Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-27
Curtain Calls

A line of varied and interesting en-
tertainment is presented on the bill
which has been arranged FOR Kee-
ney's Theatre for the latter half of
the present week. A novelty musical
Players. who render classic and pop
ular selections on various in
struments, including mandolin. violin
and piano. One of the trio sits In
the orchestra in the capacity of
leader. Another appears in character
make up.
Comedy mas a leading place on the
Hammond and Forester, man and
woman, in songs and badinage.
Other features of the strong eight-act
bill are Carrie Collins, singer of
sweet songs, whose charming per-
sonaltiy has won popularity wherever
she has apeared Jack Newman, who
sings topical songs in an original
way, assisted by a man at the piano;
Swan and Bombar. eccentric aero
bats, in an act that is a hodge-podge
CT thrills and laughs and Thierson's
dogs, four-footed actors that have
proved themselves to be wonderful
drawing cards in many of the big
houses.
Several of the CANNES have novel
specialties. one walking a slack wire.
Helen Courtney, of the Forsberg
Players, who is scoring a substantial
success at the Orpheum this week in
h. Oh. ofo, ~ in nd
Paid For" was formerly star on
her own account. She headed many
road companies under her own man.
agement before the movies had
affected the theatrical world to such
an extent that road companies NO
longer seem sto enjoy their wonted
vogue.
In speaking of this phase of the
situation in her dressing at the
Orpheum the other day, Miss Court
ney said she had been unable to de-
eide in her own mind as to the real
cause of 1.-The decline and fall soff of"
road shows, as one of Dickens's i'm
mortal characters would have
phrased it. She was in doubt whether
it was that the inhabitants of the
smaller towns have lost their interest
in the spoken drama or whether the
drama has only itself to Name in
having lost virility and attention
compelling power, or whether it Is
just an economic equation, in which
the movies" for dime serve the
same purpose that a company of ac-
tors formerly did for a dollar.
Certain it is, however, that the
present condition will not continue
long," she remarked, land celluloid
will again be superseded by flesh
anc blood actors. Look at the skat-
ing rink craze, which at one time al
most completely weaned the public
from the theatr or the bicycle cpl
demic, which nearly decimated the
playhouse.
Denman Thompsons, "The Old
Homestead" which was one of the
recent attractions at the Manhattan
Opera House. is one of the residen-
tiers of the stage Each year a for
tune is gathered in by the old stand
by. which is now in its twenty eighth
year. 1t Is never allowed to run down
nor is the company permitted to be
weaned nor to grow slack or care
less in portraying the various roles.
The grand old play is always guar
anteed by press, public and managers.
Millions have seen 1t again and again
It is now in its twenty-seventh sea-
son. 1t will come to the Newark
Theatre the week of September Ga
Dor Day., opening with a matinee,
when the original company, under the
personal direction of Frank Thomr-
son, will present this greatest of all