New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-04
At THE VARIETIES
George Aide PIayIet Offered
at Union Square.
BELLE STORY AT COLONIAL
Clifton Crawford Returns to
Vaudeville at Hammer
STEMS Victoria.


/ den in the walls OF the old Union Square
/ for IL has managed again 10 draw its
special clientele as II did in the old
I DAYS" when the biggest" dramas and
! the best known actors made the house
/ famous Yesterday afternoon standing
room only faced The Tribune's vaude
/ william. who went there principally 10
review new ore-act play by George AIDE
I Tho sad truth is that on a long end
( ing"niouslv worked out programme there
arc much better features than Mr.. Adc's
Speaking 20 Father" Vaudeville audi
ences have their traits and peculiaritie'
/ &c other audiences have. but or the
/ whole. il is not a good plan deliberately
/ 10 write down 10 them. This is what
! George Ado seems 20 have done in an
effort TO strike sparks from his hearers
/ Tho idea Of showing how a fresh col
{ lcse youth can bully and startle con
servstive old man into giving him his
/ daughter and a check for 5000 is not a
| had one for broad comedy purposes. but
/ the working out has not been done with
any freshness Of lumor
/ The personality of tho programme this
week is Grace Cameron. who sings a
number Of songs I'm broad caricature AMI
does them with rich vaudeville flavor
] Arturo Rernardrs thirty-nve impersora-
| tons show an interesting versatility.
| flushed Up" Is police story in one act
! by Harrison Armstrong. while the bill
| has a tremendous climax tn Gus Ed
wards's Kid Kabaret"
IL is impossible I'm vaudeville nowadays
I to speak OF the appearance OF singer
without mentioning her gowns. The vo-
calst NAV even dispense with the voice
/ I'M fact. II she has the gowns. So. IN re-
marking the appearance OF Relic Story az
| y. +. Kcith's Colonial Theatre yesterday
: a fternoon. IL is just as well 10 state that
! Mis- story mas q voice. even though II is
a necessary admission that her sartoriai
I possessions are more lovely than her
I tondl
Miss story appeared in New York vaude-
! VILE only on one previous occasion. when
she was an added number on the BILL 20
/ that her appearance OF yesterday was al
most. 4 not quite, a debu-. Judgment OF
! her voice ella ssified Il as high soprano OF
nuteike quality. but without par
/ ucular sympathy. u is at It's best N vocal
I "sreworks." when the absence Of sympa-
fnv IS not noticed In her fluent handling
OF II, IN that respect her appearance IL
one OF Interest
A FOR her gowns. they are the most
"temperameniai that have decorated
vaudeville stage in some tine.
Tom Tcrfiss and his English company
presented 'S.iooge' the adaptation OF
Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol
and made q moving vehicle o. 30. while
the same effect WAS gained with a sketch
OF another SOFT In the Offering OF The
system" b. Taylor Granville and Laura
pi.rnont The remainder OF the bill Wa
made I'D OF Jed and Ethel DoO.ey enter
tainors: the Cadets de Gascogne. French
quartet. Paul N.yius and Ruby Erwood
T. -onrs and dances Mr.. and Mrs.. Per
kin. Fisher !n The Halfway House.
/ Bon Matthews and Al shayn" 100
Chinatown FANTASY Kari Emmy and his
nets. Frank FogArty. the Dublin Min
/ stre' and the Tom Da.ies Trio.
Clifton Crawford il the latest desertef
/ from the ranks 81 musical comedy 10 the
more lucrative domain N the varieties.
I YESTERDAY. after an absence of seven
wears. be reappeared 90 New York yaude-
Vile. when he stepped upon the stage al
Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre
Tor his re-en,ry Mr. Crawford chose 70
: yes. for success entirely upon his aoiliv
as 20 singer and recitauonist or course.
I he sings Rather Early, Mint YOU. his
old favort. and he also recited "Gunsa
/ Din" In addition. he sang yesterday Il
lust Want 20 Tell You Something" from
, The Quaker Girl" and contrasted II with
IL bit % The spell Of the Yukon
Truly Shattuck. I'm songs. lie Rouge 81
Noir." the dance pautomime. with Bert
French and Alice Els for its fourth week
Morton and Moore. Mcmahon and Chap
p.le I'm comedy chatter Delmore and
Lee. In an aerial novelty number Hay
den Dunbar and Hayden. The Raths-
keller Trio" Bert Melrose acrobatic come
! dian. Doan and Gotch. Burns and Fulton
and the Williams Brothers complete the
bin
Al Proctors Fifth Avenue Theatre the
preseuce OF several stellar vaudeville
acts on the weeks bill rounded out doz-
On numbers OF interest. Grace Hazard
only recently back from Europe present
ed her bits OF light opera in the costumes
OF the characters whose bits OF music she
sang The appearance Of VIII Murphy
and Blanche Nichols IN their favorite
sketch. The School Of Acting" was the
occasion FOR much merrlment. SO. too.
was the nonsense OF the Boganny Troupe
| OF Acrobatic Bakers.
For the remainder OF the bill. Arthur
DEACON. comedian from musical comedies,
was feature. Others We're Laura
Guprite. assisted By Jack Jarrott;
Artie Mehlinger cabaret singer; the Cas-
,lIians. In statue posings: the Four Ath-
Ietes women acrobats: La Petite Mignon.
mimic; Lightning Weston. cartoonlst; the
Five Melody Maids and a Man, and Bis
sett and scott. dancers.
Ethel Barrymore In the dthghtfui play
ie, by ]. NJ Barrie. The Twelve Pound
7 ooI, " was the stellar attraction at b. i.
I K.ith's Alhambra Theatre. The perform
ance Of Miss Barrymore was one OF the
/ most worth while things In vaudeville and
won much applause The remainder OF
the bin included Maggie cline. The Irish
Oue.n". Wilfred Clarke q Co. In What
WIN Happen Next Fred. Duprez. the
/ singing comedian; the Musical Johnstons:
/ Reisner and Cores in ITS only Show" ;
| General Pisano and company, sharp
! yEheelers Con1uaDV in Finn