The Detroit times., 1913-11-14

gram are: Brandon Hurst and com
pany In "The GIRL playlet by Ed
ward Peple author Of The Littlest
Girl and THE Prince Chap" Chick
Sale in A Country School Entertain
ment;" Provost 4 Brown: James IL.
Cullen. "a pippin from the big orch
ard Rosa Crouch and George Welch
Libonati; Anita Barfling, and the
Mooreoscope.
a singing and dancing act called
The Dancing Girls will be the lead
Ing number on the Broadway bill next
week. lee Tong Foo. Chinese inita-
ter and comedian. win occupy con
spicuons place. Warren and Blanch-
afd. former musical comedy entertain
erS, Victoria Walters and CO., In
traNesty Oh Macbeth" Hazel Berke
and Alex korae. "the Media and Pade-
rewski Of vaudeville, Patrick, Fran
cisco and Warren. trampoline aero
bats -Fenner and Fox. dancers: Ada
Carlton, singer. and the Wardoscope
pictures VIII offer an excellent bill OF
varied entertainment
Virginia Norden. who has one OF the
the leading roles in The Good Little
Rich Girl To come To the Detroit
opera house next week, never wears
gown over four weeks and Is con-
tinually replenishing her wardrobe.
especially for the stage. In The
Poor Little Rich Girl" Miss Norden
wears xix gorgeous foreign creations,
each one entirely different from the
other. The young actress is very
wealthy woman and SO is able to in
dulge her dress fancies. On. her re-
turn from Europe last July. she paid
the United States custom authorities,
S11.435 for gowns in her 26 trunks.
Among the interesting characters in
"A Good Little Devil" which David
Belasco will present in the Detroit
opera house, the week of Dec. 1, Is
that Of "A Poet" He describes HIM
self as "a son of Pierrot, q cousin
of GrinEoire, and near relation OF
Cyrano." and, in drawing the char
acter, the authors OF the play, Madame
and Maurice Rostand, portray the
jollity of the first, the unworldine3s
Of the second. and the generosity OF
the third.
To the lovers Of good music Emma
T-entini in The Ffrefiy," in the Gar
rick theater this week. is q revela-
ton Of what a composer of artistic
ability may accomplish in lifting a
musical attraction above the plane of
commonplace musical comedy. The
Firefiy" proves that charming music.
clean and clever humor may go hand
INLAND In the arrangement OF an
operate attraction. The piece effer-
yesces with melody In its solo num-
bers and chorus ensembles. Rudolf
Friml. the composer of The Freely"
has provided Mile. Trentini with four
songs that linger In the memory,
when Maid Come Knocking 1t
Your Heart" KRIS Me and It's Day"
Love is Like Ffrehy" and "Giannini
mia
OF Vienna, which will be the sub
ject of F. NJ Newman's Traveltalk
in the Detroit opera house. SUNDAY
evening, Nov. is. Mr.. Newman has
the following to say. Il was amased
at the remarkable changes which had
taken place In this gay old city since
my last visit about eight years ago.
ningy narrow streets had given way
! to splendid wide avenues. clean and
excellently paved. and magnificent
/ buildings uniform In architecture have
replaced the old tumble-d0wn bufld-
ings. Magnificent new museums and
art galleries, theaters and opera
houses have been erected. and the
parks and promenades are delight.
The life of the city is much the same
az ever. The light-hearted. music
loving Viennese seem to live only fo-
the very Joy of living. and the atmos-
phere of FUN is contagious. i have
yet to find tourist who has not en-
Joy ed every minute OF his stay there
A wonderful little artist with the
bow il Leo Filler. whose playing IL
one OF the real features OF the Miles
bill, his week. He Is little more than
q boy. but his 1.-THE fingers caress the
strings In a mastery fashion. and his
technique Is unusually facile He ID
so modest that he seems to forget
that he is playing to an audience and
often retires without even returning