The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-30
new EFFORT MADE
TO BEAT The MOVIES
"Her Price" Is Fiction Acted
Before Audience With
Many Scenes.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

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The managers and the playwrights arr
still trying to beat the movie men OF
in Philadelphia the other night. Ia b!
Lottie NJ. Meaney. Like "Seven Ke,
to Baldpate" and THE Big 1dea." II Ia
piece Of Action acted out before the au'
dience. II IL played. moreover. on =
small revolving stage and the scenes
change frequently In the three acts
Concerning the fiction Of this singular
piece one report says:
A girl sent up Il prison b. her false
lover. who induces her to steal for him
and then marries another. comes for
aid when she Is released. He Is hav-
ing a drunken TIL with his rich wife.
murders her to keep her from altering
her will I'm the morning." and throws
the crime on h girl.
Another sentence. but this time an
escape and a very original sort of re-
venge. h ~inoculafes herself with
leprosy, visits his room at the point of
a gun-he IL married again, this time
for iove-compromises him. bites his
wrist, and sits the night out until, she
asserts. they are both infected. Then
bliss together as members OF some
south Sea leper COLONY. After hat a
little epilogue to see the hero OF the
irst scene finish reading the play.
Emma Dunn. who has grown so fam
Gus for her performances Of mothers
varied her usual occupation by playing
the part of a young girl.
Gabrielle Dorziat Is to be the next
visiting star at the Theatre Francois.
She has been in England. and may APP
pear in vaudeville in a piece by Edward
knoblauch.
Emma Trentini will return this spring
to the management OF Arthur Hammer
stein In Il new operetta by Otto Hauer-
bach and Rudolph Frml. 1t Ia said that
she has been nursinG soldiers In Italy,
but the belief has always been that she
conducts a cheese factory in Mantuf.
Andreas DIPPED has revived 1.-THE
Spring Maid which Is now to be played
in cities which never heard the popular
operetta.
Just why an actor playing an i'm
portant role In a melodrama current at
one OF he city theatres should have re-
tired from this company to lake his
place In a new production. Is entirely
comprehensive to members of the audi
ence there on a recent Saturday night.
The actor had evidently fingered over
his dinner. He bounded on in the first
act evidently in full enjoyment Of the
viands. He made little effort to con-
ceal the fact that his mouth. while not
full Of the holiday turkey. was by NO
means empty. He, figuratively speak.
ing, was still chewing the cud of con.
tentment.
BY the time the second act was
reached the actor had almost finished
his meal. He gave no signs Of the
effort to extend the dinner over the
whole Of the performance. When /,
came TO the third act. nobody would
have suspected that when the play be.
gan this talented young man wac nm
ishing his Inner. 1t happened tina this
night the manager Of the play decided
TO look In or the first act. He saw
the struggle on the part Of the actor
to combine the processes Of mastication
and the art Of acting. So at the end
OF the performance there was the choice
Of taking his meals out Of the theatre
or accepting hts two weeks notice. lie
took the latter and during the intervals
Of rehearsal will be able to eat as late
as he wants to.
How success may be plucked from the
jaws Of failure may be observed In the
case OF what Is accounted one of the
most charming Of the recent musical
plays. One song which delights the audi
ences Is from "Miss Information two
others come from Ninety in the Shade
and there also comes an entire scene
from a musical play which closed up
the Knickerbocker Theatre a few months
ago.
valry between two motion picture com
panies to secure the services Of Marie
Doro for a further contract. Each has
announced her In productions under it's
management. Meanwhile Miss Doro, to
vary the phrase. Is returning from her
honeymoon with her bridegroom, and Is
expected in New York in a day or 30.
Margaret Anglin. with the assistance
Of Livingston Plat, will give I'm st. Louis
early in June a series OF outdoor repre-
sensations Of AS You Like II" on a
terraced stage. and there will be a dane
ing green. on which ~Elizabethan dances
will be given. The play will be acted
tee as a part of the Shakespeare GEN.
tenary.
Princess Troubetzkoy's play Black
mall" which the Shuberts will soon
bring 10 New York. will have Its first
production at Hartford next week. There
are prominent parts in II for Lucille