The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-12-24
TEMPLE.


Christmas patrons OF the Temple
theater will need no digestive aids
in connection with their big dinners.
for the laughing they'll do Will make
them comfortable enough. The pro-
gram Is called a Novelty BIZ" but
Il might with truth be termed u Com
edy BILL" for there is much to pro-
yoke good, hearty laughs. II ore does
not find real amusement in BEDFORD
and Winchester's opening act, jug
Cling Round the World" he is bound
to chuckle later on, particularly when
Edwina Barry's domestic farce, The
Home Breaker" and DR.. Carl Herman.
THE Electric Wizard are seen.
DR.. Herman, who is heading the
bill. has an Offering which is both re-
markable and amusing. He toys with
electricity as one would with water,
allowing enough Juice" TO pass
through him TO be able TO ignite paper
with his nose and even the bald Spot
| on his head. lie also holds a strip
Of galvanized iron, one end ia each
hand, while an electric current passes
through his body and makes the metal
Lar red hot.
The amusement feature is furnished
by young men who are called from
the audience to the stage. DR.. Her
man SO places them that they are con-
tinually getting slight shocks and
their antics 10 escape create heaps
OF fun.
| DR.. Herman also shows an illusion,
THE window of the Haunted House,
which is entertaining. While appar-
emily there Is no one In the window
when the trick is begun, there are
scenes in which three persons are
shown and when the performance is
over, the performers are exhibited In
the open window. How they get there
is what puzzles the audience.
"The Home-Breaker" is about Us
Emirthful a playlet as has been seen
In the Temple in a long while. Ed
wilma Barry, as "Dotty Plumdaffy, ser
want" is the hom6-breaker, and her
makeup and antics are good for curing
the blues. She is strong on kissing
the husbands of her mistresses. and
this failing is what makes her a homo
wrecker. She is assisted by William
Richards, Billy O'Day, Theodore Dud'
ley and Isabel Colridge.
The Australian wood-choppers
Jackson and McLaren, who were here
year ago last summer. are back
again with their exhibition OF how
big trees are felled In the forests
They chop and saw through large
log and Jackson does some expert
throwing with the ak. Moving pic
lures OF work In The woods are shown
lprevious to the actual performance Oh
the stage.
Wellington Cross and Lois Joseph
Inc. musical comedy stars, once feat
ured with Blanche Ring, have al
original singing and dancing skit, n
which Cross puts over good sons
on ex-President Roosevelt and his biz
stick. The two also produce burlesqu'
melodrama. featuring the rescue o
a girl tied TO an imaginary railwa,
track.
Dogs, known as "Rosina Cassellij
Midget Wonders" do soma Goo'
tricks. They come on In q small ant"
mobile, operated by a dog. and they
leave by the same method. Later they
return. one dog pulling the machine
and others pushing from behind. the
auto having broken down.
The Helm children, bud" and Mel
lie, sing, dance and otherwise amLpe
getting on some very good burlesque
Harry Atkinson, 1.-The Australian Or
pheus," gives clever limitations OF mus
ical instruments. The Mooreoscop'
shows world happenings OF note II
the moving pictures.