The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-14
"sAR1r MAKES DECIDED HIT.
Jew savage Offering Delights Audi
emce Mt Liberty Theatre.


| Those theatrical gentlemen who grow
pale and wan In the course of the season
Iputtlng forth "a hectic series OF underdonc
musical comedies will do we'll To- observe
the tactics of Henry w. savage, who
waited until the shank of the season, and
until he was good and ready. and then
| produced an operetta No fresh, 50 finished
SO thoroughly tasteful in every respect
\ that he hit the bullseye OF public favor
/, fair and square.
"Sarl," produced last night at the Lib
erty Theatre. is the most delightful musi-
cal piece that has come To town for a
llong, long time. II is not "A musical conf
cdy. posing on the programme as some
thing more ambitious. but 1t is real
loperetta, full OF real music. 1t was de-
=, ndcnt on nothing for It's success but ON
its genuine merit.
There were no startling stars in the
east there was no Kaleidoscope success
sion of stage settings. no unWieldy cho-
| rus GREATNESS from changing It's cos
| TUNES, there WAS no top heavy feature
| to call forth the frenzicd applause Of the
music publishers bund and there wasn't
| "A tango from cover to cover But there
was real singing Of real music by real
| singers there were two beautiful, color
full stage settings and there WAS a small
and perfectly trained chorus that behaved
like real actresses.
| The music is the thing that stands out
in "Sari.' II IL SO fresh and tuneful ant
lreally musical that 1t could carry a much
weaker book than the one the somewha
imposing battery of authors set forth II
tn. programme have given H. Not tina
the book Is bad nj all. Ii tells the stor!
of a gypsy violinist and leader who ha'
retired to pass his old age among hi!
numerous progeny In his native village
/. His son too IL "A musician, but not Of th'
/, gypsy school, for he thinks less Of th'
music that comes from the heart thar
, that which comes from the head.
, His fathers scorn of him and his
: studies IL 80 great mat the youth II
driven from home just as the father ha'
, an invitation to journey to Paris, to 'th'
place whcr, his youth lives" to play at 1
r grand fete. lie goes to Paris-where al
{ good musical play plots go-and finds hi
son there before him. II. hears hin
I | play and il convinced OF the triumph %
e youth. Reconciliation and the settlement
OF several love affairs speedily follow.
. | There Is plenty OF chance in this it'll
A story for musical establishment and ~
/ opportunity has been slightcd. Their
were 10 song hits" for 1t wasn't tina
1 kind of It SHOW. but there was success
a sion of delightful numbers delightful.
| sung. To specify each one would be 4
e repeat for the most part the entire pro
= grammc Of the evening.
[ | Muscally the duets sung by Blanch
, puield, who has fresh voice Of Lowell
. quality and J. Humbird Duifey. who
a real tenor In spite of his name. wor
$ probably the most important. and Ger
o tainly they won the big audience. but fo
@ charm ana spirit and color some of tn
ts..trt 4, III
T. Mzzi Hajos did much TO add TO the gen
!. eral zcst OF the evening, Miss Halo,
q 10y the way. for all her clever con-
n edy work, came near TO having one of he
, | scenes taken away from under her nos
=, by a tiny brown ELF of a chorus iufai
a who AT an age too tender TO bear repeat
| ing showed herself So much an actress an
I so full of temperament, whatever tina
may be In one 80 young, that the audienc
, almost forgot there WAS any one else o
the stage.
The music Of "Sari' Is a little low fc
| Van Rensselaer, Wheeler. and his Noit
did not seem At its best, but he caught III
Z spirit OF his role, that of the dashinl
though equity gypsy leader. and, like a
the other people helped along the spler
e did ensemble.
Charles Mcakns contributed much
y the dancing OF the evenings entertain
!, ment, which was not overloaded In tn
$ line. lie was graceful and enthusiast
= ] and danced with SO many bare arme
:, | girls that he looked liks n marshmello
I | before the evening was over.
y The two stage settings of "Sari an
q the costumes OF the company were .
I fresh and colorful as every other f.;
u ture of the performance The first ~
was laid in the courtyard OF he gypsy
" home, with the peasants and the NllaSe
, lpassing back and forth before the doc
s way. Tho second scene was an interi'
II in Paris. a futurist interior with bla'
~ walls and gold lattices and two gre;
u heaps OF cushions that looked Ike SUNNI
:. sunsets Against this background move
~ the chorus not more than twenty CIR
Is all told, arrayed In tho most startliI
and original gowns that have yet NJ
:, peared on broadway. The effect was tn
" OF IA great poster or Bakst drawing.
" anything but Broadway stage on
-. cold winter might.