Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

play in months. without a star or
featured player. the cast of this COM
edy contains four leading players,
three of whom have been stars in
their own right under other manage
ments. Even down to the smallest
part. without a single line to speak.
this Belasco cast, it is promised, can
not be surpassed.
"The Boomerang is described as an
American comedy, and takes its title
from the actions of young physician
who undertakes to cure affairs of the
heart. The cast is the same one that
has been identified with this comedy
ever since it was first produced in
New York, and includes: Arthur By
ron. Martha Hedman, Wallace Ed
dinger Ruth Shepley, Gilbert Doug
las. Mary Elizabeth Forbes. Kathryn
Keys, Richard Malchien, John n.
Wheeler and John Clements.
1t is a well recognized fact that
every one is delighted with the new
"Darktown ToIIics," m c | o i e s,
n .Iazz Bnnd which are now
and Orchestra so popular
I h-r o u ghdut
| This music is said to have originated
in Louisiana, where a colored boy on
"A sugar plantation was most pro-
iicient dancer. He entertained his
al
his dancing pranks and played his
own accompaniments on mouth
harp.
This young lads nickname was
Jazz" and the popular style of mel
fody he extracted from his mouth harp
| soon had everyone around the plan
tation swaying to its most fascinat-
| ing rythm. The syncopation name
was "JaZZ," after it's originator, and
| il has taken the country by storm.
| The famous "Darktown Follies,
! the largest colored show i'm the world
! will appear at the Orpheum, W. Wednes-
day, matinee and night: in broadway
Rastus." One of the features of the
entertainment is the colored Ginger
Snap Jazz orchestra, composed OF
| re gular down South" boys, who play
Jazz" in that, never-to o-be-forgotten
plantation style. Anyone who en-
! joys good singing and dancing and
/ splendid comedy cannot afford to
miss the "Folles." The seat sale
\ opens Monday.
"a Girl No Man Should Marry" a
dramatic attraction said to be of the
| appealing kind tc
ia Girl No Man all theattergoers
! pheum next week
Friday and Saturday and Saturday
matinee. The piece is by Amy Neil
and, whose work in the dramatic
I
amongst day writers for the stage
| and it is claimed that this is one oi
| the best things she has done. "A
Girl No Man Should Marry" is play
of interest to all thinking people. pre-
senting a theme that is a subject ol
everyday thought and Offering it in
it's immediate relationship to present
day conditions i'll most realistic
manner.
The locale is of one of the larger
| American cities and the events mar
rated have to do with the experience
of a girl who is blighted with the
stigma of heredity. Whether hereditS
or environment is the principal incen'
| tive for vice forms much of the theme
! of the play-one of the grave socia
problems of to-day.
A splendid cast of New York artists
! among whom are to be mentioned
! John Connery, Robert Craig. Feli1
Haney Nicholas Roche. Robert Nor
! ton, Jean Wardley, Amy Mortimer ant
Welda Knowlton, and costly scenic
! setting for each of the several acts
are features that add to the attrac
tiveness and true worth of the piece
Girls galore are to he found in NJ
Thor's sparkling musical comedy OF
"Islc OF Innocence" Isle of limo
at the Majestic Cence, the Ma
iestic's head
liner the last half of this week. Th'
production is elaborately staged ant
costumed and the act is presented b!
an aggregation of good singers
dancers and comedians. There is
plot, not much to be sure, but 1t cen
ters about two escaped convicts, wh'
land on an island on which the wo
men have never seen man. ThinSi
begin to happen thick and fast from
then on, and the act is said to be ;
sure cure for the blues. An added
I Ia iG T.
ance of the popular duo. Mack ant
Vincent, who never fail to offer ;
breezy little vaudeville Offering. Thei
act consists of comedy, songs ant
over in a lively manner. The re
lmainder of the bill is as follows: vii
son and Whitman, song and dance en-
tertainers; Knowles and White, in I
Coakley and Dunleavy. burnt-corl
comedians, presenting their laugh
able comedy entitled over There
Portraying one of those uniqu,
characters of the west, with whicl
his name is 81
HThe Tiger Man" c'ated, William
Hart has in hi
new Aircraft picture. "The Tige
Man" vehicle that is bound to b.
received with pleasure by his count
less admirers. The Tiger Man VIII
be shown at the Regent for thre,
days, beginning to-day. "The Tige
Man" is bandit of a type not Otter
seen in pictures. He meets his fat
in the person of a pretty young wo
man, the wife of minister of TIN
gospel. He forces her to leave he
husband for himself, but when sh
attempts suicide to escape the hor
ror of his touch. his slumbering soul
STEPPED in crime, awakens and he il
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