Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-13
/ GREAT MUSICAL CONCEPTION
"The Girl From Broadway" Made
Big Hit at The Colon
ial Theatre.

s'rhe Girl From Broadway. 4
unique musical conception with plots
and counterplots that il would take
the brain OF an Annapolis lawyer to
unravel, held the boards at the Colo
nial Theatre last night.and entertain
ed for two hours and haii n de-
lighted audience.
III 1.-THE Girl From Broadway did
nothing else, she proved conclnsiyely
that a good show can let out by
II o'clock. and not hang Gre or hang
limelight until midnight, as the suffer
ing theatre patrons have been afflicted
the past week or more. Manager
ITollebaugh. OF the Colonial Theatre,
continues TO show his upto-date man
agement by bringing high-class of
shows here and such pleasing musi-
cal skits rs "The Girl From Broad
way
Ii is 4 musical comedy i'm three
acts by Aubrey Mittsnthal. Its mu-
steal numbers are bright and catchy
and were soon being whisfed by the
gallery. The chorus was pretty,
shapely and altogether attractive, be-
sides il sang well and danced grace
fully. The cast was unusually strong
and the comedians and condolences
clever. MIR. Robert III. Wilson, ms
Jack Dawson, was the beau ideal hero
young, dashing, handsome. His
voice, which is not strong, was com
pletely swallowed upby thefull orchos-
ira accompaniment.
The two Ottos, as the Dutch circus
proprietor and the strong man, are
great. They are whole show in
themselves and afforded entertainment
and fun galore. Rattles, the hobo,
impersonated by Harry Fenlette,
shared the honors with the Ottos IN
the comedy parts. Ills makeup was
faultless and as Weary Willie
he was an inimitable success. Miss
Grace Edmond, as Nannette, the hero
inc circus girl, stolen by the gypsies,
and the unknown neiress, Is dainty,
sweet, clever and winsome. Miss Ed
mond has a sweet full soprano voice
and her songs cupid and "llo
Loves Me; He Loves Me Not were
exquisitely sung. Miss Edmonds rs
vivacious and charming, and IS as
graceful as she Is pretty.
The costumes were handsome and
the stage settings more or less attrac-
tiv. The comedy has n plot-if plot
it may be called, and the story opens
upon scene OF the exterior of n
summer hotel down East whore n
pair of gentlemen artists from the city
have engaged rooms for the hot
months, and who have scarcely been
settled before they are launched into
mesh OF plots and counterplots,
wherein greedy and designing old
aunt learns that the fortune she Is
enjoying rightfully belongs to her
niece, who was stolen when q baby,
by gypsies.- The rightful owner OF
the money is discovered in the guise
OF a circus queen, and as the chief
attraction of that enterprise she is at
the opening of the story causing much
trouble to the owner, an ex-pawn-
broker, by having decamped without
the customary two weeks notice.
In her endeavor TO elude the horde
of circus followers who are seeking
her capture. she appeals to the hero,
Jack Dawson, the artist, and he ends
by falling i'm love with the charming
equestriene. The aunt, failing the in
control of the girls money, enters into
an intrigue with a villainous lawyer
and attempts to substitute another girl
for Mile. Venus, and a rival of the
heroine is chosen who, after a stormy
period of three acts and host of mu-
steal numbers, repents, peaches on her
employers and assists in restoring the
girls money and position.