The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-13
TWO LONDON PLAYS WITH
FULL ENGLISH CASTS
Coming FootIight Season in New York City Promises
Some Such Treats for the Theatre Going Lovers
Other Theatrical News.
BY Beau RiaItO.
written for the United Press.)

4 NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The cordis
interchange of things theatrical, bot
actors and plays, between New Yor
and London, which has characterize
Broadway's 1913-1914 season by a
unprecedented International aspect
is to be further emphasized. Two Lon
don plays with full English casts ar
to be produced here this month.
Winthrop Ames at the Little theatr'
will put on George Bernard Shaw
1.-THE Philanderer," with a cast of Eng
fish players selected by the author. L
will have its New York premiere il
Christmas week. The Shuberts have
arranged for the transfer from Londor
to New York of "The Girl on the Film,
a Gaity theatre hit. Broadway has
famous Gaity company but never be-
| fore was an entire musical comedy and
cast transferred to New York. The
American production of ''The Girl on
the Film" will be the same in every de-
tail as George Edwards London show
The Gaity girls are the most famous
show girls and chorus girls in Eng
land. Many of them have married into
the British peerage and several of
them are now said to be engaged to
young lords of high degree.
Louis Mann Draws Laughs.
Louis Mann, at the Harris in Chill
dren of Today" presents a curious
anomoly. The audience laughs all the
way through the piece. and at the end
wonders why. The only possible ex
PLANTATION is that Louis Mann is per-
haps the ablest American comedian
on the stage today and can make one
laugh regardless of the supineness of
his vehicle. Children of Today"
should have been spanked and put to
bed before the premiere. It's an awful
thing to have two professionals in one
family Mrs. Mann CLARA Lipman)
wrote the piece in collaboration with
Louis Shipman, and her husband. per-
haps, had to play the thing. No other
charitable explanation can be offered
why q successful actor-manager of
good Judgment and unquestionable
ability should attempt children of To-
day"
In this play, Mr. Mann is handicap
ped in silly reasonless play, a poor
support and German dialect. He
carries the first two by reason of his
and makes good in spite of,
lot with, the last The children are
.wo precocious youngsters who call
heir widowed mother by her first
lame, boss her and plan to elope with |
IN artist adventurer and a French CO.
otte.
The elderly German marries the |
widow, buys off the artist and the
ranch woman and reforms the chill
rem. That's all there is to it-besides
Ir Mann's superb character acting.
First Comedy Role.
Nine. Bertha Kalich made here first
ssay in a comedy role in Rachel" a
omantic drama at the Knickerbocker.
hose who know Nine. Kalich as
'agedienne were agreeably surprised
t the versatility she displays in a
ghter role. The piece itself is bit
ferior, there being too little plot and
70 many words. Perhaps it is only |
e charm of the inimitable actress in
| entirely new field of endeavor that
rries Rachel"
Shaw's Latest Success.
George Bernard Shaw at last put d
e over on the British critics and n
with his latest effort, ''Pyg- Fl
alion." He insured the success of c
e play by refusing to sell it. He for Il
de the production of the piece in 6,
gland and put it On first in Vienna a
d then in Berlin. The play may soon c;
produced in New York without ever W
ng seen in London. M
shaw's explanation of his eccen- OF
city was that heretofore the success 81
his plays in Germany have been ia
,iled by the uniformity adverse criti- m
ho1 with 1.
m that mad become haDll WIFI bl
glish pIay-goers and critics. He de- is-
ed not to give them a chance at
ygmalion, at least not until the sue 80
S of it has been so firmly establish m
that British knocking cannot hurt oil
pa
really is clever satire. sn
london expert in 'phonetics" guar ma
ees that he can in three months WI
m off a gutter snipe" flower girl,
"a, by teaching her to speak cor
tly He makes good. =
liza becomes a society favorite. But W
developing her speech and manner, Ill
professor, Higgins, Inadvertently w
alops a soul in Eliza She becomes ~
atisfied with her advancement.
iggins discovers, though Eliza hot WI
Ienes it, that the girl loves him. We
}, he finds that he loves her. The 'ie
curtain leaves the audience in one
Ut as to the outcome, and offers W.
for debate. nv
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