The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-18
IS TO LAUGH
WHEN SHE HANDS
BUNCH OF SLANG
Show at the Newark Theatre
This Week Is the Real
Prize Package.
MISS STALLS ACTING
IS I8=KARAT SUCCESS
Her Patricia 0'Brien in the
James Forbes Comedy Is
a Great Piece of Work.
AY. If anybody gives you q game
\ OF talk that Rose Stahl in 1.-THE

- AY. If anybody gives you q game
OF talk that Rose Stahl in 1.-THE
N~% Chorus Lady isn't the real
cream cheese he's Off his head. He's
got doodle-bugs in his gray matter.
She certainly is the prize-package
for passing out the merry tee-hee, and
when it comes TO a showdown on the
newest thing i'm slang she's got George
AIDE, George Conan and Chuck Connors
beaten seven ways. Don't miss 1t!
If you have TO pass Ut your weeks
board bill or put your ticker in cold
storage, don't miss it. Take your
STEADY along and show her the real
thing in shows. Say, If you do that,
you certainly win be a hit with her!
hts a pipei Nothing to it'll
Rose had 'em all going last night.
Either they were laughing themselves
blue in the map when she was hand
ing out the s~langnage. or else they
were swallowing hens egg Jumps IN
their larynxes' when she worked the
soft pedal and played on their sympa-
thies. They were all hers-that audi
enee-and she could do just about as
She sweetiy pleased with them.
James Forbes is the man that fitted
her out. He wrote the play, and, with
the lind assistance of Miss Stahl, Ger
tainly produced an 1S-carat success,
Where the piece would be without Miss
Stahl doesn't matter here. It's all to
the good as it stands, and when you're
thinking over the fine bunch of Bowery
compensation that Miss Stahl sheds Ike.
a duck sheds water, just remember 1t
was ]. Forbes that wrote it in the first
place. MIR. Forbes isn't SO new in he
situations OF the play as he is in the
dialogue. That old one about the in
nocent girl discovered in a bachelors
apartment ought to get in the union.
It's working overtime. OF course the
gag of the protecting elder sister TAX
ing the blame for the younger ones
misdoings and thus putting herself to
the bad with her sweetheart, wasn't
exactly invented yesterday either. But
it will do. There's nothing new under
the flies. and as long as Mr.. Forbes
has dressed his situations in nov
garb, there's no complaint coming from
us.
That dressing-room scene, or, per-
haps more properly, that undressing
room scene, in the second act. is the
s~ensation, though. Those chorus girls
hre. or act like it, the genuine article.
They could get a job holding a spear
any hour of the day. They are all to
the merry, merry, and the way they
kid zach other about their glad-raSs
and the ponies and other topics of
timely interest in the chorus is going
some. The brand of dope that Patricia
hands out in this act is-well, there's
q weak imitation of some of it in an
other column. See for yourself.
But it's Patricia O'Brien herself in
the person of Miss Stahl that comes
pretty neal being the whole shooting
match. Patricia tried to save little
sister from the evil Vaccinations of a
young bounder and got herself in
trouhle with the man she was going to
get spliced to instead. Patricia was
true blue through it all, and when she
gave that same young bounder a piece
Of her mind, large hunks of 1t, in fact,
she made everybody feel like climbing
up on his seat and shouting hallelujah.
It was a great piece of work, that.
in fact Miss Stahls whole performance
was a great piece of work. She has
something of the Warfeld gift of play
ing upon her audiences emotions and
mingling the tears with the laughter.
She gave a performance that is perfect
of its kind. Her success last night was
unqualified.
There IA one good thing about the
production at the Newark. H. B. Har-
ris, the producer, hadn't tried to pass
us any bad money in the shape of a
punk supporting company, as so often
happens in road productions. He gave
MS the real metropolitan company and
q cracking good one it was, too.
Miss Alice Leigh played Patricia's
mother. the kindly old Irish mother,
with great skill, and that excellent
actor, Giles Shine. played opposite her,
as Pat O'Brien, the trainer, and her
henpeeked husband. Eva Dennison was
the little sister. Francis Byrne was most
sincere and effective as the young
scamp. Dick Crawford, as Wilfred
Lucas, was manly n very much in
the character as Patricia's lover. the
honest racing trainer. Amy Lee was
the wardrobe who. il she hadn't
been a lady. would have handed you a
Slap in the map.