Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-07
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s.,rbla and her theatres and
.sosrs may bless their dramatic
hst they have no Pooh-Bah
u,tB a portfolio Of theatrical CEN
adsn about his person. Boston has.
pos,op will be the laughing stock
49, nIaces besides Broadway. IL
corley keeps UP the good work.
- he is pretty successful sue
:, the immortal Honey Fit2."
tanned "The Easiest Way" and let
o,,i from Rectors" play two en-
sntu in the home of the Puritans.
,S,r,ev began by putting the Win
,don chorus into tights, and has
.,adone himself over the question
ofanlty.
hss forbidden the further perform
n the Toy Theatre-a parallel TO
,n little Theatre-of Across the
!" The piece is by one of Rad
s-olIrqe's favorite and most lady
,ramatlsts, Marie Beulah Dix, who
M writes costume pieces. 1t Is a
and effective attack on war. 1t
rrofanity at it's climax as the nat
outcome of desperate passions in
fate men brutalized by war. A
,nuslcal comedies and plays with
n" are indulging in just the same
Al But Of course, as Bernard Shaw
4ed out years ago, 1t is the serious
the sincere play, that always falls
q the displeasure of the censor.
ar dispatches indicate that the
~ is willing TO let the play proceed
s. wicked words are removed-and the
s OF the whole thing dulled to match
hayoral intellect.
Girl of Girls" in Washington
q musical piece which the Forrest Ia
now to Philadelphia next week and
N made its bow In Washington Mon
Snlght as "The Girl of Girls" seems
I've "got away with II" so far as the
shIngton reviewers go. The plot by
Ard Paulton, already narrated In this |
was much more worried over the |
hles Of llbretto writing than were the |
"a who heard it, The book they |
Il passable; their warm praise went |
Be- music. "R. g." of the Washing |
Post writes:
u score of the new musical piece fur
ss a pleasing surprise. 1t might
been excused If the Atlantic City
master, accustomed to open-air con-
/. had shown tendency toward
and bombardment with brasses.
lad, the orchestration was most dis
I and well-tempered, with merely an
bional announcement of a theme
the trumpets. A large and care
balanced orchestra, in which the
Of the wood winds was particularly
Rive, was one of the two significantly
fable features of the evening, the
/ praiseworthy element being the
and duets by Miss Natalie Alt and
ent Sullivan, both of whom have ex-
nt voices, and Miss Leola Lucey's
Dr1y song. Little Star, Pretty
z Miss Ats lifting Love Is a
Ier," is the phonograph probability
ID score,
ling Along
Little Theatre has Courage" after
The threatening clouds have passed
las +'The Mikado" said they would,
80 years ago-the opera bouffe of
ality is ended, the war over the
var play has subsidized, and "Cour-
viii be produced at the Little The
next Monday according to schedule.
II goes little play from England,
esome Like"
Ie o'Hara is soon to appear at the
" In new Irish drama by Angus
itou, sr.
George to Tour America
rs all you need to say on Picka-
Just "Sir George"-and the theatre
Knows you are talking about Sir
e Alexander, the gentleman
who lends such an air OF courtly
ment to what used to be called the j
esh' before theatrical knIghthoods
INTO fashion. Yet II America has
am 1t was In the very early days of !
feeE OF late years Sir George has
contract with Charles Frohman by
the American manager has used {
2 Dest Of the formers plays over
after their London production. AS
sequence Sir George has had no 1
samcientiy new TO America to make
entable repertory.
, however, the contract has expired I
= George has found a new piece by
Y manners, author of peg o. NV
WIN the London stage In its
y condition as result of the war
y nothing to keep an enterprising '
manager at home. After Sir George