Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09

Theatre. New York, will be most re-
freshing. After sitting three hours at
a a. pig. . elaborate eXtravaganza. no mat
fully, the spectator is apt to leave the
theater with an unaccountable feeling
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long revue is like a banquet. whereas
Very Good Eddie" is like a we'll
number for dinner unless one is dining
at home.
Anna Held will make her reappear-
ance in Harrisburg at the Orpheum on
Monday night, March IL.
Anna Held in her new three act
in Follow musical comedy entitled
Me" Follow Me-" Like royalty
too, Anna, it is said. sur
rounds herself with natures noble
women, and in her train will be seen
sembied in musical Comedy. The
Messrs. Shubert are directing Anna
Held's tour this season and that they
production goes without saying News
paper comments from Philadelphia.
Baltimore and Washington would indi-
limit in splendor. and the critics have
also had many kind words to say about
the big company which supports Miss
Held.
In these days when so many artists
are deserting the legitimate. stage for
Awhen ing to find an actor who
Girl Loves" takes his art seriously
and believes in it. So far
have faS 'ePisiio1s faiied to u lure % Fran ram Jones'
away from his first love, the spoken
drama. At the same time, no one can
ing. Mr.. Jones plays the comedy role
of Phil Osborne in When a Girl
Loves" which comes to the Orpheum,
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With its jingly music. fetching CHOIR
tic m ountain climbing
Las9" "e q" %6ieh vSsR ran G9S for six TX months
New York and has played remarkable
engagements in Chicago, Boston and
Philadelphia, comes to the Orpheum
Theater for one performance Friday
prediction" a comedy dramatic
Herbert. the weil-known
At the character actor, is one of the
Majestic bright attractions on the Ma
jestic bill the last half of
this week. A competent company sup
ports Mr.. Herbert in his newest vehicle
and they are said to give perform
Lovers OF good music, both vocal and
instrumental, will enjoy the musical
Offering that the Princeton Five are
Helen Davis. clever singing comedi-
enne, introducing some new song hits
Beatrice Mckenzie and Company. in
singing and whistling act, and Peggy
Bremen and brother, in an excellent
ladder balancing act.
william S. Hart will be seen at the
Colonial Theater to-day and tomorrow
Hart and picture. The Gun Fight
the Colonial Ince studios. "The Gun
Fighter" is the study of
and sacrifice, showing
Hart in the role of a badman, known
as "The Killer" a restless individual,
with something over twenty entries in
a gruesome little notebook. which rec
1t is his boast, however, that he has
never killed a man who did not deserve
the fate meted out to him. Finally he
that he is a cold-blooded murderer, and
a terrible conflict follows in the soul
of the man, with good finally trium-
sacrifice for the girl who has shown
him to himself in his true colors. Mar
gerry Wilson, who has appeared in a
seem a, in "Intoierance," e." in the the role % f Of
Hart. To-day only, Francis x. Bush
on the same program in the fifth epi-
sode of THE Great Secret called The
Trap"
Blanche Sweet will be seen at the
Regent to-day and tomorrow in her
latest success, The
Blanche Sweet Evil Eye" The
mt the Regent story of THE Evil
Eye" has to do with
the adventures of Katherine Torrance.
a young woman doctor, who is called
in to help suppress q. diphtheria out
break among the workers in Leonard
Sheldon's vineyard in the famous wine
growing districts of California. When
she arrives at the vineyard. Sheldon
wants her TO return Immediately to
the city. as he Prefers man doctor.
hut Rather convinces him that she
can handle the work. She visits the
novels. prescribes for the chill
dren and cleans up the interiors. In
order to look into the children's
throats. Katherine wears the familiar
doctors lamp on her forehead and this
the superstitious Mexicans regards as
"the evil eve" and throw the medicine
away. Sheldon falls i'll on the day he
IS to take the payroll to the bank and
Katherine takes it for him. Mexican
Joe, ringleader of the employees traps
the doctor in her cabin. and is prepared
to burn out "the evil eve" with a hot
poker when a number of things occur
which save the physician from losing
her sight. and eventually restore her
TO the arms of the man who was at
first her enemy. but. who now has
learned to love her.