The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
In Playhouse World

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 Werba and Luescher, the producers of New Yorl,'s latest big comic opera sue cess, '"rhe Rose Maid.' are said to have ignored old fashioned comic opera con- vention In this, their latest work, the same as they did with ''The Spring Maid" their first big musical success. "The Rose Maid' is invested with an at- mosphere of joyousness that starts at the very rise of the first curtain and con tinues right through the entire action of the piece. The action opens with a gay house party In Liberty Hall, the young Duke of Barchester's London house. and ends with a brilliant cavalry tournament
 in Ostend. In the latter scene the stage is filled with horsemen and horsewomen, of all the principal nations of the world. each wearing in the gorgeous uniforms of their respective army. "The Rose Maid was the best liked of all operas in New York since ''The Spring Maid" and will be presented here with the same elaborate production and extravagant detail that made 1t the vogue on Broadway during the past summer.
 Julian Eltnge closed his second tour with "The Fascinating Widow under A. H. Woods management, at the Boston theatre, Saturday, June 1. Eltinge has won the distinction of being one of the
 
 stage today. The clever impersonator of women has the record for banner receipts in many of the big cities.
 A fascinating feature of George M. Cohans musical farce, "The Little Mil- lionaire." is the quantity of whistey song numbers contained in it. The pop ularity of MT. Cohans compositions is not difficult to explain. He has the hap fz oR I;.xt- %hA 1x,ttl, haunting melodies attuned to lyrics that tell clean story and presenting them in scenic and ensemble surrounding that adds materially to their musical and verse value Any number of instances Of Cohans skill in this drect/n are fur nished in "The Little Millionaire" not ably the songs, Any Place the Old Flag Flies" New Yorkers,' We Do the Dirty Work" "Cohan's Musical Moon,- "Barnum Had the Right Idea" and "Oh, You Wonderful Girl"
 One reason why 'The Million,' Henry w. Savage's production of the farce from the French of NM. Berr and Guillemand, has made such wonderful hit in Boston, is because 1t is so refreshingly clean. Theatregoers have been so used to hav- ing translations of French plays highly sp.ced with suggestiveness that the pre- SeDtdtlOIl Ol III audpttu idiNe proved to be the greatest laugh-provok-
 Ing offering that had been shown them
 in years and at the same time had ab- solutely nothing in its lines or situations calculated to make man sorry he had brought his schoolgirl daughter to the threatre, was hailed as a delightful inno- vaton. The Endorsement of '"The Mill lion" by the newspaper reviewers and dis eliminating playgoers was so enthusiastic that the nightly attendance at it's per formances of those who would not be al- lowed to view risque play Is so great as to establish a record.
 When musical comedy runs for two straight years at George Edwards Royal | Adelphi theatre in London, and then for full season in the Park theatre, New | York, It stands to reason that it must | be above the ordinary. That is all true of "The Quaker Girl" the three act op- etetta which the Henry B. Harris com pany is sending to this city soon. It Is | dainty, lyrical combination of song ano | beauty with a charming story of q little | Quaker maiden who wants to see the | world.
 Augustin MacHugh, the playwright, is l the author of any number of shor sketches that have found favor with vau devlle audiences, but Officer 666'' is his | first attempt at a regular three act play | Up to the time this farce was produced | by Conan x Harris, on January l, 1912 | author MacHugh was an actor playing T the Keith and Proctor Stock company. 1T One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street New York city, at si0 per week. Today l teight months later). MT. MacHugh i ! making European auto trip and his en