The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1913-08-28
OPENING OF THEATRES.
Tulane and Crescent Theatres to Open
August 31st.

Returning from his summer vacation,
Thomas c. Campbell, manager Of the
Klaw & Erlanger theatres of New Or
leans, arrived Thursday morning on
the Southern Pacific steamship with
his wife. He brought the first news
of the bookings made for the Tulane
and Crescent theatres for the coming
season, and also the statement that. in
his opinion, New Orleans would have
the best list of attractions this year
that have been sent South in a decade
or more. Both theatres will open on
the night of Aug. 81.
With the exception OF Robin Hool"
and the always welcome classic Ben
Hur," every show at the fashionable
playhouse will be entirely new to To-
cal patrons. AS far as the Crescent
Theatre is concerned, the attractions
will be better than ever for popular
prices. This is the way Colonel T. c.
Campbell, Klaw & changers repre-
plans for the coming season.
Manager Campbell announced that
there would be but one change in the
house staff OF the Tulane and Crescent
theatres, Rudolph Ramelli will be the
press representative TO succeed Wood
Ballard. Mr.. Ramelli has been on the
staff of the Daily States for some time,
and has been press representative of
the Lafayette Theatre for the past two
seasons.
The Tulane-Crescent director said
that the Baronne street theatres sea-
son would open with Quo Vadis," a
magnificent Kleine-Cines moving pic
ture drama, which will be the attrac-
ton for the first two weeks. Follow
ing that will be a travelogue moving
picture, North of So" showing scenes
and views of cities, mines, mountains,
ETC., in Alaska.
The list of attractions cannot yet be
given in their order, as the bookings
have not yet been so classified. Among
those at the Tulane will be: The Mer-
~ Countess" Ready Money" "Regi-
maid de Koven's Robin Hood" Bought
and Paid Fol-" Little Boy Blue" "Ro.
nance" Rose Stahl in a new play,
Fine Feathers" W. A Brady's pro-
duction Of Louisa May Alcott's Little
Women" David Belasco's presentation
of The Governors Lady" The Blue
Bird" stop Thief" within the Law
Nine. Pavlowa, noted Russian dancer
and her company; Damaged Goods,
a realistic play; Broadway Jones'" by
George NJ. Cohan; Arnold Bennett and
Edward Knoblauch's 'Milestones,'
Ben Hur," and Robert Hilliard in his
great detective play, The Argyle
Case" These three last named will
be holiday attractions. Charles Froh-
man will present The Conspiracy"
Henry Miller will play The Rainbow"
John Drew will be seen in Much Ado
About Nothing" Grace George will be
here in a new play. Otis Skinner will
present "Kismet," and Nine. Nazimova
will interpret Bella Donna"
The Crescent attractions will be as
follows: Mutt and Jeff," Annie Rus
sell, The Butterfly on the Wheel"
"Old Kentucky" The Man from
Home" The Littlest Rebel" Little
Miss Fixit," Dolly of the Circus" The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" The
Common Law" Evans Minstrels, Al.
H. Wilson, The Shepherd of the Hill,
"McFadden's Flats" Quincy Adams
Sawyer" "A Fool There Was" THE
Spendthrift," O'Biern's Minstrels, !
Where the Trail Divides" "Mary's |
Lamb" That Printer of Udell's,"
Mans Game" Fields Minstrels, The
Confession" The White Slave" and
"A Romance of the Underworld"