Arizona republican., 1912-08-10
EEN bELV|LLE
 COMES ID TOWN
His Jolly and Talented Mu- sical Comedy Company Will Arrive Sunday Open ing at the Empress Mon day Night


 EeZy Belville owner of Eezy Bel ville's musical comedy company. ar rived here yesterday morning to attenI to the prellmlnarieS for the opening of hls company in the Empress theater i Monday night. The company will ar rive Sunday morning, and expects to 1 remain for ten weeks engagement MT. BelVille says he has secured the
 best musical company talent available on the coast, most of them performers who have never been seen in Phoenix He feels certain that the company will please and before it has been long in the city will be even more popular than the Billie F'redlander aggregation which made the biggest hit of any or ganizatiOn that has yet played the town for long engagement
 The prma donna is Miss Maybelle Baker said to be the highest salarie,l actress employed in any similar west ern aggregation. Miss Baker has jus. finished long engagement with Keat-
 ing and Flood in Portland. Oregon. where she won a high place in the hearts of the theater going public many regarding her as the most ac- compliShed woman in her line of work that ever played in that city. Atten- tiOn is called to the gowns which Miss Baker will wear in the several produc- 1 tiOns that are listed for presentation at the Empress. Her wardrobe is com posed of the latest styles and crea-
 uOns and has been a leading topic of discussion wherever she has appeared Her singing of both popular and oper- | 1 H cello alS h hforl,1 ! everywhere she has been heard The leading man will be George H | Ford who recently covered the Pen l tages circuit in the Soul Kiss Mir Belville says he is an actor of ability
 who will surely become a favOrite | Ford will also have charge of the chor- 1 us staging all the dances and effects of | each production. He is a clever dancer ] himself and has original and novel 1 ideas that it is believed will give each 1 production a newness peculiar to it. | self
 James T. Kelley who played a weeks s 1 engagement of the Elks theater a year ! ago and is therefore well known by some in Phoenix. is the principal com l edian and has charge of the "prOduc- 1 ing department Of the cOmpanyS busi- 1 ness. Irish comedy in his speciality | and he has made a big hit with it on 1 the coast. Con Forbes a German com i edian and also a singer of marked abil- i ity will work opposite MT. Kelley. When the Dutch and Irish mix there ] is bound to be a lot of fun.
 Miss Belle Barron win play char
 acter parts and Belville assures the l thcater gOers that she knows how to do il most artistically If she does not
 rapidly win friends his guess is ali to 1 the bad
 As a soubrette a great deal is ex- l pected of Miss Hazel Stone. She is
 brim full Of energy and action and de-
 livers her lines and her songs with a ! Vivacity and liveliness that has stamp
 ed her a favOrte wherever she has ap-
 peared heretofore.
 R L. Bakle has graduated from the ! former business management of the
 company to the stage and is now doing 1 character roles very successfully
 The chorus is guaranteed by Belville
 to be the most charming bunch of fem
 ininity and stage accomplishment yet
 seen by the Phoenix playgoers. He
 has picked them himself and christ
 ened them the "Eezy Dancing Daisies
 and has no hesitancy in saying they
 will live up to their name
 MT. Belville is quite well known here
 and says he has worked hard to se-
 cure an aggregation of entertainers
 that the public will approve. He ex-
 poets to give a good line of shows and
 will endeavor to deserve a packed
 house every night. confident that when
 the company does make good Phoenix
 will show it's hearty appreciation by
 liberal patronage The opening bill
 will be The Maid of Dundee.