The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-19
THE MAID AND THE MUMMY AB0UNDS
IN LIGHT COMEDY-NEW PLAYBILLS

The Mad and the Mummy is the most
spectacular ebuilition OF girl and scene
that the Century has offered this season.
Il keeps you guessing for time. But it
gives you answers, fine and bcwitching
, answers. The principals are newcomers,
and almost every one OF them is worth
/ knowing. The best Of il is that you never
realize what IS coming.
The two scores have chiefly to do with
hoax perpetratet upon an old curio mon
ger and patent medicine man. who Is him
self hoax. He buys i mummy ana at
tenpts 10 bring il TO life. rms muEIpy.
though, chhnccd iu be alive when ne
bought it. II wasn't a mummy At ali. but
bolivar. the man or all DUrk. in the eHl-
ploy OF u Curio dealer. Edward CARVE
stepped into the Egg ptian box and looked
srotesquely out Us the embaimed rehc.
| The adventures of this mummy az ne
Is moved about from place to place are the
peg upon which Richard earle has hung
his dryiy humorous plot.
Al! sorts OF "characters lend their
kaleidoscopic personalities To the general
color scheme. A street gaTain III t.. per
son of little Janet Priest is Il comedy in
herself. We have seen waits and waits.
but never an urch!n quite 50 precocious as
Muggsy. II she has not already done SO,
Janet may safely tell her friends that she
Is going to arrive She seems 70 have
stepped from IL child sketch by WuOlf.
The far-away seriousness She affects
her pithi!y comic way of reading love
stories and her sureness as an imper-
senator so to make up. a capital de!inea-
ton. Her urchin has only one unfortunate
feature. She launches a blistcriuG oath
across the footlights in one scene. This
speech should be eliminated. and without
delay.
Richard Carroll, who is prominently cast
deserves his part. He sings. dances and
talks well in the role of Stubs, the curio
dealer. May Boley is pretty and jolly in
81 O. r. en-
actress. There are two or three tircsome
songs. but the chorus more than makes
up for this discrepancy.
The prolific Mr.. Charles Cha A. Taylo--the
Clyde Fitch OF thrill iranatists-has
tossed off yet another. This time It IS
The White Tigrcss Of Japan," at Hav-
!iI,s The Whit tig3reSs. alas, was none
otter than Fanny Mcintyre, an actress
worthy of legitimate herClcs. When Miss
Mcintyre has the stage the piece takes
ON a dramatic interest that it lacks ~
other times. The scenes depict the whole
gamut OF Oriental localities now mention
Cd in the news reports OF the war The
opening act is laid in Japan. the sec
ond act in China. the third in Manchuria
lures are excellent. There is an abuH-
dance OF comedy. The excitement Of
course. is Continuous. except when Miss
Mcintyre IS with US.
The double bill at Crawford's delighted
two large audiences The opening play
was Jules Walters's "Slde-Tracked. a
farce comedy. Then came The Sign OF
the Four with Sherlock Holmes TO the
rescue. Frank Farrell played the detac-
tive. Hal De Forrest appeared as our old
friend Doctor Watson. The story has
been very Cieverly drarnatized. even bet
ter than some Of the more pTetentious sf-
forts in this line. Farrell gave pains
taking and interesting !mpersonat!on Of
the hero.
Charley Grapcwin and Anna Chance
give a lively performance in The Awak-
ening OF Mr.. Pipp." The farce is old, hut
the specialties and the music are new.
Grapewin's comedy IS most arnusingly set
forth in the second act when hG s+ers
forth as Lawyer Pipp "on the morning
after He is in corlic:l agony all through
this scene. The song nits are THE Races
That's What the Brass Band PLAYED -
You'll Be Sorry in the Morning. and