The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-30

New York. and offers Young Buffalo
further opportunities TO exploit his
peculiar personality and skill.
4 The sale OF subscription tickets for
the three performances OF grand opera
In the Detroit opera house b.
the Metropolitan grand ,pera com
pany, April 1916. will open at the
box Office OF the theater, Thursday
morning at o'clock. The sale OF
tickets for single performances will
not open until Friday April 8. The
brief season OF opera will open with
q performance OF Puccini's Madame
Butterfly" with Geraldine Farrar In
the name part, which she created
and has made SO famous. Saturday aft
ernoon a double bill will be given VI
LEI Pagliacci" and "Haensel und
Gretel' and Saturday evening Tam
hauser."
As an attraction for the last week
OF the regular season OF the Lyceum
theater the management has selected
Willard Holcomb's version OF Augusta
u. Evans famous novel, st. Elmo.
a book which has been translated In
a dozen different languages and at
present ranks among the classics.
The piece will be presented locally by
Vaughan CHASER and his splendid com
pany Of players, all well known here.
and who will remain In the city In
definitely. following up the st. Elmo"
engagement with the regular spring
and summer stock engagement, which
will begin Sunday night. April 10. The
story of st. Elmo hinges upon a duel
in which the offending principal. Muir
ray Hammond Is killed. The Incl
dent leaves St Elmo, aristocrat, gen.
tleman and intellectual giant. cynic,
abhorrent Of the world and distrustful
Of all. Edna Earl. pleoian, but am
bilious and struggling girl, Is thrown
into his path. and after years he rea.-
ICES his opinion of women must
change. and the process of regenera-
ton begins through the influence OF
was the first to condemn him as a
murderer. Fay Courteney, and many
familiar people will be seen in the
cast
The dance Of THE Spirit of Cham
payne" In the second act Of Klaw a.
Changers new musical entertainment
The Silver Star" which will be pre-
scented in the Detroit opera house for
one week beginning Monday. April %,
with matinees on Wednesday and
Saturday, is more interpretive. though
II lacks none of the magical technique.
of the first three ballets In act one.
AS the daughter OF the vine. Genee
is a glorified embodiment Of the mo-
ton OF the restless heart OF cham
payne. In the third act. Mdlle. Genee
appears in ballet called Spring"
IL Is here that the triumphant dancer
reaches the zenith OF her power,
technical and poetical. In this num-
Der she dances on her toes for over
three minutes All OF Mdlle. Genee's
dances are new. For her accompan-
! list. Klaw & Erlanger engaged the
celebrated composer c. j. NJ. CHASER,
of Vienna. Alexander Genee. Miss
Genee's uncle and instructor. re-
hearsed the ballet and the sixteen
young English coryphees who were
/ brought over from the Empire theater
in London, for the production.
! William Fayersham will present his
spectacular production Of Stephen
Phillips Herod In the Garrick theater
next week. Upwards Of two hundred
people are employed in this play a
play, by the way, that has proven as
excellent as literature as il is In
drama. Apart from its merit as a
spectacle, Herod is, according to all
accounts, a play OF action. OF move
ment. and of strife. Those who have
read II found II delight as litera-
ture, little understanding its bigness
as n drama. The reason for this Is
that the author does not indicate in
the text what is disclosed In the way
OF poignant suggestion in the play.
He Intended that IL should be the. =,
else he would not have written -
play. for Stephen Phillips was all
actor long before he tried his hand
at drama. And he is the one
dramatist OF our time who, besides
being great poet. Is a great play
wright Another curious thing about
Herod Is this, that while its spectacu-
lar features add to it's interest. IL
would still be fine play If performed
by very few people. But the great
crowds that people the stage were
intended TO be there by the author;
and SO Herod has a double interest.
that OF bigness as drama, and
splendor as spectacle. The big
scene OF the play. Herod's Hall Of
Audience, is described as being one
OF the most magnificent sets ever seen
on the stage. Mr. Faversham has
gathered about him q very fine COM
pany, and his own performance has
been generally commended as beng
the highest of his achievements.
When Lillian Russell appears in her
newest success. The First Night" i'm
the Detroit opera house, on Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4.
and 8, the principal comedy part i'm
her supporting cast will be looked
after by Digby Bell. The piece Is an
adoption from the German by George
" Hobart and Is the funniest farce
OF many that have been brought TO
this country from the land where
farce Is handled at its best. The plot
deals with young wife who tries to
have her comic opera produced with
out letting her husband know she was
in any way connected with II Ami,c