New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
The Weeks Ebb and
Flow.

The Messrs. Shubert announce that
they will produce at the Casino Theatre
on Wednesday night new NlenneSe
oDerctta entitled THE Blue Paradise,
in a prologue and two acts. The Aus
trjan book is by Leo Stein the author OF
..The Merry Widow" end the American
version has been made bv Edgar Smith.
The music is by Edmund Eysler. The
operetta scored hit both IN Berlin ana
Vienna. The American production has
been staged by Mr.. Benrimo. and the
featured player is Cecil Lean, while
others in the company are Mile. Cha-
pine, Frances Demarest, Cleo Mayheld,
Hattie Burks. Ted Lorraine, Teddy
Webb. Robert Pitkin, James Billings,
Carolvn Burke. Walter Armin, Eugene
Hohenwart. Otto Schrader, James
Georgi. Mabel Dean, Frank Wayne,
Richard Melbourne. William Bolton,
Kathleen George and chorus Of one
hundred Broadway beauties.
Additional musical numbers have
been supplied by Leo Edwards, who IS
the composer Of much of the music of
this summers Winter Garden produc-
ton, "The Passing Show of 1915" and
new lyrics have been written by Her
bert REYNOLDS and Blanche Merrill.
The operetta is in prologue and two
acts. with all the scenes laid in Vienna.
In the prologue the audience is intro
duced to most Of the characters who
figure prominently in the play at
period which occurs twenty-four years
before the first act Rudolph Stoeger
played by Mr.. Leon, is the son OF
wealthy Vienna gentleman, who decides
to send his boy to America 10 earn his
own living. In the prologue Stoeger IS
on the eve Of separating from his three
bosom friends, and the pretty little
flower girl of the Blue Paradise Inn,
with whom he is in love, a fact he has
kept secret from his three companions,
as well as his father. Separation is in
evitable, and Stoeger sails for the new
country. Twenty-four years later he
IetQf0Ss lt4tEldDIllE HIS 'lu II AN nus "
meet him at the Ring Hotel He is ac-
companied by Mrs. Gladys Wynne, the
wife of his former partner in the rub
Der business and a lady who has been
bequeathcd to him in the will of the
partner Stoeger is still thinking Of
the little flower girl whom he has not
heard of for so long a time. Although
he had written her. not once did he re-
ceive a reply.
He meets his friends, but always up
rermost in his mind is the memory Of
the happy evenings they used 10 spend
together in the Blue Paradise I'm, so II
is natural that Stoeger should ask that
they 90 there. The inn, however, has
been bought by Justus Hampel, one OF
his three friends. and IS being used as
his residence. 1t also develops that
Hampel is married to the little flower
girl and his daughter is the living i'm
age of her mother as she was twenty
four years before. Stoeler meets the
daughter on the same ground where he
wooed the mother and cannot for the
instant realize what has taken place.
but when he is told what has happened
during his absence, and that the little .
girl is in love with his nephew, he &C
cepts the decree of fate at its face
value and sails back for America. de-
20 marry Mrs. Wynne.
Among the musical numbers Of THE
Blue Paradise" is "The Tune They
Groom in he L. S. A." which is a com
position Of Cecil Leans.
The University of New York, in en-
of the classic revival
which is at present manifesting itself !