The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-10-10
MADAM X AGAIN
WELL RECEIVED AT
BELASCO THEATER
"Girl in the Taxi" Renews
Old Acquaintance at
the Columbia.

l.
Interpreted by well-balanced COM
pany of excellent artists. Madame x. -
& on it's third appearance before Wash
~ inCtun theater-goers Mt tho Belasco,
> held fair-siZed audience through its
three acts and prologue.
- The play. bv Alexandra Bisson, borh-
ers on the n,elodramatic. depicting a
mothers love. which holds pure af-
,,s lection through the lowest forms OF de-
Rradation
Thrust on the cold world by a hus-
band who finds he: in the erms of an
other man, she falls lower and lower,
until twenty wears afterward. she kills
an aGventurcr in order to hide her
q identity from her son.
-, The part hf Madame X is admirably
. portrayed by .Adeline Dunlap. who.
4 through the entire drama plays the part
triaidscene is especially appealing. and
4. brought tears to the eyes Of many in
n, Inc audience. The part Of her son Ray
= Jnond was taken by Harry Mainhall
the part. AS Louis Floriot. the hus-
= band Byron. Douglass scored. while
Charles Stanley and Maurice Drew. as
I" the confidential gents furnished what
little comedy there was to tighten the
u ihemc
X r D. Guise. as Chesnel. Heller Court
ney. as Rose, r. Patton Gibbs. as Noel,
Z Edwin Forsberg as Jardue. and Harry
-.
X exceptionally strong supporting cast for
1.-The real principals IN the drama.
80 1.-The Girl in the Taxi" and her adj
+ mirers returned to the Columbia. last
night. and the familiar farce. although
presented by a different cast. was il;
= the main as entertaining as when first
seen in the Capital. Theatergoers all
remember the plot Of THE Girl in the
s-NTaAi - which. in its expurgated form. Is
not near so naughty as the name i'm
4 plies. or as the original French version.
= 1t amuses without being offensive and
y is presumed to portray phase of
Z Rro1twav life. with laughter provoking
8 complications in every act.
= Julie Ring. as The Girl was ire
: sistFblv fresh. vivacious and pleasing in
Z The role. Possessing a pretty face and
Z, figure. and supplied with a magnificent
:; wardrobe. her presence on the stage
z biase theater-goer. Jean Salisbury. who
3 Is cast as Just one of the confiding
, wives Of the piece. was equally US
: charming. although her opportunities
: were more limited. Bobby Barry plays
: the role created bv Carter De Haven,
: and his work seems equally as good. He
( was the chief fun-producer and scored
as the unsophisticated ''mCther's boy"
who finally summoned courage to ir:-
9 Taxi
:, Jack NorvaI assumed the part of
= Fercy Peters. who is sick except when
4 he slips awav from home ir CAV New
;. York. He was thoroughly satisfactory.
= George Richards and Harry Hanlon
: have the two Other important male
), parts. and bring out. all there is in
;. them. Jules CluEetti. as the head
- waiter at Churchills. furnishes a few
breezy mcments. Jeanette Bageard,
= Ha!Cna Salinger. Franz; harrington
;. Amelia Nelson. Gertrude Shirley. Joseph
- Mack. W. ]. Casey. and c. w. Heck
;, niger. have minor parts which are
Z handled, well.
. With Walter C. Kelly, the Virginia
= judge. as a headliner, Chase's is this
!. week offering a well-balanced bill
I: for patrons of polite vaudeville. Mr..
y Kelly has returned after an absence
= Of several years with a budget of
y new stories, fresh from the court of
!, Judge Crutchfield in Richmond. He
!, also relates couple of incidents al
:, recent tour of the world. With
!. stories told in Kelly's inimitable
). style the house was kept conVulsed
= As purveyor of dialect stories he
= is in a class by himself.
Z A close second to the headline num-
!, Der is one far out of the ordinary in
: vaudeville. It is Kajiyama, billed as
J, THE Man With Two Brains" who
3 gives a marvellous exhibition of am
: bidextrous. upside down and reverse
8. chirography.
The Morau Opera Company. pre-
sentinS The Mardi Gras in Paris"
oner a high class musical treat, and
selections from grand operas are we'll
o given by the fine singers
. Wilbur Mack, the man who f1irts.
ana Nella Walker, the girl who gig
;. giles, are this season appearing in a
\, new talking sketch entitled ."The
= Dollar Bill" They are Chase favor
s ties and were warmly welcomed on
y their temperance.
- -Four of Kind" is a sketch in
which four burglars and two bur
nVaf
vel presented by George Leach,
Kingsley Benedict William Foran,
and Thomas Delmar
The r. A. G. trio sing and give in
strumental numbers in true rath-
ekeller' style, and were well received
A novelty on the program was the
EfoiIR Of Richardson's posing dogs
The daylight motion pictures pre-
s s,ID5g me events of the day con-
TIE Man Between which formerly
sailee, under the -colors of 'The Bridge
1uildeTs" and in which Guy Bates Post
Sehieved a. former seasons hit was
presented at the Academy last night. |
The Paay,'carried all its Old thrills, and
mad q few additional ones thrown IN
for good measure.
The plot hinges around the perform
ances OF a young civil engineer, whose
great ambition it is to build magnifi-
cent bridge. In the course of this
Undertaking the members of the Bridge
Builders Union conclude that they are
not sufficiently paid. There is strike !
and II that were not pad enough, the
plutocrat for whom the young engineer
Is building the bridge, and whose
daughter he fell III love with when he
went to intercede for the men, rules
that he must give up the daughter as
condition of winning his plea for the
men. Thus thrown between love and
the Bridge Builders Union he has a
terrible time, but finally squirms out |
to the great joy of all concerned, |
especially to the joy of those in the |