New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-13

Louise. maid AT Niss CHS. Lillian West
Elevator Boy..................Dor Dorothy -. clair
Sell. BOZ June White
Moving picture actresses.
May .l'lane este
Biiou .........................He Helen Richardson
Agnes Observation-Disclosures. Jean Tyne
Maude Observation-Disclosures Alma Harrison
Mr.. and Mrs Leighuywedd.
Fred Jones and Jean Tyne
Greene. a biograph opera r..........J Esievan
ny ARTHUR RIUI.
Miss Valli Nalli, skipping along the
footlights. with cerise draperies flowing
and arms lightly outstrctched-a sort OF
drawing room Spring Song the same GER
Use skirt. with its tan waist with curious
blue spots) fitting in the most interesting
way with the ccrisc and brick-reds and
tans OF the richly furnished roonl-these
are two Of the things one recalls from
THE Queen OF the Movies which was
presented at the Globe Theatre last night
There were many things agrecably TO
awaken and invite the eye And, indeed,
there was not very much else. The
music was comparatively uninterestins
some OF tho most successful bits being
familiar turkey trOt tunes apparently in
terpolated-and there was but little OF
the comedy which an inside view OF the
moving picture business might naturally
be supposed TO supply. The real thing is
amusing enough, goodness knows. In
short, deaf man might have enjoyed
the entertainment almost as much as any
body else
There was a good deal 10 see. however.
and much OF il, the dresses and the use
Of lights and colors, was original ana
clever The first scene palace-like ho-
tel entrance hall. was spacious and rich'
but more conventional in idea-it Is rather
difficult TO get excited about stage hotel
i'm New York And the hotel was the less
interesting. moreover, because everything
thing that happened in it was dreary
The second act was much more enter
tanning. Here the audience had glimpse
OF the preparation of a moving picture
flnl-a burlcsque glimpse. which was
rather funny. and might have been much
funnier. The actual manners and habits
of the movie players are so little known
10 the general public, and so decidedly
amusing, that it seems strange that more
WAS not made of them. This was the
scene OF the cerse skirt and the curious
brick-reds. blues and tans-it was in the
moving picture actresses drawing room
and here Frank Moulan. who had been
having n mournful enough time until
then, had a song with the graceful Miss
Vall Nalli, which the audience called Tor
again.
If Miss Nalli Vali could sing as well as
she looks-but then, of course, it is true
that her looks are a good deal 10 sing up
to. She was a constant delight to the
eve and her brown hair went beautifully
with that curious tan waist and the deco
rations aforesaid. Her voice seems husky
and a trihe shopworn, and there were
several songs the words of whch-by Mr..
Glen Macdonough, presumably - were
clever and funny, or rather would have
been if one could properly have heard
them. They should have been enumerated
with perfect clcarness and crispncss, as
successful vaudeville singers sing songs
but Miss Valli mashed them into potato
very thoroughly.
title Miss Alice DoVey can sing if .hc
gets n chance. but she didn't have much
chance here. There was one rather Xix
able bit suited TO her gently emotional
style, but nothing like the chance she
had in "The Pink Lady" for instance.
The latter, by the way-the song In
which the young girl flung out her Il
don't believe it," to the cynicism of her
partner was one of the best songs writ
ten for musical comedy in recent years
Miss Dewey had some exquisite clothes
thought clothes such fiower-like, moth
like things. may be called.
The last act was in front of "a moving
picture show in a city street, conven-
tional. like the first. but we'll done OF
it's kind And in this scene were sung
several familiar dance tunes. The loudest
and most heartfelt applause Of the entire
evening was also drawn from the dis
eliminating audience when woman in
a transparent skirt strolled slowly across
the stage There was also some interest
ing use Of lights. ana the color arrange
nents ~ the principals dresses. in more
subdued key, were perhaps fully as inter
esting as those before.
Miss jeanette Horton. as the wife OF
the founder OF the Anti-Movng Picture
League. was very pretty and graceful
and possessed of "a barbarous mode oil
speech. For him she pronounced
Form" and so on. Mr.. John Goldswortny
no not the author of The Dark Flow
er,'-was one of the principal young men,
and Mr.. Felix Adler another. The latter,
a director in the moving picture factory,
suffered. and when he couldn't say what
he wanted 10. he would burst into song
"F.f.f-f-f the Blue Ridge Mountains oil
Virginia" and so OH. IL was rather
funny now and then. and Mr.. Adler gave
the impression that when his acquaint-
ance with his part equalled his yigor and
enthusiasm he would do pretty we'll
les Trois Mosques" play by
Charles Mere.
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Ia Rafale." A play by Henri Bern
stein. The Harris Theatre
lie Baron Iebourg .................hr nest re,Ilh
Robert de Chaceroy ..........s.- Jos. Ruoeii
Henri Ncrheui
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