The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-20
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dolly DOLLARS"

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Metropolitan--"Misst Dolly Dollars"
Miss Lulu CHASER has a laugh that is
It shares a jest with you IN
a frank, open manner that Is inimitable
and irresistible. AS Dolly Dollars, the
American heiress, Miss Chaser Is just
as breezy, just as impudent and just as
fascinating as she was as Dolly Warden,
but her present play has considerably
more life and snap than the more pictur-
esque dolly Warden" ever had. AS
Dolly Dollars, Miss Chaser is most up-
date and knowing American girl with
a pocket full of money. She appears at
the villa on the Thames, which her father
has rented, in broken-do automobile
towed by an old white horse and takes
the management of the family affairs into
her own hands after the fashion of know
ing, up-to-date American girls. When
the titled landlord dares to sheer at
American bellies and American dollars,
she. proceeds to teach him lessons that |
carries her to Paris and involves her in
many an incident from which she extri-
Gates herself in a distinctly Chaser fash !
ion. Miss Chaser has some capital songs
which she sings in whole hearted,
breezy manner. "Just Get Out and
Walk IAN American Heiress," Its |
All in the Book, You Know" and pretti
est Of ALL '"rhe Moth and the Moon
with it's effective lighting and graceful
winged figures.
The Finney Doolittle, the educated fool
with more degrees than thermometer"
and private secretary of Lord Burling-
ham, of R. G. Herr was very reminiscent
of that old favorite, 1.-THE Private Secre-
taly,'' which was quite good enough to-
be revived even in a musical comedy
Mr.. Herr picture was laughingly con-
g Sta wi II J1SiyJ air hui
mility and his quotations from Horace
Virgil and "the amorOus Ovid He be-
came engaged to Dolly Dollars maid thru
a newspaper advertisement and when he
sent her Lord Burlingham's picture in
place Of his own, complications were
bound to result The real Lord Burling-
ham, who is as impecunious and agree
able as English lords always are, abets
him in maintaining q deception which
enables Lord Birmingham to masquerade
as Dolly's chauffer. Mr.. Herr song,
| IAN Educated Fool" was one of the most
popular numbers of the evening.
| Miss Carrie Perkins was very funny as
Mrs. Gay, the ambitious title-loving
4 mother with an amusing habit Of using
| the right word in the wrong place.
| Charles Bradshaw, as the condensed soap
magnate, a "most satisfactory signer Of
/ checks" to quote his dutiful daughter,
and Thomas Whiffen as Guy Gay, the son
| who pays a fellow to study for him at
Oxford, complete the interesting family
group. Their contributions to the musical
medley were 1.-THE Self Made Family
and "Lifes "a Masquerade" in which they
| had the assistance Of Miss Nella Webb as
Celeste. Mr.. Whiffen also sang Dolly
I Dollars" and "'Tis Better than Old Par
sifal to Me- with spirit, and proved a
very light-footed, graceful dancer. Mel
vile Stewart was equally satisfactory as
Lord Birmingham or the masquerading
chauffer, and he had the most catchy
song of the play, "a Woman Is Only a
which he gave very musically with the
! assistance of Dolly's titled lovers, repre-
sentatives from every European mon
archy. The Elton boys, costers and sum-
mer girls, in attractive costumes and
tuneful voices, form most attractive and
unusual chorus, and the stage-setting
shows pretty picture of the Thames
during regatta week and later the garden
of a Paris hotel. F. r. S.
5 Lyceum-"AII the Comforts of Home
AS a Minnesota spring would be incom.
plete without its pussy willows, its
anemones or it's violets, SO local theatri
cal season would be incomplete without
|Yproduction of William Gillette's "Ail thu
Comforts of Home. The present sea
sons completeness is made possible BY
, this weeks offering at the Lyceum, ant
:, large audiences are enjoying the lates
bloom Of this perennial flower of fare
comedy. .. -..-. ---| 49,
When Cali the Comforts Of Home i
: the bill, the average auditor goes t
= | laugh, stays to laugh and leaves laughing
at what, he cannot tell nor does h
care to inquire. 1t is enough to laugh
- Gillette is seldom didactic and never ii
y this, one of his earliest efforts. His pur
pose was solely to write a dyspepsia de
= stroyer, and his theory seems to hav
y been, alls well that ends well. His meth
- DDS are scarcely legitimate, his humor j
y not subtle nor especially refined, but hi
- caricatures are apt and his ludicrous sit
- uatiens are so cleverly strung togethe
,, on the labyrinthine thread of his i'm
- possible plot that the spectator must be
y come mildly interested and hearth
y amused. Without change of scene, al
= mosphere or characters to assist halt
. ing interest, double duty devolves upo
the actors who attempt to tell of all til
comforts In no modern play is there
&c greater demand for strenuous stag
~ business" and in none does the success
y depend more upon the individually clevt
g efforts Of the players.
- Ralph Stuart and his company ha,
- entered with zest and histrionic adapts
~ bility into the spirit Of this rapidly mo'
: ing farce. Greater familiarity with tt
- roles, such as will undoubtedly come a
~ ter the first few performances, will aG
- to the "go'' and spontaneity that the pls
io demands, and will make the present II
depreciation the equal of the many tn
49, have been seen in this city. ~,>..
90 Mr.. Stuart plays Alfred Hastings, IL
y. nephew who rents apartments in h
t.' uncle's home, and whose troubles a
:. only commensurate with his ingenui
- in avoiding consequences. He invests Il
~ character with proper spirit and sa,
81 froid and, altho his forte is the hero
aS royal romance, the actors versatility
- not strained when he depicts the man
today who Is made the jest of a perver
+ fates and his own mistakes. ,t,--
E. Al Newman is seen in the Drawn pr
ae ducing part of Tom mellow, ALFRED
~ protege and the man who "gets al
Is, from the improvised boarding house ]
-, can easily drop his gymnasium work /
80 this week. His antics are typical, no
~. ever, and call for many good laus
=, ~ His cockney talk is bothS refreshing a
- amusing. III. = --
- Aubrey Beattie does Theodore Bend
~, a retired produce dealer who had
"a Crush on himself, a fondness for t
~. fair sex and is under the police super
" sion Of his better half. His work
10 realistic enough to arouse every she
pecked' husbands sympathy.
: Louis Stone impersonates an old, mel
Gus wreck with even more than his us
7 artistic effect Charles A. Lndblom bl,