Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-12
The Family.
Second Avenue, East of Nineteenth
Street.)
Vaudeville at 8, 8, and 0s15 ,. N. One
matinee Sundays and holidays.


offered the patrons of the Family thea
ter the last half of this week. The
bill is featured by Will Bradley and
company, presenting comic operetta
entitled THE Gypsy Wayfarers.
There are six good vocaliSts in the act.
Another act that is worthy of the term
feature is that being presented by the
Brahams, shadowgraphic artists. This
act is unique in every particular from
the fact that it is something new and
a change from the regular run of
vaudeville acts. One of the features
of the shadow pictures is the race be-
, tween two yachts. Lewis and Lewis
are presenting a comedy singing and
dancing sketch entitled ''Sweethearts."
Mr.. Lewis is very clever performer
on the cornet and also on the bugle.
The only single on the bill is Jay Page,
a clay modeler, but he is a classy en-
tertainer. Clay modelling is also some
thing new in the vaudeville line. Mr.
Pages molds the faces of various noted
characters right before the eyes of the
patrons of the house, and he does it
almost before they know what he is
attempting to do.
| "Under Southern Skies.'-When q
iplay has been presented for six entire
seasons to large and delighted audi
fences, returning three and four times
lduring that period to many of the cit
les visited, it is safe to assume that
that particular play is what is called
ia great big hit This is the history
lof Lottie Blair -Parker's play, Under
lSOuthern Skies" which returns to this
city Sunday, matinee and night, at
the Illinois theater This play has
lenjoyed phenomenal prosperity during
the six years of it's existence, and now
lis in its seventh season of continued
success.
II Is Big Hit.-The season is not
likely to give more delightful or ex.
, hilarating attraction than Messrs. Shu
bert and Lew Fields big review, "The
Mimic World" which comes direet
. from its seasons run in New York
where its managers succeeded in hav
, ing it soar above all previous Broad
WAY productions. ''The Mimic World
scheduled at the Burtis opera house
Davenport, Feb. 16, is one of the rea
. events in theatrical history, and is 6
happy, rollicking burlesque which goe:
with a snap and dash almost irresist
, ible. 1t is a composite entertainment
: tof the highest timber and delighted
playgoers all summer long at the Ca
. sino in New York.
81 Is a Mansfield SUGGESTIVE notabl;
drama, Richard Mansfield's success
q The First VIOLIN" comes to the Hi
nois tomorrow, matinee and evening
The title, 'The First Violin,' refers Il
the leader of the orchestra in the I'm
n perial theater in Elbarthal. Germany
namely, the musician who plays tn,
leading violin Eugene Courvoir
!, SER man who seemed to be of grea
refinement and noble in character, ye
around whom .ruch mystery Away
stood. His fellow players We're great
= ly in sympathy with him, yet wondere,
at his past They always believes
he. was of some great and noble fam
lily and that some sorrow shadowe
his life. The principal characters o
the play supposed to be are musicians
i members of 'Eugene's" orchestra. an
\ Eugene is 'The First Violin" but th
!. story has to do with the domestic al
!. fairs of Eugene" and May Wedde,
4 burn, the young English girl.
X <Hortense Nielsen in "Magda."-Mis
Hortense Nielsen, an actress of whof
much will be heard in the ftitur
= comes to the Illinois theater Monda
levening. Feb. Is, in the powerful moi