The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-21
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7 have laughed So much this week
that I nm hardly able to steady my
mind long enough to write the usual
bunch of chatter. in fact every time
l Try to think about the doinEs in
other parts of the theatrical world |
begin wondering what the performs
anre will be like tonight. I have soy
eral times tried to think which of the
funny scenes DIR. Parnum put on made
mo laugh the most II ] am quite
lively rXcruciating.
Ethel barrymore received nne-nf the
creates tributes V q paid to an &C
trcsS Ivy her fellow thespians. 1t &C.
Cured on the occasion Of Il special
professional matinee that Eddie Foy
and his company put on the other
day in Chicago. During one of the
intermissions My. Foy read q telegram
from Miss Barrymore confirming the
repor, that she was greatly improved
in health. and with one accord the
five hundred actors and actresses rose
from their seats and shouted applause
at tho, welcome news.
The Scotch play When Runty Pulls
the Strings that I mentioned in one
of my previous letters. was produced
on October 10 hut its fate is still in
he balance MS the critics are quite at
variance as to its merits. Acton Davies
was pleased with the we'll devised
comedy, and referred to it as a per
feet performance. while another we'll
known writer differs with him OIL
siderahly. and gives just as conclusive
evidence Of the play heirg ANYTHING
but a success. SO We will have To wait
until We get the opinion of the public.
who are really the ones who say what
the a of a play is to he.
The Theodore Thomas orchestra of
Chicago is to visit New York Decem-
ner IL. and will give M performance
at Carnegie hall. They will ais" visit
Philadelphia. BROOKLYN and Boston.
David Bispham will give an all Eng
lish program in Carnegie hall October
30 when the feature of his entertain
ment will be TennNson's Elaine With
a musical setting by Ada Weisel Pow
ers who will accompany Mr.. Bispham's
rendition.
Theatricals are making a splurge
this week in New York. There are half
a dozen new attractions and each of
them of great Importance.
At the Century theater Liebler and
company this afternoon raised the
curtain for the first time on the much
heralded production of The Garden
of Allah" after TWO years of hard work
WI tIiIS OIdIIldllEtt!nll OF fOneTt ftlCk-
ems novel. So many applications for
seats had been received that the man.
agen1ent decided to open With two per-
formances instead Of the one that was
originally advertised. The author saws
that he would never have been able
to nave dramatized his work success
fully without the able assistance of
Mary Anderson de Navarro who was
his indefaticablc assistant in the work.
THAI, Sh4 ,1.< -.
ULCERS to n an adequate cast for
the performance and also to give an
equally adequate reproduction IF the
scenes. For this the managing direc-
tor George c. Tyler. the stage direc-
tor. Hugh Ford. and the scenic expert.
Edward Morane. spent a considerable
time with Mr.. Fickens in the desert
where the action Of the play tran
spires. The party took hundreds of
es II Riskra. which figures in the play
as Reni-Mora the garden of Count
Anteoni. and Of the great Sahara it
self, and We're fortunate in witnessing
q typical sandstorm which is repro
duced on the stage of the Century the
alter. Mary Mannering will he the
Domini Enalden and Lewis Waller
will appear as Boris A%ndroysky.
David Warficld returned to New
York in The eRturn of Peter
Grimm which is the most recent of
Mr.. Belasco's numerous writings.
Last Monday vas the first appear
ance Of Marguerite Sylvia in the
Franz Eehar romantic comic opera
"Gypsie Love"
Another new one is The Enchan-
tress" with Kitty Gordon il the title
role.
Crowds still attest the popularity of
"Passers-By" and enjoy the excep-
tional humor and hunaneness Of the
characters.
Most happily cast in the best COM
edy role ever assigned her Billie
Burke has scored an undoubted tri-
umph in The Runaway"
The affairs Of Little Miss Fix-it'
which were in an almost hopeless
tangle owing to the illness of Nora
Bayes are once more Strengthened out
and the tour will he resumed with