The Detroit times., 1911-05-03
THE STAGE

II Is not often a Detroit audience
stops In the hurry and hustle OF de-
paFtuFe from the theater, TO applaud,
but such compliment Is paid David
Warheld in The Return OF Peter
Grimm in the Detroit opera house,
this week At the opening perform
ance Monday evening the majority OF
the audience. and Il was a record
breaker for numbers, kept their seats,
bringing Mr.. Warheld and his asso-
ciate players before the curtain again
and again The play Is beautiful
idyll and staged so wonderfully and
artistically than II cannot fail to add
to the regulations OF Mr.. Warfield and
Mr.. Belasco. The play and It's delight
full star promises TO set record for
appreciation and attendance In Detroit
theaters.
10 10. the youthful Sioux Indian
telepathist. is puzzling Templates with
her astounding mental feats as she
has baffled psychologists and scien-
fists the country over. 10 Los pecu-
liar talent first made itself known
when she was four years old, She
was under the charge OF j. Ia Cotton,
an Indian agent stationed upon the
reservation where she was born, who
had her properly educated. The won
derful gift has grown with her years
and recently IL was decided 10 invade
stagedom with demonstration or her
abilities. The premier was made only
few weeks ago, but Lo Lo has met
with unusual success through her
mystifying exhibitions OF the power or
mental suggestion.
Commencing Sunday matinee, which
will be the last Sunday afternoon per-
Torrance OF the stock season, Vaughan
| CHASER and his players will offer one
OF the biggest dramatic successes OF
the past few years, The Squaw Man,
by Edwin Milton Royle. The play tells
an interesting story of an English
nobleman, who 10 shield a broker and
the family name from dishonor. comes
| TO America He tries ranch life In
Utah, marries an Indian girl and Is
known as the squawman. Later Eng
lish friends try. TO persuade him 10
give up his wife and return TO his
titles and estates but he refuses until
the Indian wife makes IL possible by
taking her own life.
Mr. CHASER should be ideal In the
role OF Jim Carston and Miss Cour-
teney will be happily cast as the In
dian girl Nat-u-ritch.
Lima Abarbanell, primaC donna OF
| Madame Sherry" which comes TO the
Detroit opera house Monday evening
May 8, comes from a musical family.
Her mother was a prima donna. and
her father Is now directing sym
phony orchestra in Berlin. The singer
traces her family tree back TO the
twelfth century, where the name Abar-
banell is found. in It's first recorded
form, in Portuguese.
The wonderful feat performed by
Pelham, the hypnotist, at the Miles
this week, when he causes the blood
TO recede from the arm of a young
man, after the arm has been render
ed rigid and insensible, and then
causes 1t TO come rushing back. dem.
/ onstrates the possibility OF bloodless
and painless surgery. Pelham's SER
vices have been sought by physicians
in numerous instances, and, with his
assistance, they have performed
minor operations on patients without
the loss OF a drop of blood and with
out pain. Formerly Pelham used to
make his public demonstration still
more sensational by plunging a hat
pin or other sharp instrument
through the arm of the subject, but
the spectacle caused women to faint
and he decided to abandon this prac-
tice.
Robert McWade. the veteran actor,
now playing in the Carrier theater,
with George Fawcett, in The Remit
lance Man." secured his first theatri.
cal engagement, in Detroit, in 1856.
with the Metropolitan Theater Stock
Co. When the Detroit opera house
| burned. the night Julia Arthur opened
in "A Lady OF Quality Mr.. McWade
| was a member of that company. He
has had a long and honorable career
In the dramatic profession For %
years he played Rip Van Wrinkle In his
| own dramatization OF Irvings story
and In the early days of his career
| supported Booth, Barrett Charlotte
| Cushman and, more recently, many OF
the most prominent men and women
on the stage. Mr.. McWade served
throughout the civil war.
Three theaters in Chicago and four
| In New York have been endeavoring
to get Henrietta Crosman with her
latest play, The Peacock and the
| Goose" which will be seen In the De-
troit opera house the week beginning
May Is. Miss Crosman, however has
declined all offers to play In either
New York or Chicago this spring as
she Is booked to open the Criterion
| theater in New York in the fall and
prefers to hold TO that arrangement.
Roger Imhof, the star OF Chas. b.
Arnold's Fads and Follies Burlesquers,
to appear in the Gayety next week,
has made Irish comedy work his own
and his famous character as Casey
has been introduced in different shows
with which he has been connected
| from season to season, together with
original songs and parodies. Mr.. I'm
hof, aside from being an Irish char
actor comedian, Is an author, com.
poser. musician architectural
draughtsman. and we'll versed in
chemistry. II has been remarked oft
en- why a man with all these brilliant
accomplishments should give up his