New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-25
SUCCESS IS RECORD
OF LyCEUM COMPANY
ALI the Principals Have Made
Records in Other Cities

If the Lyceum Musical Stock COM
p7ny TINS season is not a success it
Will not be because pains have not
been taken to select the very best
I IN the east for the principals and
chorus. Nothing has been left I'M
| oone The company is perfect in so
far as perfection is possible. Every
one connected with the company is
enthusiastic-and enthusiasm counts
ABOUT SO $40 per cent when it comes
10 pleasing the people. The members
OF the company are not only enthus-
lastlc but they are efficient, and con-
fidence breeds success in any line of
business.
10 begin at the beginning, Miss
Georgia Campbell, the prima donna,
has established her reputa ton
with some Of the best COM
panles ever whipped together
/ She is Wlnsome Miss who will do
her part IN vivacious or serious
mood New Britain demands per-
sonality and she has It in abundance.
You see Miss Campbell and you like
her. Then, you will want to see her
again. She is a young woman all
would welcome into their homes AS
for her voice. she has appeared in
such companies as Tine Spring Maid"
the Aborn English Grand Opera com
pany and others who represent the
best there is in America The fact
that she has appeared in the Aborn
company is enough to admit her to
the best r-usical circles Syracuse,
New York. is one of the most critical
cities in the country and yet Miss
Campbell played and sang there for
two seasons. After the first season,
the management received hundreds of
requests that she be engaged for the
year following.
Miss Campbell has been on the
stage since she was twelve years of
age. Her inheritance comes naturally.
Born of musical family. she has two
sisters now entertaining American
audiences from behind the footlights
and her father has been in the theatre
cal business for years.
A company without first class in
genue is comparable with a motion
picture screen with the machine out
of order. So Director Perrin has
engaged Miss Leone Courtney, a dash
ing, sparkling, young woman with a
stage career behind her
Miss Courtney is a native New Eng
lander and understands that her Con-
necticut audience demands entertain
ment. That is her speciality. AS a
singer or dancer, Miss Courtney is
perfectly at home. She has appeared
with Richard earle and has been fea-
tured in many vaudeville acts in sing
ing and dancing, as well musical
stock. Among her vaudeville sue
cesses, Miss Courtney numbers her
acts with the Poll circuit and has ap-
peared in many Connecticut cities
Miss Courtney is rather retiring and
the aforementioned information was
secured in confidence from one of her
friends.
George Bogues is certain to please .
in the role of first tenor For five
years he was leading tenor with
Richard earle and he has also made
hits in "Alma.' Madam Sherry" and
audience have less effect on Mr..
Bogues than the prosperity of his
farm on Long Island. Mr.. Bogues
has the most wonderful hedge fence
around his property and every day
receives Geographic bulletin on it's
rise in life
In William J.. Meehan, baritone, the |
company has secured a genuine sing !
er. Mr.. Meehan was with Henry w. |
Savage and AL H. Woods and he won |
rame with stock in Boston. Port |
land, Maine, was also the scene of !
former successes and as late leading |
man for Isabelle Eversson, of the ,
famous Boston Museum Stock COM
pany, he scored a great triumph. For
the past summer he has been ap-
pearing in musical stock in Bar Har-
bor Maine.
Everyone knows of Mont
gomery and Stone. Walter Wills,
will appear with the
Lyceum company as first comedy man.
He has also been with Richard earle,
Sanderson and Cawthorne and Gaby
Deslys in New York and Boston, Ray
mond Hitchcock may not have a twin
brother but Mr.. Wills is hereby form
ally nominated. |
Ralph Sipperly has been with the |
"Sochial Whirl,' Adele Ritchie, the |
Frohmans and the "Acadians" at the |
Princess theater in New York. He |
closed two weeks ago i'll vaudeville |
Mr.. Sipperly has travelled extensively
in South America and has won the |
hearts of the audiences in that great |
neighbor of the United States.
FRANKLIN Smith will appear as the |
character com edian of the company
Mr.. Smith has been spending the past
with q musical company at
Pa. He has also been
with a musical stock company at ST. |
Johns, New Brunswick, and has
scored numerous successes in vaude-
Vile.
Vincent DiVito, who will have
charge Of the scenery, is from the
Lee Lash studios in New York. For
three years he has been with Malley
& Denison at Fall River Mass He !
is a futurist by nature and tempera-
ment and is considered one of the
finest scenic artists in the business
Director Perrin intends to give |
nothing but the best and he an
nounces that among his productions