El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18

Harris, Digby Bell, Bob Adamson and
( lnnumerable other worthless.
The Spoilers makes up the second
! part OF the program at the strand. 1t
! lS arranged in three acts. The first
( part Of the program consists of an
! overture by the orchestra, a picture
! entitled "A Neapolitan Incident" an
/ other orchestra selections, q news
/ event reel, the quartet number from
! Rigoletto," by the Strand quartet
I and Keystone comedy
"The Red Canary.1
T. Roy Barnes, who has figured lit
! tie as headllner before, made a
great triumph with THE Red Canary"
which opened at the Lyric theater
Monday night. He burst upon the
theatrical world, not like q meteor,
but more as a variable star, which
suddenly flares into first magnitude
1t is hard TO tell why a humorist
is great, just as it is hard to explain
the points of a joke and keep 1t a
Joke But whatever the indefinable
something which makes a commedian
is q. Roy has it and in quantity.
The Red Canary" is a light summer
musical comedy The plot centers
around the idea that certain coloFs
influence the emotions. Through the
color arrangement in four different
rooms, the principals manage to make
many complications in their love af-
cOure
Barnes is ably assisted by Leila
Hughes and Adele Rowland. The play
is produced under direction of J. c
RiSby and is deliberately staged by
Ben Teal The piece was written by
VIII B. Johnson and William lie Baron.
aPinafore.y
The HippOdrome has attempted e
very daring deed and has carried il
off with complete success. "PinafOre" }
on this enormous stage is just as ate
tractIve as il ever was in more IN /
innate playhOuSeSs
There is added a great element OF /
the spectacular too, as at all Hippo }
the sailors clGmOring up the rigging /
and the real water on which the /
bumboat is rowed, are worth going far /
to see.
There are two casts, one for the /
afternoon and one for the evening
performance, but which is the best is j
hard TO say
"The Truth."
"The Truth that curious play OF 1
the late Clyde Fitch, which was i'll 1
received here but did well IN London /
and eBrlin, has an excellent revival /
with Grace George In the principal /
and Berlin, has an excellent revival /
Under the hand Of Winthrop Ames,
the play which failed at the Criterion |
theater in 1907, reached a high artis-
tic level The well meaning, but men
daciOus Becky Warder, whom the late
Clara Bloodgood once impersonated-
= O.
Miss George clothed the character with
the compassion that the author in
tended for It and emphasized the I
struggle Of the weak woman against
the moral faint inherited from her
mendacious father.
Mr. Fitchs dialOg, after seven years,
has preserved its freshness and sparkle
and humorOusly satirical meaning to
a surprising extent, a higher degree
than any other playwright he had the |
ability to represent the atmosphere |
and social life on the stage, and since |
MS death no dramatist has come for I
ward to take his place. 1.-The Truth" has !
4 this respect all the polish and dis |
-inctiOn of his really best work.
But 1t also displays certain OF Mr.. Z .
sitch's characteristic defects. The (
principal theme-the study Of Becky's
.naFacter and the consequences more ,
" less remote from the main interest. !
Mr.. -Ames's revival was thoroughly
apable. The character Of Becky is
within the range Of Miss Georges best
Utilities. The eccentric roles Of the ,
ather and Mrs. Crespigny are made
thoroughly humorous by Ferdinand / ,
fotschalk and Miss Zelda Sears.
otherwise the caste is competent with :
ut being at all notable.
e9The Beauty Shop {
Cohan and Harris brought one Of
he funniest shows Of the season TO
he AstOr theater this week. Raymond !
Hitchcock is the chief fun maker in q
me Beauty Shop, but ne IS ably I
Imported in a piece that is one roar S
rom start to finish. /
The Beauty Shop" is by Rennold Z
Volt and Claiming Pollock, with e
lusic by Charles J. Gebest.
The best song falls to the star, who
.nSs or rather talks, All Dressed Up
nd No Place to Co."
DR.. Arbutus Budd is beauty doc /
IT with a long list of nonpaying pa a
ents ana an equally long list Of an q
~ creditors Mr.. Hitchcock is the S
octor, who is only saved from going o
, Ludlow street Jail for debt by the
cath of an uncle of his ward in Cor
ca. The uncle is supposed to be
ealthy and the creditors send the doc &
'r-and the rest Of the company to n
sure-to Corsica to collect the n
Oney.
The second act is laid IN Corsica. 7
here Dr. Budd discovers that an The !
ylng Corsican left was a vendetta.
hich the doctor has inherited. Sew | n
al hungry looking Corsicans. are ON | +
and to see that Dr. Budd's Interest I h
the feud does not lag. The lsst "
ct also takes place in the coUntr1- I;