El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-07

Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe by an
audience that filled the Manhattan
opera house TO oVerflOwing proves
that the popularity OF the co-stars mas
in no whit abated-
Every ouip and sally in 1.-The Tam
ing of the ShreW' brought forth as
much laughter as if it were a bit from
one of the seasons farces and the Oft
repeated business of flinglng articles
of food, furniture and wearing apparel
across the stage never failed to evoke
tumultuOus applause
Miss Marlowe never looked hand
somer than in the POmpeilan red cos
tune she wore in the first act. Her
Katherine lacked nothing of the spirit
and dash which has characterized her
earlier interpretations of the part.
She was perhaps rather more conVlnc-
ing as the unmOdified Shrew than in
the transition scenes of the third act
But tanned, she was altogether charm
ing Mr.. Sothern's "PetruchiO" seemed
a trifle broader and nosier than OF
yore, but the comedy note was well
sustained throughout the perform
ance.
Miss Helen Singer was a pretty and
alluring Blanca, but, as a woman IN
the audience remarked, 'catty enough
partly to account for Katherine"
Frederick Lewis made a handsome
Lucentio.
in an accurate description of Delphine
is her color. She is glazing scarlet
The propriety of her lines, both as
she speaks them and she shows them,
will probably be questioned sufficient
" to insure large audiences at the
KnickerbOcker theater for some time
to come. Along the lines Of that kind
of comedy commonly known as
French, c. N 5. Mcclellan developed
few ideas in his Pink Lady" in oh.
E,- dor
ably more liberal with those touches
which amuse OF shock, according as
listening ears are attuned. but which,
as a general rule, amuse.
Delphine is the twin sister of the
Pink Lady, Like the latter, her
songs have scored notably. The
Venus Waltz" shows promise of
achieving equal vogue with "Beauti-
ful Lady and a couple of other songs
of Delphine's also have the trick of
making you whistle.
The plot is indescribab Bile. not be
cause there is customarily too little,
but because there is too much. There
is an artist with six models. all pos
ing for his picture, Venus Rising
from the Waves" There is a comic
opera colonel; there are two wronged
wives, each feeling wrOnged because
she cannot have the others husband;
there is a parrot; there is a dark
eyed Persian, whose only word in Eng
liSn Is carpets, DuL VINO DreaIneS
'Allaballa GOo-Goo'' when she means
I love you there is a motherinlaw,
who is superstitious and who con-
stantly walks under ladders, spills
salt, and sees the number 10; and
there is a very pretty flower girl, who
sits in her booth and hides her charm
ing face behind a copy of ''Je Sais
Tout" which you know she cannot
read, and who occasionally utters the
warning which might be taken as the
motto of the piece. 20, lock up your
wife when the colonel comes around"
Frank DOan is the colonel. and
Grace Edmond is Delphine. Both are
capital 1t was Octavia Broske and
Scott Welsh that sang The Venus
Waltz" and they sang it for a long
time, you may be sure.
Man and Superman" was revived
this week at the Hudson theAter by
Robert Lorraine, who first introduced
the play here seven years ago. No
specimen of Bernard Shaw's genius
has ever enjoyed greater popular IA
vOr than this work 1t must be, how
ever, that people have grown some
what used to the Shavian type of hui
NOR in the past several years for a