The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13
Clara Lipman at the Shubert

Among the theatrical announcements of the past season no item of managerial news has created more pleasureable in- terest than the one to the effect that Miss Clara Lipman is this season return ing to the activities of the stage. She has been for several seasons a popular favorite in the real sense of the term an dher retirement following hard upon her success as player and author, in the case of Julie Bonbon," has been a mat ter of general regret
 Miss Lipman's return Is effected in a comedy called "The Marriage of a Star" an adaptation from the famous French play of La Marriage dune Etoile' -ae marriage of a popular idol; of a star in the theatrical sense). The original was written by Alexandre Bisson, author of nearly two dozen successes ranging from the light farce of the play we know as MT. Willinson's Widows to the great emotional celodrama, Madame X,'' and his clever nephew, Georges Thurner, who has also made name for himself on the Paris stage. Mile. Jeanne Granier the foremost comic actress of Paris acted the play through a brilliant run at the French capital in 1908. The rights to the play In the United States were promptly secured by Charles Froh- man, who, in turn, disposed of them to MISS lllpIldIi, dn dClE6bS WIlOIn lut LOll- don Daily Mail called "The Granier of America" during her run in that city in 1907 In Julie Bonbon."
 Miss Lipman'S role of Simone La Fee Ills upon her to impersonate a gifted, petted idol of the French stage. Her many years of success have been inter- spersed with an affair of the heart dur ing which time she has married a young American of good birth, excellent social position and an inherent belief that the stage is no place for wife. She has in- sisted on continuing her brilliant career in the theatre. They have legally sepa- rated by the simple allegation of her part of the convenient 'incompatibility of temperament"
 By agreement between them, their one daughter is left to the care of the hus- band and for the daughters sake, the pair maintain relations of cordiality. The girl occasionally visits her mother In Paris, but the latter fails to realize that the girl is growing into young woman hood until her great American tour is al most brought to a sudden ending by the daughters announcement that. she Is en- gagged to young man who, like the ia ther of the girl, is a rich, well-bred young American. inherently opposed to the stage. His parents oppose the mar riage of their son to the daughter of an actress, then, Tall under the charms of Simone. herself, and at length outline their problem as one created by the di- vorce. 4s
 It is with the working out of this prob lem with view to making happiness for all concerned that the comedy deals, starting from the situation just sketched.
 What is promised as novel and de- lightfnl incident of the comedy is one wherein the petted and spoiled Simone, unwilling to cut short her summer by the sea, insists on the transfer to her bungalow of author. stage director and all concerned in the production of the play in which she Is to make her first essay as an English speaking actress. and there ringing in her guests as members of the cast, goes through the rehearsals of the new play.
 The Marriage of Star abounds in delightful comedy and in it Miss Lipman is said to have an even better vehicle for the display of her marvellous talents than in the Famous Julie Bonbon' in which she starred in two, continents.
 Miss IIipman's engagement here is al the Shubert Thursday. Friday and Sat urday, with a matinee Saturday.