New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
LAMBERT ReinCarnates Music
Masters at Union Square.
LULU CHASER AT COLONIAL
George Beban Back at Proctor 8
-Hammerstein's Has Edna
Goodrich.

| while 1t lasts.
Miss CHASER takes the part OF Elaine
Hampton who has been betrothed by her
parents 10 one who styles himself hand
some young officer Captain Burnham,
nephew OF the general of that name.
whose fortune will come TO him provided
he marries Miss Hampton. The young
woman isn't going TO put up with any
family betrothals, though, until she has
made sure fer herself. and so she becomes
a maid In the generals household OF
course the captain loves her Instantly,
and this particular first love becomes per-
manent-presumably.
There are several pleasant songs in the
piece, which Miss Chaser and Thomas d.
! Richards, as the captain. dispose OF hap
PLY. Lester Browne Is seen as the gen.
| eral. The music is by Anato Friedland,
and Raymond w. Peck and Melville Alex
ander are responsible for the words
Jim Diamond and Sybil Brennan are a
pair Of as dainty nonsense mongers as
may be found among the hosts of "duos'
on the vaudeville stage. The oncores
| which greeted their songs and dances
last night delayed the opening of Miss
Glasers playlet several moments Cliff
Gordon is another who sprinkles laughs
freely over the house in the role OF Ger
man politician. with kick with every
sentence. Percival knights Detective
Keen" as produced by Daniel Frohman,
is a convincing mystery sketch we'll done.
Other features on a good bill are Will
lam II. Macart and Ethelynne Bradford
| N Ia1H ID
done, reproducing classic statuary; Coop
er and Robinson. clever negro comedl-
ans; VILLA Holt Wakefield, accompanying
her own songs at the plano. and the
Woods and Woods Trio. in wire act
| II was encouraging to hear the burst
OF applause which greeted the perform
ance Of LAMBERT when he made his first
American appearance at Kcith's Union
Square Theatre yesterday. LAMBERT I'm
| personates n number of the worlds
famous musicians, and with each imper-
F, sonation plays a little selection on the
masters favorite instrument. only one
thing could be asked to make his act a
nearly perfect vaudeville production-that
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of the men he impersonates.
For instance. hts imitation OF Lszt was
| received with genuine appreciation by
yesterdays audiences. but It would have
been more effective 10 the minds OF some.
J at least. IT, instead of Ruhinsteins Mel
| ody IN F." he had played. say. one OF the
Hungarian Rhapsodies." The act closes
with an intensely dramatic version Of the
death OF Svengali as the curtain falls on
| Trilby. hypnotized into song
! THE System" characterized as STIR
ring playlet OF the subway side OF life.
retains the stage for another week. and
IS well worth a second visit. 1t tells a
story OF corruption IN the Police De-
partment. purged by the department IT.
self. Taylor Granville's rendition OF Billy
Bradley. the crook on whom the corrupt
Central Office man plants a frame-up. IS
excellent Mr.. Granville is responsible for
the plsylet, in conjunction with Clarke
and McCree.
| Other acts on n bill well up 10 Keth's
average are Lillian Shaw, Wellington
Cross and Lois Josephine; Lou Anger,
the German Soldier; sophye Barnard.
formerly with THE Red Widow the
| Chadwick Trio. in For sale-Wiggin's
Farm; Pepplno. the accordion marvel,
and Ergotti and Llllputians.
| THE Sign of the Rose" vaudeville
sketch which tried 10 climb into the
'leglt" and failed, came back TO Proctor S
Fifth Avenue Theatre yesterday, with
George Beban. its author, In the leading
role Though the playlet may have
proved a failure as an out-and-out dramn.
II is certainly good enough for vaude-
vile Two audiences laughed and cried
over Il yesterday, as they used 20 before
IL forsook them I'm search OF new worlds
to conquer
Mr.. Beban plays the part OF an Italian
whose little girl, Rose, will never again
run TO greet him at the top OF the stairs
when he returns from hard days work,
having met death under the wheels OF an
automobile just before the action starts.
The Italian IS seen I'm a flower store on
Fifth avenue. where he has gone TO get
flowers for his little girls bier. He is
rescued from arrest when he threatens
10 raise trouble If he doesn't get the
flowers by a casual customer In the store.
who turns out TO be no other than the
daughter of the man whose automobile
FILLED the child. Mr. Beban's acting Is
enough 10 wet the eye of the most blase
New Yorker and he is ebly supported by
an efficient company.
second Harry Lauder, in the person
NJ lock Mckay, made the audience forget
feyv of its cares with songs and stories
., homie Scotland. Other funmakers on
,ha nroeramme include McDevitt, Kelly
and Irene Lucey, In their skit called
..rbe piano Movers and the Actress
rnue Reeves and company, I'm "A Les
CON in Temperance. known by the fur
a. ti,le of TOO Full for Utterance"i
o,d winfield Blake and Maud Amber,
,rbe Frey Twins give an exhibition OF
u,rest,ine. Gladys Vance dazzles the audi
once with her looking glass dress. the Six
c,anners dance TO their hearts content
o,d Carl Demarest demonstrates the kind
of act they like in chicago.
Edna Goodrich tops this weeks bill al
IIammerstein's Victoria. appearing In
80 and engaging sketch called "The
Awakening OF Minerva An unusually
Interesting and unconventional act Is
Iu,,an Dore's my Lady's Fam" In which
u,;,rg renroductions OF famous paintings
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