The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-11
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Feb. LILLIAN Russell.
Feb. 18.-On the Firing Line.
Last Nights Play.

Society turned out en- masse last
night to witness the presentation Of
Madame Sherry" at the opera house.
Pensacola theatregoers had been prom
Used something as good as THE Merry
Widow" and well was the promise
filled. The music in 1.-The Merry
Widow" is saucy and snappy while the
music Of Madame Sherry" is the kind
that thrills and inspires, the kind that
reaches the soul and fingers. From
the opening scene where the dancing
pupils are singing Every Little
Movement Has Meaning All It's Own"
until the curtain falls in the last act
when the same strains Of music are
heard. Madame Sherry" was one long
and delightful entertainment. So well
were many numbers received that
encore after encore and many curtain
calls were called for by the spon-
taneous applause from the audience.
George w. Lederer, who gave this
country its first theatrical revue when
he produced THE Passing Show" and
followed the innovation with the form
Of early musical comedy that estab-
lished his first fame and that of the
New York Casino. where he produced
1t during many successive seasons
form that 1.-THE Belle of New York"
and it's successors instanced-has pro-
jected in Madame Sherry another
kind of musical play. Described on
the programme as a French vaudeville.
Madame Sherry" the latest Lederer
manifest. differs from the former Ca
sino managers output, in that instead
of playing the chorus up and making
it a dominant element OF the piece, h..
represses it in numbers, Importance
and action until it is scarcely moce
consequential than an added bit Of
scenery.
The love Of man for maid under
odd circumstances, love of the soulful.
romantic sort, love that blossoms in
the heart of youth and fiourishes as
true love ever does, when things do
not go smoothly, is the reigning spell
of the production, but this love, this
courtship. is so beset on so many sides
and attended by so many misadven :
lures, that while itself remaining an
appealing interest, all its accessory
situations arouse amusement. Some
idea of the fun developed may per-
| haps be cleaned by a summary Of the
character of the play which besides
the lovers include an Italian hous,
| janitor. his Irish wife, lively fun
| loving actress, New York man about
town, an excitable Venezuelan, an
amusingly whimsical uncle of the maid
in love, and others. including the pu-
pills of a dancing school and the guests
of yachting party.
| Miss Estelle Thebaud, handsome and
fiorid as Carmen herself in most of her
stage representations. has a role In
which she is most happy and facile
"Pepita" is the name Of the character
| "Pepita" is Spanish girl, and with a
Spanish girls traditional privileges
when in love is very much SO. In
Madame Sherry" her sweetheart Is
tickle. and for some time the poo.
swain is kept busy keeping free fro.r
.Pepita's'' jealous vengeance. Blu.
| jealous rage when sung In a musical
piece isn't the fearsome thing it is in
melodrama, and this Miss Thebau6
arouses many a laugh by her satire.
/ Lillian fuckers role appears in tbs
gaiety as teacher of aesthetic
dancing. 1t is in this teachers dane
studio that the first strains are heard
of 'Ev'ry Little Movement Has q
Meaning All its Own" the musical
theme of the production. The dance
pupils of the tutor. Lulu, an actress
and dancer" accompany their precep-
tress in singing and dancing the al,
which, contrary to general impression
lis written in waltz time, but in %
| measure.
| Madame Sherry was all that was
| claimed for it and deserved the largf
audience which heard it last evening
Manager Smith said the audience wa;