El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-22

entirely communicate TO the audience
except by the player himself
What night OF the week does a
player like his work best: william
Courtenay. still playing in that endless
success, Under Cover" says unhest-
tatingly, Saturday night"
Don't tell me the tired business man
wants only to be amused, will take only
froth,' he said 10 me in his dressing
room at the Cort theater. NY expert
ence in Under Cover cOnvinces me alb
solutely that the opposite is true.
Under Cover is a play with the ele-
ment Of suspense very strong one.
1t is easier to play the end Of the week,
because ones Saturday matinee and
night houses are so keen on the mys-
Saturday IS the great day for the
ones who have worked all the Week to
this day are altogether different from
those that come other days in the week.
I might say they bring clearer heads.
keener business acumen and they get
right down TO work on the mystery
from the time the curtain goes up
In Forty-seventh street. just of Fifth
avenue. ground has just been broken
for a children's paradise. II will be a
Toy Theater' on he most elaborate
scale ever attempted and any boy or
girl not happy here will never be
happy anywhere.
From the roof garden with its tur-
reted castle. aw0ridge and mOat, to
the entrance hall with its walls de-
picting the strange doings Of Isis.
Zoroaster and Merlin, all that is quaint
and attractive TO the young mind viii be
on view.
Five hundred little folk can. sit down
TO see Jack the Giant Killer stalking
along the stage The actors and &C
tresses will not be children. but will
effort made also to have young play
wrights furnish the plays as il is
thought they are nearer to childhood
ideas. Childreu's plays for adults will.
be absolutely barred.
Peter Newton has worked out all the
details Of the enchanted garden. the
secret stairways and the other things
which touch the heart and Imagination
OF the little playSoer. Al Arthur Z.
Belcher painted the wall pictures. while
Burial Hoffman. jr, Harry Creighton
ingalls, and Cr. Bovard Mcbride also
have hands in the work.
a Full House" IS a roaring farce
without much Of a plot II filled the
Longacre theater so fun OF laughs, real
good hearty outlaws, that the lack Of a
hair raising suspense could well be for
given
The three acts take place in a New
York drawing room. If there be such.
The actors tumble in and out Of that
one room They include q newly mar
ried couple, a sister and an aunt Of
the bride, woman beWauiug the loss
OF a lot of jeWelry, her son, his sweet
heart. an English servant. a half
witted maid. a second story man. a
beauty girl from Jne chorus and three
policemen.
a day after his marriage. the bride
groom disappears His wife believes
he is in Cleveland on business Really
he is in Boston to settle a friends af-
fair with the chorus girl The chorus
girl is striving to strike a bargain for
certain letters.
Coming back with these incriminat-
ing documents, the bridegrOOm's train
is wrecked and he and a crook get each
others travelling bags.
The crook, with the letters and the
bridegroom with the stolen gems both
make dash into the bridegroOm's
apartment. Then ensue the complica-
tions which are the ancient prop OF
farce OF course the show girl and
the woman seeking her diamonds
finally appear and the curtain falls on
complete explanations.
May NOkes as Inc foolish servant
girl was the success Of the evening
Herbert Corthell did well in the role
OF the man from the underworld. Clai-
borne Foster has charming love
aNN-AF WIN AeaApA -AoL Edlf VINO is NeQ
Pembroke, an only son.
It is hard TO find a livelier attrac-
ton in town than the Behman show,
Lew Kelly star, at the Columbia thea
ter Here is bUrlesque for the bur
lesque connOiseur.
The first act is called THE Dope's
Legacy" and is puntuated by 20 musI-
cal numbers with a zip IN each.
The second part includes a review
with representations OF Pavlowa. Tren-
tint, Frank Tinney. Caruso. Julian FL
tinge, Eva Tanguay and FRITZ Scheff
and a parody on the war play, .-Shen-
andOah."
In the company are Lon Hascall,
James TenbrOoke. Harry Ia Costa. Eli
leen Sheridan, Nettie Nelson. Harry
Van. Ameta Pynes, MarteIle, steve
Clifford and Jane Conley.
Little Miss Natalie Alt was a most
Yum Yum in the revival OF
The MikadO," which took the place
OF The Woman of the Guard" at the
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