l, were Harry Fender, Ignacio .Robert Jaljery. Timothy Daley, Tietmar Poppen, Netr Evana Murray' M Inchart. Marie Burke. Helen Ship man, Gladys Walton and a number of Jptn (,nb-r- t g by booker theatre and It 11 produced - and by beautifully It had muaic by Kalman (composer of "'Sari," and Mias Springtime") a book by William L Baron, and lyric, by B. (!. De Sylva. It was an adaptation from Ola Bajaiiore" by Luilu B ram ary luxuriouslyMr. Er(anger. 1 land-mar- proe-pecti- ess t I d, mer, a fid Alfred Gruonwald. No more beautiful niualc haa been heard In thle Kalmans eery admircity In moon able melodies and ensembles Were full of lilt and rhythm, and there wa" a sort of indefinable pathos about" his (Continued on pace four.) : For the American tour an season. He will do "King Lear" and "The Merchdnt of Venice." Ml . f lected. Including Herbert Bunstoo. JVlth the departure to tha New) Kate Wingfield. Audrey Cameron, Matthew Boulton. Ann Delafleld. Wal- York Herald of Alexander WoOlleott haa ler McEwen. Jr- - Jack Fortesque. Ar- as dramatic critic, John Corbin thur Bowyer. Willladi A.' Evans. returned to that post on the Nsw Tork Frank Sherlock. Richard Clarke. Ina Times., Mr. Corbin haa held thla Cameron. F, ..Wylde, VV. 'J Benson asms Job several times In the past. The other plght Manager Cort proand served1 as sutwCftute Tor Woollcott duced s play entitled "Dolly Jordan, June Weaton, London Lang. , for mors than a year, when tha latter at the Sixty-thir- d Street theatre. Thi1 was abroad. house which waa put on the map b colored troupe in "Shuffle Along In tha Nance ONeil la rehearsing had been renovated, painted and givn "Field of Ermine." the first of trie Bew outlook, and Manager Cort of Benavente plays which she will- ! called ft "Daly's." What the late comduring th season. Her suatin poy woujd have thought cl m we dhall oev i comprises Marie Bhotwell, Alicethe North Woods. pany T HE Call Craw- know. proceeding J. Searle. Fisher. Grant Stewart, wno rememberr But Jg ,he tu)e of the play to be pre- ley, Muter Richard ia4 At jitm, mreely those 0upont approved of Mr. Cort smted by the Taylor Players this fred Hickman. Idee. It seemed a trifle strained and rhyrneless and reasonless, coming week, starting Sunday night Pemberton ha contracted for. A for th play. Dolly Jordan in (hla play Tobv has a hard time a Brock Rummer of Clare version musicat M It was one r. Cort that a Good G and It of those stilted produced. Annabel! raizing hi dad. who is a quack of raelou that are supthings bescene before New Tork bo in will produced doctor, and th comedy posed to deal with stage life. It was bring many the holidays. -- Mis Rummer has re- alee called a "costume play . The tween' father and new It vised the for project comedy character wore dike and tin. and laugh. The story Is written around a widow end Has 10 written a score of 10 were always bowing and scraping, and , two North-Woohas who ds numbers. tip in the posing. Tbe story of Dolly Jordan sons, one la an Ignorant woodsman waa told and there has very sketchily, and the other son has been educated. little coherence. She waa, ot A Veteran Actor. c One of the sons steals from the moth-aa the beloved of a number murder commit to pnd then tries eeesoa - hie Qt evltOGL ajid. everybody appeared L this Drew -begins crime cover his up to success, and fall" for her; ThAt kind of part car tp The Toby quartet has! some good fiftieth year find actresses ready to play and far are show- always selections to offer between acts and manr Journals near Th ketreas is never happier thur ing tha veteran, how pleasant Is the when an others members appear in apectolties. entire cast la hopetessi It ohera of appreciative appraisal uttered There will be no mntlnee next Tues-da- y word love with her. can That is pie for her still them of while the subject The Lady In Ermine" give the as thla matinee will be changed know It was Josephine Victor who was Jaded what Is said of him. These many show which ha of late to Sunday starting next week. cast for thq part of .Dolly Jordan and shown musical seaSbns the distinguished actor haa unmistakable signs of New Fork - advices run th gauntlet of the reviewers. Nat- she was not precisely suited to It Miss According new impetus,.... ORPHEUM urally he feels pride-l- n the old school, Victor always has some food moment Marjorie Rambeau will soon begin reThe have materialiand his memories are peopled with but she has more that are not so good zed asEquity PlaersWe had beard a hearsals in Butalllc s The Wedding the for producer. date She was the opening as Dolly Jordan great deal about their Intention and the aristocracy of a great profession agreeable WITH of the Orpheum cir- In play that th elder generation re- when, she kept the soft pedal nn. hut was much Interested In the Paris by A. H Woods The adaptation cuit's third of a century anniversary calls with a satisfaction akin to at when she grew rampageous, she was everybody Street experiment at the Forty-Fift- h all that, he does not Jiy no mean as agreeable fectlon. But for It was Is now being made the week but a few days oft everything laud the bjgone day at the expense quite a long cast. Marlon Abbott Theatre, the other night. It wa aus9 Inc the under Players. He has words of halt played Dolly a Mother and Whltford "Equity Is In practical readiness at the Balt of the present. Association of Actors' the pice an Equity Elsie Ferguson Is due to open Kane was an old actor who spoke a The Lake Orpheum to usher In the big for the newcomers as well as offareplay was called Malraloca." and lawell to the old .order. Instead prologue. In addition, I may mention it was engagement "In New Tork, In "The week In fitting fashion. first the producprofessional to menting a decadence he prefersmod- Walter Rlngham. Alphonz Ft liter, of that Spanlah play ln English Wheel of Life," Nov 27 The' celebration,, accordingfind and declkr the good in the Hartler Power. Catherine Calhoun tion nt be profrve also the to first of plays ern trend that some are viewing with Doucet. Shirley Gale, Charles bids fair to be one duced during the season of 1922-2- 8 and Adelaida Zelle. Alphonz Ethler well known actor, the most pretentious and Joyful ot nothing but dismay-Joh- n f the Equity Plavers. Inc. history Drew's most successful ImperThere were fonr acts, each of which by It was former Itahn, Is in the cam of Dolly all theatrical events In local from a strange play for Equity to the sonation Is his own crowded half bad two scenes, the first act being dat- have will bo gaiety and Joy There B of Cort'a banked It force upon, for It John z Jordan," production October on representof ed performance, 1778, and 1818 ln a stage the last house essentially Spanish, and not particuperformance Idcn Payne's pliy which is among the opening to the last drop of the curtain .on Oc- ing consistently the figure of gentility at fct. Cloud, near Parta. The author larly lntere-tln- g It was good literaseason's new offerings in New Tork tober 29. Each night will have orri and. good breeding, the philosopher of of "Dolly Jordan" waa B. Idea Fayn ture but not particularly striking nignt humor close to pathos, th genuine special significance Wednesday me as odd that City. drama. struck It Salt L friend and finished gentleman that he Russia seems to be creeping theatri- Equity with the eye of theatredom has been set a vide as n We easily cally Into our midst. It is a veritable Is on or off the stage C Clarence Night with Mayor upon it should have made How we needed Just such a sieve can forgive him If he never thundered Russian Invasion. All ws used to focused opening the week with an address such a dull selection For "Malia-loc- a if know of the In a tragedian; as of its In towered heavy and and Walter place speaking says on the Orpheum Hampden Russia was d r nimble the ine, proved to be dull- There are the himself about never world be wrapped amusement from which Retro-Xrathe Imperial theatre of d the School of the Theatre, of people who think that everything dull majesty, or The other nights of the week nave Inky cloak of an awful toe and Madame Nazimova. Now ta worthy, but I do not share their he Is vice president, and which began an Ilk various club and strutted and dragged lrta to allotted been that the "Chsuv Souris" eshas been views. I am opposed to dullness on We thrnk him tablished here Its second year last Monday. "I had organizations There will be special old school "thespian. so we have for long, rantno principles nights for what he Is; for giving u rabid for all ths Russian we general thought of founding Just such a place features in keeping with eachbill The story of "Malvaloca was laid In that ing colossus of th boards, but merely grown a vaudeville can get. The "Chauve Souris Is now the mountains myself when I hoard of Clare Tree significance gnd of Las Canters, an natural and fine sunny and the human here some exceptionally Public such a fad that if you don't like It Andalusian, village. Where there ta a Majors plan and gladly became asso- brings Drew Philadelphia The bill will be head- John attraction and I've met those who don't are convent of you remote date, which ta hi Public Ledger. ciated with her. for want-o- f lined hy Anatol Friedland-an- d regarded as a vandal. It is going known by the name of The Convent euch like this one, faint talent has merry crew of funmaken In a musiedition through after edition, and al of Carmen When the last of the ways packing the theatres. been submerged, bad actors have con- - cal. dancing, girl revue. Harvard Prize Play devoted nuns died, the Little Sisters The anniversary week celebration Bo It was to be the that of Lova Divine came to inhabit th tlnued to get on the stage, and good marks expected tbs completion of the Orpheum Competition is Praised "Chauve Bourle would have competiancient precincts. They are an order actors to pick up haphaaardly the fin. circuit's thirty-third year. It will be tion. -- The competition ta calleld Resimilar to of the Bisters of the lsh that can be properly Imparted here observed In every one of the circuit's vue Russe and ta at the Booth theatre, Poor At that a steady diet, says the time when the action Prize play. and hoi special signifi- Dixie but to there presented by Miss Elisabeth In a few terms. Well do I recall my ISO theatre not are palatable, of the Hines, play began, there were ln the in every part of the country Harvard Prize Play competition Marbury in association with the convent or home, six old people for own wearisome and wasted days when cance west of the Mississippi river, where the to presMessrs. Shuhert. At the head of the whom the Sister cared with extreme and open I, too, bung about theatrical doorsteps the majority of th Orpheum theatres conducted annually company ta Marta Konsnezoas, ent andl past students of Harvard th solicitude and kindness. are located. It commemorates the and more In- program ta very much ln theandsame In th hope of getting a chance Practa generally There was a "love story." worked Radcliffo, of the first Orpheum In Ban past ex- stylo aa that of flte "Chauve Souris." out very carefully, and by and Judged tically every one of our graduating opening there were teresting Martin Beck, present Francisco to by th Wo are Informed that this "Revue various Spanish types but "Malvaloca" class obtained engagements within a president of the Orpheum circuit, and perience. far more profitable combined. Russe" came others to ua the all from the Femlna seemed to be obscured by a number .tag than month from the day they received Morris Myerfeld, Jr. . This ta duo primarily to the fact that theatre. Paris; the Imperial theatre, of details that were confusing. Equity already the The local Orpheum has direction. Petrograd, the Opera theatre. Moscow, must have thought that we their diplomas. ta under proper contest pined for decorated In anticipation of the the Opera Comique, Pari,. One anything Baker conducts at Harvard tne end but I do as"But I used the word sieve' as been event and additional decorative fea- Prof of ha the brought features this and of sure 47 this entertainment the organization that native playi descriptive of the School of the Thea- tures will proclaim the anniversary forthWorkshop oome of our very best plays and was Programmed a tha "Caucasian wrights could have turned out a play tre and I had better explain. At the ( ring the weslriteelf. There will be playwrights ln the past. Obezianna. An actor made that an as would have proved to be very up the no Increase Inf prices during end of the first term of three month, week. About 76 play ware submitted for aps, appeared, and went through the much more alluring. Under these trystunt eward the contest, popularly attributed to apea ing circumstance. I thought the having th present students who have convinced not only UBt been made to Philip Berry of Then he climbed up to one of the speech of Equity's President. Francis the teaching staff but also a hoard of tch to the dis Wilson, rather inept, and a bit auda"Judges selected from arfiong such diIN STAGELAND called "The Jilts,! and it ta to be pro- turbance of its occupant- - hence ro cious. Harpoke feelingly of the deBelmont th the season ( across rectors of the School of the Theatre by balcony rail, the theatre termination of Equity to produce the duced this nd down again. This was such a sur- - best, regard of box office gains as Elsie Ferguson. Rachel Cro there, Because of Its humor and humanity. Theatre CompaniefNfW-TorkotjaG. Herndon Is the prise, that it made a hit. Afterwards and he Richard which Brock talked a lot of platitudes Partners Again," with Barney Ber- director. Besides th cash prize of- the actor took off hi wig, and bowed about George Arllaa. Arthur Hopkins, for love of It all. working Pembertoh and 'others of equal note, nard In his famous impersonation of fered by Mr- - Herndon, the successful to the assemblage. The name of the It seemed singularly the out of from that they are not capable of succeed- Abe Potash and Alexander Carr as th competitor is assured a New Turk actor was not programmed, but he the mouth of Mr. Wllsop place ,wi$ if contributed the newest feature to . from dissuaded are . In production. the theatre bombastic Mavra ing Perlmutter. Is or "Revue Russe " Jennie" by Norman C.' Linden nd the love ot it but appokred 'I j to have achieved an even going on wlthe work. Madame Kousnezoff sang She Is to think that exclusively, won second prize a fat aalary attached toil i r uiumpn at the Selwyn theatre. Baltimoreby Henry Ftah Carleton tfie other hand, those who n of an operatic dona She prtma tha no love" j 10 1 did burst harm. New Tork. tha. all of iU Potash and "Slug" sufficient promise, to warrant their' Perlmutter Rochester won third prize. The Judges into "Traviata" and "executed And "Malvaloca" was Just the wrong th is now were It predecessors. Walter known P. aria Baker, as 'Ah. fore e Lui with sort of play te hurl Prof. George The show will gtxth month. going on. then enter Ahe acting group i(n defiantly at th G. Hernoperatic fervor. But It was an Prichard Eaton and Richardwas heads of unworthy Broadway manknown as the Threshold Players, and j move to Chicago early next month, "The Kous-nesolast prize play The don. Madame proceeding was not so fin that one agers. It wa P. Robinson, which iq addition tflutW work In the various she ap- yearned to see it either on Broadway not make Copy by Thomas produced, the last peared less much better when "rick conspicuously In the other or off. In fact Broadway classes, have bourn of rehearsal under ihcr proposed trip to London. She re- - however, was not could produced being "Mama Affairs, by features of the bill. She was excel scarcely he blamed fqr giving a cold the guidance of able stage directors celvei a few riay ago a cablegram the Butler. a ln lent Barton sketch Rachel "Old entitled late shoulder to any such tedious proceedand give eight performances a week fr0m A. H. Woods, who haa been Of course the quesGon wax:Spain." la this ing. But Mr. Wilson went ahead with unbiased audiences. Thus, at vestigatlng the theatrical situation in "Revue Russe aa good as the "Chauve of hta and seemed to be very Speech, Internationalizing here Souris? ba?" And the the end of the full nine months course i cabled. .T"?"? happy as he made it. It was a "play is Wednesday, No. Drama American . fundamentals. his to has the gallery" that hardly succeeded. the young actor The Messrs have winner Jane Cowl was selected for the role He does understand bearing, makeup,; jr. Ziegfeld. Jr. continues to break Coming, JS ays U orosco In the charmingShuhert comic of entitled opera and It was truly noble with hla current Follies "Tho Lady In Ermine at Ambassador of th heroine, thd use of the voice, and the speaking all records and to Selwyn her New Company New the Amsterdam at Theatre, For decades theatrical producers Theatre. This was the piece done ln to the Equity people. It waa lend of the English langua, c. And that la a Torh C()y at least nov ln tta , 9th have tor "the great American London under the title of The Lady a yearned of in the excellent beginner, cast, and those who rare equipment vyy weak ot tpe most marvelous of all mu-ti- drqma." But unleas some writer of the Rose and still going In Eng- aided Equity on this none too auspicIt should raise American stand- - scal entertainments' Playing to genius hurries It will be too late. The land. It la a romantic affair, with ious occasion eere Angela McCahlli. Monsince In ths soon first will Leo A. Marsh New;' parity audiences of acting. great International drama particularly delightful and the Marietta Hyde Lillian Albertson, Jesday in June, those who have been for- - bo the demand, for1 the American Shuberts have provided music, a cast of re- sie Ralph, Louise Cloaser Hale, Rollo 1 Tork Morning Telegraph. have see to show enouch the ,unata internationalized. Tbat la markable being ' stage auth-or- o Peters, Frederic Burt. LaHve The list of strength. Brown edition at least, is the opinion of Oliver acclaimed the sixteenth Is It reads like the tele- 11, Marshall Vincent and Frank L of ths "Follies" ths most stupendous Morocco who has been in cloae touch phone amusing. book. ln ths history of ths rnriss. Included with. the stage trend of the last twenty-W have the "book by Frederick Frayne. Mis Cowl ta the by first vice bye, ln the list of artists who hare been one years as a producer. Lonsdale, aad Cyrus Wood, from tho president of Equity. helping to make the show successful The world ta growing smaller, and book by Rudolph Schanzer. Xarfkee Princess" is the title and Em-e- st The are: Will Rogers. Mary Eaton, Galla-gh- at such a rapid rata that wa already Wellsch; we have the niuslo by of the new operetta at the K nicker- A Bheen, Gilds Gray. Evelyn have to be more careful now In castLaw, Andrew Toombs, Martha Lorber, ing villain," be said. "Once almost Lulu- - McConnell and the Zlegfeld any kind of n foreigner made a good American Beauty girls tage villain but to do that now would a offend a certain percentage of our Peggy O'Neill has gone to London theatergoers. Our audiences are made to appear In a new play over there ln up more and more of persona foreign November. She said she would re- been or of foreign extraction. turn ln the spring with her entire "It 1a somewhat disconcerting, but company to present the drama ln Shr nevertheless true, that we do not have th host of American authors to whom Tork.. we once could turn. More and more There is a difference of 10 years we have been borrowing from tha EuEMMA CARUS between the ages of the oldest and ropean stage. The foreign Influence WALTHALL BetteP now may be seen In fully fifty per youngest members of the WHh Jf. titer LmhK Times" company at Ths Nsw Tork cent of the stage attractions. The Person Appetrinf "SlRfinf Thetr Own Soao" Hippodrome. Ths oldest member is French farce once deemed so naughty, Tke Inknamu .! Bamuel Watson, agsd It while tha haa become rather commonplace with ERNEST ANDERSON and MARJORIE BURT American version. youngest Is Miss Rose Judge,. -aged I. "Tha revues have beoom an InterRosalfc MELLETTE SISTERS Hek-Tyrone Power has finished hi national clearing hone of the bizarre and vaudeville recruits from the present film engagement and is to worlds DAVE ROTH , theaters. appear In a new play of unusual literthe American audiences ary and dramatic quality which is do"However, HANAKO TRIO Insist upon a part of the original scheduled to open in New Tork about formula in their stlmolant. They want October II. LEW DOCKSTADER the plays to end happily. Tha heavy f Tulfctwc T1irwng1 Hie Hal Lotus Robb, who has the enviable tragic note of some of the European Mvstertoue Tales of playwrights doe not appeal here as krorn topic? or thf piy pthk nkwr. pahih Hoffman" sails for Nw Tork from on the other side. We - are a happier Now Pbring 2:30 Matrand Eve8:15 end betieve that- all's wen that Germany Thla week- - Mia Robb went nation to Berlin to view first hand the pro- ends well. la In "There the American this duction of this play. Wesley Freckles Barry (Himself) e e trait ha ta particularly Interested in la WELCOME ' HOME." he what recegnl and understands from Emanuel Relcher will sail As Thta applies to books, th stage or the S OT wrg EIO 8CT Germany early negt month for New screen. Th nearer w come to tellof internathe Tork. This veteran COMMK91CINO OCTOBER ZS a story ha tha The greatest sweetie k tional state he la celebrating hla six- ing nearer w are tonaturally success. Teels, htatery "f the Orpheasa Ct resit It is th Third tieth year aa an actor will be among teC geelvMwarr Meek homely, honest, human character that Tee ere eerJI.IIr tsvlted eatery te yaertetyet active participant in tha 8 hakes- - U te this hlsterte erwt MArf Jorsabls, It ka y oa iadwiy theatre. an Important week for th. recently organized Balt Drama Community Lake league. Tryouta for tha firat wera production of tha organization held, and from a largo number of -- A ntrieabynJprocaepf elimination a proapectlve cast, or rather, a group from which th cast will be choeen, waa aelected. Tha play first to be given will be The Country Cous-land It la propoeed that the eball be In the Balt Lake Theatre the latter part of November Even before this production It is planned to begin the selection of a cast for another play; this in order to make use of a greater number of those de airing parts. The number of applicants and the apparent dramatic ability manifested were encouragfngnd (t r believed that some excellent performance will ha given. An unusual amount of enthusiasm in the project has been shown and if it continues, y as it gives promise of doing, the 3IV soon Dramatic lvalue have Justified itself, as a helpful civic enterprise. M ms Margaret Caldwell, who has had a considerate experience in play production, is director. fm1 'iHIB haa been Em-imcrl- Marti-tiCO- - - T7 decrepi-Uide.-- 9. o -- century Ne-le- - Too-ton- DELMORE 13 FRED BERRENS m THE LORNER GIRLS (3 GORDON WILDE & CO. 13 BOB WILLIS PAGE & GREEN 13 1 13 PANTAGES fr , I m ca-ar- 1 -- NEW REVUE TOMORROW MONTECARTER . MUSICAL COMEDY REVUE er -- Girls Song Laughter AND Matinee, all seats, 22c Including tax. Night, all seats, 33c A Film Masterpiece, MADONNAS AND MEN A tale of two worlds. Children, all times, 10 see see fv e c rde-in-T- he epeeh-makl- ht eg 4 i t r J itatana i netfii isfi Kfililall |