Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-28
Curtain Calls

Peg o. My Heart. with Elsa
Ryan and an admirable New York
company. will be the Shubert Theatre
attraction this week, commencing to-
night.
A bit Of sunshine. in shady place,
a breath of fresh air in close sur
ronndings, a touch of nature In the
midst of artificiality Is j. Hartley
Manners's comedy of youth, Peg o.
My Heart" with its recent triumph
of over two years uninterrupted sue
cess in New York and coming here
fresh from the Tooth performance in
the metropolis.
Peg o. My Heart is one of the
sensational surprises and delights of
the last two seasons, tried out in the
West originally by Oliver Morosco.
Everyone predicted ii for brief and
scanty run when 1t saw the light of
Broadway, but for once the wise
acres croaked in vain. as can be
readily seen in the pieces long en-
gagement.
One of the biggest and most popu-
lar attractions in the vaudeville field
is to be offered at Keeney's Theatre
during the first half of the present
week. 1t is the Lambert Grand Opera
Company, with a cast of fourteen
persons, presenting scenes from
grand opera. The members of the
cast are singers of exceptional talent,
and in the act costly costumes and
picturesque and elaborate scenery
are used The company has been a
big drawing card wherever it has ap-
peared.
For the current week the Forsberg
Players will offer at the Orpheum the
newest play in stock-"At Bay, a
melodrama by George Scarborough,
author Of THE Lure" the sensation
of last season. While AT Bay deals
with an entirely different subject, IL
is, in the opinion of all the critics, the
better play of the two and has oeen
fayorably compared with Within the
Law of which piece II is the proto-
type.
Charles Dinele enacts the intrepid
detective, and Miss Florence Gear,
the new leading woman of the COM
pany, will be the wronged and inno-
cent maiden. Mr.. Schofield, Miss
Martin. Mr.. Beebe and the other
members of the cast all have inn
portant roles. Manager Forsberg has
especially engaged for this production
Mario Majeroni. who enacted the role
of the villain in the original piece, to
play the same part here. There are
daily matinees,
Mr.. Forsberg, who had been absent
during the past week. visiting his
other company at Lancaster, Pa, re-
turned to town yesterday in time to
supervise the final rehearsals for AT
Bay Just to demonstrate his YER
satility, Mr.. Forsberg can be man
ager, stage director and actor at Will,
and despite this chameleon-like fac
ulty can do all equally well, so when
word came to him that one Of his
actors in the other company had sud-
denly been taken i'll he boarded
train, and, reaching town in time for
one rehearsal. went on and played the
part as a special feature for the in
habitants of the town of Lancaster,
where he is a special favorite.
While photo-drama productions Of
a high order win continue to rule at
Proctor's Park Place Theatre, begin
ming this week the bill will be
changed daily instead Of twice weekly
as heretofore. The new ARRANGEMENT
goes into effect today.
Newest productions from Vitagraph,
producers of such features as "A Mil
lion Bid" and MY Official Wife," will
be in evidence. Lubin, creator of
photo dramas such as 1.-THE Wolf
and 1.-THE House Next Door will alst,
contribute Newest releases from
Edison, Biograph, Kalen, Pathe, Es-
sanay. Selig and other prominent film
manufacturers the world over will
make up the program.
Filmdonl's most noted stars. Maurice
Costello. Edith storey Arthur John
son, Lottie Briscoe, Mrs. Maurice,
Earle Williams, Lillian Walker, Harry
Morey, Blanche Sweet, Henry Wal
thall. Alice Joyce, Tom and Owen
Moore, Marshall Neilans, Lionel
Barrymore, Josie Sadler, Dorothy
Kelly, and a host of others of equal
popularity will enact the offerings
which Proctor's Park Place Theatre
will show.
For the second week of the new fall
policy at the Majestic Theatre the
management has secured a bill Of
'vaudevillians," all of whom are new
to theatregoers In this city.
Topping the program are the
-Four Hagans, one Of Americas fore
most vaudeville families, in one-act
slNt built to their order by Charles
Horwitz. 1t Is one of the most
humorous bits of nonsense ever
turned out by that past master OF
vaudeville acts.
The Princess Chinquilla, full
blooded Sioux Indian, with her COM
pany, have a novelty of Western life
that has excited favorable comment
wherever seen. Dainty bits of femin-
unity are the Hayward Sisters, who
have a repertoire of up to-the-minute.
Is.t tnIl
dances. Five other acts and six reels
of photoplays compete the bill.
The Patchwork Girl of o. which
will be offered at the Paramount
Theatre this week is a laughter gen.
orator, a dynamo of humor, stirring
the audiences to roars of merriment;
comical in its conception, a laugh
from start to the finish line. The
scenes are full of mirth. dealing with
Ojo, an orphan boy. who lives alone
with old Unc Nunkie in q lonely for
est in the Land Of OF.
Their food supply Is exhausted and
the two depart for the beautiful EN-
erald City, where there is plenty.
The adventures that then occur
keep the audience in continuous
round of laughter.
Headed by two well-known and
popular comedians, Joseph X. Wat
son and Murray J. Simons, the Hap
by Widows" company will appear at
Empire Theatre this week in
q two-act military musical comedy
entitled I'm Dreamy Mexico" This
piece OF foolery and mirth will be pre-
sented with the usual matinees.
Watson and Simons will appear as
. Brushky'' and "Rushky" in the COM
edy, which is divided In two acts and
four scenes. The plot of the piece
carries all those concerned through
series Of side-splitting complications
and adventures
An old Maxican dies a nd leaves his