Arizona republican., 1913-04-13

llnu the very pest pictures III ElOenlN under the most sanitary and comfort able conditions. AS we said last week, this is to our mind quite an ideal mov- ing picture house.
 The Savoy, the Lamara and the Plaza are all offering good films. and the man or woman who wants to kill an hour or so pleasantly will have no trouble in doing so.
 The King is dead, Long live the King" The present season at the E,lks having been brought to a sue ceSsful finish. the management bids us forget the many excellent attractions they have provided there this winter and focus our attention on what they will do next season.
 To begin with. they have already booked four wonderfully strong at fractions. SOthern and Marlowe in Shakespeareian repetoire; Within the Law" one of the biggest successes now running in New York; "Milestones," another big New York success, and Stop Thief which is also enjoying very prosperous run at the Gaiety Theater.
 E. II. Sothern and Julia Harlowe are too well known to require comment. They stand for all that is best in Shakespeareian drama on the Amer ican stage today.
 Within the Law is one of the very few plays which has run the entire season in New York. It is still at the Eltinge Theater. where it is doing the same wonderful business it has been doing ever since last September. It is a crook play, abounding in thrills, and it will surely make Phoenix sit up and take notice.
 tMilestones" is quite different type of play. Like "Bunty Pulls the Strings" it is imported and, also like "Bunty." it is quite out of the ordi nary It tells the story of a family through successive generations, cover years, and is altogether delightful and unusual.
 Stop Thief" is an out-and -out farce comedy which has kept New York laughing for months. New York likes to laugh, but it demands something really funny to make it do so for any length of time.
 If the balance of the attractions booked live up to the standard set by these four. Phoenix will have no cause to complain of her amusements next season.
 The most important event of the past week in New York was the pro- duction of Ann Boyd" a dramatiza- tion of Will Harben's novel, at Wal lacks Theater Important for two reasons: First because it brought Miss Nance O'Neil back to the stage after long absence. and. second, be- cause it was the occasion of making the famous old theater a popular priced house. In his efforts to keep the old place away from a moving pie ture fate, Manager Burnham has made all the seats except the first four rows of the orchestra, one dollar each, but it will probably take a better play than Ann Boyd to keep it popular, even at those prices. Ann" failed to set Broadway on fire in spite of the fine work of Miss O'Neil and a very excel lent cast, including Wilson Melrose. It was made into play by Miss Lucille La Verne, the well known actress of "colored roles" Miss La Verne was not successful as a dramatist: but bad stage mana cement was much more re sponsible for failure than Miss La Vernes writing.
 There were moments when Miss ONeil rose above the clap trap of the situation and dominated by sheer force of personality: but these moments were far apart and of short duration. | The wide open arms of Gains store 1 house are reaching forth lOngingly, if not tenderly. and it will not be at all necessary for one to ask How old is | Ann?'' for long before one could an swer she will have found rest in the ! heaven of bad plays.
 l At the F'orty-eighth Street Theater i another play, "The Lady from Okla - 1 homa.' with great possibilities. failed | to realize them. very largely owing to the fact that the leading lady, Miss | Jessie BOnstelle was entirely unsuited 1 to the part she played. "The Lady from Oklahoma tells the story of a little ignorant, uncultured woman, the
 wife of a senator. who has not kept
 up" with her husband. In despair al