The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-31

comedy OF the sketch is built around
this situation and the playlet is said
TO abound in keen humor. The Gas
gov players include, Helen MacDon'
aid, Janet Gardner, Bessie Macdonald,
Andrew Clyde and Stuart Black.
Other acts on the program are: Billy
Gould and Belle Ashlyn: Joe Jackson
Rive Musical Germans: Bird Millman
and company. Ellis a. McKenna; Fay
and Two Coleys and Fay; Selbini and
Grovini and Pathe weekly
The king OF all modern light operas,
The Chocolate Soldier" will be pre-.
scented for the third time, in Detroit.
next week, in the Detroit opera house
There seemed TO be such a demand for
this delightful opera that Fred c.
Whitney reassembled his Whitney
opera company this year for another
seasons tour OF the piece. An excel
lent company or singers will be heard
in Detroit with an augmented orches.
ira -undef-a capable director. The
scenery and costumes are said TO be
new for the current tour.
Edgar Smith. the librettist OF Han
engagement in the Garrick theater,
commencing, Monday, Feb. 10, is a
most prolific source OF musical COM
edy librettos and within the last 3
years he has written and produced
243 complete productions, every one
OF which has had New York or Chi
cago hearing In addition TO having
written all OF the Weber & Fields IL.
brettos which left behind them many
lines that have become accepted as
colloquial repartee. Mr.. Smith has
written dozens OF other musical COM
edies and travesties. He is the au-
thor of all the shows which have
been produced in the New York Win
ter garden, also Of Titles Night
mare" The Kiss Waltz. The Hen
Pecks." THE Never Homes. The
Girl Behind the Counter" The Sun
Dodgers" up and Down Broadway,
The Summer Widowers," "Hanky
Panky," and "Roly Poly" the latest
Weber & Fields vehicle.
Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske. whose
name in synonymous for the better
things OF the stage. will bring to the
Detroit opera house, Monday evening,
Feb. 10, for brief three-days' engage
| ment, a new play by Edward Sheldon
1.-The High Road" which was written
for Mrs. Fiske. The play is a unique
exposition OF a woman's life, extend
| ing over a period OF % years. Mr..
| Sheldon is said to have offered new
ideas in his play and, Mrs. Fiske is
credited with bringing her highest
artistic powers 10 the enactment or
the principal role. With Mr.. Fiske,
she personally staged the play. which
| Is said TO be remarkable in artistic
scenic fidelity.
| Public taste has placed John Drew
in a position, apparently unassailable.
| as the chief American exponent OF
polite comedy and, II is said, that his
talent in this direction, has never
had better scope than, In The Alfred
Sutro play, "A Perplexed Husband,
in which Mr. Drew will be seen In the
Detroit opera house, Thursday even
! ing, Feb. IS. for a half weeks engage
mcnt Mr.. Sutro Is said to have Great
ed a strictly modern comedy. full OF
human interest and with live charac-
] ters, who say and do natural things,
! although the incidents and story or
| the play are unusual.
William Faversham. who plays, so
admirably, the role OF Marc Anthony,
| in his own spectacular and beautiful
production OF Julius Caesar" now on
view in the Garrick theater, has come
to the point where he is recognized as
one of the foremost actor-managers.