Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-01-17 | Maxine Elliott Opens Her Theater with "The Chaperone"

un n ii r 1 MAXINE ELLIOTT ri OPENS HER THEATER IF I t WITH 6 THE Sl Y CHAPERONE tJ r J From Our Now York Vork Dramatic Corre Corro Correspondent Correspondent spon nl ELLIOTT In new gowns new play and now theater has lias opened before 11 J U an admiring throng for her annual metropolitan m engagement ment In InThe InThe InThe The Chaperone a smart society i drama In acts by u Mai Marlon Ion Fair Fairfax Fairfax fax she has Juts started on its career the theater that thal bears beaus her nanny Maxino Elliotts theater and amI which her man managers man managers managers agers declare Jc Je used solely by b woman oman stars Mine Julia Marlowe and Mary lar Mannering Mann New Kew York society has hos given glen Miss MIs Elliott and mId her playhouse a loyal send sendoff sen senIT off on IT She Is a favorite with members of ot tho no Four Hundred of or both sexes The play piny might bo ho classified as us a romantic corned comedy and contains plenty plent y of action and opportunities for Cor Miss Elliott to display her beauty of oC face faco and figure When hen the tho play pla opens the Countess Van Tule Elliott finds her solf very vcr much r more inure mauled married than she considers desirable The count was I Imon I w mammas mon mas choice and daughter married him on tho spur f the tho moment to spite Jim Ogden Julian Tullan LEstrange LEstrang The count Is a fortune hunter and a avery ael avery very el Castellano kind of or character In various other oilier ways wars The Iho first act et shows hows the Interior of ofA A Silver siler Birch Lodge the home homo of oC Mr 11 Richard Coombs Coom s tho the father allier of or two charming daughters who have two young yoong girl friends visiting them Mr and firs Mis Coombs are arc called calle to New cw York torI by the illness of or a n rela relative relative I tive lite and they the telephone n a neighbor asking here her to take in the tho girls while they the are arc away The rho neighbor a Mrs Heminway Hc cannot cann t do this but instead rends fends over oer the Countess Van Tule to act as chaperone Prior to her marriage to tho count countr c from r om whom she now seeks a divorce dh the tho chaperone had been engaged to Jim Jinn Ogden a n young youns American and the ther r count In reply to lo nee ler el divorce suit salt makes e u a countercharge bringing In ht Jim name No Xo sooner have Mr 11 and Mrs Coombs Coomb t gone olle leaving tho the chaperone In charge of oC their theil hou houS house w than Jim Ogden turns lurns up and Is Is Invited to stay at the house hous t by Miss Coombs he being a l great friend of or ih ch rho family Then Ihen the count accompanied d by b th mother mothel of tho the countess COUll tess lx turns 1 urn up Fear FearIng jug Ing to In re If f by b having hating liar her mother r and th count find her hor In Inthe the lh o Jf Jin JI n c H i t n the count countr zi r sI r Ogden Ogdon and n s politic h her r over the tho lake l In Ina n nh a c e eh The h second nut act finds 1815 the tha couple ma a un in I ll H I o Island In the middle of oft t hi h Hike t lc Their canoe has been beon d and U nd these two lovers once 11 nape had Fad ht l to spend the tho night there ther The Tho countess counters forms form a most unique i yort r of o r castaway amid mid the rain and thc tho wind pronounce as as In wine in ina inh insa sa h a while satin MUn evening gown own diamond diamond sunburst and large diamond barrette V The lh beautiful scene shows tho the sun suni i rising over the lake and the t try trying Ing to make malce mal the best of ora a disagreeable situation Jim Ogden Os n in Flutes duces tho the countess to hang omo some of or her clothes to lo dry on a nearby near y limb and the tho COUlt sou t who t o has been heen out in 11 n a looking Jool for Cor his wife wile sees sect the Mlle 1 drying clothes and ami Is drawn to the Is Island island land Jand by h this signal of distress 88 The Tho meeting between the wife and her husband under these the o peculiar pecullar cir cli circumstances results In making mak malt making maltIn ing In unpleasant Innuendoes which lead to a n fight light The Jhc ho count gets two black eyes oyos having only my nJ two eyes The Tho count countr refuses r es the tho loan Joun of his canoe to his I off elf the Island I wife or to take lake the two and waits for fO somebody to appear so that ho he may havo u n witness In his counter divorce action lie He smashes a 1 hole In his canoe so that It cannot bo be used Tho The countess makes her es escape capo cape in a convenient C mud scow In which a II curious native nathe visits tho the place The rhe last Jast act shows hows tho the exterior of or ho Mho Lodge to which the tho countess 99 re returns returns returns turns Here all nil tho the complications are straightened out The Tho count is bought off of consents to a divorce ho says s because tho tUe chaperone prefers an American pugilist to an nn Austrian count Of Ot course courso Jim Ogden Oden Is supposed suppo to lo marry marr tho the chaperone after close of oC the play Miss Elliott gives ono one of or the tho best of o her career eareN The Tho success of tho the production as ns a n whole Is undoubted ted The ho work of oC the t hC supporting company Is iss excellent The h I scenery is superbly I conceived and ex executed executed Regarding the Maxino Maxine Elliott Theater All lull the tho modern safeguards Intro Introduced Introduced introduced for the tho protection of the public will bo he found In Elliotts EllioUs the tho theater ater atel regardless of oC cost The Tho heating I i plant in Is outside outride tho the building cut off ocr entirely from any connection with the theater save rave l lO by h the tho connecting pipes Two To systems for or heating healing and ventilating ing InS Pro employed They are ure known as the direct and ancl Indirect systems g Fresh air Is h drawn In ht front outside The seating capacity of the theater Is about All the chairs are the tho th same san same the seats In the tho second balcony I being as comfortable as as those on onn the I Each seat seal Is Inches wide Tills This measurement m IB is 8 several s eral Inches inches wider than tho the aver average average age th the ater aler sent On the ground floor Hoor are aro only twelve rows of or seats scalf Tho The balconies have havo only a few Cew tows rows each The Tho first balcony balcon hangs hang xo so low that It could be called a mezzanine whereas tho the second balcony balcon Is only slightly higher than tho the regular first balcony balcon in any other oilier theater The rho estimated cost of the theater with the tho of or tho the land It occupies Is placed at and the cost of oC the marblo marble used for the front and in other parts of oC the theater would build an ordinary playhouse The richness and int beauty of tine 1119 furnishings and dec decorations decorations orations would be q a credit lo to a t roll palace Nothing handsomer could be bo placed in any an private resi resl residence residence dence Maxine Elliotts EllioUs theater may maybe ma mabe maybe be said to be he a n drawing room theater in all that tho term implies Tho The harmonious blending of o colors In silks s velvets and il satins and tho the t I J I v x y i J r r 7 iY 1 7 t I ii W kR b bI f w i I tit At 1 r 1 n a a i ir I r fr t tt t r ff i r rr 1 i r r r rMAXINE r II MAXINE ELLIOTT JULIAN LESTRANGE t One can ont oat o ones cake and have havo It too to I DECIDES TO DIVORCE HER AUSTRIAN COUNT AND WED HER EARLY LOVE quality of or the Hie employed to carry carr out the effective scheme of o In Interior tenor detonation decoration express rare taste for lor color effect efi ct on the HIP part of LIs El Ll Elliott liott llott whose is 19 1 exhibited everywhere It Jt was wu Miss 1118 Elliott who suggested a t marble facade for tho the theater and an Lo Petit Trianon at Vcr Ver Versailles sallies sailles was her model for the tho general design of tho the rn of or the theater with lie tho adaptations necessary nece to bring brine tho new now theater up to present day clay hi Ideas Maxine Elliotts then th theater lor has the only front of o Pure marble of or any an the theater theater theater ater In this country countr It la is tho the finest quality of oC Dorset marble Save for 10 four Caul Corinthian columns Lad and a balus balustrade balustrade trade trado running along alons the entire top of oC tho Mho front the aspect of oC the theater from the street Is Iii s severely Hercl plain The Tho lh four tour columns support the cornice Into In to which Is chiseled the lie name of or the theater Surmounting the till cornice Is the tho marblo marble balustrade Nothing will willbo willbo will bo ho placed on the marble marblo front to an announce the attraction within Tho The cx ex of o the theater will not be bo defaced de defaced faced with wilh advertising matter of or any IU Tho The scheme of ot Interior decoration Is Js old Ivory old gold old and mouse color The Tho on all skies of oC the audi auditorium auditorium and In the lie foyer oer are paneled In gold silk sill damask of o the tho most cx ox quality A marblo base runs around the tho foyer 0 y r The foyer ro er ceiling Is h hIn In panels of oC ornamental relief In old Ivory Velvet curtains separate the foyer over from the auditorium Maxine Elliotts theater is one of o the most rapidly constructed playhouses on record Ground was wag broken only last July Tuly and the structure has haM risen lh en pate practically within four months For the past patH six weeks the mechanics have been lor working night ni ht and day lay under tinder the personal direction of or 1 Lee and amI J T J Shubert who on many man occasions ons have spent nearly entire nights In the building It may inn justly be lie said that Miss Elliott Is the tho only actress and star to lo manage c a theater th In this city since Mho tho days das of o Laura LlUTa Keene It is isa Isa a L distinction of oC which she Is proud and the Shubert take tako much prIde In having hains been heen fortunate In as associating associating associating themselves with Miss Kl El Elliott llott liott In the tho construction of oC ono one of or the tho most beautiful theaters that thal the coun country country try has hilI known t MODERN ACTORS MIMICS William II H Thompson talking talk In about the drama dram declared that modern actors ac actors tors lors and actresses are arc mimics rather than creators When I was waR a 0 youngster and an started in on the SlI stage C tho the actor to a great extent was com compelled comP P d to create cp at interpret his part Nowadays s tha greatest stars In Ameri Amen America ca go so abroad ad seo the piece picco put on there study the actor who is reading tho the lines they are aro to read and come comeback comeback back ack and give glo a good Imitation of it H Hor or else they the giro a good Imitation 01 ot of tho the art of or some of oC our own famous actors of or tho the old school They Tiley aregood are aregood aregood good Under other conditions they tl cy to might become as an great reat actors acton anti and an 11 as ns the old oua Oll whom they Imitate but tho conditions havo have changed chall ed so Imitators Now this Is an ago of or great gr al Imitations You See Joe imitations of or beautiful flowers They arc are almost perfect My you ou say sty sayI I 1 can scarcely toll tell them from natural flowers But tho Mho bee can tell t them thorn You never saw a bee beo stop or The beo boo havo have to go so up and anti smell them or taste them There are arc bees In every audience There Is Js one person who knows that I 1 I 1 c j r t r a I t I I 6 k nM I j r L i J L 4 I It t 1 Iw r I i I MAUDE ODELL A SUCCESS INLOVE IN l LOVE WATCHES A prominent figure fi ure in support ol 01 Miss liss Billie Burke In Love Loo Watches Maude Ouch Odell has achieved a n decided r success at the Lyceum theater New NewYork NewYork York As tho the widow in the entertain entertaining ing In play Miss Odell has a splendid op opportunity to display her ability It Il tho the real thins thing Perhaps tha that person cant aunt tell you ou what is wrong wron i with the tho play or the actor t tho ho know whether it Is tho play i 1 or tho the actor that he ho like But Buthe i iho ho he knows know It Il what he lie wants 1 something is wrong Well Yell It is the tha bee heo In the tho audience that I try to lo play to lo wherever ho may happen to sit siti a perhaps down in tho ho orchestra chairs I or up in m the gallery allery That ThatIs Is 15 another trouble with wilh many of oC tho the present day actors They Thoy are arc not good listeners Jl rho Tho young actor of today reads his lines and thinks no nomore I moro more about the play pl 1 until his cue Is Isgen given gen Ho lie know what Is go going goIn going ing In on about him ho In sym Im sympathy sympathy I pathy with tho the others Tho The lack of ot sympathy s results in tho the audience real realizing i izing zing izing that something Is wrong wron and they think It t Is because someone bus hua busnot not read his lines Ines aright r r J i