The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-12
THE STAGE

The Cohan a Harris Ministries. with
George Evans and all the Honey
Boys" who left such q favorable I'M
preston everywhere last season. will
be the attraction In the Detroit
Opera house for three nights begin
ming Thursday. Jan. IL. The enter
tainment promised by Cohan & Har-
ris this season Ia all new. II IL
promised as being on the same liberal
scale of magnitude and Offering quite
as many high-class features as the
notable performance OF last year. The
new first part is called The Crimson
Trellis," and Is preceded by a pic
torial history OF minstrelry. dating
from the Troubadour period or the
fourteenth century up to the present
time. The first part IL followed by
several big and deliberately presented
features, concluding with THE Fire
mans Picnic" one-act minstrel
comedy In two scenes, by George nj.
Cohan, for which Mr.. Cohan has COM
posed several lively musical hits.
The Kansas City Star i'm reviewing
the performance of George Fawcett
In '"rhe Great John Canton" at the
Shubert theater I'm that city recently.
said: Mr. Fawcetts work In this role
can be compared only with that OF
Joseph Jefferson I'm Rip Van Wrinkle.
Richard Mansfield In Beau BrummelP
and David Warheld In The Music
Master II Is just such perfect char
acterization in its way as any OF these
others, and that Is all that may be
said" The Shuberts are sending this
production with Mr.. Fawcett and the
original New York cast to the Garrick
theater next week. The company en-
braces Jack Webster, Lucius Hender-
son. Allen Fawcett, Thurston Hall
and many other players wellknown
to Broadway audiences. The play ID
n dramatization OF Jerome II. Eddy's
novel of Chicago life, Canton Il Co.
The stage version has been done by
j. Hartley Manners. the eminent
English playwright.
Beverly OF Graustark." dramatic
alton OF George Barr McCutcheon's
successful novel. sequel to "Grau-
stark" will be offered for the first
time in Detroit In the Lyceum theater,
next week. This interesting romance
of Prince Danton. who masquerades
asNBaldos, a mountaineer. Is fully as
interesting and fascinating as tho
earlier McCutcheon writing. and has
been staged with care and diligence
by A. G. Delemmater and William
Norris.
The old favorite. "McFadden's
Flats will be offered in the Lafayette
theater next week. This dashing
comedy was first inspired by the car
toons of B. f. Outcault and given
life by T.. w. Townsend. The piece
has been upon the road for IA years.
a guarantee OF its worth as an enter
tainment. This season the piece Is
under the direction of Barton & Wis
well. who have given 1t big scenic
dressing and provided large cast.
The comedy situations and music are
said to have been entirely rewritten
for the present season.
When Robert Edeson comes to the
Detroit Opera house the first half or
next week in "A Mans A Man." Il
new American play by Anna Steese
Richardson and Henry Leslie Fried
enberg. he will be surrounded by one
of the most adequate supporting CON-
panies organized in recent seasons,
the cast comprising such experienced
and well-known players as Menifee
tombstone, Josephine Loyett. Helen
Macbeth Blanche Weaver. Howard
Hall, Cordelia Macdonald. Joseph
Rawley. Lawrence Window, James
Grady Elsa Lorimer, Eleanor Shelton
and Maggie Holloway Fisher.