The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04

well known actors and actresses for
the Empire Theatre performances Of
a Celebrated Case"
The little Princess Theatre will open
on Thursday with Nobody Home u
musical farce. This is the official an
nouncement of its charms:
81, IL said Of Nobody Home that.
unlike most musical comedies. 1t has
u real story and a real plot, which
doesn't get lost during the course of
the entertainment. The lyrics fit nat
urally into the story of the little
comedy. and the management boldly
announces that there will he no spe-
cialties. no seltzer comedians no im!-
Ia atoms and no vaudeville interpola-
lions % any kind whatever. In other
words. Nobody Home in said to be
an attractive little story told and sung
in dainty surroundings with harmo-
NOUS music and songs ;hat 1T the sit
ia ion and are not dragged in by the
heels
Mir. Comstock has engaged an en-
ceptlonal cast of well known players.
headed by Lawrence Grossmith an
reputation abroad WHO has not APP
peared in New York for some seasons.
Adele Rowland will have one of the
leading roles. and others in the cast
are Molie King. George ORamey.
Coralie Blythe. Vera Fuller Mellish
and Marguerite May. while the actors
are Alfred Deary. Tom Graves. Ed
ward Favor. George Lydcclier. Abbott
Worthley. carr Lyle and Vaughn
Trevor The stcrcotyped chorus. which
usually grins and mods In unison as 1t
mechanically dances. has been abol-
ished In Nobody Home. but instead
there Will he a Cotcrie OF beautiful
young women attired In modish gowns
who will decorate the ensembles from
time to time"
, Robert Whittier will act Osvoh in
lusen's Ghosts" az the Longacre
Theatre on Thursday afternoon.
DADDY L,ng-Legs" will be acted by
children at the Gaiety Theatre on
Friday afternoon. These children are
ali appearing in Contemporaneous
New York productions. Boots Woos-
ter and Robert Smith will have the
leading roles. The performance Will
. he for the benefit OF the Rehearsal
Cluh.
one of the big attractions Of the
! Vacation Fund Circus, which Miss
Anne Morgan ~ arranging for the
benefit az tho Vacation Depositors
/ and which will be held at the Seven
! ty-nrst Regiment Armory April 10,
! will bc the Pike" along which the
side shows and freak attractions
! Will he scattered.
The circus proper VIII be gwen by
the Vacation Depositors, but as an
! added attraction tho services Of a
/ number of professionals havo been
secured Edna Aug and Amelia Sum-
merville will be fortune tellers. Marie
Dressler will give Der own private
show. Zelda Sears and Florence Nash
will do a clown turn Ray Cox will
he a barker" Mrs. Stuart Robson
will give an exhibition Of strength
and "Yvc,te" will initiate a country
fiddler.
Students Of the drama In its wider
aspects have becn profoundly inter
.sted during the current season h,
the presentation. as a feature Of tbs
| semi-secular and entirely educationa
activities Of tho live old church 81
ST. Mark 's-inthe Rouwerie. of So
RES of ultra modern plays for the
frat time in English.
Maeterlinck, Rahindranath Tasors
and other dramatists have thus re-
ceived their first American hearing
AZ the hands Of carefully selected
casts OF distinguished professional
PLAYERS and amateurs o. local celeb
rity.
This interesting and illuminativ,
repertoire will he completed by Tho
production for the first time in Eng
lish ~ Gerhardt IIauptmanns sym
holic fairy drama "Pippa Passes,
which will have its premiere or
"Wednesday evening. April 81. and {
second hearing on the following even
ing. Tlckcts for either performanr'
may be purchased from Miss Mar,
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