Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-26
Down-Stage
By d. R. Noble
For THE PALIsADIAN

James 7. Powers
opened at the Forty eighth Street
Theater Thursday evening, in Mark
SWANS comedy, based on a novel
written by J. F. Randall entitled
-"Somebody's Luggage
While Mr.. Powers has been seen in
late years in musical comedy, his
earliest experiences on the stage were
in comedy and farce. His earliest
appearances in comedy were with
Willie Edouin in "Fun in a Photo
graph Gallery" and "A Bunch of
Keys" When very young man he
replaced Rawdon Vokes with the
famous Vokes Family. Mr. Powers
role in Somebody's Luggage" / am
told, is that of Alfred Hopper. Hop
per is in love with Caroline Parftt,
who has a cousin, Walter Owen, in
the Secret Service. Owen induces
Caroline to take up secret service
work herself and at least once week
Caroline is called upon to cross the
channel from England, to France.
These frequent absences arouse the
suspicious of Hopper, who decides to
follow her; going over on the same
boat with Hopper and the two Secret
Service operators is an Australian
named Crawford. By strange CO.
incidence, Crawford has portman-
teau which is exactly the mate of
that carried by Hopper. Alfred in
sists on claiming Crawford's port
manteau, and through comical trend
of circumstances he obtains possess
sion of it, leaving it with the porter
in his name-his own bag meanwhile
being left on deck. Crawford is ac-
cidentally blown overheard. Hopper
sees him disappear and then col
lapses. The lost passenger is, there
fore, identified as Hopper, as his bag
is on the deck. Hopper, who has
been drinking, is too much Under the
weather to explain, and the mistake
is allowed to stand. When Caroline,
who, as has already been said, is a
passenger on the boat, learns that
Alfred has been drowned, she believes
that he has committed suicide for love
of her. The aforementioned Craw-
ford, it develops, is on his way from
Australia to England to claim large
inheritance. As everyone is under
the belief that Hopper is the Austria
liam, Hopper is taken in charge by the
ships steward and a cabman and con-
veyed to the home of the late Mr..
Fairfax, who has left an inheritance.
On the way-to the house, Hopper is
. knocked down by a motor car which
raises bump on his head The at
tending physician, who is called in to
sober him up, warns everyone about
the place that the blow may effect
Hopper's mind, and to pay no atten-
ton to his eccentricities. When Hop
per realizes that Crawford has come
in for five thousand year, he de-
cides to let the mistake stand. All
might continue hlissfully for Hopper,
and his sweetheart, when Crawford
himself, who was not drowned at all,
turns UP and adds to the general mis-
understanding.
-MurieI Martin Harvey
An English actress of much repute,
will make her first American appear
ance as leading lady for Mr..
Cyril Maude-
when that gentleman is seen in his
new comedy, the
Barber of MasipOsa"-
which is based upon characters and
incidents in Stephen Leacock's Sun
shine Stories by Michael Morton.
Maude is due to return from Eng
land next Monday on the New York,
and will at once place the play in re-
hearsal. With the exception of Miss
Harvey his supporting company will
be composed Of American players.
John Cost
has put the Henry Blossom-Victor
Herbert operetta, the
Princess Pa
in rehearsal for its road tour which
will begin at the Standard Theater
Labor Day.
H. H. Frazee-
has entered into an arrangement with
the Estate of Henry B. Harris where
by the
-"Silent Witness
will be moved on Monday from the
Longacre Theater to the Fulton
Theater, where Otto Hauerbach's sue
cessful drama is scheduled to continue
indefinitely with the original cast.
Coincident with this arrangement
Messrs. Frazee and Anderson an
nounce that the Longacre Theater
henceforth will be devoted exclusive
ly to the production of farces and
comedies. Beginning on Tuesday,
they will inaugurate this policy with
the first presentation of
ga Pair of Queens
a new farce in hree acts from the
triplet pen of Otto Hauerbach, A.
Seymour Brown an Harry Lewis; it
is now in rehearsal under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Hauerbach and Robert
Milton.
Both these plays will be reviewed
in this column at later date.
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