The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-09
LOOKING BACKWARD OVER The
THEATRICAL SEASON OF l9O7-O8
Most Successful Year in History of the Newark -ChaunCey OlCot
Comes Next Week as the Final Attraction in "ONeill Of Derry"
BY R. M. LARNED.
XKTHEN the Newark Theatre closes its doors

NMENN 'S Eo""ih A"aue o"@s IT'S uoors on the nhal performance
w week "f f%m to oSpt tne p tn ntr na, ns sosnan a. ,@ me II Of 81. berry, gms a
ings of Importance are concerned, will be locally at an end. Taking stock
of what has gone before a somewhat encouraging advancement is notedi in
1t has been the best season for business that the Newark has ever had.
us in sending attractions Of established merit and the failures in a season
of many failures elsewhere. have been few. The most worthy attractions
or when it come to a question Of spending his money IN the theatre your
NeTaF r.. n Is in the habit bit, Of of doing doing his his own own thinking inats .mo..... n, a.
exception, have been the work If nativ authors We have had he init
mi mate e. aomes Glo+h reansm M N IN verify Of atmoSphe IF The Three Of Us"
1 T haenel h ro'h na.t the e, charmng poetry an romance of ~ Road to
melodrama and vigorous political homiy 1.-The Mar of TIL Hour" by George
Fartes "salomy Jane" Plays like these, revealing $ they d in their u
traffaI Of POT promise 1y a s opP fha fu tssen of s' n st a srams. observation Of life as
mua dS a%" heir G@epaoS hi has ' be sdS the @ assertions 9Hs0 tat q frivooas mua sna
EoT@ enth @ aas GaI "% In a ADDITION o't o thosa 's paHs Mentioned hons sHme Tor s%s
Ros sahl gained a werIearned success, n those W Clever farces, wild
6ss5ed by a Brpaf fhed r ~ as1rs' a % e9sart IN R1r MnGe Tss h hRe@ hRu npeort cd
r e 'aea % a 4arshsF tate its sadis"sss s5 sfs h n spite + the E" dei q : u
to its cheering message o eternal you'll.
Newark. Eugene Presbreys dramaiaation Of Gilbert Parkers novel The
fell short largely because Of faults nsyitaDle in the translation Of 50 e1
Straight Road" BY cyds Fitch. which vas a photesspaisan .'s ssp
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3 msbs' 5eass.m ~sess f S9 w. c Was D.S S2%' sS m hs Ts' Tarn BSsse @nd s5s' ;h1us t1
es@miany Theatre and conventional made fairly satisfactory entertainment
1uT Rs! @rss 2 2f R'' saa T tas n oSs S: sr n ossa q "a ss$s.ss %s5s % way . :
cansman' There we're two weeks Of @ repertoire Robert Robert N atea, reappsaT ed
I Hsa s4' h 5h" Mssp s1s. ss IssS"ssl n. 4 & ssn R5an ii . ,.a TSG@ mas + r. s1 SS, ssm sa3
a foolish religious meiodrama known as "a Soldier OF the Cross"
sapH IN nsz nas SI : victor s sHssss%t and amusing 9.f so nee q. sy I 9s R ssss
Theatre. This remarkable record vas made possible in no small measure
~ +a irrcsirihIe bunoonery OF those W popular stars David Montgom-
nv and FIRED Stone. Other entertaining musical pieces seen here fr the
st 4o were NcIntyr nd Heath in The Ham Tree, hi Rogers
Rrotbers in Panama" Sam Bernard in THE Rich Mr. Hoggenhemer" Kob
car,s anneared in Fay Templeton's old role in "Fory-fve Minutes from
For once George Conan vas caught mapping a musical piece his Fifty
fer success in George Washington, Jr" The Darymads -Fascinatn
There vas me week of grand opera. but Puccnis beautiful Madam But
+erev, nJayed to empty benches. Dockstader gave US "A u "nspehy
and' Eeuar a week IF his entertaining magic.
The most significant achievement Of the year on t the stage m New York
was te production of Augusta iWmass Inc W H5 - 1u,
vas as u ne ha+f foremost of American dramatsts Ihe Warrens of Virginia"
WORK 81 W u rn5 Arv Man" were noteworthy chiefly for the evidences of IN
am and ~ 1850 in he staging n hi acting. E. II. Sotherns Dundreary and
nna OF o oMa4o rnnorkl1 a sgnal advance in the career of that versatile and
ms ms Jon 10 S 10 and otis skinner 1t last came intoh W with his wonderful
taienteu ao, 90 goIne Colonel Brdeaui in 1.-THE Honor of the Family" The
aWne oa upT n FuIT and 1.-THE Wolf has attracted attention to a
success success 81 o. 90 walter II has had something to say in his plays M has
sutnor s Se tn saw if with the strength that lies in simplicity. Clyde Fitch,
known h" - - - American uthor was represented y a hat-succes in
most g Itenu.a md full success in Girls" Henri Bernstein's TT Thief and
he SHu. Waonedvs "The Servant in the House." weret the other principal
dramatic novelties. "a