The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-02
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Rose Stahps great success Maggie
Pepper" will be presented In the Ly.
ceum theater. Sunday afternoon. Dec.
6. for weeks engagement. This
play OF department store life served
Miss Stahl for several seasons and
was second In popularity only to her
former great success. The Chorus
Lady" Charles Klein wrote Mas.
gle Pepper" and he has combined
dramatic strength, pathos and humor
In his usual sklful manner.
Tschaikowsky's 1872" overture
will be the leading number of the
program TO be played by Neddermey.
er's band. In the Garrick theater, Sun
day afternoon. Dec g. The favorite
Sousa march, Manhattan Beach" will
open the program. Adolph -ecigne'Il,
tenor. will be the assisting soloist
After police chiefs, mayors, minis
tiers, drama leagues, vice commissions
and the like had failed to stop the
wave Of vice plays and sex dramas
last season In New York, charming
little Scotch lassie called Kitty Mac
Kay" stopped the entire deluge In
less than a week Kitty" arrived IN
New York unannounced. No one had
heard Of her before She" proved
10 be clever. clean three-act comedy
by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. In
stead OF dealing with characters OF
the underworld Kitty" was a refresh
ing dramatic romance punctuated
with laughter. Older managers laugh
ed at young William Elliott, the pro-
ducing manager, who brought Kitty"
TO New York. and they predicted that
she would not remain there long. But
Kitty" was a sensation OF differ
ent kind and the public taste reverted
from the unclean, to the sincere and
funny and focked TO the Comedy
,theater. where Kitty" was playing.
The vice plays were ignored and soon
sank back into their own mud, Kit
ty MacKay" had done what humans
Scotch comedy is winning the appro-
baton of Detroit playgoers in the
Garrick theater this week.
Many plays OF many kinds have
won success, but II Is doubtful
whether there has been another pro-
duced more subtly significant. more
deeply impressive. or more wonderful
In its appeal than the dramatic spec
tacle. "Eyerywoman." which Henry
w. Savage will offer In the Detroit
opera house for a weeks engagement
beginning Monday, Dec. Z. That this
fact Is recognized by people generally
Is attested by the fact that the play
Is now In It's fourth season and one
Of the most potent box-offce attrac-
tons In America. Though Il has been
presented In Detroit before there
have never been sufficient seats TO
accommodate all who wished to view
II. "Everywoman," IL symbolic, dra-
matte, an allegory, and poetry. with a
story as old as the world OF living,
breathing men and women, and yet
as fresh and new as youth and beau
~ must always be. II Is the story OF
every woman who seeks love and
finds II only after devious wanderings
and long suffering. trials and disap-
pointments. There are thirtyseven
speaking characters In the play and a
symphony orchestra interprets the
score which was especially composed
for the play by George whitefield
Chadwick. the well-known composer
and dean OF the New England Con-
servatory Of Music.
Elsa Ryan, the pretty Peg of Peg
o. Ny Heart" will come to the Gar
rick tlleater, Monday evening, Dec. z,
for the third engagement of this
popular comedy. In the same theater.
Tuesday evening. Dec. 8, will mark
Miss Ryan's fve-hundredth perform.
ance OF the role Of Peg. Speaking of
this fact Miss Ryan said "T do not
suppose II IL any harder for me 70
keep on rolling up century marks IN
the character OF Peg than II Is for
the eight other women playing the
role again this season. I console my.
self I'm being glad that have not had
Rose Sahls experience OF two parts
In 10 years. II r. more difficult than
the public may suppose for an &C.
tress, or an actor, to continue In the
one character season after season
The fact is, however, agreeable and
successful tho character and the play
may be. II becomes dreadfully monot.
onous to the player"
con Belgian Battlefelds," a series
OF pictures recently taken by Chi.
cago Tribune stan photographer. will
be shown In the Broadway theater
next week, beginning Sunday after
noon. A descriptive story OF the
scenes accompanies each picture. One.
half Of the box once receipts OF every
performance Is given TO the Belgian
relief fund by the Chicago Tribune