The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-08-26
BY william s. Brewer.

BY William >. Brewer.
New York, Aug. 26-Thursday nigh
is growing in popularity as an opening
night This week sees two new pro
auctions on Thursday evening. "Ade
lie" an new musical comedy replaces
1.-THE Silver Wedding" in which Thorn
as A. Wise is starring at the Longacrt
theatre. 1t is written by Jean Brique
and Paul Herve and staged by Bear
Teal The piece is musical comedy
in which an exceptional case ant
chorus will appear.
The second opening for next Thurs
day is Where Ignorance is Bliss" al
the Lyric threatre, to be presented by
Harrison Grey Fiske. Ferenc Molnar
author of 1.-THE Devil is author of the
play and the cast includes Julian
LEstrange, Rita Jolivet, Frederick de
Belleville and Florine Arnold.
Other openings this week were
1.-The Doll Girl with Hattie Williams
and Richard earle as co-stars at the
Globe theatre last night and kiss Me
Quick" with Helen Lowell and Arthur
Aylesworth, in the leading roles at the
48th street theatre, under the direc-
ton of William A. Brady.
First Musical Comedy.
The annual musical comedy of the
season is when Dreams Come True. "
1t was produced on Monday evening at
the Lyric theatre, with Joseph Stanley
and May Vokes in the principal roles.
The piece was written by Pilip Bar
tholomae, the author of "Over Night,
Little Miss Brown" and kiss Me
Quick" and the score was composed by
Silvio Helm.
when Dreams Come True" desig-
mated by it's author "a musical comedy
of YOUTH" has been running since last
Easter in Chicago.
Has Much Scenery.
Four sets of scenery are made use
of in the three acts of when Dreams
Come True" The first is a deck used
by steerage passengers on an ocean
liner, the second is wharf in New
York, with the Liberty statue in the
distance; the third is great hall in
a New York mansion and the fourth is
the ballroom in the same building.
Mr.. Stanley's most successful APP
pearance in New York was in Lew
Fields "The Never Homes" at the
Broadway theatre. Miss Vokes was
last seen here in 1.-THE Quaker Girl.
Others in the cast will include Marie
Flynn, Anna Wheaton, Amelia Sum-
merville, Ann Mooney, Donald Mac
Donald. Edward CARVE, Frazer Coul-
ter and Saranoff, a young violinist.
The scenery is by Gates and Morange
and the costumes, the finest ever made
for the stage, by B. Altman and COM
pany.
Believe Me, Xantippe.
ferings of the season was Believe
Me, Xantippe,' seen at the Thirty |
ninth street theatre on last Tuesday |
night The play was written by Fred |
erick Ballard, an honor student at |
Harvard college last year, and re-
ceived the John Craig prize. The |
piece ran for twelve weeks at the Cas- |
tie Square theatre in Boston and it is |
by arrangement with Mr.. Craig that |
it will be seen here. The play COM |
prises four acts, the scenes changing |
York to a hunting camp in western
Colorado.
NJ Ballard was graduated from the
University of Nebraska in 1905 and
then went on tramping trip through
the Pacific coast states and the Rocky
mountains and worked as ranchman
and miner, and tramped with tramps.
The play is the result.
The cast is headed by John Barry
more and Mary Young Others in the
cast are Frank Campeau, Theodore
Roberts, Henry Hull, Katherine Har-
ris, Albert Roberts, Alonzo Price,
Alpha Beyers and M. Tello Webb
Another Brady Play.
'The Family Cupboard" by Owen
Davis, is the second production to be
offered by William A. Brady, Ltd, this
season. It's opening took place
Thursday night at the Playhouse, in
augurating for that theatre it's third
season. The cast includes William
Morr, Irene Fenwick, Forrest VIM
nant, Alice Brady, Olive Harper
rhorne, Frank Hatch, Franklin Ardell,
Ruth Benson, Douglass ]. Wood, Alice
Lindahl, Harry Redding and Irene Ro-
maine.
1.-THE Lure" is current attraction at
Maxine Elliott's theatre. The play
night justly be described as power
ul dramatic object lesson and shows
n a most truthful manner the way in