| Show ll I I Plays and I Viola Iola Allen In n WI Night and a n Special lUll Bill Viola Allen who h has not been seen II in this city since her tour In Marion Marlon Crawfords Crawford's In the Palace of the King some five ye years ago comes to this house for tOI four tour performances beginning tonight tonight- in In- Shakespeare's exquisite comedy Twelfth Night The role of ot Viola which Miss Ws Allen Alien will present cn for Cor the first l time In this elt city Is IS' one ideally suited soiled to her peculiarly peculiarly j feminine and delicate talent and one that combines flowery elegance ele ole gance ance with t fervidly Imaginative charm It Il I Is Bal said that Miss lIss Allens Allen's tra fragile beauty Is in fuller bloom than In othor other years ca and that her voice Is richer sweeter and anel of or broader gamut gamut- She was named Viola Alola after atter tho the character she is now no playing as her father fatheL C C. Leslie Allen lIen who is stilt still a member of his ils daughters daughter's company was playing in n Twelfth Night at the time of her birth No 0 other of ot Shakespeare's charming heroines could have been selected who vho would more nearl nearly resemble re- re In all the essentials of or delicate womanhood the personality o of the actress as she Is today From a scenic standpoint it la is said that this is one of the most beautiful examples of modern stagecraft showing show show- ing lug everywhere the touch of the tho artist hand and combining poetic beauty with historical accuracy One of or the lie most interesting features C of the will viii be engagement a performance perform perform- ance anco at tho the Saturday matinee o of Miss Allens Allen's special bill made up uj o of scenes from four famous U classics and presentIng present present- hug Ing Inthe the star as four fOUl o of the lie best known feminine creations of or the tho modern drama The program consists of or tho the wooing scene from As You Like LUw It with Miss 1 Allen as Rosalind followed followell b by the screen scene from The School for or Scandal the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and the trial scene from The Merchant l of oC Venice Miss lIss Allen will of or course coulse appear as Lady Juliet an and Portia In tho the con company are arc William K Harcourt Sidney Herbert Fuller Mellish C. C Leslie Allen Myron Calico Callee Henry J. J Hn Leopold Lane Frederick Forrester Royal Hoyal Trac Tracy Alison Allson SI Skip Skip- lp- lp worth and Zellie lc Tilbury |
