The Washington times., 1913-04-06
TANGUAY IS COMING
WITH OWN COMPANY
CycIonic Coincidence Will Give
Her Interpretation of Cor
geouS "SaIome" Dance.

the highest salaried artist in the va.
rieties,'' has bounding ambition and
is cyclonic to the popular mind only
because she wears her blonde hair un.
conventionally and interprets most OF
her songs in a nervous tempo, due en-.
tirely to a superabundance- of youth
and vitality. Miss Tansuay, who has
tired of being "a star and featured
artist in musical comedy. has decided
TO make tour at the head of her own
company, for the simple reason thai
she enunciates in one of her new songs
Because In Vaudeville I'm IT.
To prove that she is Tt Miss
Tanguay during her Forthcoming en-
EaGement Will appear for the first
time here in the super-gorgeous produc-
lion of 'Salomc," and later in the bill
VIII interpret in her own way the songs
specially written for her should be
given.
Miss Tanguay will have a grand op-
era orchestra to illustrate her "Sa-
lone production and eight acts of the
hlgh class vaudeville by way of sup
port"
At the Belasco Theater, on Monday
night next. the Mask and Wig Club
will present their twenty-fffth annual
entertainment. entitled Maid in Ger
many" This is two-oct musical
comedy, with scenes laid in a solarium
of German sanatorium and the palm
garden of Berlin theater. As a vehicle
for frivolous amusement, il is said to
contain every type of comedy character.
color personified. with folly and fun
O supreme. The plot concerns stolen
pearl necklace, in the loss and final re-
covery of which every character in the
piece is involved. This plot does not
interfere in any way with the intro
ductfon of numerous songs, dances, and
specialties. For instance, when the
Eskimo speciality is on, when dogs are
bowling on icy peaks, and girls and
men in white furs are dancing, with a
blood-red moon lighting I'D the ice, one
forgets the stolen necklace or the schem-
ing plans of Clarice the manicurist in
Montaine's beauty establishment.
Of the twelve principals in the cast,
seven are stars of previous Mask and
Wig successes. One of the predominant
chorus.
There are twenty-eight musical num-
Man Starts Flirting Hans and
Babette'' "At the Cabaret" My Eski-
mo Maid.' and My Manicure Maid
''Get-Rick-ouick Wallingford," George
VI. Cohan's whirlwind comedy, comes to
the Academy the week of April IL. The
production is the original one which
was the sensation OF Broadway for
more than two years, where the play
was unanimously acknowledged to be
the greatest comedy or the day ].
Rufus Wallingford brings to Battles
burg, sleepy little town in the middle
West. his genial and persuasive person.
and loses no time in organizing a local
corporation that he promises will make
of Battlesburg a great manufacturing
center
So plausible are his promises that he
succeeds III forming the corporation, but
just as he is preparing to "clean up
and get away WallingfOrd discovers
that his private secretary has given him
a higher view of life and of himself.
He determines to leave the young girl
life, but at the last minute he finds
that his intended swindle has proven a
commercial success, and that he is an
honest man and public benefactor.
sss
s H. Poll announces the engagement
of new leading man for the Poll Play
ers beginning next week. He is Thur
low Bergen, a gifted young actor. who
has been a matinee idol of the Pacific
coast for five summers, last season
heading his own organization, the Ber-
gen Players, in Seattle. Mr.. Bergen
Will make his debut as Prince Karl
in the most enduring of German ro-
-.
Is the role in which Richard Mansfield
achieved one of his greatest successes.
II is an intensely sympathetic role, and
one which is strikingiy picturesque.
The prince is student at the University
of Heidelberg, where he falls in love
with the daughter of an innkeeper He
is called from his studies and from his
sweetheart by the death of his father.
For the second week of Chase's con-
tinuous performances during the sum-
mer, there will be complete change
of bill. the new Edison talking motion
pictures being THE Quarrel Scene from
Julius Caesar" a specta ctIlar drama
tie production enacted by tragic stars
Of the stage especially engaged for this
creation: The Temptation of Faust"
another SynchrOnized dramatic master
piece embodying the crucial scenes in
GOethes immortal work: and a comic, !
musical. novel, and diverting lecture on
the kinetophone presenting yisualized
and vocaliZed illustrations of its scope. |
New Kinemacolor plays and first |
run" photo-dramas will increase each |
bill 10 a duration of one hour and a |
plete changes every day. The week |
day performances will run from 10 IL |
y. m, and the Sunday, from to 10 80 |
y. IN.
Henry P. Dixon's Big Review Com
pany is billed for the coming week at
the Lyceum Theater. with frankie |
Heath in the role. This season Miss |
Heath will be assisted by Harry lie Van |
in an offering called Hickey in Poll
ties During the action of the piece |
well-known Broadway types will be imi-
tated. There are new songs. new |
travesties. and novelties. Matinees will |
be as usual. with the country store on
Friday night.
Charles Robinson and his .'Crusoe
Girls will be the attraction at the
Gyety following Sam Howe's Love
makers" Mr.. Robinson himself will
enact the leading comedy role in two
one-act musical tarces called I'm His
Sons Place" and Cohen and the Gay
Widow" He will receive able support
from a large company of assisting prin-
cipals. chief among whom will be James
Francis Sullivan, recently with The
Prince OF Pilsen;" Libby Blondell, an
attractive soubrette: FRAME MARITIME, a
petite comedienne: Dave Rose Italian
char cter impersonator. and May Bern
hardt. with an Eva Tanguay tempera-
ment
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