The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-09
Gee, Geraldine, Amt That Rose StaM
the Whole Scream as a Spear Toter
She Sure Hands Out the Stuff at
the Newark and That
Amt No Kid.
BREEZY BILLS AT THE
LYRIC AND PR0CT0R'S
Melodrama and Burlesauc
Shows Are Up to the
Usual Standard.
10 you want to know sumpen

ID Honest sSs want to N''" ''"''"
The biggest screech In town
this week is Rose Stahl. the chorus
lady" at the Newark Theatre. Any one
who says she isn't the main eagle
needs to have his think tank swept and
busted and repapered. She's got all the
rest nailed to the post and cryin' for
hep, while she wins out so easy it's like
takin' candy from toddlers.
She was here last year, just as easy
with the slang and as sure of making
her audience take to Its handkerchief
when she worked the tremolo stop; just
al confidential about the number e
piunks she had to spend for that "Susie
Smitherino" of q veil, and the cost OF
the puffs-includiu' the ba-rette-she
coaxed from a blond friend who had de-
cided to let her top go back to brown
but all these things didn't put the first
evidence of a crimp in her welcome Of
last night.
A big. enthusiastic audience was right
on the job to hand her the glad hand at
her first entrance. Inside of two min
utes she had it jumpin' through hoops
and eatin' out of her hands, and at the
end of every act she had to make a
noise like the original Cheshire cat.
It's a wise audience that knows the
goods all right, all right, and there's no
kick comm about its appreciation of
Pat OBrien.
All your old friends, with one or two
exceptions, are backin' her up again
this year. Alice Leigh is as much the
real article as ever as Patsey's mother,
and hpp father is cffII Gf1ao Chime
Earle r. Williams is the new villain.
but there're no remarks to register
about the way he k-nits his eyebrows
and hands over the smooth talk to the
pretty and dainty. but minus a couple
of wheels, Nora, again played by Eva
Dcnnison. Pats sweetheart, Dan Mai
lory, is again played by Winfred Lucas,
and a right good sort he is, with a
heart so big Its thumpin' all over the
outside Of him. The chorus isn't as
strange as it might be II the members
were all strangers. and that brings us
to the famous dressing-room scene,
which is as near the real article as 1t
was possible to make ii.
Gee, but them chorus ladies is a
the heart out of the rest without as
Jfl4tu do Ntitth III a RiiNi vi oaiss
And that Miss Simpson,!
Them girls Is pikin' each other off
for further orders, when in comes Pat,
trimmed up like the main booth at a
church fair:
Say, girls, are you pipin' the veil?
Amt it a Susie Smitherino? An guess
what? All, no, l can't wait! ninety
eight cents. Can you beat it? Hey,
Gs.--r1, o-,aou xra, amt fha an1U
daily hint from Paris. You have to
have your clothes made to order? Say.
girls, amt that a shame, now amt 1t?
Oh, well, that's the advantage of
havin' 8 perfect figure.
ION the level, girls, after I bought
them yellow kicks my pocketbook
looked like q disaster. Gee, it's late,
fifteen minutes to entrance. Say, / saw
Carter today. Amt she a winner? L
was so heal I could ha' touched her.
Did I rubber? Why, / rubbered so that
everybody was rubberin' at me rub
berlin at her.
what did you say, Simpson? Say.
girls. l amt no member of the anvil
chorus, but il some people was where
they belong they'd be maxim beds. L
guess that's bad, Ell?
II had nice hair once, but l mar
celled II to death and then busted the
ends off. / can't seem to get used to
my face tonight. We a bunch that it's
too classic. Say, girls, did you ever
notice how much looked like Terry"
All kidding aside, Miss Rose Stahi is
as able an actress as has come out of
America In many a day. Patricia
O'Brien in her hands is a real girl. not
specially refined, but never vulgar,
genuine to the core as to affections and
sense of right and wrong, n ready at
n moments notice to sacrifice herself
for those she loves. 1.-THE Chorus Lady"
deserves a long life. Its theme is old,
but its situations and characters are
new and different.
ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.