The Detroit times., 1914-05-20

ing SHOWN In the Broadway theater
has evidently excited unusual inter
est Ina Detroit because Il 10 drawing
large AUDIENCES COMMISSIONER Git
4 lespie saw the entire picture twice
and requested five cutOuts before u.s.
suing a permit for It's public disclos'
ure These cutOuts. by actual mea
surement, are So feet. leaving 5,H54
feet In the six reels and not affecting
the story OF THE Drug Terror iu a
serious way The Drug Terror has
been produced with great care aud
expense Notwithstanding any ana
all reports. those IN charge say il is
being presented as part OF the ma
tiOHal crusade instituted By Mrs "
X Vanderbilt sr, aud the SOciolog
zeal Fund OF the Medical Review OF
Reviews in the fight now being waged
20 stamp out the drug habit
The current bill in the Miles the
alter is one of surprises The nrst
comes when Trixie Mccoy. the Dixie
girl removes an ebony-hued wig and
discloses wonderful head OF golden
brown hair that hangs below her
knees Her makeup is SO perfect
that up 20 this time many in the audi
ence are under the impression that
she is a real chocolate-colored belle
Her songs. too are typical Negro mel.
odies and were written specially tor
her There is another surprise when
Lex Neal, a clever young dancer OF
the George Cohan type. gets into AN
argument with the leader OF the or
Chestra and draws a protest from
man In the audience who takes his
place in the orchestra pit when the
regular leader quite in disgust. The
man IS Lew Earl. young Meals faith
erS and he proves himself a clever
comedian More surprises follow in
the playlet, "In and out" when the
scene shifts from the inside 10 the
outside OF house and vice versa in
Jig time.
NO Mother 10 Guide Her the in
tense drama which the Permanent
Players OF the Avenue theater are
presenting this week will be followed
by one OF the favorite plays OF many
years popularity. RIP Van Wrinkle.
The play, of course. is founded upon
the short story OF the same title
which came from the pen OF the bril-
liant American author. Washington
Irving II tells the story OF an ami
able old vagabond, who slept for 20
years on the Katskill mountains, re
turning 10 find that his wife had mar
ried his old enemy, Won Beekman,
the village miser The country itself
had passed from British sovereignty
TO American independence.
An entirely new show will be pre-
scented by Jean Bedinis company in
the Cadillac theater next week. II
will be called Daughters OF Eve and
will consist of two lively musical
burlesques, plenty of singing and
dancing and vaudeville specialties. AS
a special feature, Mr. Bedini has Sc
cured a novelty number. the Aloha
Twins, pretty and graceful Samoan
girls. in the "Dense-de-la-Chaire The
dance is OF a sensational nature and
the girls wear native costumes which
are at least picturesque II not start
ling I'm addition TO their peculiar
style OF dancing, they play several
musical instruments. In the bur
lesques the leading comedy roles are
taken by Harry Bentley, Tommy Car
ter. Lew Harris Jean Bedini, Marie
Gates and Helen Lorraine.
Wheels rumble pulleys creak, huge
dredges swing tons of dirt into space.
This Is punctuated by a big explo-
sion More dirt flies Hundreds or
tons of rock are carried by travel
ing cranes to their destination. Giant
steel mixers prepare the concrete.
Then IL is run out in great buckets
on swinging cables and dumped with
crash and roar The ponderous
concrete walls grow higher and high
er Men wigwag signals with flags
across gaping chasms. Steam whistles
blow shrill warnings and cryptic or
ders Gigantic Orders are swung
into position II seems that every
thing man could do is done by ma
chine, yet there are thousands or men
| working Everything -men and ma
chimes move with tie precision of a
clock The Panama canal is in the
making The greatest epic since the
dawn OF time Is being written.
Americans are writing IT, and an
American exhibitor. Lyman H. Howe
will show this conflict between man
and nature AZ the Garrick theater
beginning SUNDAY afternoon, next,
/ May "a, far more wildly than any
writer can describe IT, The program
viii include many other big new fea-