Arizona republican., 1914-02-08
News of The Theatres

Don't you know that Mr. Reeves has enteled into a contract with Mort Singer of Chicago, which gives him the exclusive rights to the tabloid versions of The Time, the Place and the Girl" The Stubborn Gin derella,' The Girl Question:, Miss Nobody From Starland," and many other of the famous La Sale theater productions. It will be the policy of the Empress to alternate these roy alty tablOids with the regular run of comedies which they have been giving, running one each week. The first offering will be The Time, the Place and the Girl' and the produc- tion will first see light on the 18th. That is the reason for all the fixing up at the Empress and also for the influx of new talent to that popular 9a.~house.
 The Kelly-ROwe company is being greatly enlarged and some very clever people have been added to it's roster In addition of Ray Duncan ana Miss Magic Hoffman. Frank
  Miss Aline Walker. most attractive soubrette: and Grace Smith, well known character woman. have been engaged, and Miss Gaby Barbier has been added to the light and hay Rolly PollYs.
 The bill this week opens with "Oh, What a Night" a blackface comedy, and on Thursday The Sultan of Morocco" d race track story. will finish up the week, but the great big feature at the Empress this week will be the Harrises. who made such 2 huge hit at the Coliseum week ago. This time they will feature the Apache and Texas Tommy dances and they will be there the whole week. Anyone who saw their tango exhibition at the Coliseum will not fail to see them in these other dances. for they are certainly cracking good team.
 On Friday night there is to be Tango Review open to all the so- ciety dancers in Phoenix and to the most able couple will go d very beautiful silver loving cup and MT Reeves best wishes.
 THE SAVOY THEATER will double up on attractions this week, offering the ever popular Jacobs Musical Comedy company, with Fritz Fields and Hazel Wainwright in Tuesday nights and then housing the Second Annual Auto Show for the balance of the week.
 On Wednesday and Thursday nights while the Auto Show is try ing to equal the audience record that they have created in their new home, the Jacobs company will be giving Mesa an opportunity to judge of their merits and on Friday and Saturday nights they will show Tempe thing or two in the amuse- ment line
 Coming back to the Savoy next Sunday night they will give the last performance of The Tango Revue and on Monday the 18th they will present the 1914 model of Jacobs progressive amusement ideas in the shape of an almost entirely new and greatly improved company support ing MT. Fields and Miss Wainwright in new line of tabloid comedies. including Under the Yum Yum Tree His Highness the Janitor, The Devils Grotto,' Prince Of Milwaukee" and many others.
 
 THE COLISEUM is on deck again with another crackerjack bill. In addition to the regular offering in the vaudeville line, which this week is made up of Otto and Oliva, the human pool tables and hoop jug glers; The Drum Dancers and Musi- cal Tolans in d new musical comedy act the big feature will be De Blancett and Wife in a broncho- lusting act that will prove the great est novelty that Phoenix has evei seen. Not only will they do fancy riding and roping, but at every per formance they will idle outlaw horses on the stage. The audience will be protected by a heavy ne and this team of riders guarantees tC ride any wild or outlaw horse tha may be brought to them.
 The Blancetts have just returned from a ten months tour of Austra lia, where they have taken part il a great many contests and carried off many championships. Here is al act quite out of the ordinary ans