Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-02
BOOKINGS AT THE GRAND.
Jan. 17-"The Social WhirI."

How Society News Is Secured
Some hint of how certain society news
is procured for publication is given in
1.-THE Social Whirl,' the latest New
York Casino success. which will be
seen here on Thursday night. Jan. IL
at the Grand opera house. Davenport.
The fun of the piece is based on an
item furnished the Social Whirl by a
reporter who digs up his news in a
fashionable manicure establishment.
Of More Than Usual interest
''Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway -
the music play from the prolific pen
of the hard working and energetic
George NJ. COhan, is so well known by
reputation to the majority of our the
alter goers that the announcement of
its forthcoming production at the Hi
nois theater tomorrow conveys with il
more than the usual interest This
play has enjoyed a remarkable career
ever since its first production over a
year ago. attaining a degree of popu-
larity seldom scored by any production
in recent years. 1t has played two en-
gagements in Chicago covering a
period of so weeks, while New York
thought so well of it that it crowded
the Amsterdam theater for 30 weeks.
The entire season and most of the past
summer, the play remained one of the
principal attractions in these two cities
making a new record for theatrical re-
ceipts that are almost sensational in
their figures. This season Messrs. Klaw
LTrIn
tour with a remarkable cast of favor
ties headed by Corinne and with a
scenic production gorgeous and COM
plete in every detail, requiring two of
the largest baggage cars for its trans
poFtation. The three scenes shown in
the play are said to be on mammoth
proportions The engagement is be-
ing looked forward to with much in
terest, and will doubtless prove one
of the society theatrical events of the
season.
Has Realistic Bridge Scene.-"On
the Bridge at Midnight" is coming
with its realistic lift" bridge and eIab-
crate river view and passing steamers.
The management has provided a COM
liver the entire strength of this play.
At the Illinois JAN s.
ain the Bishops carriage."-What
made you a theft" circumstances
same thing that made you a gentle
man" Nance Olden, the latest and in
many respects the most fascinating of
stage thieves, the heroine of I'm the
Bishops Carriage" which appears at
the Illinois theater next Sunday, Jan.
6. thus delivers herself, when asked
the question what makes her a thief.
Miss Jessie Busley is the heroine of
this latest study in criminology. The
young actress possesses an intensity
and depth of feelings that makes her
Nance Olden' a woman to be remem-
bered Claiming Pollock. the author
of the stage version of 'In the Bish-
ops Carriage" has succeeded in writ
ing a play that holds attention quite
as closely as does Miriam Michelson's
remarkable story Liebler & Co. have
given the play an elaborate scenic en-
vironment, besides a company of act
ors that can be praised in a superla-
tive degree.
Mildred HolIand.-The coming of
Mildred Holland to the Illinois theater
on Friday, JAN 4 in her new pictur-
esque and beautiful romantic drama, |
"A Paradise of Lies" will be theatre |
cal and a social event in the city |
Aside from her work as an artist of in
tense power, Miss Hollands person |
atty makes her almost a UNIVERSAL
friend of each enc of her auditors She
has that magnetism of manner, that |
delicious melody of voice. the indie |
scribable, though subtle power, which /
irresistably draws the individual to-
ward her, and makes one participate in
the joys or sorrows which the actress
Is portraying. Miss Holland has in the
part of Lolita in "a Paradise of Lies"
probably the best role she has ever
created The part calls for the range
e every emotion, and Miss Holland
nRthe scale from greatest mirth to I
-. misery with every note ringing
fsr reception this season in the