The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
DETROIT OPERA HOUSE.

and IL your theater'goinB thus Tar IN
fthe season has not made you realize
| this week. and be completely con.
yinced This gorgeous style show"
OF dresses and dances is just one love
| ly frock after another and success
sion OF terpsichorean twists that sim.
! ply fades all the Made in America"
fashion expositions and Castle-House-
| Palais-de-D anse thes dansant into
subist brain storm of gray Novem-
Der sky.
The lavishness and riotous coloring
Of The Peasant Girl" presented in
the Garrick theater last week was
dilated upon in this column a week
ago, but that brilliantly CARRIED girl
with the picture OF Mrs. Vernon Cas-
tie not "a hours old in the minds eye,
now looms UP In the memory as a
very sedately-dressed person.
When the curtain rolls up on
Watch Your Step" you hear a lot OF
talk about a will and an inheritance
OF $4,000, 0O0-thats the plot, frank
Tinney later tells you-and before the
curtain descends you are absolutely
certain that the millions have been
spent by Charles Dillingham; In stag
ing the show and paying the salaries
| OF a remarkable array OF star enter
tainers including Vernon Castle, Mrs.
Vernon Castle. Frank Tinney, Eliza
beth Briee. Charles King. Elizabeth
Murray, Harry Kelly. Rense Grant,,
AL Holbrook and a dozen or>tYt lesser
satellites. with a stageful of Shorus
beauties and good-looking yoNna men
to keep the show one lonNsSaying
fascinating alluring dance.
Mr.. Dillingham; really should be
chided for lis reckless disregard or
money. Perhaps. on second thought,
he should be Landed and pointed out
as a patriotic person, who in stress OF
war times, puts money in circulation.
At any rate, there has been a great
looseDing OF the Dillingham; purse
strings in Offering Watch Your Step"
10 the public, and II can be written
down. without any fear OF having TO
erase II, that the show is the most
wonderful modern Arabian Nights"
entertainment up 10 date.
Watch Your Step" was produced
Thanksgiving day In Syracuse. and
allowance might be cheerfully made
for any roughness, but there was moth
ing about the performance to indicate
Its brief existence except an attractive
freshness of voice and spontaneity OF
movement In the chorus, and a spe-
cial verve In the work Of the princi-
pals.
With so many stars of the highest
ability to amuse and entertain. IL
would be impossible to praise one over
the other for each In his and her way,
gave the best that was in them and
due space had been arranged for them.
by the makers of the book and music,
Harry B. Smith and Irving Berlin, and
the army of designers and customers.
TO make the most OF selling their
goods" over the footlghts.
oARaIcK.
Irene Haisman, who combines
youth, beauty and a charming man
ner with faultless enunciation and I'M
usual dramatic ability. is responsible
for large part OF the success scored
by Catherine Chisholf Cushing's dra-
ma, Kitty Mickey" in the Garrick
theater this week This is a fairish
load OF adjestiYes with which TO bur
den so diminutive a person, but Miss
HaismaR invites adjectiyes. Her
name doesn't appear on the program
In upper case letters. but as 1S-year-
old Kitty Mckay she is, nevertheless,
the star" of the attraction. After
seeing her act, il is difficult TO i'm
agine even Molly Mcintyre, who Gre
ated the part, doing any better.
This is no reflection on the play IT
self which contains some delightful
bits OF Scotch humor and whose char
acters remind one irresistibly OF the
Thrums folk immortaliZed in "Senti-
mental Tommy" and Tommy and
Grizell" AS staged by William FL
hot. the. scene settings make more
real the homely Scotch characters for
which they serve as background.
The McNabs' sitting room in the third
act, with its pious notices worked IN
cardboard and wool and waxen floral
piece adjoining the walls, is a tri-
umph In itself.
Kitty Mckay. heroine OF the story,
Is first seen as a slavey in the home
of the McNabs, OF Drumtochty. in
whose care she has been left by
relatives. Her guardians have prov
ed untrue TO their trust and Kitty Is
the victi moi hatred and abuse at the
hands OF McNab and his shrewish
wife. Then one fine day a handsome
and gorgeous young lieutenant whisks
Kitty away to the aristocraHc resi-
dence of her powerful protector, Lord
Inglehart, in London. Like Cinderella
in the fairy tale, she wins the heart
OF the prince. which in this case Is
the handsome lieutenant ComSDca-
lions arise, and Kitty returns TO her
Drumtochty home. But the prince fol-
lows, Misunderstanding are explain |
ed away and the curtain falls with