Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-17
CURTAIN CALLS


The Strand Theatre viii give pres
ents to all children accompanied by
| their parents or guardians visiting
the theatre forenoon or afternoon of
the two days preceding Christmas.
Announcement of this Is made by a
/ Santa Claus who drives a decorated
motorcycle, on which Is a seyen-foot
| Christmas tree, hung with tiny elee-
| tric lights and Yuletide ornaments.
He drives about town afternoons and
evenings, a sort of Paul Revere,
spreading the (this time) good It'd
ings among the youngsters.
Manager Edwin Forsberg will pre-
sent double bill every day next
week at the Orpheum. Little Lord
F7auntleroy" will be the matinee per-
formance, and Uncle Toms Cabin"
the one at night. Little Constance
Robinson, the ight-year-old girl who
created a furor here recently as the
heroine of The Littlest Rebel" will
be the little Lord Fauntleroy in the
afternoon, and little Eva at night.
Mr.. Forsberg himself will take part
in "Unele Toms Cabin" as Simon
Legree. Miss Helen Gleason, one of
the most attractive looking members
of the Forsberg Players, will sacri
flee her beauty to do Justice to the
role of Topsy, the vixenish but CRATE
ful negro girl who never had
mother, but jest growed."
The admirers of Maurice Morrison,
the German Shakespearean actor, will
be pleased to learn that they viii
I,nY~a nnnnrft1nftV n him In
motion pictures during Christmas
week at the Shubert Theatre. when
Schiller's stirring drama, THE Rob
bers," will be presented on the
screen.
To give their patrons full measure
the Shubert management Will present
at the same time Charlotte Bronte's
popular society drama, Jane Eyre.
4 variety of entertainment is pro-
vided on the bill for the latter part of
the preesnt week at Keeney's Theatre,
beginning with today's matinee.
Among the features will be a novelty
in the form OF pantomime playlet,
presented by Fred Williams and COM
pa1.y. 1t is said to be one of the most
pleasing creations of its kind in the
vaudeville.
Another feature will be an acrobatic
and balancing act by Appoint x Co.,
who were stars at the Hippodrome,
New York, last season. They are said
to be at the top of the list as hand
to-hand and head head specialists
Others who will contribute to the
bill are the Mascagnis, in character
dances; Jackie Marks, 'the English
Lilliputian" whose specially is char
acter songs; Weston and Hayes, in a
dainty offering of repartee and song;
Clark and Ward, who purvey high
class entertai inment in the line of
songs and pianologue; Estelle Rose
mirthmaker, and William Cahil1, "the
Man from Ireland who will render
some of the latest song successes of
his own composition.
Miss Helen Courtney again came to
the fore this week as one of the most
versatile artistes on the stage, when
she assumed at short notice, the role
of the lady buyer in "Hagar Revelly, :"
made vacant by the sudden illness of
Miss Rose Macdonald. That Miss
Courtney gave a creditable account of
herself goes without saying to those
who know her ability as an actress
and an alI-around up-to-the-m minute
woman for any part within her large
range of capabilities.
AS good news to the patrons OF the
Paramount Theatre, Tall Esen Nor