The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-04-14

icaf SnOW6 IL mere Is enough lfi&Stiully ~
'it ito justify the use OF the word fresh. 6
Recent disclosures about q society jour-
|fial furnish the basis for tlle story of
the show Al paragraph is published
Fin the society weekly, The Social Whirl,
about The doifigs OH All automobile trip,
/ of a man known as j. =. and an actress.
/ This paragraph has been written BY the
son of iflafi about town. The father
|has ordered The son to- seek his own
| IliveliiIood and make tiloteys no matter
how. The son hears of the automobile
"trip through the proprietor Of a mani
ctire shop and writes lip the story II
HAPPENS that there are three or tour
Inien whose initials are E. and
Eti1eir individual efforts To clear ftheiii-
selves and at The same fine, find the Aoiae
! who first circulated the story, furnishes
| Etiie fun for the play The li,in1or is obs
tyieiss and far from being new and orA
Iigii4af; biitaas file its lines are bright
| and witty The music IS SPARKLING,
lwhile the ensemble numbers are chat
Eacterizsds BY, glitter and snap. hand
sorTer set Of girls has never been gath
Tered together IN a show of It's kind,
IThey dash in and out, now In vivid
lcriinsoii skirts of abbreviated length,
ltow swishing the silks and satiris all
Iiufingly hi a song Of boot blacks, with
1.-The smaller girls polishing the slippers
lof ttieir taller and more styiishly dressed
sisters. Again they strike the eye ita
bright red hunting coats ard riding
skirts Not only are they pretty and
lgraceful, but they act with intelligence
land vivacity. AS for the, principals,
adele Richie scored success as the
actress. Ada, Lewis. appeared in the
| role of a bouncing soubrette from idaho,
lwhile Maud Raymond, the colored
ihandmaiden IN the manicure shop, made
Ithes hit of her life Her rendering gof
1.-The song. Billy Simmons, 8 which tells
/ the story of 4 darky who's couldn' 4 keep
Istills when thes band began to play, was
he songs old Man Manhattan 81 and
stfJust the Girl I'm Looking For called
for many repstitiotls and bid fair to rank
with the best of the great song hits Eof
1.-THE season, The Social Whirl is sure
Ito score one Of the biggest runs i'm the
lhistory Of the Casino. It Twill play all
sunrner and well on past Christmas lii-
Hess the public should forswear musical
Icomedies in the meantime.
Il At the Fifth Avenue. F. Proctor
lcelebrated the week Iii commentator of
1.-THE twenty-fifth anniversary of his adj
vent as a theatrical manager By pre-
Isenting "a remarkable programme. On
MONDAY evening, If ]; Were a King, to-
lgether with Henri de 'Vries III "A, Case
lsof Arson, was the bill, followed the
next night by the riyival of Mrs. Jack,
together with Mabel Taliaferro, who
recently starred in The Bishops Car
Iriage. in the garret scene from The Lit
ltls Princess Dumas Mile. Marin, with
i The Girl With the Red Domino, fol-
Flowed on Wednesday evening. while on
Thursday night James ]. Cofbett was
again seen in the title role Of Mr.
ISmooth, with iNesta Victoria 6as the
Iadded vaudeville feature. On Friday
might. Yyette Gtiilbert was seen for ths
First time on the vaudeville stage ii
many years, together with Shaw's fa;
tmous; play, Candida, 1T was Proctoi
twho FIRST induced dramatic stars OF sffls
first class to. appear in vaudeville ii
Eshorf plays. His stock company IS quits
Ia dramatic feature of the Metropolitaf
tstage. s' .tss sgsfs ssat.'s's
~ VI vi ~ st n g.sif i
Much tosthe regret of the playgoers
Richard Mansfield ternlinates, this Sat
tiirday evening" his annual visit to- New
t5York, Three weeks is short stay fol
laaman sof such brilliant ability His
Iplaying in such widely diverse parts a.
| those OF Or. JeFyH and Mr.. Hyde. Beat
Brunnel, Shylock, Ivan the Terrible
1 Richard III, and chevinai in A Parisiar
Romance, shows his extraordinarN
range of dramatic expression. He ia,
made known his plans for the rest d
1.-THE season After week in Cincifi
lnati and in ST. Louis, and two weeks ii
Chicago. Mr. Mansfield will finish hi,
season. In the fall, he has planned Il
lopen at the New Amsterdam in splen
ibid revival of Cyrano de Beeferac, ant
lremain there week, after which Ii,
i will 60 in tour, returning for his regti
lar spring appear rance following III,
81 close OF the opera season.
The merry war between Haf1lnlersteii
land Conried over the engagement Oh TIL
great opera stars for their respecfiv,
houses, still continued. Mr.: Hammer
Il stein has cabled 40 the effect thai I'M,
has thus far secured the signatures 10
Edotiard de Resks. who has great fol
lowing among the opera freqtenters aiis
| box holders: Mime. Nellie. Melba, Il
whom he was compelled to pay al verl
, handsome figure. in view of the. { fac
that Mr. Conried was bidding for he
II services for the Metropolitan, aIitt
i Bonci, the tenor. The latter has beef