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and properties for which Sir Herbert
has brought over from London.
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The Metropolitan Opera company's
contribution TO the Shakspere celebra-
ton was heard when Herman Goetz's
operate version of The Tanning OF the
Shrew' was sung. The company pro-
duced this opera for the first time in
the Metropolitan's history, but it had
been sung here by another company 80
years ago.
James X Hackett. who had great
success in Macbeth" earlier in the
winter, revived The Merry Wives Of
Windsor with Miss Viola Allen. at the
Criterion theater- Mr.. Jackets i'll
ness had interrupted his season.
Mr.. Hackett played Falstaff. Miss AL
len, Mistress Ford. and Miss Henrietta
Crossman, Mistress Page. Orrin John
son was Mr.. Page.
The scenery. by Jose Urban, was es-
peCially effective William Furst had
composed incidental music which was
well received. Richard Ordynski staged
the production.
One of the chief features of the
S0th birthday anniversary celebration
of William Winter, poet and critic, at
the Century theater. was a Shaksperean
masque by Herman Hagedorn, called
The House OF Magic"
II embodied scenes from Romeo and
Juliet" Twelfth Night" Much Ado
About Nothing, The Merchant Of Ven
ice" Merry Wives Of Windsor" king
Lear" Julius Caesar" and other Shak-
sperean plays.
Many stars showed their affection
and respect for the dean Of American
dramatic critics by their appearance in
the masque. Beatrice Cameron, who in
private life is Mrs Richard Mansfield,
returned to the stage. while Mrs. Sol
Smith, now S. years old, played the
nurse in Romeo and Juliet" and Miss
Z Blanche Bates appeared as Beatrice in
Much Ado About Nothing"
others included Misses Julia Arthur,
Annie Russell. Viola Allen. Rose Cogh-
Ian, Persy Haswal Henrietta Crosman,
Kathryn Kidder. Jane Cowl Isabel Irv-
! ing and Crystal Herne, James ONelL
Frederick Lewis, Louis Calvert Bran
don lyman and Walter Hampden.
Besides the masque. an original poem
by James Whitcomb Riley, written for
the occasion, was read and a memorial
signed by prominent persons in Amer
lea and England was PRESENTED to the
aged critic.
a new manager and two new play
wrights appeared on Broadway when
Richard lambert produced the farce
called The Blue Envelope" at the Cort
theater.
The authors are Frank Hatch and r.
Z. Romans and their work proved
! humorous to some extent but lacking
in novelties. Its old fashioned devices,
such as six dOorways for the charac-
ters to dodge in and out Of, were tried
and true, and they brought the laughs
they can always be depended upon for.
The plot CenterS around two men, one
the husband and the other the lover of
a blond beauty, who both seek refuge
in the same sanitarium to escape her.
Then, too, there is the blue envelope
containing the supposedly damaging
love letters which fits from hand to
hand and causes all sorts OF trouble.
Carrie Reynolds is the beautiful adj
venturess and proved not 20 have lost
her light opera voice. She sang her
speeches. Walter Jones vas the subur-
too we'll Rotund Josie Sadler was
mirth producer. George Probert was
an acceptable villain. while Ralph
Marin contributed TO the fun OF the
evening.
A party OF United States secret ser
vice agents looked over The Heart OF
Wetona" one night this week and pro-
nounced II Just like Oklahoma"
What connection there may be be-
tween chief Flynn's men. Oklahoma and
George Scarborough's play at the Nv
ceum (Which has been reviewed in this
column, may not appear on the sur
face.
But Mr.. Scarborough. the playwright
was once Mr.. Scarborough, the secreS
service agent, and these tall critics
with the seven shooters in their back
pockets we're his former associates in
getting land fraud evidence out in
oklahoma years ago
So when they said Wetona's indians
a la David Belasco. looked like Okla
homa indians. it went
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''Pav Day" has moved from the Cort
theater to the Booth theater. When It
was produced all the critics went
astray. They said, in essence, that the
play. produced as a melodrama, was so
acknowledgements that It made people
laugh, and they said it was more like
a burlesque than like melodrama, be-
cause il was so impossibly uelodra-
matte. And by hard effort the critics,
to be polite, kept from laughing at it,
The prologue acted in real life by
live actors, opens with an actor reading
n play which he has written for a
prominent actor who has a great aver
sion to the movies.
The actor who has written the play
tells the other actor he has brought It
to him because he is one Of the few
really good actors who have refused to