The Washington herald., 1913-03-30

Three of the most interesting person
alties appearing in musical comedy in
this country will pass in RI iew at the
Relasco Theater this week where Lew
Fields new melange of musical comedy.
traveSty. and vaudeville. THE sun DodC-
ers'' will he presented. of course. / refer
TO Nora Bayes. George W. Monroe and
Harry Fisher. whose gifts of comedy and
song keep the ball of the new Ffeldan
entertainment making swift revolutions.
Miss BayeS has appeared in this city
SO repeatedly in musical comedy and
vaudeville. and her songs have been sung
and whistled by so many thousands Of
Washingtonians. that one needs nothing
beyond the memory of her vivacious
charm of both voice and personality to
create the desire 20 hear the new melo-
dies she has to offer in The Sun Dodg-
eTS'
Miss Bayes' first appearance in vaude-
vile and had attained a place of distinC-
tion in that field when Flo. Ziegfeld en-
gagged her for the principal role in the
first of his series of annual revues-"The
Follies of l9JI.'' Shortly after her un-
deniHble success in this attraction she
formed the partnership with Jack Nor
worth. which was dissolved few weeks
ago during the Chicago engagement of
The Sun Dodgers The two appeared
together in The Follies of 1908 and the
following year Miss Bayes became the
principal featured player in THE Jolly
Bachelors" Later she and Mr.. Norworth
again entered vaudeville after which she
appeared in Little Miss Fix-It" for
season. which was followed by another
vaudeville tour. Then came her engage
ment. Early this-season, as the principal
singing comedienne with the Weber and
Fields all star company, which was fol-
lowed by her appearance in The Sun
Dodgers"
George W. Monroe has been seen here
on many occasions. having played bur-
rescue female characters for some thirty
years. Mr.. Monroe has striven for
long while to get away from female char
acter impersonations. but so closely iden-
titled is he with this line of work that
managers refuse to consider him for
male comedy role.
Harry Fisher. the other specially fea-
tured member of The Sun Dodgers
company, was for years member of the
highly successful vaudeville team of
Fisher and Carroll. who gained great
popularity in an Irish Conversation act.
Mr. Fishers first appearance in what is
technically known as n production was
with Lew Fields in What Happened in
Nordland." In this piece he first assaycd
the utterly absurd character which he has
since made his speciality.
Playgoers who will see "The Woman"
at the Columbia Theater this week will
not go to the F street playhouse in ignor-
ance OF what the piece is like, for the
play had its premiere in this city about
two years ago, and during its nine months
run at the Republic Theater in New
York its reputation has spread the Length
of the country. Besides all this THE
Woman is a Belasco production, which
is sufficient guarantee in itself.
In writing THE Woman" William c. de
Mile has given a straight simple story
of one woman's loyalty TO another al
though they were strangers. Behind this
is the plot of group of Washington poll
aticians who are ready to sacrifice a wom-
ans. good name for the furtherment of
their ambitious ends which brings to
mind the last two acts of Mrs Fiske.s
life pilgrimage in The High Road" as
presented at the National Theater last
week.
Mary Nash as the phone girl in the