Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-15
Problem Play and Martial
Airs Stage Features Here
when Johnny Comes March.
ing Home" Delights Olympic
Park Audience.

Music OF the real American type
the kind made famous by George M
cohan. where Uncle Sam" and tn,
Star Spangled Banner come right tc
the fore, is on tap at Olympic Parl
this week in Julian Edwards's tunefu
two act military opera, "Wher
Johnny Comes Marching Home" II
is given by company composed OF
all the present season favorites and
a number Of newcomers who made
distinct hits in their initial appear
ances last night.
when Johnny Comes Marching
Home" Is one of those operas that
have Just enough of a plot to hang
= - p catchy songs on and to pro-
Xlss 1or the singing of most of them
- = sanch OF pretty girls. And the
ksraS 9rsnn principals to chorus last
asSsx esoSeS more than pretty, as
tasy assre 81 dressed in the wide
sas,aa aa.e hoop skirt costumes of the
49aaa ag the civil Var. 1s61-1s65. the
rsst'is.z IN oASoA the opera is laid.
asep skirts Make Hit.
Tasa aaop SKIRT costumes made a
slSlznst hlt last night and so did the
a,aarsrs. especially Miss Laura Jaf-
fraY and MISS Margaret Crawford,
rs latter q newcomer 10 the COM
z.ars. uha made a splendid impress
son by Ter capable acting and her
azs singing. she having a contralto
vsses - rosa rsnSe which she knows
RI nj
Constance Pembsrton. a coquettish
Southern widow. and Will prove a
vsscanae addition 70 the ranks OF the
company.
Madison smith, another newcomer,
mere 4Aan made good in the leading
ra1s q Colonel John Graham, the
Johnny. who comes marching home
= re southern plantation he had
let ahsa q boy. Mr.. Smith has a
pleasing personality and can both
s.ns and act the latter being just
as good as his singing, which is OF
5 very high class He was forced to
reSoons 10 several sneores for his
saes work in his second act song,
Kate. Nv Southern Rose" in which
he vas ably assisted by Miss Blanche
Morrison and the hoop-skirted
chorus Miss Morrison as Kate Penn
be-ton won deserved applause with
her two solos, "Springtime" and
childhood Memories" both of which
she sang in an effective manner.
Miss Jaffray a Favorite.
Miss Jaffray, who is fast becoming
the particular favorite of the Olympic
Park clientele. was splendid last
night as Cordelia Allen. the winsome
daughter Of q Federal general Miss
JafTray does everything well that a
summer opera company soubrette
needs TO do. She can sing, dance and
act and the Olympic Park crowds are
just waking up TO the fact that she is
pretty near a second edition of Miss
Stella Tracey, who was such warm
favorite at the park last summer
Arthur Burckly, the tenor of the
company. did not have much to do
last night, but made a good looking
Federal officer and sang a duet, THE
Time to Love" with Miss Jaffray in
the second act, that more thar
pleased the largest Monday crowd Of
the season.
IL Was a Critical Audience.
And IL was a critical crowd too
for 1t numbered among the 1900 pres
emit about 300 members of the stats
of the local newspapers who were
present as the guests of the park
MANAGEMENT and 100 members Of the
North Jersey and Essex County Past
Masters Masonic Associations who
with their wives and sweethearts, hat
their annual banquet and dinner
PARTY at the park last night.
The opera is filed with tuneful ant
catchy airs and specially pleasins
were the old-time airs of the 1s6l-ls6'
period that constantly ran through
the melody of the opera. Dixie,
Tramp, Tramp. Tramp "Suwane
River" and other bygone favorite
were all in evidence. Miss Irene Sam
sell, assisted by a quartet composed
of Oyerton Moyle, Miss Morrison, Mr.
Smith and Miss Crawford. giving al
especially fine rendition of "Suwane
River" in the first act. The two act
were staged with splendid scenic eff
fects. the second-act setting showini
a plantation on the Mississippi river
a really splendid piece of stagecraft.
Makes Patriotic Blood Tfngie.
II YOU have any patriotic blood i
YOUR veins, you should not miss pay
ing a visit to the park this week I
listen to the Olympic company sin
"When Johnny Comes Merchin
Home" You will go home with you
blood tingling and your mouth in
quicker trying to figure out whic
one of the many catchy airs you wan
to whistle.
A treat is also in store for tn
Olympic patrons next week, when tn
French opera, Madame Sherry" wi
be produced with all the stars cas-
in good roles. In addition Miss Edn
Reming and James McElhern, favor
ties of other Olympic park companie
have been engaged especially for til
| production of Madame Sherry
which. it is announced, will be or
of the most pretentious plays put o
In the nine years of summer oper