The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
THE STAGE

Can an evil mind, breeding eVil
thoughts exert an adverse influence
upon an entire family, bring that fam
ily TO ruin and the members OF the
household remain in ignorance or the
reason for the unhapplness? Such Is
one of the questions around whlch
THE Rosary" a beautiful play dwell
inc upon the power Of thought and
thought suggestion. is built. The piece
is from the pen of Edward E. Rose
and will be offered In the Lyceum the
alter next week A strong cast and
adequate production is promised.
The Girl and the Stampede" q
story Of the west, is announced as
next weeks Offering IN the Lafayette
1 theater. The play has to do with the
! invasion of a western ranch by a
young eastern university girl, who be-
comes involved with the bad man
of the country, and also IN love
affair with one Of the cowboy rangers.
! Among the clever character bits are
! Henry Oleson, the true-hearted fore
man. a Swede girl in love with Henry,
and the old western squire
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troit opera house, Jan. ., fol one week,
/ in THE Deserters.' will be remem-
bered by theatergoers as the original
I Annie Jeffries in The Third De
gree" The enormous success scored
/ by Miss Ware in this play, and her
wonderful work as an emotional &C
tress. won for her the stellar honors
she is now enjoying. The presenta-
| ton CT The Deserters' at the Dc
i t,oit will be marked with the same
cast and production that was In evil
dence during the successful run OF
this play in New York.
Paying the Penalty" is the title OF
sensational dance which will he
presented in the Avenue theater next
week as An added attraction with the
Miss New York Jr. Co. This Is a
dance depicting life in Paris slums
and the act has been given pictur-
esuue setting The dance Is performed
by Bennett and Gladys Mitchell aud
requires a supporting company OF %
people Two lively musical comedies
are offered by the Miss New York Jr.
Co. both the work OF John j. Black
who assumes leading roles in both.
Mr. Black Is assisted by William
Conan, Billy Newton. Fay O'Dell,
Pearl Black and a large chorus of
young women who display great va
riety Of stunning COWS. Many orig
inal musical numbers will be offered
by the principals and chorus. There
Is also IAN olio section comprising six
vaudeville acts.
Fife Fay, the attractive singing
Coincidence who is the headliner Of
the current weeks program In the
! Temple. is pack in vaudeville after
three seasons in the musical comedy
field and says she is glad to return
to the variety stage. Miss Fay first
achieved success in vaudeville with
her immense songhit, The Belle CT
Avenue A." When she decided "a
enter musical comedy, she had a We
hicle bearing the same name. prob
ably with the idea that the popularlty
Of the song would do much toward
making successful her later venture
In this surmise. she was correct. the
musical play being instantly received
with great favor. Miss Fay. when
asked Tor nCT reasons lot IetuIuiH-
10 vaudeville after he's success in the
other neld, said. 1t IS rather. difficult
To tell all that prompted me TO again
enter vaudeville think, however,
am like many other 'laboring people
who are just now striving for more
money for their work and for shorter
hours In vaudeville che is on the
stage for about fifteen minutes each
performance and then one Is at liberty
| till 'show-time' again In musical
comedy. especially when one has the
leading role, the performer must be
on the stage practically all the time
This is never less than two hours and
sometimes much more. which is
slightly different from the time re.
uuired i'm vaudeville. Then, too, In
the latter. the remuneration Is almos,
invariably higher thar I'm musical
comedy. These reasons would be sui
thcient 20 induce most folk to choose
TVaUdCvtfte vUutruA - trt.t- -a-it asked
Miss Fay. with a smile. And her in
IIeryiewer agreed.