Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-01
Frances Starr, Walker White
side, Thurston, the Magician,
TO Bi dior Popular Favor.
MOTHER Belasco play is scheduled


4 = which Miss Frances Starr is being
starred. The play comes to the At
4 ANITA theater after a three months run
a. Mr. Belascos theater in New York
and the supporting company is said TO
no the same which appeared there. Four
performances will be given, Monday,
rTuesdav and Wednesday, with matinee
Wednesday.
The role in which Miss Starr appears
is that of girl possessed of dual
personality. One minute she is the
sweet. refined Dorothy; the next the
vulgar miscHievous Becky. 1t is an
Unusual idea and the playwright, it is
said. has worked it out in admirable
fashion.
THE Typhoon," a drama which de-
pIcts the clash of the East and the
West. will be at the Atlanta Thursday,
matinee and night Walker Whiteside
in the leading role. that of a japanese
diplomat at Berlin. Miss Florence
Fisher will be in the cast.
The headiner at the Grand next week
viii be California" styled as zone of
the magnificent acts of modern vaude
Vile" Every other act which the bill
for next week announces bears the
promise that 1t will achieve the usual
standard of Keith vaudeville, and that
promise, to Atlanta, is sufficient to war
rant a week of entertainment of the
first degree
At the Lyric next week will appear
Thurston the magician. His repertoire
varies from the marvellous to the
amusing, and all are exceptional Fore
most in the work that he will present
will be number Of tricks revealed by
an occidental magician. A special pro-
gram for the benefit of children will be
worked out at the matinee Saturday.
Tabloid musical comedy has found its
place in Atlanta. The promise of
show of this order at the Forsyth. con-
tinuing the series that has proved pop
ular, is made by the management "A
Winning Miss" will be the Offering all
next week. the show drawn from the
we'll known regular comedy of that
name.
Family vaudeville and motion pic
lures will be the program all week at
the Bijou. Walter SchrOde and Lizzie
Muvey. in comedy act, The Theat-
rical Agency" will he featured
FRANCES STARR AT THE ATLANTA.
David Belasco's presentation OF Frances
Starr in a new play, 1.-The Case of Becky"
seems again to have demonstrated that
he is the one leader and master of the
stage
Frances Starr has scored in The Case
Of Becky" a positive triumph playing
role of two personalities, a task to try
the skill of any of the greatest artstes of
the stage. Local theatergoers will have
chance to form their own opinion on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Atlanta theater. where Miss Starr and
her entire original company will appear.
direct from her three months triumph at
the Belasco theater, New York.
The story of Edward Locke's play re-
wolves about Dorothy Stone, a patient in
q the home Of a famous specialist, DR..
q Emerson. Here is a renowned case and
81 DR.. Emerson's reports are read by the
medical world. The young woman has
q developed two distinct personalities
d changing without apparent cause from
one to the other. The good personality
4 is that Of Dorothy herself sweet intel
lectual, refined Without warning the
bad personality, known as Becky, comes
transformed into the rough. mischevous,
q vicious Becky.
The play Is finely staged by David Be
lasco and most capably acted. Among
the company are Charles Dalton, Albert
Bruning, Eugene O'Brien. Harry c.
Browne, Mary Dalton and John p Brown.
81 WHITESlDE IN 1.-THE TYPHOON."
Well informed playgoers who follow
Of no st oh
the medium of magazines and periodicals
81 that devote attention only to the plays
and players worth while will welcome the
advent at the Atlanta of Walker White
81 side, Just now esteemed the best of
American actors. in his sensationally sue
# cessful play, THE Typhoon." The en-
81 gsgement is for but two performances,
matinee and night, Thursday.
In The Typhoon' Mr. Whiteside ap-
pears as Tokeramo, a young japanese
- diplomat. who has been delegated by the
mikado upon a secret mission of gravest
Importance and is resident In Berlin. In
thls new and singular character, Mr.
Whiteside apepars to have achieved the
most notable success of his long and In
terestlng career
The play itself will be significantly
interesting to people of the West and
South. 1t deals with the activities of
~ "0 houeFn Japanese and their love Of
country. The stealthy manner of obtain
lnE information they desire is strikingy
brought forward, and the action of this
strange and unusual play revolves
around the weakness of all mankind-a
story Of the conflict Of the sexes, as old
as the world itself
Miss Florence Fisher is Mr.. Whiteside's
leaolng woman, and. while one of the
Youngest upon the stage, has scored heav-
ny IN the trying and complex character
ct Iona, the woman" in the play
HARRY LAUDER is COMING.
marry Lauder, the Scotch comedian
no is making his fifth American tour
III appear at the Atlanta Monday, March
" matinee and night, under the direction
pr William Morris Lauder comes to this
ountry almost direct from the famous
command performance" in London, when
ne royal family visited a vaudeville
eater. He has a dozen new songs this
TIP and his supporting company in