The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

At the Little Theatre on Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock Mime. Harriet
Labadie will give a dramatic interpreta-
ron ~ Michael and His Lost Angel"
nv Henry Arthur Jones. The play is
used by the special permission OF the
author.
"'rhe theme In love" writes Mime.
Iabadic. "in conflict with religion. The
mtn rcsolute as he thinks in the main
,,raucr Of scarcely possible and
wholly undesirable purity, the woman
h.rl at first merely upon his sub
u-luun, hut finding as she progresses
,ra' her heart is in the struggle and
tUt instead OF being engaged in nero
tporti,e encounter she is playing for
nor life. her all. Here are the materials
70, a tragedy The idea is happy, the
A,.utun is superb. and the result is a
n, that has been pronounced by critics
81 Ioucs's masterpiece and, from the
s,..lpo.n, 1T art, one of the most sue
e,ssfl dramas Of the age"
Many who have seen The Marriage
o. ,.umbinc" at the Punch and Judy
Z 4irp are iuquiring who is the lovely
..,a Mrs Hopkins who plays Column
i.,2" l'uUl four years ago Mrs Hop
nr- wa, known as Violet Vivian. Start
... with her eighth year and until she
v.- nineteen Mrs. Hopkins was one OF
ct .r.o 900 England known as Les Petites
\.,au.. composed Of a brother and two
s., u.s. They played the English music
II.- lud special engagements in the
rN..Na and pantumimes. 1t was while
r4,u- 100 one of these performances
,.if E"u Gre. {. ON the outlook for talent
saw .n Niv.ans and engaged them for
BIS Am r.cdn company. In Mrs. Hop
k.n- Ice recognized a young actress of
considerable talent. possessing a lovely
voice and great personal charm lie
saw ,htt she was jus1 the actress with
a I.... more ,Np rieuce. for the Shake
s,,.r.lu h,roiues. While with Gree,
Nj Hopkins played such roles as
Jau,j. I iplet and RoSdiiud IN shake
sp,lr.u plays, also such roles az Lam
I,r.h in school for Scandal Nate
Hrld,pSlir in she Stoops To Conquer
aud GoUd DCcdS in "Everywoman." II
VII during the Ben Greet tours tha
NJ. Hopkins, also member Of tn,
company. n. and married Miss Vivian
Mr. hopkins desires To bc known only
with the hymencal attachment to hei
name as have many others who a:
"Alrs. have glurifed the stage.
\ device TO control the light effects
o. The stage. the invention OF a Boston
man is ON exhibition at IA Fifth ave
nue. Ia connection with the display ri
Tie Art Of the Theatre" This inven
ton. which promises to rcvolutioniz'
the lighting Of stages. is a Compa"
little vuntrivanCe somewhat on the orde
OF an organ. The stops. such as al
organ has. control the colored lights
which are blended and harmonzed b,
other stops. Every day at I o'clocl
this device Is demonstrated and il IA
been source of much wOnderment an,
interest To theatrical managers and pro
durers who are interested in overcoming
II possible that confusion and misjudg
mcnt which SO often leads to incon
gruous light effects in theatrical pro
auctions.
The Stage Society exhibition is bein
given under the direction of Mrs. Nor
man IIapgood and among those VIII
were with her yesterday were Mr.,
Amos Pinchot, Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Mrs Charles Dana Gibson. Mile. Dorzia
Mr.. and Mrs August Belmont. Mr. an
Mrs. Howard Gushing. Mrs. Archibei
Alexander, william Favershsm an
Paul Cravath.
Saturday the exhibition will be give
for children and the regular admissio
Zee II 30 cents will be reduced onc-hal
The profit from the show will he turne
over To- the Committee of Mercy
Waite Cross, an international, neut"a
rou-scctarian organization. which
striving throughout the Union To ran
money to alleviate the restitution anon
tho women and children and other MOI
CVmbatauts in the war in Europe.