Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-01
Scots in kilties Attend Per-
torrance at Shnbert's
Theatre.
OTIS HARLAN PUTS BLUES
TO ROUT WITH LAUGHTER
Love Never Dies" Sung by
Miss Bryan, Wins All
Hearts.

Under the same management and
with the same catchy music and the
same capable company that con-
tributed so much towards its success
full run in New York last winter the
romantic operetta Little Boy Blue
made its bow before the theatre going
public here at the Shubert Theatre
last night.
TO say that it made a hit would be
putting it mildly. Its airy musical
numbers and its clean, clever comedy,
coupled with the picturesque stage
settings, took the largest Monday
night crowd of the season at the
Shubert Theatre by storm. The play
was written by Rudolph Schauzer and
Carr Lindau and the music by Henry
BerenY, n of the more talented of
the younger Austrian composers.
In adapting the piece to the Amer
lean stage A. Il. Thomas, author of
The Rainbow" and The Family .
assisted by Edward A. Paulton. made
such changes in the libretto as were
considered desirable. Additions to
the score We're made by Arthur Weld.
The first act shows the dance han
of the Bal Tabarin. Paris, while the
second act shows the ancestral hall.
the courtyard and battlements of
Goberdeen Castle, Scotland.
The cast is one OF the most evenly
balanced hat has ever been seen In
this city in Il production OF it's kind.
Miss Gertrude Bryan, who vas dis
covered by Manager Savage a year
ago, readily Won her way into the
hearts of the audience by her por-
trayal of the title role. Free from the
usual noisy slapstick comedy of most
musical comedies, Otis Harlan pre-
scented a fine prescription for the
blues, and had the audience in
paroxyrns of laughter throughout.
His rendition of the song "Dotective''
and his work in the quartet with Miss
Bryan, Franklin Farnum. who played
the part of Castor, the Marquis de la
Tour, and John Dunsmure, the Earl
of Gobefdeen, n especially liked.
John Dunsmure, with his bonny
Scotch dialect, and Maude Odell, as
Alnaranth, a seeress, also captivated
the audience by their clever work i'm
their respective parts, and Franklin
Farnum, with his ringing tenor, also
deserves mention. The song Love
Never Dies rendered by MIR. Far
nun and Miss Bryan, was %encored
several times, and is undoubtedly the
most catchy piere of music in the
entire production
The humorous setting of the play
deals with the efforts of Lord Gober-
deem, a Scotch earl o discover his
missing heir. He also wishes to MARK
his ward Kitty to a French nobleman.
tlle4Marqhis de iB&Tour. The latter,
however, is heels over head in love
with Daisy, a barmaid at the Bal
Tabarin.
Dupont, a detective, through an ae-
cident learns that Daisy's half
brother is the missing. heir to the
Goberdeen estate. He persuades the
Agirl to masquerade as her brother
LII the latter's arrival.
II nights performance was wit
II by d large delegation of the
DNNF Order of Scottish Clans. Clan
: lrbes, ~of this city. and Clan Me-
Cloud, of Jersey City, were repre-
sented, and, clad in the kllties of their
native heath, kept the audience in
good humor during the intermission
by their rendition of several of the
Scotch national airs.