New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-01
AT THE VARIETIES
Many Attractive Features on
Bills for Holiday Week.

Fifth Avenue Theatre this week Ihe
Modern Svengali' holds first place with
an interesting act, in which he Is assisted
by Elsie Terry. young lady with good
voice. who acts as Syengali's subject.
Once under the hypnotic influence (or
whatever else il is) Of the Svengali Miss
Terry faithfully sings and plays any song
or selection mentioned to the hypnotst
by members of the audience. Jean Weir
and her company present the playlet His
Last Offence" with good effect, and Miss
Weir makes a very convincing sister-in-
law to the burglar. played by William
Chambers, who doubles with the charac-
ter Of the banker husband. William Sisto,
the Italian monologist has good act
and does some clever work with har-
monicas. The two Roses are clever vio-
linists who play well and pleasingly, and
Mcmahon. Diamond and Clemence give a
good exhibition Of dancing, with clever
bit of tumbling by the rag doll" Cardo
and Noll sing selections from popular
operettas and both have good voices. Con-
roy and Lemaire, in THE New Physt-
cian," prove their ability to make just as
many laughs as ever. and the Girls OF
1919 Something" with Ruth Lusby, have
some fun with a rather meek pianist dis
covered In the audience and hauled upon
the stage to perform. Others are Valorno
and La More. in knockabout stunts;
Willie Gardner, in skate dances, and the
Paulhan team, who play basketball on
bicycles.
"A Night at the Opera" presented by
the Mando Orchestra Company, is the
headlner on the bill at the Union Square
this week Seventeen musicians, with va
rious mandoln-like instruments. constitute
the orchestra, which Is conducted by
James Bradford. and the repertory OF
operate selections is well played. John
L,orenz. tenor. and Nine. Frances Lloyd,
soprano. are the solosts, and their sing
ing. to the accompaniment of the novel
mando orchestra, was quite pleasing and
proved popular with the audience. John
de Persia and his company. in the playlet
~ Close Cali" gave a good performance
of an Italian-American wrongly accused
Of crime and finally exonerated, and
Leona Price is especially good as Mrs.
SiIversten. the witness. Miss Maxine,
with the maximum OF slashed skirts and
her company of picks" has a good act.
and the pickanipnies give their whirlwind
dances i'm good Style. Others on the bill
are Paul Gordon and the petite but shape
~ Anne Rica I'm "A series OF bicycling
feats: Armstrong and Ford in a comic
dialogue. THE English Johnny and the
Con-: Mildred Grover in some new songs
and patter: Thomas Potter Dunno, with
monologue act; Lorenzo and Gallagher in
an amusing bit Of dancing and piano
rlaying. and the Musical Alvinos, with
some new banjo numbers.
The anniversary bill at Hammerstein's
Roof Garden this week has for its head
liner Don" the talking dog. introduced
by LOney Haskell. Don has added one
new word to his vocabulary since his APP
pearance here a year ago. and gives an
interesting exhibition Of his abilities.
Grace Van Studdiford is just as popular
as ever and brings new repertory Of
songs. Ben WEIGH. the Hebrew comedian,
tells some amusing jokes and sings sew
cral original parodies. Another good act
is John Conroy and his Diving Models in
an interesting exhibition Of dives Of all
sorts The Marvellous Millers appear In
their dances, and Joseph Herbert, jr, and
Lillian Goldsmith. in THE Dance Of the
Siren" prove popular. Sophie Tucker.
The Mary Garden Of Ragtime." intro
duces several new coon" songs. and
DOYLE and Dixon begin their second week
with some new steps I'm their unique
dances. Others on the bill are the Four
Athletas. i'm feats OF strength; Nick's
Roller Skating Girls, a seXtette of at
tractive girls: Bcdni and Arthur, with
burlesquc Of the diving models. the Six
Musical Spillcrs; Frozini novel must
clan: Hanlon and Clifton. comedians;
Raymond Euge. singer. and Mack and
Nelson. equiIibrists.
Ching Ling Foo, the Chinese magician.
and his company OF Oriental jugglers,
acrobats. singers and comedians, head
good bill OF vaudeville at the Brighton
Beach Music Hall this week. Ching Ling
Foo still continues TO battle the audiences
with his powers of legerdemain. and es-
pecially so In hts remarkable manipula-
ton of the huge bowl of water containing
the live fish, Vnie DAILY gives pleasing
rcpcrtory OF songs. and Gould and Ashley
have "A good song and dance number
Sophie Barnard. Lou Anger and com
pany present selections from musical
comedy I'm novel and entertaining man.
ner and Joe Welch, another feature on
,ho hin apnears i'm an original assortment
of songs and stories. Others are John and
Mae Burke. Those French Girls and Ben
Beyer and Brother.
Marie Mcfarland and Madame -
the headliners on an excellent bill OF
vaudeville at the New Brighton Theatre.
have fne soprano voices and gave
pleasing repcrtory of selections from va
rious operas. THE Misery OF Han
som cab" with Fields and Lewis.
proved an amusing skit and one of the
features of the programme. THE Pima
fore Riddles" with their company OF
twenty-five gave good performance OF
their abbreviated version of "Pinafore.
Arthur Dunn and katherine Hayes. a
tiny comedian and tremendous come
dienne. are quite funny in COMEDY
Ia Carte" their skt of songs and rapid
fire dialogue Julia Nash and her com
pany present Her First Case" an anus
ing comedy playlet, which shows how a
young girl In dire financial straits uses
her wits to good advantage under press
IRE of circumstances. Ward and Cur
m