New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-29

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a .itA ...........'I EAR Harbough
boitc SaNceF' '......'.'..N .d a. SPARKS
s.ess.s Day ..'..'.''.'.. Beatrice Noyes
\ Travelling Salesman. ....... james Cody
Hiram Gce.,...........Ch Charles f. Sturgcs
Sar'tv Randall ...... .....A1clo Adams
sam l;p'-or. ............- Harry q. hates
Lucille Higgins ......-...... koso Stahi
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David Crawling ....-..... Harry c. Browne
Della Marion Stephenson
John Cr.swo'd ........ Charles Dow Clark
Martin craig. ............. Chic Burnham
Ism Snort. .'.....-. .-...... oIdHey b!alre
claire HIGGINS ............ Chcrrio Carlisle
a Lampll ghtCV. .......... Alfred Goldberg
s. House keeper. ........... Helen Leslie
Are you a Rose Stahl fan? Did you
grow wildly enthusiastic over her
Chorus Lady? II you did, then he
prepared TO enjoy yourself again, for
The Chorus Lady" has returned TO
town. To be sure, she goes by another
name: this time - Perfect Lady"
but she II none other than our old
friend. Styles in slang and fashions
may change. but Lucille lie Jambon"
a the Hudson Theatre last night was
so like the Miss O'Brien" Of eight
or nine years ago that her best friends
could never tell the difference.
After all, what does a play more or
less matter to Miss Stahl? She IS 4
play In herself. Neither The Chorus
Lady" nor Maggie Pepper was & good
play in itself. but with her dry
way o. phrGsing their stage ana shop
iargou she made them lasting sue
ces5Cs. Who can blame Charming Pol
lock and Rcnnold Wolf, the authors OF
a Perfect Lady if they have built
her newest stag vehicle on the exact
model Of her earlier money makers
Even dramatic critics cannot live alone
for their art
Do you remember how "1he Chorus
Lady gave up her stage career 10 marry
q farmer? In "a Perfect Lady she is
q Queen of Burlesque,' but she also
grows tired OF trouping. Like 1.-THE
Chorus Lady she has a sister, for
whom she has worked and shaved.
Finally. iu order 10 make q home for
her. she goes 20 live in Sycamore juno
ton. Kan. She and two Of her assO-
oiates in the burlesquc company open
IN ice cream cabaret and parlor for
lessons in the tango, only to come III
conflict with all the narrow views Of
the customary stage small-town resi-
dents. or course, their Broadway slang
and free-and-eaSy behavior shock the
natives and delight the audience.
Equally Of course the burlesque queen
falls I'm love with one Of the towns
yeoplc-in this instance the minister.
and I'm spite Of the usual opposition
Irepares to marry him as the curtain
falls.
Those attendants OF Friars' Club din
ners given 20 more OF less famous
stage stars who have heard Rennold
Wolf act as POSTMASTER need not be
told that the slang OF the new piece
is of the latest Broadway vintage. 1t
appears at its best when Miss Stahi
delivers it, though Beatrice Noyes and
the always grouchy Ned A. Sparkes as
her burlesque associates must not be
overlooked.
1t is Harry c. Browne, though, as the
village preacher, who provides the most
distinguished acting Of the cast 1t
Is not as SNOWY as Miss Stalls, but any
man who can play q preacher who
breaches on the stage and yet manage
10 make him a flesh and blood man
deserves q separate paragraph all to
himself. Even the most rabid Stahl-
Chorus Lady admirer could not feel
that she was throwing herself away on
Sycamore Junction with such man.