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Show Shows Soon i Due In City I A Whole Bunch Coming I in Next Few Pays. I Local theatergoers will receive with 9J pleasurable anticipation thcannounce- flj merit that Klaw &Erlangcr will offer flj In the near future at the Thatcher flj opera house Tuesday, March 10, their jflj lavishly appointed production or Geo. jH H. Cohan's popular and unique mix- 'jflj turc or melody and mclo-draraa, "For- Jflj ty-Flve Minutes From Broadway." fl This play Is not like any or the former M efforts ot the successful young actor- M author, but is different In theme and H treatment from any attraction within the memory or the present generation 'H or play-lovers and by many It Isclalmcd ' to be the highest mark or quality that WH Mr. Cohan has yet achieved. While ;l there area number or typical Cohan H song-hits Introduced during tho three ifl acts and made more effective by a well- fl balanced chorus, well thought-out '9 story replete with the several surprises tjfl and some very strong dramatic sltua- 4H tlons, Is closely adhered to throughout. ,.,lH The new departure In this direction )fl was responsible In a largo measure for .'H the tremendous vogue the play en- fl Joyed In New York and Chicago where H !t ran continuously for over a year jH with practically the same cast that - H will be seen here. Scott Welch in his 'H famous role of "Kid Burns," the ex- , slangy prize fighter and Miss Frances 'U Gordon will be seen as Mary, a servant I girl In New Rochelle, a town exactly H three-quarters of an hour distant by '.,' train from New York's main thor- ffl oughfare and In which the story of H the plav is laid. , fl ' "Ma's New Husband." 1 aa A press notice says: One of the sea- .H son's big laughing successes, "Ma's ' New Husband," is announced as the fl attraction for Tuesday evening next. tfl This Is a musical comedy of the farcl- 'M cal type which affords amusement of a hilarious kind to playgoers. It Is )U heralded as having a perfectly sane 'I plot, with none of the extravagances '$m so common to nieces of Its class. i'U The central figure, which Is denoted jfl In the title, is a clever and Ingenious lfl actor, with whom fortune has dealt ifl hardly. Pinched ' financially by his ,9 failure on the road and through ina- jjjfl blllty to market his plays, he is at his M wit's end to make both ends meet. To - heighten the misery of his plight, he ;' is in love with a charming widow rl whoso worldly goods havo also been Jfl swept away by misfortune This 'PB widow has a rich, bachelor cousin, ' M who luckily Invites her to his home JjB when her affairs look most forbidding. fM She is passionately attached to her ;M actor lover and cannot bear the '9 thought of parting. Together they 1jl conceive tho plan of making him pose l as her son and so they visit her cousin, fl whose home becomes the scene ot the jlj most side splitting complications, ow- ' JM ing to the supposed relationship, 'jim Guests, tutor, servants and host, as 'ifl well as tho lovers are all Involved in '; tho merry train or circumstances, un- ,M til the actor declares his Idenlty and Jifl proves his right to tho title ot "Ma's ' "1 New Husband" Instead of son, jh9 The musical numbers aro icferred 'fam to as being tuneful and popular, the jf fl kind that catch the car and become 111 familiar in the home and on tho street. -r3,B Managers Scott and Raynor have as- Jl signed tho characters, it is said, to a , 'mM very capablo company and a perform- anco ot the JollUst kind Is promised. 'jMfl H "Quincy Adams Sawyer" J 'M In tho four years that the great - ; raH New England drama "Quincy Adams fl Continued ou 8th page. , i j9J n ; aHJ f A Big Show, Coming. Continued from Page 1, S,iei" has been before tue public it 'ins been stumped by a succession of mid lences all over the country as "the best, the sweetest, purest and most wholesome of rural dramas." At .Its every representation the applause and laughter are almost .continuous and i-veiy fall of the curtain Is the signal lor an ovation to the players which Is to be considered as a most emphatic endorsement of tho play Such success as has been won by this drama Is vouchsafed to but very few of the plays that use the stage and cap be won by only a plav that appeals to the best elements of the community. commun-ity. Yet "Qulncy Adams Sawyer" preaches no sermon except the eternal one of tho Golden Rule. It's sweet, clean story Is strong In unconventional unconvention-al fashion, It's humor is natural and wholesome but none the less convulsing; convuls-ing; Its characters are types, nor caricatures. cari-catures. These are some of the reasons for theunprecedent popularity of "Qulncy Adams Sawyer." Others will be apparent ap-parent those who witness the play at tho Thatcher opera house Thursday, March 6. Chorus girls are usually engaged for their size, stature, complexion, vocal ability and generally their good looks, but Nixon & Zimmerman in engaging their male chorus for the Sloan-Rankln musical fantasy, "The Gingerbread Man" had to be a trlllo more exacting and chose true descendants of S waboda and other physical culturlsts, for one of the prettiest bits of business introduced, intro-duced, which Is the swaying church bell produced by the girls swung In midair upon the boys' arras; whlfe another an-other rather unique picture Is a human hu-man pyramid with the boys at the bottom, both feats of which chorus boys not accustomed to gymnastics could not assist in. "The Gingerbread Man" will be here before long. |