Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
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RAiSh Niass vaudeville,
oRPHEUM
tomorrow, night only-Comstock
and Elliott ouer the original cast
and production in "Oh, si5oy."
Wednesday, matinee and night, Oc-
tober 2-Eelwyn and Co. ofter their
latest success, The Naughty Wife"
Saturday, matinee and night. October
5-"Miss Blue Eyes" with Eva Fall
Thursday night October 3 - Free
Christian science Lecture.
COLONIAL
To-day and tomorrow - Mae Marsh
Wednesday and Thursday = Con-
stance Taimadse in Sauce for the
Friday and Saturday-Cecelia Davis
in "Cecelia of the Pink Roses"
REGENT
To-day tomorrow and Wednesday -
Cecil b. DeMille's It'll l Come
Back to You"
Thursday and Friday Charles Ray
in The Claws of the Hun"
VICTORIA
To-day, tomorrow and Thursday -
William FoX's Super-production,
Les Miserables," featuring William
Farnum.
Friday and Theda Bara in
Raid of the Zeppelins."
f. Ray. Confstock and William Ell
liott, producers of new style of
musical comedy successes,
"Oh, Boy" will present their fourth
New York Princess Thea
ter hit, "Oh, Boy" at the Orpheum to-
morrow. "Oh, Boy" is u different sort
of presentation. containing a real plot
which. of course, is of youth and love.
1t is not the style which America has
so long chosen to call musical comedy,
but real love story intertwined
with tuneful melodies Which tit the
situations, rather than detracting
from them. The songs really carry
the plot. Song cues are unknown in
oh Boy as they are unnecessary,
for the songs themselves form part
of the motion of the play.
Youth. with all its attendant charm
and daintiness, forms the keynote.
Girls. with all their sweetness and
beauty. are ever in the foreground of
the picture, Even the ensemble of
lovely girls are we'll equipped, and
the boys are there to carry the story.
Never are they called on the stage
simply to sing and dance, but are al
ways there with definite purpose,
which they carry out.
The record breaking two-year run
at the Princess Theater, New York.
as well as the enthusiastic reception
of "Oh, Boy rendered by theatergoers
| in cities from coast to coast, is suf-
ticient proof of its tremendous popu-
larity.
To all who remember the laugh
sensations Twin Beds" and Fair
and Warmer" and few,
"The indeed. are they, the an
Naughty nouncement that the
Wife" same producers will send
their latest laugh fesu-
val, THE Naughty Wife, to the Or
M for tr.. antNt sNft NNNat l.
nee and night performance only on
Wednesda will be hailed with pleas
ure by all theatergoers. And when
these same producers proclaim their
attraction as a fitting successor to
their epochal joy-fests that had such
long runs in New York, the conviction
grows that none need to so without
laughter while this new farce is
available.
"'The Naughty Wife" is that rarity
among its kind. farce with an idea.
1t concerns the manner in which a
husband meets with the situation
placed upon him by the possession of
a flighty, whimsical wife who is car
ried away with the attentions of an
other man. She consents to elope
with him, and upon the husband learn
ing of the prospect he takes the
usual stand of aiding in the elope-
ment even so far as to accompany the
couple to their haven to see that they
are comfortable.
This action brings contretempts that
cannot fail to be humorous, and, as
treated by the author, Fred Jackson,
and by the company playing 1t, so
plentiful are the incitments to laugh
ter that there is continuous sue
cession of laughs from beginning to
end. That there are situations most
unusual in the farce goes without
saying and these situations are what
made of the attraction so substantial
a success in New York.
Selwyn and Company are bringing
an excellent company here, among
whom are such well-known farceurs
as Reeva Greenwood, Belle Darcy,
Frederick sumner, CASTOR Bell, Henry
Keen and Emile Collins
George V. Hobart's latest is the
musical comedy. Miss Blue Eyes,"
which comes to the Orpheum
"Miss next Saturday, matinee and
Blue night, and is said to excel
Eyes" and outdo anything in play
writing he ever attempted
before. 1t is in three acts, and the
music is composed by Silvio Helm,
whose efforts were last heard in 'Flo-
Flo" The principal characters are
two lawyers. who have a lucrative
divorce business. The wife and tiance
are jealous of the correspondents. for
they believe that these women must
necessarily be beGuiling, seductive
creatures, who not even the cautious
LAWYERS COulu resist. Frequent NlSltS
to the Honeysuckle Inn, a roadhouse
inn. are made In search of evidence
for the correspondents. The wife and
tiance ordered dinner at the inn to
surprise the husband. What she sees
arouses her jealousy. One complica-
tion after another lands everyone in
jail. Wooing is of the more tran-
STORY, married love the constant
lasting, and to most of us 1t reaches
home. The cast Is headed by the
dainty Eva Fallon. who is surrounded
hv an excellent compAnY of cleXer