Bridgeton pioneer., 1904-05-26

JULIA MARLOwE.
name has been seen by thousands Of
playgoers throughout the country, and
yet it has lost none Of it's drawing
power.
At the close of her season in when
Knighthood Was In Flower Miss Mar
lowe presented ''Ingomar," in which
she is now appearing.
Miss Marlowe's engagement at the
Empire is only for limited time. Ad-
ditional interest Is given to it by the
fact that this will be the last time she
will play in New York as a solitary
star for some years to come, as she
joins forces with E. HI. Sothern next
year for the presentation Of Shake
speare plays.
Miss Marlowe's company contains
Fred Tyler, George Flood, Thomas L.
Coleman, ]. Darlington Yaues, q. w.
Morrison, Tyrone Power, George 8.
Christie, Ralph Lewis, Frank Reicher,
Charles Townsend, Frank Dodge,
Thomas Lindsay, Paul Weigel, Her
bert Budd, Frank Egbert, Charles Re-
crem, Eugenia Woodward, Agnes Pal
mer, Nella Webb, Adelaide Alexander,
Wilson.
Ezra Kendall is one at least who has
no notion of returning to vaudeville,
and presently we may begin to look for
his appearance here. 1T is almost a
year now since he was with us in 1.-THE
Vinegar Buyer" and he is beginning
to tire of the road.
John Kendrick Bangs is writing a
play for him, and, as he can hardly fail
to do something better than ''The Vine
gar Buyer" Kendall will be welcomed
back. The actor will not suffer any
degradation at Mr.. Bangs hands, for
he is to be preserved as carefully as a
museum mummy. Even the nap on
his imperishable beaver is to be as
glossy as ever.
The names Kendall and Bangs have
ring that sounds well for our future
entertainment. Not only is "The Vim
egar Buyer in danger of merited OBJ
livion, but there is promise that at last
our dropping spirits are to be aroused
by spontaneous laughter.
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Baltimore,
Washington and other cities which
saw Miss Robson in Merely Mary
Ann" last autumn before she began
her long engagement in New York will
be revisited next winter, and private
letters and the comments of the news
papers indicate that wherever they 60
both star and play will receive a warm
welcome.
1T is a play" wrote a critic fresh
from the hrst performance in Cleve-
land, O., that will help girls to be
good by teaching them the strength Of
innocence, that will make men better
by showing them the implicit trust Of
guileless heart"
And the speaker only voiced the SEN
timents Of practically every one who
has seen the play. So simple, so nat
ural drama, SO perfect picture Of
real life, has not been presented on the
stage in very long time, and no play
wright has ever more skillfully COM
bined the humor and pathos of actual
human existence. The ingenious, self
sacrificing little heroine, impersonated
as she is by Miss Robson, il creature
of real flesh and blood, being 20 thor
oughly alive, SO lovable, that no play
goer, however blase he may be, can
see her and not feel that he is the bet
ter man for having seen her.
In the "Days Of Old" song in ''The
Yankee Consul" at the Broadway the
ater, New York, the audiences are go
persistent in their demands for more
that Raymond Hitchcock has been
compelled every night as a final meas
ure to make a little speech, gracefully
Informing his admirers that he has
run out of material. If it were not for
this plan Of bringing til ,ncores to a
close the curtain woulA hardly fall
upon the last scene of the comic opera
much before midnight.
ROBERT BUTLER.