Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-05
GIRLS OF MASK and WIG
HOLD DRESS REHEARSAL
University of Pennsylvania Club
Shows Form for "Trip Van
Wrinkle"
TOOK LIKE REAL MAID S
BY M'LISS

Dy M LlOO
smothered groans Of. "Oh. thought fig.
,res weren't hourglass this year !" and
ar won't meet by five inches" followed
NJ muttered commands Of, Hold still,
vou simp, let on and draw your breath
IN followed further by breathing labored
and agonizngly syncopated-there you
have the worst of "Mr. Rip Van winkle,'
,be Mask and Wigs twenty-ninth annual
production.
ont front had gathered the favored few
admitted to the dress rehearsal today at
The Forrest Theatre, who were being ticlled
out of their impatience at the delay in
sending up the curtain by the orchestras
rendition of the tuneful melodies that are
going to set everybody humming next Mon
day night
Rut then--the curtain did go up and
The girls" wore their frocks as though
tbev enioyed them, and their French heeed
slinpers as though they'd never danced in
ANYTHING else, and they have legs tina, ought
10 bring Mr.. Florenz Ziegfeld here post
haste, and altogether mere woman Won
ders how in She wide, wide world they
manage to do it, without years and years
Of practice or the service of Julian Eltinge
NOT WAR SHOW
y
happily an optimistic one without single
var TONE If the six Irene Castles in their
charming gray Patria costumes be excluded.
In brief it deals with the efforts of Mr..
Rip Van Wrinkle, an aged millionaire, to
obtain the secret of youth from Old Black
Toe. sort of negro Mary Baker Eddy,
Pollyanna and Pied Piper rolled into one,
who lives on the mountain top and draws
ali the children to him by the charm of
his banjo playing and happy tales.
Old Black Joe, played with an almost pro-
fessional skill by Raymond d. Stevens,
knows that "the hearts that happy never
crows old" and that "smilin's the most
contagious disease in the world" He can't
understand why all the city folks come
after his secret. when faint no secret
tall"
everybody predicts that Eddy Longstreth
n Matilda is going to be one of the big
hits | thought so toe, when I could take
nv eyes off the fascinating climbing
costumes worn by Messrs. Billy Leonard
and Joe Carpenter, the former wearing a
pale lavender almost knee length - ad:
miraby suited to climbing the beautiful
pink mountain that the futuristic scene
artists conceived to be proper. The latter
wears biscuit-colored confection in Eton
design and IL 'her" voice hadn't descended
the masculine scale when she registered
shock at being proposed to, one wouldn't
have known that "her' name was Billy
LIFTED SONGS
Some of the songs have been lifted from
the recent comic operas. One wonders why,
the original ones are so clever and tuneful
"T Only Asked to Marry YOU" by Wynant
johnson, and, Those Days of Chivalry'
and Money Will Open the Door," shoot
way ahead of many that are put over
by the professionals.
In the words of an old-timer who prop
ped in to see the rehearsal, this production
u "one Of the big ones'
The cast follows:
ead Black joe -, Raymond D. Stevens. ~
- to have the secret OF youth.
jill, a child. Douglas P. Kingston, '1a
Meenio. o............... William w. Leonard. '1f
Jack. ...............D Duncan Meg. Spencer, '2C
Tom Winfield T; Pougherty. .is
Katrina. ........ Joseph q. Carpenter, rs
Members of mountain climbing party. :
Ms1aId ap6en hGnsssgeth'
Brother and sister related to Mr.. Van Wrinkle
Mr.. Rippingt0n Van Wrinkle,
Robert F.. McNIurtrie. '1G
An aged millionaire.
Or. Oldschool. :. Sylvan II. Hirsch. '1s
His physician
Fart e. Firstpart. -. Sylvan II; Hirsch. '1s