New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-22
IN THE LONDON THEATRES
Moving Pictures for Hammer
STEMS Opera House.
HOW ARE MIGHTY FALLEN!
Forbes Robertson Plans Visit
to United States Next Fall
for Farewell Tour.
by cabl. to The Tribune. J

London. Dec. 21.-How are the
mighty fallen Oscar Hammerstein's
pet London Opera House is To open
next Thursday with a mixture OF NOV
ing pictures and vaudeville. Accord
ing 10 announcements officially issued
this week about one third OF the whole
programme will be devoted 10 film sub
jects, including a pantomime In colors
C'The Ba bes in the WoodsD, Peeps
Of the Past" Rural England" and "A
Race for an Inheritance" while cur
rent events Will also be literally shown.
Another feature will be the produc-
ton Of new fairy play, THE Magic
Bell" by Arnold Beake and Archibald
Benwell The play has a well defined
plot upon the much debated subject OF
the existence Of fairies. and the char
acters Will be taken by little Ivy Saw
yer. Dan Leno. Jr.. Eileen Jowitt and
Violet Denzel. the last mentioned being
young English dancer who has just
scored a triumph at La Scala. Milan.
The vaudeville acts include the
Clarkonians. two English trapeze per-
formers; Kitty Sinclair. a young Amer
lean singer and speciality dancer, who
will have five little maids 10 support
her; Herbert Lloyd, another American
artist, producing review sketch en-
titled "Discordia," in which. supported
by twenty artists, he will give cake
walks and ragtime songs and dances
mixed In an up-to date medley. Beat
tie and Babs. specially Juvenile artists.
will complete the programme.
But (oh, irony OF 1t all0. there will
be an exceedingly fine orchestra OF
forty performers, including many who
were in Mr.. Hammerstein's orchestra.
under the conductorship Of Claude
Fem Leyland. A feature will be made
Of the orchestral selections at each per-
Torrance, while during the display OF
the cinematograph appropriate music
from the works of the great masters
will be given"
OF very truth the mighty have come
down with a crash!
The Coliseum. the chief of the Oswald
Stoll music halls, Is making bid for
holiday patronage with crowded bill.
i'm which III. G.. Pelissier appears with
his troupe OF follies in a vaudeville
medley. Mr.. Pelissier will no doubt try
something more attractive than his at
tempted Christmas pantomime review
at the Empire, which was a bigger
frost than any of the wintry elements
experienced in. say, Switzerland this
month. Gerald Griffin, the American
comedian, and other artists from the
other side figure in the bill. The man
agement of the Empire thus explains
the departure of Mr.. Pelissier and his
troupe: Walter Dickson, finding that
the Follies pantomime Aladdin,
though calculated to appeal strongly
to most pantomime audiences, was not
specially suited TO the Empire cli-
entele, has decided to bring the pres
ent entertainment to a close" 1t was
not unexpected.
Forbes Robertson finished the first
part Of his farewell tour OF the English
provinces this week. According to ar
rangements Just completed he will APP
pear at Easter under his own manage
ment with his wife, Miss Gertrude Ell
lott, at Drury Lane. In his last ap-
pearances in London his repertory will
comprise Hamlet" 1.-THE Merchant OF
Venice" 1.-THE Light that Failed"
Mice and Men," THE Passing OF the
Third Floor Back" Bernard Shaw's
Cesar and Cleopatra" and probably
"Othello." In the autumn OF 1913
Forbes Robertson returns to America
for a farewell tour there in the above
repertory.
Greater London has just over hum