Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-06

THE ROCK ISLAN
Frank Mills, Leslie Kenyon, ]. B. Ma
her Louise Rial, Helen Macbeth, Two
Dawson. Thomas F. Mulligan, Harris
L. Forpes and Charles K. Gerard.
Guy Bates Post is soon to make his
first Chicago appearance as star in
stirring play of American life by
Rupert Hughes called 1.-THE Bridge"
Mr.. Post is under the management
this season of Harrison Grey Fisl1e.
In the Academy of Music the Messrs.
Shubert have added one more New
York theater to their already large list
of Manhattan playhouses. The first
attraction was Milton. Lackaye in "The
Battle" followed by THE Ringmas-
ter"
From Houston, Texas, where he is
appearing in one of his early musical
comedy successes, Richard earle
writes that his next entertainment g
to be called PRO and Con-" and that
in it he will play two brothers Of OPP
posite and opposing temperaments. He
is writing it himself-both words and
music.
In one of the vaudeville theaters two
Sidewalk conversationalists" engage
in this bit of repartee: How much do
you earn, my good MANI" inquiries one
of them. 81 get So a week." is the
answer "Only sS!" says the first 'n
surprise. Can a man live a good
Christian life on So week?" Huh"
replies the other. HE can't live any
thing else"
Michael Donlin, who, with Mrs.
Mabel Hite Donlin, is acting in vaude
vile, had a controversy with a critic
in the gallery the other day. Say,
Nike this individual shouted, you
play ball better than you act" Mr..
Donlin was quick with his answe-.
''If l was as good an actor as am
ball player" he said, "Frohman would
have hired me long ago."
Miss Bertha Kalich announces her
desertion of the English speaking
stage. Hereafter she will be heard
only in Yiddish, the language of her
youth in which she says she feels
more freedom of artistic expression"
than IN the more recently acquired
English medium. The direction of her
tours hereafter will be by her hus-
band. Leopold Specimen.
1.-THE Golden Widow" new play
lately produced under the management
of Messrs. Shubert, Is rarity in that
it has no stars-or rather several of
them, for Louise Dresser, Alexander
Clark and Connie Ediss are all featur-
ed. Thus the public has the best of
performances with a chance to elect
Its own favorite-each of the throe
players being admittedly of stellar cal
iber.
Fascinating little Marguerite Clark,
who is starring this year in 1.-THE
Wishing Ring" is to inaugurate the
new policy at the Great Northern thea
ter, Chicago. next Monday evening.
when that house moves from the ranks
of cheaper houses and becomes first
class theater.
E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Mar
lowe will appear next Tuesday IN
Antony and Cleopatra" at the New
theater, New York. Mr. Sothern will
play Marc Antony, a role In which he
has never appeared before, while Miss
Marlowe will be seen as Cleopatra, a
part new to her. The supporting cast
is said to be one OF unusual strength.
The contest between two women
wife and step-daughter-for the love
of the same man has been strikingly
worked out in a new four-act drama en-
titled Mrs. Dakon." which was brought
out by the Messrs. Shubert at the Van
Curler theater, Schenectady, N. Y,
Monday evening. The play, although
unheralded without star or featured
player, won by the vivid reality of its
story and the uniformly excellent cast
interpreting it.
May De Souza has been taking life
very easy since she returned from Eng
land as an established favorite of the
continent, or else the managers Of her
native land do not evaluate her serv-
ices as did those of London. She was
talked Of for THE Candy Shop" and
then her voice didn't At the songs;
she was announced as co-mate with
John Slavin In "The Air King" and
then she didn't like the piece. AT any
rate she is now in Chicago, and the
of the Cort theater is try
ing to engage her for 'aThe Kissing |
Girl"