El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-27

which ran all last season at the Little
! theater.
heVes in getting her material from
! life, her own life So she advertises
! for a husband.
She signs her advertisement Miss
! " (she is called Exile" by one of the
/ aspirants1 and soon has plenty OF
I things on her hands
From the applicants for her favor.
! she selects butler and he invites her
/ quarters
This has dreadful effect on the
cook, in love with the butler, and her
case Of mysteries leaves Miss We're 10
4 prepare the meal
While she is peeling the potatoes
and letting several dishes burn on the
I stove. the master comes down and
He is an amiabIe employer and sew
! eral days later. Of course. asks the
Z lady novelist 10 become his wife.
On this light base Mr.. Harcourt has
built up host Of amusing incidents.
just the kind Miss Tempest uses 10 the
best advantage with her twinkling
7 eye.
The playing Of her associates is also
admirable. Stanley Harrison was the
butler, Daisy BelmOre the cook. Berley
Mercer the kitchen maid and Ruth
Draper the dangerous parlor maid.
Graham Browne. Rex MacDougalL
Harry Lamber and Algernon Greig
were also entertaining
British Actors Go 10 War
There was something akin 70 con-
sternatiOn along Broadway when IL
was learned the British government
had ordered home for war services all
men OF military age abroad
Several hundred English actors have
been seen on American stages this
winter At first there was some ten
dency TO protest on the part OF Ameri-
can rivals, but when the season de-
velOped into the most successful one
known Fnw al
In fact managers could not get
enough talent.
So it was unwelcome news all
Most Of the British actors accepted |
the inevitable gracefully Many Of |
them had good reasons for not enlist /
ing before.
] do not doubt they will make brave /
soldiers OF king George Y.
But their places here will be missing /
when the season opens, for. barring /
unforeseen developments, America viii /
have lots Of money TO spend in the Z
theater next winter.
The three leading Englishmen who !
have acted here this winter-Sir Her
bert Tree. Sir Johnston. Forbes-Rob-
ertson and Cyril Maude-are well out
side the military age limits of IS to ]
A. But in their companies are many
affected by the new order
At the clubs and restaurants fire.
Quented by actors, the Britishers have
many friends among their American !
brethren Also. a few feminine hearts
viii beat faster as they read the war !
headlines several months hence
Lambs GambOI "A Success.
The Metropolitan Opera house was |
assembled there for their all star
gambol.
With $50 great names on the list
Of stage people, stars, authors and so I
on, . host Of good things was as
After an overture by Charles a.
Prince and his Columbia orchestra. the I
first dramatic sketch was When Mr. /
Comes 10 Town" To be
quite honest tbs is the Lambs tradi-
tiOnal minstrel first part in a new
guise- Every one Of the Bards most
popular plays was represented with I
the names Of great actors in each.
We note that that eminent tragedian.
Frank T1nney. was cast for the part /
OtheIlO, which doubtless hints to the
reader at the keynote of the entire
number, not to mention Barney Barn
ard rs ShylOck, William Morris as
Hamlet, Charles J. Ross as the Bard
B. Mantel as Tombstone. Joseph Her /
bert as MalvOliO, Andrew Mack as
Romeo, jefferson de Angels anu
Frank DOane as the two Dromios-
Other well known stars in this num-
per were Thomas A. Wise, William !
Elliott, William ROsselle Edmund
Breese. Bertram Marburgh. William /.
Abindon, Bernard ReinOld. Eugene !
Welsh, Frank CrOxton, Ralph Bingham, /
LOrgan Conan, Charles de Lima,
Charles Dalton, Effingham Pinto.
lanes Clarence Harvey, VIII Archie,
Rudolph Cameron. Hugh HOrndon, !
2apley Holmes. Robert CONFESS, Albert
Parker, Frank Belcher. sam Colt,
,raig Campbell. Kenneth Webb, George ]
Iamlin. Charles Brandt, Crawford Kent.
frank Hannah George Boosa. Bertram
FOX, Kenneth Clarke, Henry NcCloskey, ]
:. W. Hoff, Lawrence Flynn, George c.
TeH, Joseph Mathiou, Roy William
steel and Horatio Rench.
"HellO, New York" /
The first summer song show is here {
I has arrived at the Columbia theater /
lnder the guise Of Hello, New York" |
nd If its reception can be taken as
criterion il viii occupy the stage
It that popular temple Of "extrava- I
sanza" for the remainder Of the sum
ler season.
Hello, New York" is the latest ]
node of musical revues. 10 is a musical !
anorama in two acts and nineteen I
Genes that leads the audience a merry (
base from the opening scene "a rep