Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
Curtain Calls

THE Broadway Minstrels." four
exceptionally pretty girls and young
man. Occupy headliner position at the
Washington Theatre. Many In the
audience. by their vociferous APP
plause. seemed inclined. however at
the yesterday afternoon performance,
to accord the top-notch honor to the
Frey Twins. in ancient Greek wrest-
| ling bouts. The chief object in Greek
wrestling was to combine graceful
ness with strength and agility. The
opponents of the art did not aim at
extreme muscular development, as
those of the present age do. And the
Frey Twins unquestionably look like
beautiful statues of the athletes OF
old rather than the bunch muscled
wrestlers OF our own day.
One of the most interested specta-
tors at the remarkable guest per-
Torrance of Damaged Goods" in
Washington, d. c., last spring was
FREDERICK Alfonso Pe2et, envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
from Peru to the United States.
There can be no doubt but that the
performance will have great uplifting
power" said Minister Pezet after the
matinee, land accomplish the good
for which 1t was created. Fortunate
", we do not have the prudery in
South America that you of the North
possess and have open minds to con-
slider these serious questions" The
play will be performed at the Newark
Theatre next week
Charles Bartholomew, monologist
and singer at Keeney's, is an unusu-
ally fine entertainer. His voice is
something rarely equaled away from
the grand operate stage, and, in adj
dition, as an elocutionist and actor,
Mr.. Bartholomew surely is in the
front rank
Miss Annie Russell, who is reaping
harvest of applause at the Newark
in 1.-THE School for Scandal and "She
Stops to Conquer" made her pre-
vious starring tour in an elaborate
production of "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" in which she had long run
at the Astor Theatre in New York,
and later toured the country for two
seasons In the Shakespearean comedy.
Miss Russell in private life is Mrs.
Oswald Yorke. Mr.. Yorke, who is
leading man of Miss RusselPs com
pany, is an English actor who has
had long and distinguished pro-
fessional career in England and
America.
mi uIaI 49, IL fal,
is to be erected inside of the next
two years within a stones throw of
Broadway and Forty-second street,
Manhattan, will be under the super
vision of Ben Greet, the Shakes
pearean actor manager. Mr.. Greet
admitted The had been invited to be-
come stage director of the new the
atre and he added he would accept.
Besides being actively engaged in
producing Shakespearean plays, Mr..
Greet said he would open a school of
acting In which the classics would be
taught. 1t was his aim, he said to
develop a new school of Shakes
pearean actors. who, upon being grad
uated from the school, would be ca
pable of taking minor parts and in
time would take the leading parts in
the Bard of Avon's plays.
"Oh. Oh! Delphine," the KIaw G.
Erlanger musical play, written by C.
NJ. s, Mcclellan, with music by Ivan
Caryll, which ran an entire season in
New York, has captured Boston. Seats
are at a premium and scores of people
are turned away from the Colonial
Theatre at every performance. This
is scarcely surprising, however, for it
is seldom that such a bright and
tuneful play as "Oh! Oh! Delphine"
comes along. Then there is another
factor that contributes to its success
on tour It is presented with exactly
the same cast as in the original pro-
duction in New York down to the
smallest role, ana this cast will re-
main intact throughout the entire sea-
son. In other words, when "Oh! Oh!
Delphine" comes here to be performed
at the Newark Theatre, you will see
the company and production that New
Workers Witnessed at the beautiful
New Amsterdam Theatre, the home
of the Klaw & Erlanger musical
comedies in the metropolis.
The vaudeville bill being presented
at Fox's Washington Theatre for the
latter part of this week is finding
much favor from local theatregoers.
Each of the six acts is a treat in it
self. The program includes Arthur
Rigby, q popular blackface comedian;
Lehman, Arden & Co, in a humorous
sketch entitled "The Fall Guy" Web
er, Beck and Frazer, in a novel raths-
keller act; 1.-THE Broadway Minstrels,"
"Frey Twins and Frey" unusual
wrestlers, and a unique talking pic
ture of the well-known poem, 1.-THE
Face on the Barroom Floor"
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