The Detroit times., 1912-10-03
THEATERS

Among the October bookings in the
Detroit opera house will be Kitty Cor
don, the English musical comedy star
and light opera singer, In the Victor
Herbert operetta The Enehantress. =
the week OF Oct IA. and the original
New York company In The Pink
Lady" the week of Oct. 2S
Beginning Sunday evening. Oct IS,
and continuing for Ave successive
Sunday evenings, T.. Nj. Newman will
present an entirely new series OF
! illustrated traveltalks In the Detroit
opera house. He will personally con.
duct his audiences through Holland
Rural France Switzerland.
Munich 20 Berlin" and the Top OF
the World"--the last subject includ.
ing Iceland. Spitzbergen, and other
arctic countries. Original color views
and motion pictures will bring vividly
before the easy chair travellers the
beauties OF the scenery, the charm o.
the people, and places of historical
and literary interest
What promises to be one OF the big
laughs of the theatrical season is Ed.
die Foy with his two score OF Broad
way girls in the latest New York sue
cess over the River" to come TO the
Detroit opera house. Monday evening
Oct. I. The story OF this musical com
edy Is unusually interesting and anus
ing. Mr.. Foy, in the character OF a
swell New York clubman, Madison
Parke, awakes after night with ''the
boys" to ind himself arrested and
sentenced TO thirty days -oyer the
river" on Blackwelrs island. In. his
endeavors To keep the true state OF
affairs from his wife, he plunges into
a sea OF preyarication and enIists all
HIS friends TO help him out Prom
inent in the cast are David Andrada.
George 8. Trimble, Airline Fredericks,
Leona Stephens. Marie Horgan, Har-.
~ Meyer. J. s. Kinslow, Charles
Swickaru, Leavitt James, Milton Daw,
son, Eris Van Dyck, Davis and Mat.
thews, the Dancing Pages, and the
famous Globe theater chorus,
Scenes OF idyllic beauty will DO
presented In the Garrick theater,
Sunday evening. Oct 8. during a de-
lightful lyman II, Howe pictorial
tour on some Of the quaint rivers OF
France. The views, II Is said, are
remarkable. not merely because OF
their Infinite variety, but because they
reproduce the myriad hues and tints
Of nature. Whaling: the burial OF the
Maine; the bee industry; a thrilling
race between a hydroplane and an 500
horse power motor boat In the har-
Dor OF Monaco and an exciting ad-
venture with ferocious lion are only
a few OF the other features on & pro
gram that viii be entirely new.
The June Bride" described as a
sparkling viennese- -operetta In three
acts. will he spresented by the re-
united frm OF Weber and Fields in
the Garrick theater the week begin.
ming Monday, Oct, IL, prior to it's
presentation In New York. Capable
musical critics who have heard the
score pronounce II 10 be equal in
point OF melody and charm TO any.
thing which has come from Vienna,
since The Merry Widow and The
Chocolate Soldier" The score is the
composition Of Edmund Eysler, whose
Love Cure" was produced, with sue
cess. IN this country, three seasons
ago. Amelia Stone, Detroit's own
prima donna will have the principal
role in The June Bride"
Walker Whiteside, whose excellent
work In 4sThe Melting Pot" will be
remembered by Detroit treatergoers
will bring his latest success. The
Typhoon," to the Garrick theater,
Monday evening. Oct. z. for a weeks
engagement. Immediately after its
production In New York, last year
and when The Typhoon. had been
declared by every critic IN that city
to be one OF the greatest dramatic
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