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Show "THE CHAPERONES." If Mabel Hite keeps up the good work, her future fu-ture on the stage will be as sensational and far more brilliant than her past has been off the boards. Aside from her stunt in "The Telephone Girl," we have heretofore thought of her as the rather distressing heroine of a somewhat melodramatic romance. But to us who attended her wedding supper at the Tavern, her hit in "The Chaperons" Chape-rons" is not a great surprise, for on that eventful night she showed such clever signs of life that more than one predicted a rosy, starry future. Her Phrosla is a creation that is strange enough to be interesting and funny enough to laugh at and what more do you want? As the company ran it was the average of what we get as the play goes it in fine. Though to really appreciate the clever lines, one should have been seated in the first threo rows, for the side talk was worth the money. And speaking of the lines, I never before heard so much good stuff that apparently went over the heads of the audience. Tommy Whiffen, Harry LadeU and Joh.n Sparks .were good. Genevieve Day and May Boley were .home winners, but Miss Day had the misfortune to play opposite a vealy H young man named Awther (Ohso) Earnest. The H stunts of Struntz as Bassino were lamentable and that chorus well, that dear old factory in Lowell, H Mass., will welcome it home after the season. The H medieval age was never so ably represented as in H the make-up of these merrie merries. |