Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
NEWARK. EVENING STAR: SATURDAY, JANUARY B. 1914
Curtain Calls

YOU often hear of young women Of
Il the stage having their mothers
travel with them as chaperons, Elsie
Janis and her mother being the best
known example. but there is a little
girl playing at the Shubert Theatre
this week that reyerses the usual
order of things and has her father
with her, not exactly as q chaperon,
but more as a chum and companion.
And the young woman is a leading
lady, at that-Miss Irene Roman, the
beautiful, winsome and dainty little
blonde that plays Kitty May, the ad-
ventures in THE Family Cupboard. ."
Her chum-father is J. +. Roman, a
wealthy hotel-keeper at French Lick
Springs, the big resort in Indiana
made famous by Tom Taggart. All
the time that Mr.. Roman can pos
sibly spend away from the hotel he
| is with his daughter.
To witness Miss Romans portrayal
of the difficult role of Kitty May.
which calls for every play of the
emotions, from love and jealousy to
vengeful hatred, one would think she
had been on the legitimate stage for
years, not so many years, though,
for Miss Roman is but a trifie over
twenty years of age now.
AS matter of fact, Miss Roman
has been playing legitimate roles
only since THE Family Cupboard"
opened in New York, a few months
ago, when she started with the little
bit of Mrs. Winthrop, the gushing
society wife. For the last four weeks
she has been playing Kitty May, sue
ceeding Miss Irene Fenwick in the
role, which, owing to the sordidness
of it, is one of the hardest a woman
can be called on TO play.
| But the fact that she plays a sordid
roles does not dampen the ardor Of
winsome little Miss Roman in the
least. Instead, she is tickled to death
to think she has the opportunity and
her one fear now is that she will not
please William A. Brady. the owner
of the show. in the role. as he has not
\ yet seen her in it. She need have no
! fear on that score. Brady knows good
acting when he sees it, and Miss Ro-
main has certainly made good in the
role.
81 love the role" said Miss Roman
last night, in her dressing room, land
/ try TO make the character as nasty
as I can, for that is how 1 believe a
woman of that type would act. Then.
| too, ] like the part, because Kitty May
awful moody at times
In the use of the word moody
Miss Roman coined a new. and not
generally accepted, Interpretation of
| il. using it in the sense of meaning a
person of many moods and not one
| that is downcast or melancholy. Miss
| Roman is far from the latter, for she
is always jolly and is called the sun
beam of the company.
Before going into the legitimate last
| fall, Miss Roman did pianologue on
| the big circuits in vaudeville and was
a success. The present is her nrst
visit to Newark.
The Zoellner Quartet, who have
| lust returned from an extensive
western tour will give their first
concert of this season at Aeolian
Hall next Wednesday evening at S;l5.
The following works for string quar-
tet will be played: Suite OPP. "a. Glaz-
ounow: Observation-Disclosures OPP.
"a new, Brandts-Buys, and Quartet
Op. rs No. l, Haydn.
Dane and Sibley. who came on az
an extra number at the Keeney
Theatre ON Thursday, have made
good in a comedy sketch in three
scenes. entitled, TT Ought to Be-"
Both are clever performers. The
plot has to do with a vaudeville
actor whose partner fails to show up
for rehearsal. A girl Miss Deane)
of the tough variety puts in an ap-
pearance and makes good in the