Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-21

Manager Forsberg wishes to an
nounce that he has engaged as a reg
ular member of the Forsberg players,
| l.. Van Sloan, who as member or
the company formerly playing at
the Orpheum and whose host OF New
ark friends will be glad to learn OF
his return to the theatre where he
became so popular with Newark play
goers. Mr.. Van Sloan will make his
re-entrance into Newark dramatic
fields next Monday, when he will APP
pear in an important part in George
| Scarborough dramatic play AT
Bay" which will be the offering for
the week of September 2Sth at the
Orpheum. Mr.. Van Sloan says he is
glad to be back in Newark and VIII
be delighted to see all his old friends
! both in front of the curtain and
socially.
1.-THE Japanese Prince a spec
tacular operetta with special and
elaborate costuming, will be the head
liner of the Keeney Theatres eight
act bill the first part of the present
week. The piece was written and ar
ranged by Edward Clark. we'll known
as a musical genius and master of
stagecraft. 1t is offered by Roland
West, one of the most noted of New
York producers of vaudeville acts.
Miss Katherine Kay, one of the
youngest and prettiest of vaudeville's
singing condolences, will take the
stellar part Miss Kay made big hit
in the Winter Garden, Berlin, which
has now been transformed into
hospital; also in theatres In London.
BY special arrangement Mr.. Keeney
has arranged return date for the
powerful dramatic playlet, Dope
produced by Herman Lieb and COM
many, which produced so deep an I'M
preston when 1t was presented at tho
local playhouse several months ago.
1t is an expose of the cocaine trade.
"The Fun SHOP" a new musical
farce with q company of ten clever
juvenile artists. holds headllne
position on the first bill at the Lyric
this week. 1t is delightful produc-
ton, full of pleasant moments FOR the
Youthful and those who wish to stay
so-a merry hodge-podge OF good
things in song and dance, combined
with a fund of good. wholesome
humor that starts the ball of mirth
rolling from the rise to the fall of the
curtain, thirty minutes later.
Prominent among the leading rea-
lures Is Mercedes Book, q talented
young dclTtSbs SuppOi tCo w u SN'ca.S
cast, who will present a serio-comic
playlet entitled, "Wanted-A Stenog-
rapher" One of those breezy Ameri-
can farces, 1t is sure to find appre-
ciative audiences.
With more than one hundred bur-
lesque attractions on the road this
season 1t would seem difficult task
for a manager to offer anything out
of the ordinary, but Peter S. Clark,
In his "Rosey Posey Girls" company,
which will be the offering at Miners
Empire Theatre this week. Is said
to present a real novelty. This Is
called the "Barbary Coast Dance OF
San Francisco, a real tangoetta. In
terpreted by bevy of pretty young
women from the Golden West. and
featuring Earl and Marie Gates, we'll
known terpsichorean artists. With
the closing of the burlesque season
the act will go direct to California.
THE Love Club is the title of the
two-act piece In which the entire
company OF fifty will be seen.
Proctor's Park Place Theatre Is
proving popular with the local
"movie'' fans. The feature photo
play on the bill for the first three
days of this week is After the Ball,
photodramatized from Charles X.
Harris's famous ballad.
Effie Shannon and Herbert Kelley
are seen in the production. The pic