Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-23
AT THE ILLINOIS.

One of the amusing scenes in
THE Country Boy" Edgar Selwyn's
comedy success, which Henry B. Har-
ris will present at the Illinois Feb.
6, is in the second act, where the
dining room of a theatrical boarding
house is shown. This scene is said
to be an exact reproduction of a
boarding house that was located on
West Forty-first street, New York,
about 10 years ago, where Mr.. Sell
wyn and his wife, Margaret Mayo,
| lived. Some of the others who
boarded there at the time, and who
later became theatrical celebrities,
were the Earl of Yarmouth, Eugene
Walter, Eleanor Robson (now Mrs.
August Belmont), Madge Carr Cook
and Jane Remark. The landlady
was a famous old character and it
was she who wouldn't believe that
Yarmouth was an earl, because, as
she said, THE idea of his being an
earl-why, he's got holes in his
socks" The general public is always
interested in the way actors and &C
tresses live, but very few persons
outside of the profession have ever
seen a real theatrical boarding house
of the type Mr.. Selwyn pictures in
the second act of 1.-The Country
Boy" The company comes here di-
rect from five months at the Liberty
theatre, New York, and two months
at Powers theatre, Chicago. The
cast includes such well known artists
as Alfred Cooper, Frank McCor-
mack, Doan Borup, Frank E. Jami-
son, George Schaeffer, Olive Tenn
pleton, Mida Furry, Charlotte Lang
don, Nellie Fillmore and others.
Frank Mcintyre, the genial big
comedian who is so well remembered
as the Bob Blake of James Forbes
comedy, 1.-The Travelling Salesman
, during it's long engagements in ev-
! cry portion of the country, will be
+ presented at the Illinois Feb. II, as
, the star of "Snobs," a satirica
farce by George Bronson Howard
which has long runs in New York ant
Chicago to it's credit and will brine
with il the distinction of being the
: first Broadway success of the pres
/, ent season to be presented in thi!
!, city. "Snobs' is the story of {;
T, dream come true, or at least, tina
:, is the way Alan Dale, the famou
critic of the New York Journal de
. scribed it. Mr.. Mcintyre character
! cart driver The action of the pla.
starts when a fashionable attorne.
: calls upon Hen, in his hall bedroom
and informs him that he is the lonl
lost Duke of Walshire, with tn
u greatest title in England, some 20,
:. 100000 pounds, and the right Il
$ wear his hat in the presence of tn
q king. Of course, Hen as the Duk
o of Walshire cannot afford to keep OF
r delivering milk, as society demand
his presence and he descends upol
e the four hundred in such name
o that the audiences are kept scream
e ing with laughter. Just a note T.
t the matinee audiences, there is ;
love story and IL ends happily. Prom
y inent in Mr.. McIntyre's support viii
e be Myrtle Tannehill, Eva Mcdonald
a Katherine Stewart, Marie Fitzger
d aid, Orlando DAILY, John Cumberland
d Roy Fairchild and Frank Brownlee
a. A few years ago there were man
s, plays before the public which coul
It be properly construed as objection
able to certain creeds or nationals
ties. While absolutely no offens
was intended. the exaggerated char
j. acters were planned for laughin
is purposes only and serious obiectio
II to them was really unnecessary pre-
u sumption. 1t is not likely that tn
o. nationality TO which Mutt and JEFF
E. belong will impose any serious obje,
ton to the characterization 9TH