El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-07

luSL DEOQuCGu III LllG eL4A4A'AS AF.1s~-
the Manhattan opera mouse. AFTER d |
succession of English made Drury !
Lane audacities it is refreshing TO VII
ness this production, written Dy
Thompson Buchanan out of the recent
emotions of the American people ana
utilizing American talent in every line
from the painting of the magnificent
drops to the excellent acting 49,,
Love, war, hate, murder-Wlth these
strong emotions the new spectacle
deals and deals COpiOusly. Thrills are
thrown at the audience in dizzying
succession. 1t is a story of an lnnO-
cent man condemned to death in New
York state for murder. the ulcks
that led him to the death house are
shown with the Wiles by which MS
wife and her friends rescue him just
before the hour set for execution.
Just TO list the scenes Of Life IS
to give a good idea OF the play
enormity. There is a view of Yale
Harvard rowing contest, St Patrick
Cathedral Sing Sing prison, a ball in
high society" on Fifth avenue, a me-
dium's creepy chamber, a restaurant IN
the heart Of FL PasO besides another
| at the foot of Union Square ana
third on top Of a New York sky
! scraper and many more.
In these surroundings We see good
men and bad, gamblers, priests, war
dens, clerks, social leaders, stenOg-
raphers, debutantes, detectives and
dancing master, the whole motley
which makes up life as Mr.. buchanan
Music and HumOr in Chin Chin.
Music and humor abound in the new
Montgomery and Stone phantasy,
Chin Chin" now the attraction at the
| Globe theater. 1t is a cheerful, anus
| ing performance, equal to anything
| peared in.
Anne Caldwell is the author and she
/ has taken the story Of Aladdin and his
wonderful lamp as her inspiration.
| James ODea wrote the lyrics and Ivan
! Caryll the music, which is noteworthy.
| BY the way, Charles B. Dillingham;
l has the exclusive American rights TO
/ It's a Long Way to Tipperary' and
1 has forced the Shuberts to discontinue
using it at the Winter Garden. Belle
! Story sings it here. 1t seems passing
| strange to talk about the copyright
/ of a song now the favOrite Of great
enemies at war and quite in a class
with The Marseillaise," but I suppose
/ anything is possible in these modern
! days. After that one becomes quite
| recOnciled to Messrs. Montgomery and
i-Stone falling many miles through the
! clouds-at the aid of the moving pic
Little Face Almost Classic.
Among the five short plays now Of
fered to the visitors to the Princess
theater Little Face" by Roland Oliver
! has made a great impression on the
few audiences who have witnessed II
and bids fair to become almost
drama among the prehistoric cave
/ dwelling ancestors Of the present hu-
man race The costumes are decidedly
decOllete, in fact more so, II anything.
But that's to be supposed. The origin
! of suffrage agitation and the mother
I inlaw joke are here barred to the world.
Z The humor is a tr1fle elemental even
! for troglodytes in parts, but the
4 twentieth century audience didn't seem
Big Jim Clarity.
John Mason is seen at his best in
| exciting Big Jim Clarity" owen
! Daviss new melodrama at the New
/ York theater. He roars and he thun-
| ders, he throws persons of lesser
! strength around, he breaks doors and
! furniture and heavy bonds and gen
/ orally muses. up the stage. Yet there
! is little of the cheap and tawdry in
! this play of violence. 1t is Clean
] wholesome thriller"
big jim" is an escaped but guilt
| less convict who in the course Of more
! than twenty years has slowly climbed
/ to wealth, power and position
| One incident of many such which
! shook the audience was where the
nero, bound to a chair by two GRIM
| inals, manages to free a hand; tWitch
at a table cloth, yank a revolver from
! the table, catch it as it falls and shoot
! the william in his tracks.
Wnfred DOuthItt in ''LiIac Domino
Andreas DIPPED inaugurated the sea-
! sun OIL the Dlpp6l opera COmlQue COM
| pany at the Forty-Fourth Street
theater, when he presented in English
the three act Operetta THE Lilac
Domino" with music by Charles Cuvil-
lier.
THE Lilac Domino" was first pro-
duced at the Oldstadt theater. Leipzig,
on February 13, 1914, since which time
II has been seen in many cities Of
The role Of count Andre was en-
trusted to Wilfred Douthitt, the famous
English baritone, who is regarded in
! London as the successor to Santley.
| Douthitt is the champion all round
athlete of England. He can sing SIS
! seconds on one breath. In the history
of pantOmime at the Drury Lane
theater, London. he is the first male
singer who ever played principal boy.
Besides being heard in THE Lilac
Domino he will appear in concert
work in the principal cities of this
country.
Anna PaVIOwa
! 7 do not want to kill the tango
| merely to operate on it, for the tango
is a terpsichOrean cripple already"
| said Nile. Anna Pavlowa on her ar
rival in America during the week.