The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-22
Plays and Players at the Local Theaters
AT THE HYPERION
The Gay White Way Monday and Tuesday-Mme. Nag imova and The Lion
 and the Mouse"
Broadway with it's famous theaters.

Broadway with it's famous theaters. It's gorgeous restaurants, It's hustle and bustle of twentieth century life, is ia miliarly known as "The Gay White Way l. is the theatrical mecca to- ward which every aspiring actor looks longingly. It is the objective point to which the pleasure-seeker and the out of town visitor from north, south, east and west, turns instinctively, while the man who goes to New York "on business finds time for his evenings of pleasure along this greatest amusement highway in the world Tn naming their view, The Gay Whi e Way the Messrs, Shubert have selected an ex- pressve and singularly approprts.e title, because the piece is made up of clever burlesques and travest.es of some thirty of the best known musical and dramatic successa5 of the Broad way of this and past seasons The Gay White Way which comes to the Hyperion, Monday and Tuesday, Feb ruary 24 and 25, was presentel ear.s | last fall at the famous New York Gas ino, the home of reviews, by the splen- | did tristan combination of Jefferson Dt l Angelis, Blancha Ring and Alexand.r Carr accompanied hy Maud Raymond,
 L2uro Guerite. Katherine Bell, Post &
 Russell, Frank Doane and a company of eighty. It jumped into instant fa-
 vo- with all lovers of the kind Of en-
 tertainment that relies for its success
 on a combination of clever players. 1 tuneful melodies, sh3pely women gor> | geously eowned and harmoniously cos | tuned, and beautiful and elaborate
 scenic settings The Gay White Way"
 is g riot of color, melody and wit. a | medley of well known songs, famous
 scenes from the most popular play,
 and Representations of noted players,
 each burlesdue, but suggesting the
 original sufficiently to make the effect
 wonderfully amusing and entertsnins.
 The four massive scenic settings. rep
 resenting famous resorts on the bis
 amusement thoroughfare, are from the
 brush of Arthur Voegtlln. of the New York Hipp0drome; ana something of
 the vastness of everything connected
 with that mammoth playhouse has
 been suggested, it Is said, Tn the re-
 markable perspective and feeling Of
 great distances produced by the gifted
 painter One of the most attractive ! scenes represents the actors fund fair,
 which was held last year at the Met.
 tropolitan opera house. Another that | is said to be strikingly beautiful is the | interior of one of the latest and mos. magnificent after-theater resorts. In ! both of these scenes men and women prominent on the stage and in the bus!- ness offices of leading theaters are so
 cleverly impersonated that their iden- | tity is unmistakable. John Drew. Mad 1 anne Nazimova, Anna Held Margaret 1 Ellington, Kyrle Belew and a score of | players equally well known, will ap- pear in counterfeit presentment. Among | the musica and dramatic successes that
 are burlesqued by the three stars and | their associates are; The Merry
 Widow" The Thief" "The Girl Be
 hind the Counter The Great Di-
 vide" "The Music Master" and more
 than twenty others