Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-02-07 | Page 3 | "Maytime" Novel Musical Show to be Here Wednesday

'"MAHtlME" NOVEL MUSICAL SlOW TO BE HERE WEDNESDAY Greatest Musical Play Oven Staged to Be Seen One day at the Orpheum Theatre Announced as the biggest popular success yet produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert," "Maytime," a genuine dra-, dra-, matic and musical novelty by Rida Johnson Young, with music by Gis-mund Gis-mund Rosberg, will be seen at tho Orpheum Or-pheum theater noxt Wednesday evening. eve-ning. To those who keep posted on the more important theatrical events, "Maytime" is by no means an unknown un-known quantity. News of Ifc3 exceptional excep-tional worth as a "distinctly different" I entertainment has already traveled far 'and wide from New York, where it nas I to date been seen and heard by over 'a million patrons during a record run of two full years, and shows no abatement abate-ment of drawing power of capacity Broadway audiences. 1 In Chicago, the vogue of "Maytime" for seven months rivaled the patronage patron-age accorded it in Now York. Boston playgoers found it delightful for six I months, and Philadelphia for three months. Certain it is that "Maytime" in no wfse resembles any recent mu-isical mu-isical offerings In fact, it marks a I real innovation in stage farce. All of 'the scenes are laid on Manhattan is-'land is-'land and the action, starting In Washington Wash-ington Square Garden In 1S-10. carries on for almost a century, reaching its., climax in the busy times of today. The fact that each of the four eras depicted IS'lO, 1S55, 1S80 and 1910 arc accurately ac-curately reproduced as to costumes and manners makes for a picluresque-ness picluresque-ness in staging "Maytime" that will delight the jaded Iheatergoer. The excellent cast Includes Carolyn Thomson, Melvin Stokes and William 1 iNorris, as the featured .players, and 1 I Douglas Wood, Edna Temple. Arthur Albro. Nina Yalieri, Teddy Webb, Ed-jith Ed-jith Wright, Edward F. Nannary. Ruth Watson, John Wheeler, Izeih Munro, Win. Blaisdell and Amy Lester. There is. of course, a pretty, youthful chorus and an augmented orchestra. nn