The St. Louis Republic., 1903-11-02
"MR. BLUEBEARD" A
CAPITAL EXTRAVAGANZA.

Eddie T Y. more soiled than ever and
most sugL -stive Of the old-time Hender-
son extravaganzas; Harry Gilfoil. with his
old mimic stunts: Bonnie Maginn. blue
eyed. bonnie. blithe and gay, and also
1.-THE and l!ssome; Adele Rafter. shapely.
graceful and ever 50 stylish, with a truly
queenly stage-presence; Herbert Cav
thorne. with brogue that tick y cud cut
ut; Blanche Adams, Robert Evans, Nora
Cecii-all these and some more are play
ing at the Century in big. blooming col
orful thing that is as busy as a three
finged circus; and as noisy. Its name Is
Mr.. Bluebeard.' and it bears about as
much resemblance to that celebrated clas-
Sic as-is necessary.
IL Is humanity. hundreds of humanity
crowded upon stage and almost s1uOth-
cred with scenery-numanity lust as ac-
1--WE ana moving as the elboW-room will
permit now and then thinning ont to
romp, dance. kick and sambol. and. sad TO
say. even to wiggle ar,istically once or
twice after the manner of the Orient
humanity n In all coiors and calciums and
nghts. spansled tinseled, garbed in gay
est, hS,,.. gaudiest garments-greens. reds
1lues, yeiiows purples and what not
Ncthing like it, nothing so big and bril-
hant. has been In ST. Louis.
=, Never has so much-in the way OF guam
DScu oheTcu tie money. And 1t
held forth rather special and unusual ad-
vantages for the class in anatomy. Incl
sd1,ia sentaiiy ~ IT ma may be remarked here. that
haa'e fbe en1 roy; .S who played Sister Anne" was
skirt OF ANYTHING like the regulation
length. Eddie isn't overly symmetrical
ANYHOW ANYHOW, But the principal troubles he ex-
He claimed that he had steamed it and
boiled 1t until 1t was almost ossifed. He
Is "a q poor. unhappy maid"
beard" is that of q fearful nightmare of
color, costume. calciums and choruses and
a nightmare that never let up for a min
the n.e. ds1r;ag Moving pictures are as nothing to
cession of startling changes. There is no
scheme or plan or method In it-just sort
OF Kaleidoscope continuity.
dancers. Young and Devote. rs who Ide deserve rive
mention; also some "aerialists'' who do
aalmazing an flying feats, suspended, on wires;
the Grgolatis-one of them indeed flies out
In the circumambient air over the audience
as far up as the balcony. The music is
neither new nor tuneful, except in spots;
and the lines-to which nobody listens,
this, the thing called Mr.. Bluebeard' is
far and away superior to musical COM
edy." You wouldn't care to see Mr.. Blue
beard" more than once. but it is worth
seeing that once.
Heineman & Webs German stock COM
pany at the odeon offered "Geschwister
Lemke." Director Ferdinand Webb. who
staged the novelty In three days, had as
much to do with its local success as the |
members Of his company, who |
short a. time. The remarkable attention |
to detail, which Is always paid by Herr |
Webb to the various plays he stages. Is one |
Of the charasteristies Of the good per
farce comedy. Is above the level of the |
usual literature Of that class. There is
sentiment as well as wit and comedy in
dolph Horsky. Max Agarty. Leopold Jaco-
bi and Hans Loebel. who played the lead
ing male parts. adhered faithfully to the
and Vima Won Hohenau
and Eva Lemke. Next Thursday night
'Femilie Hoerner'' is the bill.
Sam Deveres burlesquers are at the
Standard A farce. 1.-The School Of Love-"
begins the performances. and the vaude-
specialties by the Rice Brothers, triple-ba
aorobats: Smith and Champion, In Her
New Husband; Burke and McEvoy. in
a comical boxing act; Seymour and Hill
and the Troubadour Four.
Over at the New Crawford, Zeb and
Zarrow present thriller which they call
The Midnight Express" 1t has more
than the usual number Of exciting eli
makes. the most notable being the saving
If a passenger train that was to be
wrecked and an ocean disaster in which
he principal characters are rescued in
''McFadden's Row Of Flats" with new
music and its Jokes brought up to date,
8 again at Havlin's. There are three
lets in the present version. The first takes