The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-24
FRITZ SCHEFF q
alright SAYS
EVERYBODY

Miss FRITZ Scheff was equally as
pleased to sing in Hattiesburg as her
audience was to hear her, or she was
so perfect in creating that impression
that as an actress she surpassed her
self as songstress, great prima donna
that she is. In her genuinely enthusl-
astic personality lies the secret of her
success. She seemed to sing and dance
and pout because sne enjoyed it and
because she knew her audience en-
joyed it.
FRITZ Scheff has scored many sue
cesses and there Is no visible indica-
ton but that she will continue to be
a most popular favorite In America.
She is the ideal prima donna for light
opera. She is pretty-not with a doll
like beauty that looks as IL it would
sqush or break If it should fall-but
with a strong, rather peculiar and fas-
cinating attractiveness that grows on
one. Her singing is sweet and thor
oughly musical in every note, while 1t
is strengthened by an histrionic in
depreciation that makes it impressive.
She is endowed with that pre-eminent
attribute Of a successful actress-a
form that is beautiful, perfectly so.
"The Love Wager" was played be-
fore the largest house in this city this
season. 1t was an operetta based up
on an Hungarian legend about the
method adopted by a girl to bring
about the marriage Of her three older
sisters so, that she would be eligible,
the custom decreeing that the eldest
unmarried daughter in a family is the
only girl eligible to receive proposals
of marriage.
The music was pretty, but not above
the ordinary, there being no particu-
larry catchy air to stay with one and
make him want to whistle 1t. -Four
Leaf Clover" by Miss Myrtle Jersey;
"My Love Is Like a Flower" by Miss
Scheff and Mr.. Anderson, and aria"
by Miss Scheff, were the most popu-
lar songs.
Judging by the popular opinion of
Miss Scheff, 1.-THE Love Wager" az
fords her abundant opportunities for
portraying her head-strong, willful,
and at time almost cat-like personal
fly, as well as to charm with her sweet
singing, but she has little chance to
dance as her entrancingly sinuous
form would lead one to believe she is
capable Of doing, because her cos
tunes, no doubt the height of fash
lon, would not permit II.
The scene where Mitzi pretends to
accept as her husband Toni, the shy,
owlish young man devoted to his stud
les, and then frightens him away with
her description Of how she is going to
lavishly spend his money and enjoy
the world after she Is married, may
be taken by some people as a charac-
OF the recent husband Of the
temperamental FRITZ.
Mr.. George Anderson, "Horkoy," as
the side partner of Miss Scheff, was
very successful without being brilliant
enough to detract from the scintiIa-
lions Of the star. In an apparently I'M
effort to appear at all times
absolutely impersonal in his acting
and singing he no doubt restrained his
real ability.
The music under the direction of Mr..
Louis Knoll was highly pleasing
other leading supporters were Mil
bred Rogers, Myrtle Jersey, Florence
Martin, Inez Bauer, Harry Stone,
Charles Gallagher, Frederick Howard
and Robert Lett.
A special dance by the Hungarian
dancer, Les Mascagni, was the only
feature. .-