The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
THEATRICAL
OFFERINGS
Season at Auditorium Will
Open Earlier than i'm
Previous Years
STRONG ARRAY OF
ATTRACTIONS BOOKED
Successful Comic Opera, The Chocolate
Soldier, First on List = Brady and
Shubert Productions, Bohemian Girl
Adelaide Thurston, Etc.

The theatrical season at the Audi
forum will open much earlier than in
previous years, and the quality of the
offerings will be fully equal to those
lof other seasons Among amusement
ipurveyors a feeling Of optimism is
strong, and that prosperity in this line
OF cndeavor is coming is freely pre-
dicted. They point out that condi-
tions are rapidly improving, and while
the past several seasons have been
financially disastrous the pendulum will
not and cannot swing one way all the
/ time; that water will seek its level
and that ''cOme back is logically
due this year.
The initial attraction for Brattleboro
coming in early August, will be a real
treat. 1t will be the Whitney Onera
company in The Chocolate Soldier a
company of 30, carrying its own spe
,e1al orchestra, full stage production.
costumes, accessories and effects. com
plete to the slightest detail.
NO comic opera of recent years has
mad the success or given such satisfac-
tien as The Chocolate Soldier. Only
once has 1t been seen and heard in
Brattleboro, and it would be welcome
at least once a season for many wears
to come.
! Following closely comes a Fool
There Was, a strong, pulsating drama
based on Kiplng's The Vampire and
made famous on the boards BY Robert
Hilliard.
Adelaide Thurston, in Defiance is
booked for an early appearance, also a
Joe Webber company in The Only
Girl and William 4. Brady's company
in Sinners, play pronounced as whole
some as whole wheat and vastly more
popular. September Morn will suit
those who like a jolly, snappy, whirly
sparkling, comedy that in Chicago
danced and sang its way into populari-
ty in q day. The Candy Shop is an
iother big musical show that has been
selected for one of the Valley Fair day
Offerings and will be fitting windur
for not only the tired business man, >
but for everybody who has put in q
, strenuous day at the fair grounds.
4 Early fall will see the Aborns spec
,tacular production of The Bohemian
Girl. This is a two-car production car
rying its own orchestra, a troupe OF
l. Arabs, several horses and a company
of Go persons, and this grand old opera
will be presented in a manner more
elaborate and more complete than eve
before in Brattleboro
The Seven Keys to Baldpate viii
7 surely interest not only the readers o.
! the book of the same name but all VIII,
! enjoy the kind of drama that is filleC
) with thrills and surprises.
The Blue Bird, massive and spec
: ,tacular Shubert production, is hooke,
!, for q night in November.
Having consistently in mind the fac
that tastes vary and that not all pock
: etbooks are fat and plethoric thes
, days, other attractions including tw,
minstrel shows, several repertoire or
!, ganizations of the ten, twenty an,
i thirty type have been signed up by tn
= management. Lyman II. Howe will, o
8 course, make his twice-yearly visit witt
ian entirely new program each time o
iall that is best and interesting in trav
t. ,,el pictures.
S All in all, it would seem that ther
was to be ometking doing" the com
s ing season that will suit 'some of tn
Is people some of the time if not cal
}. the people all the time