The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-05-21
THE STAGE
0ARRick.

Tuesday evening when tho Garrick
theater was crowded with brilliant
audience TO witness the first produc-
ton OF the amateur entertainment
Everywhere" TO be given every
evening for the remainder OF the
week. and on Saturday afternoon. for
the benefit OF the work OF the Animal
Welfare committee OF the Twentieth
Century club. The theater was filled
with Detroit's most representative
people and the efforts of the young
folk on the stage were literally ap-
plauded. Inc boxes were occupied
| by members OF the Animal Welfare
committee. and their guests, and not
once during the regular theatrical
season which closed last week has
the Garrick held more appreciative.
more fashionable and more smartly-
dressed audience.
Everywhere" proved TO be big
musical pageant. filled with lively
song hits, pretty dances, pictures and
| groupings attractive 10 the eye. rich
and colorful costumes. and incessant
life and movement. The opening
scene disclosed the court OF Spain.
In 1892. with King Ferdinand 81. +.
Maurice Macfarlane) and Queen lsa-
bella Miss Marguerite Sullivan re-
ceiving Christopher Columbus TX. NJ.
Bour) as the latter Is about TO de-
part for the wonderful land beyond
the seas-America. This scene was
people with gorgeously dressed cour-
tiers and ladies and was an effective
beginning.
Arriving In America, unique In
dian dance was given. with song
Of the Zuni tribe. sung by A. Edison
I.aing. and the scenes passed along
| from one event. In American Sistory,
to another. including a reception held
| by George Washington and Martha
| Washington. and q scene In which a
| number OF civil war veterans, from
! the several local G. A. r. posts, par
ticipated. The appearance OF the
veterans was the signal for deafen-
| ing applause, and honor was paid TO
them by the audience standing en-
masse and singing America Mem
bers OF the Michigan National Guard
In a military scene we're no less
heartily applauded Incidental to
the scenes presented in the first half
of the entertainment, there was a de-
! lightful chorus from The Quaker
Girl" with the demure little gray.
garbed Quaker girls and the high
hated, solemn-visaged Quaker men
Miss June Wood and George Duane
sang the duet. "A Good Little Girl
and a Bad. Bad Boy from the
operetta very prettily.
During the Washington reception,
an old-fashioned gavotte was danced
with graceful dignity, and Miss Dor
othy B. Conger gave an exquisite
special terpsichorean number to the
music of the waltx from Gounod's
Faust" Miss Conger wore a charm.
ing costume and danced with 1.-the
grace that completely charmed hex
audience. Miss Alice Josephine
Kratzet. a young and dainty slip Of
a girl also made an especial hit with
an interpretative dancing number
from the opera of "Orpheus and
Eurydice," In which she showed ex-
ceptional ability. A Jolly number
was the country dance with the nd
dler Saving" away on top OF a
table.
In the second act, the stage was
set to represent an outdoor carnival
in Detroit, and here were introduced
dances OF all nations. a clever cab
aret scene and some beautiful special
dancing by Miss Marjorie Stearns,
who. with Lawrence Beck, OF New
York. offered a number of whirlwind
dances OF the sort SO popular the last
season on the professional stage and
which have been widely featured In
all musical shows.
Everywhere" compares favorably
with any production Of It's kind pre-
viously staged In Detroit, and should,
on it's merit alone. be suHlcient to
make crowded audiences the rule
throughout the week.
Thursday evening and Saturday az
ternoon, there will be q special at
traction in group Of 16 little boys
and girls, In q fetching number caleld
THE Dance OF the French Dolls and
the Teddy Bears In which the little
girls will be dressed as French dolls
and the little boys as Teddy bears.
the little girls wheeling the bears
on the stage in dolls carriages.
Several OF the city's well-known
singers gave special musical num-
bers, including Mrs. J. F. Maurice
Miss Elizabeth Bennett,
Miss Freida Cagel, John L. Dickin-
son. and others.
A voting contest to name the most
popular group OF dancers taking part
was held just previous to the close
OF the performance. several OF the
men performers going about In the
audience selling votes for dime.
The cabaret scene won the contest.
Mrs. Minnie Maddern Ffske, the
actress. who came to
Detroit to attend the pageant be-
cause of her deep interest In fur.
thering humane work, and, especial.
ly, In the local Animal Welfare com.
mittee, was given an ovation when
she stepped upon the stage during
the reception scene.
In the various performances dur.
Ing the week. new specialities and
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