The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-06
JANIS HERE
IN SOMETHING NEW
Little Star Seen i'm Miss In
formation at the Conan
Theatre.
HAS CAPABLE SUPPORT
Miss Internationally the Gotham
Tha,Nr

Else Janis. who h,s not been seen
mere since she played Cinderella with
Montgomery and Stone and has in the
meantime been posing before the
camera IN California and dclighting
London. came back 10 New York last
night. sun under the pgis of G. u.
p~Iliugham. she lighted at the Conan
Theatre Tire Industrious dramatis,s
Paul psckcy and Charles. Goddard, who
appeared to have worked last summer
While others slept. provided for her a
play called Miss Information" II puts
Mss Jams before the public in a some
what different light from tina, in which
she has hitherto been admired.
Indeed. she is in the new piece what
the old timers used to call a ''protean''
artist. She Is n detective, and..n that
role assumes various DISCUSSES. just ms
stage detectives always do, even IL they
are just pretty young girls such as Miss
Ianis is to-day and such as Lolita Crab
Tree was when she used to act in the
same sore Of piece which Dickcy and
Goddard have written for the present
i%lvor.tc.
There are three acts in the new play,
one In the drawing room of a parvenu
family OF which the mother Is so
anxious for social Importance that she
causes the report to be circulated that
her Jew'lry has been stolen. The see
ond act passes IN the apartment OF the
same family in Paris, and the third.
which is supposed to take place in a
well known cabaret here. restores Miss
Janis TO her usual atmosphere. since
&, is her. that the piece contains all IL
does o: the usual musical comedy.
ne III a.. "a r,A,,. ..,-,. 49,. G-.
Janis sssumcd last NIGHT she won her adj
mIrers m 81 as the London chappy. This
was something more than mere material
,iseuis, ~ a fortune teller and a mes
senser buy she had suggested no sense
4 -impersonation. Yet she was alto
setheI irresistible Is the irresponsible
ordiius. Here was In name and
speech 4 real portrayal AS h.r personal
charm vlsualized The type. AS IN
dancing glrl Later she Il equally APP
peal,rg IN appearance TO her admirers.
sho had found little to satisfy them
IN IN" earlier scenes. But the audi
enc found only delight in the last act.
Il VS. full Of entertainment from the
the curtain rose. In the second act
Mau' ee Ftrkoa had cooed "A love song
IN his approved ponade manner. Then
lrmi liprdune. who turned out 10 he
ne OF me deIlghtS or Vie evening, mad
sgH- her couplets Illurinsly. But both
were more potent still IN the last scenes.
Melville Ellis. at the piano. played as
arlsii,a'ly as ever. Then he combined
IN. appeal to the public and to musical
hearers as successfully rs in the past.
with Miss Eordune at the other end
o. the grand piano to express In her
very expressive Latin features the emo
Ions %; his music. There We're a few
met ~I'iSfying exhibits in the way OF
4 small chorus which not only danced
-; SANG nd wore frocks that must have
beea the latest word in modish dress.
hes Wore a; once so eccentric and pro-
yortt.,r There was AN amusing band
rom ,.rl. vile.
81 These attractions yer in the last
act $50 n Ecpt the spectators amused
ig1 'g' ~lS.as;ic from the minute they
i~gin
Probably one irason f'r the delight
~ IA" audience mas the fact that ii
VA enabled to for.et the first two acts
gfo-e'hr' That was something to be
thdU,iIi for.