Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-20
E AMUSEl lSsEI MENTSi ssI
MAJESTIC
High Class Vaudeville.

MAJESTIC
High Glass Vaudeville.
ORPHEUM
To-day and tomorrow, with
daily matinee = The Unmarried
Mother"
Tuesday, evening only September "a
- Selwyn and Company offer Fair
and Warmer"
Wednesday and Thursday, and Thurs
day matinee, September 2 and 20 -
Eyes of Youth"
Friday. night only. September 27 -
seventeen"
COLONIAL
IoS3day Today n Norma Talmadge in Her
To,morrow only-"The House of
Monday and Tuesday - Mabel Nor
mand in "Peck's Bad Girl"
To-day and REGENT So
Faces" and Ladies First" comedy.
Monday and Tuesday - Jack Living
W. stone in The Price of Applause"
Wednesday and Thursday = Dorothy
Dalton in Green Eyes"
FRIDAY and Saturday - Vivian Mar
tin in "Viviette"
To- day - Jewel Carmen in Lawless
To,morroww,-William S. Hart in The
Disciple"
Monday and Tuesday THE Moral
Suicide"
Avery Hopwood, master of farce.
ran his own record up with Fair and
Warmer" the bubbling,
Fair and hilarious farce which
warmer" Selwyn and Company will
present at the Orpheum
on Tuesday evening Mr.. Hopwoods
and "Nobody's Widow" two great
successes of former seasons, found in
ms latest work the same sparkle of
line and cleverness of characteriza-
ton which had graced the others, with
an added righteousness of situations
The scene built around the ineXpert
making OF cocktail, puts its audi
ences practically into Mysteries.
thousands of out of town visitors, and
its subsequent record of unparalleled
success wherever it has been seen,
spread the fame of Fair and
created vigorous demand for it.
Selwyn and Company promise to send
it here with an excellent company of
farceurs.
Eyes OF Youth" the notable New
York success. will be presented at the
~E,.,of %GdnsHG,x 0Tphegm Thea5er Eantember on on
YOUTH for an engagement of
two nights. and Thursday
matinee. direct from years run at
the Maxine Elliott ,Theater, New
H. Woods and the Messrs. Shubert
The play needs little introduction to
theatergoers. 1t has achieved a ma
tional distinction as one of the con-
spicuous metropolitan successes of
last season, and as one of the most
novel and original plays of recent
years. 1t was written by Max MARGIN
and Charles Guernon, and is describ-
cd as a dramatic fantasy in three
zation of a girls glimpse into her
own future-a future that is reveal
ed to her through an understanding
OF her own heart. The play contains
four of these mystical dream episodes
Each act begins in the home of Gina
Ashling," the heroine of the play;
then occurs the transition to the fu-
ture episode revealed in crystal;
then there is return to her own
home at the end of each episode. The
girl is on the brink of choosing a
career; several alternatives are pre-
sented to her. In her dilemma a
Hindu Yogi appears. learns the situa-
ton, and reveals to her the conse-
quences of each choice. These revela-
tions are visualiZed, and so the girl is
enabled ultimately to make happy
choice. These episodes are not only
picturesque and interesting in them
selves, but they are part of pro-
gressive, dramatic narrative, with a
tremendous spiritual significance. A
very effective production has been
provided. and splendid company,
which includes twenty-five metropoli-
tan players. headed by Mabel Brow
nell A special matinee will be given
on Thursday.
To write play of boys and girls
of II as they see themselves is a
thing almost new to our
play has been written
from Billy Baxter Stories and
staged with mastery sympathy and
delicacy by Stuart Walker. or it could
not have played eight solid months
this year in New York to capacity
Seventeen" is really a play. of
adolescence, in which ali the principal
characters are boys and girls at or
about last years High school,. who
speak for themselves and tell the
stories which are their own, not those
which their parents make up about
them. One would carelessly call the
play a "tragic-comedy." 1t is not 1t
is a tragedy which looks funny to the
outsider For the growing youth is
funny. And the unhappier he is. the
funnier he is. There is no denying 1t.
The bitterest of his experiences, let
us say in his attempts to learn to
dance under the spell of the little pig
tailed girl who lives around the cor
ner. provide the richest entertain
ment for his, elders. Seventeen" goes