Show i t A n wN i j r C io N y V o M W M W V W V NV t I BO tl d 0 A fit 0 fi ft T Y l I t a Mabel Barrison Anna eld Pr and t Fritzi Ll 4 I Ar f J Scheff In New h Plays j i 1 S i lI Id Vl i Ji 1 IL 5 18 il 1 J i 1 ltd a f U Ua I Iy t G Ga a i t v t 1 cx y 5 i MO M I V A ov M v r V rv 44 Mv 0 t fj V Vm m I From Prom Our New t York Dramatic Corre Corro Correspondent HE arrival of oJ the holiday I a sea sen season son has hm as usual l been marked marled THE b by y the production of a large lare irk number of now new plays play and It eo so happens that the dramas put pul on al at althis althis this time this Ails year exhibit 11 IL wide I to In Inn range ranco In subject and regretfully n quality also 1 The Blue Mouse at the Lyric the theater theater ater a i Clyde Fitch I adaptation Is one Ole n In of oC ho tho new vehicles and Its cast caSl Is Ill thoroughly well balanced including Mabel Mabll in the thc title role Jame Jameson Jameson son lion Leo Lee Le Kinney Finnoy Jane Laurel Charles CharieR CharlesTI TI Dickson and others is The Blue Dru Mouse tins has enjoyed n a along long run abroad In Berlin It has con continued cont t timed for or more than a year far Mr Mrs 11 s Fitch adapted It R from Crom the German of n Alexander Engel Engol and Julius Horst and fr the critics have praised the tho adaptation r 1 so no profusely as to guarantee It a n lone Ions Ion career of o money making In short The Blue Mouse has not nol a 1 mo moment meet ment In It and the tIll performance of the th company compan makes It the best musical comedy of 01 the season thus far Car farAs CarAs farAs As Divine Mabel has lies a role that cannot fall Call to appreciably appreciably clab advance her hor reputation as ns a astar altar astar star In tho legitimate for Cor Its opportunities op opportunities for Cor effective characterization tion aro by no means few The Tho Th Blue Blu Mouse deals with the adventures s of 01 a young oung man mall Augustus Auguslus Rollett Hollett who hires Paulette Divine a n Salome dancer known as The Blue Mouse to Impersonate his wife wICe In order to deceive his employer Mr Lewellyn president of or the New York Interstate railroad Young Mr Ir Rollett seeks advance advancement ment meat in the employ of or company company and discovers that the president en enJoys enjoys 1 Joys the excitement of 01 harmless flirta flirtations with young yo n women Subsequent events vents entangle Tho rho Blue Mouse Mr Rollett n Mrs Rollett her herold herold herold old father Mr Lewellyn and Mrs Lewellyn In an extraordinary series of events contE the solution of 01 which arrives only at the very vcr end of or tho the last act actA actA actA A Racy Character Miss Paulette is Js a racy character breezy refreshing and an ex extremely extremely practical pr even for Cor a Salome with Now New York habits But Paulette combines the sympathetic and the practical in somewhat spasmodic fashion ash Ion Anxious to help a n struggling going author who like Ilko the company compan needed the money mone Paulette was vias enabling en enabling abling the play pIa to earn e rn she remarked Say Sa Ive e got gOl an awful nice manager Ho IIo dont care how bum the show is lB father came to lo town Irom the IOwa way back section He con with Paulette for he was an ged sed child seeking to learn the wi 1 Jom of 0 the young oung He gazed on a picture of 01 Paulette and stood in mm ement gasping at al tho limo scantiness of f c the t h costume e Say S lady lad on the level I el ho chokingly chok chokingly ejaculates How did you dare Oh Oil responds the Innocent Paulette n cheerful manner I 1 mind It Jt rl The a stage e was steam healed heated That work of art along with other r riches rich s of Paulette j it added V lo t i uio to e Interest of oC a professional auction at which champagne was served and an nn orchestra played In ht the th bathroom It was explained that friends who had h d sent Paulette gifts would hustle n W Wn V W W W V V V i W V V W V V V W V W W W WI I S P J I v tv r 1 j fc 71 1 j Jr 4 r rr r T Ti A J ti tiC f i r rJ 1 C a af urr i y A t ni f r 1 1 F y iA r i lV C fy f t r u a r rr r f i I It t J 7 3 r I JAr t y l J s 1 f 1 0 r n t 1 t tIM r v t r y f 3 5 4 r j 4 iP II j f I fj fI J tl i r is t w wi i t iF iFS iFt S a t 7 i S st A r 1 i I f wry I t p i 8 AJ LJ bf t r 0 i f fl 1 JP 7 a f y i l f i ik ii s1 k f V V V Vr V t V i t i 11 r rr s v L 7 0 v S J 0 l f i v il iC P J 11 u BAi S bE around to buy bur them back hack nt at advancer advanced prices But BUl funnier Cunner than tho the auction was wag Wa the last scene In which Paulette put on a u kimono In ilm tho s home horn and amI then when she had taken it off orf ot again put on an Injured air tr because b first one onn onland and then another refused to lo take talo the therl risk rl k of ot buttoning her up tho the back Miss was so helplessly hu human human man mall that sho ill 0 caused screams of laughter Mss Innocence Is tho the alluring lItlo of or a new play pIa by b Harry Barr B Smith and LudwIg On reading the tho title lito It Il Is seen at once that only tho the 41 i unsophisticated Anna Held could play the title role And she sho does docs Her re ro recent recent cent opening at al tho the New York Fork theater was successful as well It might be with a strong stron cast supporting Miss Held Field that thal included Include Charles A Bigelow DOrsay and Janvier Ml W s Holds Held eyes and figure aro are sur surrounded surrounded rounded rounder during tho performance by a galaxy galax of o beauteous nymphs In the tho guise of chorus girls by b scenic splendors splendors dors and gorgeous gors ous gowns The play tells about an schoolgirl taken to lo Paris In search earch of ol I her hr parents Just why wh Paris should i f fon have hue a perfectly Innocent girl Inflicted on It no ono one in the tho play pIa attempts to tl explain However Miss MIs Innocence Innocenc who Is ia ol of course none other than tho the demurely I expressive Miss Held tries trieM to square herself with Paris by b singing In most entertaining manner a n song sons entitled J 1 want to be naughty too Charles Bigelow as the greatest do in the world succeeds In backing Sherlock Holmes off the tho board to use u o racing 41 vernacular Other new productions arc aro Fritz Scheff Scherr In The Prima Donna Knick Knickerbocker Knickerbocker theater Henry Henr E Dixey In InMar Mary Mar Janes Pa Garden theater and DC De Wolf Hopper in The Pled Pied Piper at the Majestic Miss lIls Scheff Scherr appears at her very vory or best bestin in her new operetta by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom Blos m which tells how howan an opera singer finger meets loves and mar marries marries marries ries an army arm officer Collier as aG a Stage Director William Collier had everything to lo do with wah the staging of The Patriot Ho wrote most of the play chose tho the scenery tho properties hired many of tho the actors and then rehearsed them night and day da His weapon for ob obtaining t results and hard work worl is sar sarcasm sarcasm cam An actor Inadvertently nt speaks a alIne line that has been heen discarded from rom the manuscript It throws out every everybody everybody body hody on tho the stage stase and the action stops But B t Mr Collier docs does not fly into a fury Cur Ho quietly approaches the trembling offender offen er and says with funereal seriousness You like that line dont you Well Vell 11 as the author of 01 tho the play Illa 1 I suppose I should feel eel flat fiat flattered flattered but hut I am not Vo 0 cut that line tine out two o weeks ago aso Cant you see It II dOl fit In or are arc you so fond of il it that you OU aro are going to make it fit any anyway an anwa anyway way wa If you ou must have havo It take tako It bring brim It home homco with you ou sing sins It eat cat it UP 41 with wild gesticulations se hand II 11 down to lo o your yo children I 1 wont call you a plagiarist but I will call caB you OU something worse If II I r ever hear you speak that line again I FREDERICK |