New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

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first time in the Longacre Theatre TO.
morrow evening his production OF
Secret Strings" the new play by
Kate Jordan, in which Lou-Tellegen
will create the principal role. In Sc
cret Strings" Lou-Tellegen viii inter.
pref the role of Rene, notorious tnlel
who has eluded the celebrated detec-
tiyes of France. The play follows
closely the interesting episodes IN the
short story which Miss Jordan has
adapted for the stage. The play has
been staged under the direction OF
Edgar MacGregor, with cast Oh play
ers headed by Lou-Tellegen as Rene,
Mary Nash as Jeanette, Frederic de
Belleville as the Count, Hamilton Re
velle as Victor, Marion Abbott ss the
Countess, Blanche Yurka, Emmy o.
valid, Charles Coleman, Frank Ster-
ling, Leonard Grey, Sidney Stone,
Charles X. Gerard and Arthur +.
Lyman.
Marie Dressler, the blithe and buoy
ant coincidence, who has been absent
from Broadway for the last two sea-
sons, returns again in her latest farce
comedy vehicle, "A MiX-Up," which
opens at the Thirty-ninth Street The
atre tomorrow evening under the
auspices of the Messrs. ShubeTt. The
play is by Parker A. Hord, an au-
thor hitherto unknown here. As the
plot unravels, Gladys Lorraine, the
plump and smiling prima donna OF a
burlesque company, mistakenly breezes
into the apartment Of one Robert Hick-
man, promising young newlywed, who
is intent on spending an evening alone
while his wife is supposed to be taking
a jaunt TO the country. Hiram Hick-
man and his wife, an uncle and aunt Of
Roberts, unexpectedly arrive at the
apartment shortly afterward with plans
for a week in New York TO relieve the
monotony of their customary upstate
rural life. Under the circumstances it
becomes necessary for nephew Robert
10 introduce Miss Lorraine as his wife,
thus arousing considerable curiosity en-
the part of the upstate visitors, who
expected TO meet much different help
mate. Subsequent developments pro-
vide the fun. Two song numbers are
introduced by Miss Dressler, and she
wears some new gowns from special
spring and summer models designed by
Robert Kallick. "A MiX-Up" was
staged under the personal direction of
! Miss Dressler. The cast engaged to
support Miss Dressler includes Bert
/ Lytell, Robert ODER, Albert Reed, Sarah
| McVicker, Evelyn Vaughn, Julia Blanc,
/ John p. Dougherty, Nellie De Grasse
and Helen Beaumont. An extra mat
| inee will be given at the Thirty-ninth
Street Theatre on New Years Day.
Charles Frohman presents Otis Skin
ner at the Liberty Theatre next Tues
| day night in his new play, The Silent
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| Skinner has already had a long tour
/ in "The Silent Voice" The piece is in
| four acts. Its story moves in and about
the studio of Montgomery Starr, over
looking Central Park. Starr is a mid
dle-aged, wealthy artist--in his day a
fine pianist; but a fatality has stricken
him deaf-he is almost totally music
, deaf. Unmarried very much alone I'm
the world-slightly eccentric-give a
good deal to introspection-the loss OF
his one comfort, the sounds he could
draw from his piano, with high grade
amateurs skill, turns Montgome ~
Starr into a misanthrope. In the depths
of his despair Starr, guided by q
friend, resolves TO try to climb the iii
again; 10 try for whatever other kind:
of happiness life may still give him
He has a ward-young and pretty
with whom he is in love. He Marie.
her, eventually to find that she ha.
married him out of pity. His seconC
affection turns him into a pessimist
with almost no hope of recall. Tn,
rest of the story is his spiritual re
demption. Mr.. SINNERS company con
tains as its principals Florence Fisher
Mrs. Skinner, Eugene Woodward
Owen Mech, George Gaul, Harry
Sothern, Esther Cornell, Walter F
Scott. Winona Dennison, William vii
son. Philip Leigh and Ruth Farnum
Jules Eckert Goodman, who wrote
"The Silent Voice." got his idea for tn,
play from a story by Gouverneur Nor
ris. There will be Wednesday and Sat
urday matinees at the Liberty Theatre
with an extra matinee on New Year
Day.
The lives of stage people have al
ways held a curious fascination fo
the general public--not only the live
which they lead in the glare of tn
fcotlights, but the domestic, iutimat,
details of their daily existence. al
the Limelight," new comedy b,
James Forbes, promises to be inter
esting, for it is a play which show
the PLAYER both off and on the stage
Though its atmosphere and environ
ment arc OF the theatre, it delineate
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