New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-24
VARIETIES, ROOFS, PARKS
Two DebutS on the Bill at
ProCtor'S.
UNION SQUARE SOOTHING
Louise Dresser and Edna Good
rich Are Among Keith
Stars This Week.

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Only tho booming laugh OF Theodore
Roberts saved The Sheriff OF Shasta
from sinking into the cellar at Proctor
Fifth Avenue Theatre, where the sketch
saw its initial Broadway performance
yesterday afternoon. But Mr.. ROBERTS
lnuGh buoyed the piece up SO well that II
fioated across the footlights and landed
on the audience for hit, az least, II not
for an actual bullseye.
More credit is due Miss Florence Smythe
FOR her conception Of the playlet than for
her acting In IT, though toward the end.
and especially In the final climax, she
made the difficult part which she gave
herself considerably more convincing than
az first. II Is pretty hard for sophisti-
Gated Broadway audience TO understand
the soul OF any woman, even a flower or
the Sierras I'm the early days, who one
minute informs q man that he Is very
beautiful and the next refuses 10 let him
hold her hand because she IL married 10
another But aside from few little In
/ consistences Ike that, the sketch serves
It's purpose and points its moral with suf-
icient intensity, thanks particularly, as
aforesaid, to the mirthful roar Of the
Sheriff.
There was another debut az Proctors
yesterday. this time not 10 Broadway. but
to vaudeville II was effected by Miss
Carrie Reynolds, former prima donna SOU
brctte OF THE Kiss Waltz" The Red
Rose" and Tho Rose OF Panama" Red
roses were the need Of Miss Reynolds
hen she finished her charming little act
last night and we'll she deserved them.
Her songs are as dainty and refreshing
10 lister 10 as her presence Is 10 look
upon, and that is saying a good deal. II
includes, moreover n voice which doesn't
sound like sawmill on a busy day. As
so many Of vaudevIllos Coincidence"
do these days. Miss Rcynolds's voice is
not strong, but 1t If sweet
with these two new numbers vic several
OF the old favorites at the Fifth Avenue
this week. Phina and her Picks are as
clever as ever, especially that rascally
young piCkaninny. who dresses UP In a
green velvet gown and rolls his eyes In
perfectly outlandish manner The Avon
Comedy -Four mix melody and nonsense in
delightful measure, and Joe Wclch, the
true East slider, grows funnier every min
ute OF his act.
Others on a particularly pleasing pro-
grarnme are Thomas J. Ryan and com
pany in Edgar Allen Woolfs The Re-
juvenauon Of Mike Haggcrty', Sam Good
win and Ada Elliott in n "comedietta"
called Tho Publisher: the Two Bel
monts. gymnasts. and Don Fulano. tho
b0r hr Ia ys-fs nd
does lCe other feats by actual count.
Miss Louise Dresser, tho popular favor
ite OF musical productions, headlines the
bin at b. 4. Kelth's Colonial Theatre this
week. She f. presenting big new must
cal act which was seen for tho first time
yesterday. Miss Dresser has a repertory
OF new songs for her latest Offering, In
which she has the capable assistance OF
Henry Marshall William Cripps and
George Sphinx
Winsor Mckay. the we'll known news
paper caricaturist Is another important
feature here. demonstrating just how HIS
characters are produced Clark and Ham
ilton are n pleasing duo OF English mus!-
cal comedy entertainers, and the remain
Donald. IN MY Good Friend. Kate
Watson. THE Truly Rural Cir; the Bis
city -Four. IN old and new melodies; tho
Willis family Of European musicians;
Chick and Chlcklcts, comedy b!cyclisis,
and Gilottcs animals.
That tense little playlet, In the Gray
of the Dawn" takes the place OF honor
NJ Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre this
week without the opposition OF really
serious rival Not that there aren't other
good things on tho bill. But the other
good things are for the most part OF
kind that appeal only TO certain portions
OF the audience. while In the Gray or
tho Dawn" reaches every one.
That Is q sweeping statement, but tho
applause which greeted the fall OF the
curtain on tho playlet yesterday was also
sweeping. II there Was any who remained
untouched by the convincing acting or
Maud Hall Macy, az Kate kerrigsn, "A
rose OF the mire.' he WAS overwhelmed
by Us spontauclty. But the thing which
paid the highest tribute 10 the piece was
tho brcathless silence which hung over
the house as the sketch swept 10 Its
clirnax-a phenomenon rare, indeed. at the
Tenderloin's temple OF variety.
Olive Briscoc pleased the next largest CO.
terie. Judging again from the temper OF
the applause which called her back for
several encores She is clever enough 10
get her stun across" anywhere. Mack
and Orth. on the other hand, scored
through the distinct Hammersteinian quail
ity OF their humor. On similar recon-
mendatlon came Mcintyre and Heath,
who revived an act that must have
cheered Msthuselah's dec!iuing years. II
was 30 old. at any rate, that most OF the
audience took it for new and applauded Il
az such.
Others on the bill this week include the
I.ads O Melodic, Benkhart Gaskill, Shis-
Ter and George l.. Reed: billy Swede"
Hall and Jenny Colburn. in a Western
sketch. known as Cora: Kate Gilmore
and Sam Williams In their latest absurd
ity; Ella Fondelier and Brother. Bissett
and Scott, Maurice Burkhardt and tine
Loretta Trplets. In trapeze act.
Tho legitimate critics-or. rather, TO let
charity begin at home, the critics OF the
legitimate stage-have been throwing their
netaphorical arms IN ecstatic greeting
around 'Mlestoncs" because II is a play
without a punch" In that respect u
hasn't anything on the bin at Il. L.
Keltb's Union Square Theatre this week.
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