Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-01-16
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Edna Wallace Hopper Tells a
News Man That She Would
Like to Plav Hsre Again Per-
fOrmance Most Notable
Yet Seen at the
Majestic.

81 was very much surprised when
! learned that you had theatre in
Amboy, and / think it is one of the
prettiest houses l have ever played in.
am delighted with the audience and
I hope to come here again. .
1t was with these words and a
hearty handshake that Miss Edna
Wallace Hopper, the petite star of
Fifty Miles from Boston, greeted a
NEWS man in her dressing room be-
I tween the first and second acts at
the Majestic theatre last night.
When Miss Hopper expressed q
wish to play here again Manager.
Shannon, with his thoughts on the
box Office receipts, smiled in that
meaning way which has won for him
the sobriquet of The Smiling One"
and he said he hoped so too, at which
even Miss Hopper's colored maid
Joined in the merriment.
Il have often motored through this
city on my way to Long Branch and
other seashore resorts, but ! hardly
expected TO see such a splendid thea
tre here. l must tell you a funny
story about that. One of the men in
my company, when he arrived in
town today, asked a man on the
street where the theatre was. The
Amboy man looked at him few Sec
onds and replied: We amt got no
theatre here as l know Of
II I had known how the seats
were selling l should have been glad
to give a matinee here today" con-
tinued the dainty little actress, just
as we are TO do in New Brunswick
tomorrow. We broke the record at
Easton Monday night and at Plain
field last night, and | should like 10
go over this week 8 route again. wa
will soon play in New England for a
| week or so, then in Newark and we
are booked TO play at the Garrick
theatre in New York for four weeks.
We will have exactly the same COM
pany in New York as on the road,
except for few more girls, just to
fill in. l am proud of my company.
1t is so well-balanced and each mem
Der seems TO enter so naturally into
his Or her part. 1t is not often that
star has as much reason TO bs
proud of those in her company, but [
certainly am.
Last nights performance was the
most notable ever given here, in
many ways. The seats were all sold
long before the hour to begin, and
scores were standing The boxes
were all fllled and the gathering wars
thoroughly representative one. The
play, while on somewhat different
order from George NJ Cohan's prevf-
Gus efforts, is entitled to be called
his best, and Perth Amboyans re-
ceived it with enthusiasm. Applause
and laughter were never lacking and
q +ni. l.
after the second act.
The calls for q speech were so
insistent that Miss Hopper stepped
to the front of the stage and briefly
expressed her thanks for tile cordial
reception.
In the role of a demure country
postmistress, Miss Hopper is in a
different field entirely than when she
stance, "Floradora' or THE Silver
Slipper" but the character of Sadie
Woods seems as though it had been
written for her with a strict adher-
ence to her talents. The supporting
company is a strong one, and dis
tinct hit was scored by Emma Janvier
as the village gossip Of Brookheld;
James c. Marlowe as Tim Harrigan;
colt; Laurence Wheat as a Harvard
baseball hero: Master Lores Grimm
as a country boy; John Westly as
the postmistress' brother; and many
others.
Six tuneful songs are interpolated
during the action OF the piece. Miss
Hopper sings Jack and Jill" in
Miss Hopper and Mr. Wheat sing
"A Small Town Gal' with good ef-
feet; sixteen-year-old Master Grimm
and chorus arouse applause with
"The Boys Who Fight the Flames;
Miss Hopper and Mr. Wheat sing
Waltz With Me" IN beautiful fash
ion; Miss Janyier has the laugh-hit
of the play, "Ain't it Awful?'';; and
"Harrigan" is given in iDimitable
style by Mr.. Marlowe.
The village characters, high school
boys, town girls, drum corps and fire.
men are all finely portrayed, and the
Offering deserves all the success pos
sible.
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