New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-29
NEWS OF PLAYS
and PLAYERS
Eternal City" Exquisitely
Given at the AStor-Lambs
GambOl for Actors.


"The Eternal City" now on view at the
Aston Theatre. The scenic effects
especially that Of the mob in the Col
oseum, have never been surpassed on
the screens, and show the absolute III
tility Of the regular stage to compete
with the movies" in scenes or large
compass. Beautiful, too. are the scenes
in the gardens of the Villa d'Este, SO
beautiful that the audience can surely
scarcely believe itself within fifty fee'
of the Great White Way. Hard as our
stage directors must struggle for iliu'
sion. the camera gives it to us at the
Aston without effort.
Miss Paula Frcderick's acting OF
Donna Roma is exceedingly effective
and Miss Frederick's comeliness never
has been more evident. In fact IN the
wordless play she has surpassed any
thing she has ever accomplished with
in the realms of the spoken drama
Those who love the movies" VIII, oil
course, see The Eternal City" those
who love Italy must see it, and those
who love a beautiful woman who knows
also how TO act will lose much If they
do not see IL.
Details Of the big all-star Gambo
to be given by the Lambs for the oehe
fit of the Actors Fund are rapidly near
ing completion. In view OF the grea'
distress experienced by the professor
I
ing every effort is being put forth u
mako This Gambol most elaborate. Th'
first performance will be given in New
York on Saturday, May %, End duiini
the following week in Boston, CleVe
land. Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh am
| PHILADELPHIA.
With the engagement yesterday o
Miss GLADYS Hansol for the role o
| Helen in Professor Gilbert Murray
translation of Euripides's "TroJar
Women" which will be produced Thu
/ spring in the stadiums of the leadlnI
| Eastern universities, Granville Barke
/ Yesterday completed his selection o
actresses for the four principal roles
/ The players and their parts are Mis-
Lillah Mccarthy as Hecuba, Miss Edit
/ Wvnne Matthison as Andromache
| Miss Chrystal Herne as Cassandra AM
! Miss Gladys Hanson as Helen.
The Van den Berg-Conger Oper'
! Company will begin a season of gran'
and light oper. at the Standard The
atre. following next weeks engagement
of Miss Marie Dressler in "a Mix-Up,
opening with al Trovatore," which vii
! be sung throughout that week. Tn
second week 1.-THE Mikado" will be tn
/ offering. and thereafter the same polio.
of alternating grand and light oper'
will be continued.
The cast for "Moloch." the new pla.
| BY Beulah VI. Dix, which is to be pro
duced by Messrs Klaw G. Erlanger, il
association with George c. Tyler, ha
/ been completed. and rehearsals are nov
in progress. Among the thirty or NOR
principals are Holbrook Blinn, Llllla'
Albertson, Maidee Wright, Jean Muir
dock, Charles Harbury. Ruth Benson
Paul Gordon, Frank Sylvester. PHIL
! Tongc, Rosna Henley, Cornish Beck
sydney Carlisle, Gareth Hughes, Henri.
Carylle and Herbert Ransome.
kcnPaTSdlS LOT
production of "The Man in Request,
in which Craig Kennedy is the centra
figure, have begun. Among the actor
engaged are Brandon lyman, Normal
Trevor, Catherine La Sale, Waite
Thomas and William Eville and others
Scenes of the play are laid in New
York City and Texas, near the Mexican
border. "The Man in Request l
/ ho mi
May out of town, after which II VIII D
brought into New York for a run.
Helen Rock, the young contraltc
who, discovered in a motion pictur
house on the East Side, became musl
cal comedy star overnight, has bee
secured for vaudeville by the keith IN
terests, and will make her debut at tn
Palace next Monday.
The regular season al the Columbl
Theatre will close on Saturday nlgn'
Nav 8. and the following Monday after
noon Lew Kelly and the Behman sho'
will begin an engagement. An entlrel
new production is being provided alon
lines so elaborate that il will at leas
compare favorably with those otlere
at the higher price Broadway theatres
A new Viennese opera, "A Day l
Paradise" has been placed in rehearsa
by the Messrs. Shubert. The music
by Edmund Eysler and the book b
Leo Stein. The American version ha
been made by Edgar Smith, with lyric
by Herbert Reynolds. j. II. Benrlm
is staging the production.
The cast for wild Game" ne,
farce in three acts, by Noel-Campbel
Springer, which has been put into re
hearsal by the Messrs. Shubert, is a
follows: Ralph Herr, Edna Archie
Crawford, Margaret Greene, Rut
Fielding, May Donohue, Florence Gel
aid, William David, Robert MacKa!
Sam Hines, Edwin Caldwell, Charlie
Mccarthy, Frederic Smith, James MOI
ton and George Weller.
Two hundred Boy Scouts attende
the Park Theatre last night, ard hear
Ray Beverage in her talk on the pan
women arc playing in the Europea
war.
OBITUARY.