Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-06

lSecOnd Avenue, East OF Nineteenth
Street)
Vaudeville at 3, s, and cas- ,. m. One
matinee Sundays and holidays.
"A Girl at the Helm."-The musical
comedy "A Girl at the Helm" under
the management of the Princess
Amusement company, comes here dir
ect from the LaSalle theater, Chicago,
where it ran for more than six sue
cessful months, and will introduce 20
audiences here for the first time at
the Illinois theater tonight the most
put on by Mr.. Singer. 1t is second TO
i, none of its predecessors. The Time
| the Place and the Girl The I'm
pre-" "The Girl Question" and
| honeymoon Trail" The cast has
been selected with great care and
seems Incompatible both from its
brilliancy, individuality and its har-
monious blending, Billy S. Clifford and
Maud Lambert head the list and with
them are associated Countess Olga
Won Hatfield, Florence Martin. Leo
Hayes. William Arthur. Bernhard
Niemeyer. Robert B. Pitkin and the
$4,000 challenge beauty chorus.
ben .Hur."-The forthcoming on
gagement in Davenport of the new and
amplified production of General Lew
Wallace's masterpiece. Ben Hur." as
ARRANGED and staged by Klaw e Err
| LANCER, is creating animated discus
sion. This community has so long an
ticipated seeing this stirring biblical
| spectacle that the greatest enthusiasm
has been manifested since the an
nOuncement was made that four per-
formances were to be given at the
Burtis opera house beginning Monday
evening, and including matinee on
"Wednesday afternoon, April 19-2G21.
The play opens with the beautiful pre-
lude, The Star of Bethlehem" Ac
companied by the grand orchestral
score of Edgar Stilman Kelley, {
chorus of male voices behind the
scenes chants the prophecies of Isaiah
Iforetelling the coming of the Messiah.
The curtain becomes transparent, dis
closing to view a vast eXpanSe of star
lit desert, with camels sleeping in the
foreground, and the three wise mon
! kneeling in alteration of the star as il
appears to them in the eastern heav-
ems The curtain is raised on this
scene promptly at O'Clock and late
Corners will not be seated until its con
clusion in order not to mar its en-
chanting mystical effect.
Burns-Johnson Pictures.-The Burns
Johnson fight for the heavyweight
championship of the world. which DC
Cured at Sydney, Australia, last De
lcember, will be reproduced by moving
pictures at the Illinois theater tomor-
lrow, matinee and evening. These pic.
lures. which were taken by experts
the morning of the fight, are said tc
be the finest of the kind ever attempt
led. They were made in the open air
at II O'Clock of a bright summer
morning. and show the smallest de
tail of the If rounds of fast fighting.
together with interesting views of the
gathering of the immense crowd, Incl
dents that occurred preliminary to tn"
fight. and the training quarters of the
two pugilists. The entire entertain
ment covers two hours, and will be ex-
Iplained by an expert lecturer, who was
present in Sydney and witnessed the
fight from ringside seat.
At the FamiIy.-The bill at the Fam
| lily theater the first half of this week is
featured by Cecille Breton and com.
pany in a rollicking comedy sketch.
There are three people in the sketch.
two men and one woman, and all han,
die their parts in capable manner,
Especially the little woman Another
act that might be termed feature is
that being presented by Askeland, a
violin virtuoso. His selections are
jclassical, but are well received Ehr-
endahl brothers and Dutton, trio of
acrobats, are presenting a unique tum-
bling act, and some of their feats arc
in the marvellous class. Wayne Chris
lty, black face comedian, is making
a lot of fun for the patrons of the
theater.
He Got What He Needed.