Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
Curtain Calls

A special feature with Fields and
Fields, in the Big City Burlesquers,
which is coming to the Odeon Thea
| tire next week, will be the appear
hance of Miss Margie Demerest, who
is great favorite in this city. Man.
ager Ross of the Odeon, saw her per-
form in Troy, n. Y, last week and
| thought so much of her that he has
signed her up for next season. He
| will send her out in a show of his
own on the Progressive Wheel, with
Nat Carr In the cast.
| With the conclusion of the engage
ment of the Girls of Joyland" at
the Odeon Theatre this week, Miss
Baisy Marchand, one of the members,
will leave the cast to take an import
| ant role with Oscar Hammerstein' 9
High Jinks" company.
Although not a Newark girl, Miss
Marchand is well known to local bur-
| lesque patrons. Her abilities as an
actress and her charming and win
| ming manner have won for her a host
of friends in this city alone, and for
that reason, whenever it is known
that Miss Marchand will play an en-
/ gagement here, the playhouse is al
/ ways well patronized.
! Miss Marchand entered her stage
career two years ago, and has stead
| lily advanced up the rungs of the long
ladder leading to success. Her ex-
cellent dancing has always won for
her much notice, and this great asset,
combined with her good voice,
brought her to the attention of the
booking agents for the High links"
company and she was speedily en-
gagged.
The performance this week at the
Orpheum, where the Forsberg
Players are presenting Baby Nine,
shows the company in an entirely new
light, as this is the first time that they
have been seen by the Newark thea
TRIGGERS in farcical work, all the pre-
vious plays done here by them having
been of a more or less serious order.
That the company measures up
equally well in the lighter vein of
theatrical work is proven by the
hilarious laughter which greets every
funny line and situation, which Is
practically from the time the curtain
rises till its final fall.
While the play lasts in actual per-
Torrance, something like 102 minutes.
there have been counted 236 actual
laughs, or something over two per
minute, which is quite an average for
any play or company to maintain.
II you don't believe 1t, just go and see
for yourself.
The committee in charge Of the
arrangements of the fourth annual
performance and dance of the Young
Folk Players, on Wednesday, October
81, has progressed most encouraging
ly in it's work. Final negotiations
have been cinched with the Liebler
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sion to produce the Melting Pot
which the players are now rehears-
ing. Rudolph cilickman heads the
committee. His colleagues are Robert
SHERMAN, Max Klein, George Bos-
Iavsky, David Bernheim and Maurice
Warshawsky.
Broadway experienced new thrill
last season. IT saw a young woman,
not yet out of her teens, suddenly
emerge from an ingenue role in q
Western stock company to the high
ly coveted post of leading lady IN
New Ycrk's biggest dramatic success;
The stock actress was Miss Ethel
Valentine and the role was that OF
Lily Wagner In To-day" which is be-
ing presented this week at the Shu-
bert Theatre, here.
Scores of leading women OF repu-
tation, who were aspirants for the
part of Lily Wagner were sorely dis
appointed The opportunity given
Miss Valentine was a most desired
one and one that any ambitious lead
ing woman would have sacrificed
great deal for. 1t is one of the most
difficult roles that a leading woman
has been called upon to play in
years.
But here's where the thrill comes
in. Actresses being more appreciative
than theatregoers of the extreme diff
| fculty in picturing Lily Wagner sue
cessfully on the stage, predicted dire
disaster for the unknown. who so
| boldly dared to invade territory held
| (by themselves) sacred by right OF
prior conquest on Broadway. The re-
| suit was the absolute contrary. Miss
Valentine over night scored the big
gest individual hit of the season and
made her envious sisters-in-profes-
sion gasp with surprise, while an au-
| dience that packed the theatre from
pit to dome demonstrated its APP
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