Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-26
Maytime at Davis Theatrs Tonight.

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 The attraction at the Davis theatre tonight will be the wonderfully sue cessful, delightfully."- different" play with music, Maytime. of which local play lovers have already heard and read, a great deal because of the ex- traordinary success in New York city, where it had run of two years, Maytime also ran five months in Boston and twenty seven weeks in Chicago. Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shu- bert are the producers of Maytime. the most popular musical entertain- ment yet launched by this senterpris- ing firm. Rida Johnson Young wrote the book and lyrics and the musical setting is by S gmund Romberg. Ed ward P. Temple staged Maytime, un- der the, personal supervision of J. J. Shubert. Differing radically from the conventional musical comedy, May time has an original and appealing story. Its classification as, 8 play with music" is accurate, for the aux Hilary music with which the dramatic narrative is enhanced blends perfect ly with the action of the theme The , plot is developed in four aets or epi- soGes. all of which are laid in New Square Garden in 1S4o. Parental ops position parts pretty Ottillie Van Zandt and Richard Wayne, her fla ther's apprentice. The girl is mar i ried off to fortune hunting cad. Be- fore Ottillie and Richard are sepa-
 rated, however, they bury a jewel casket containing a pledge of their undying affections and over it they plant an apple tree. This tree grow ! mansion and it's influence over the l story for three succeeding genera | tions. The happiness which their shattered romance denied Ottillie and Richard comes finally to their grand l children. In the company of sixty five appearing in Maytime will be l found Gypsy Dale, James R. Mar | shall, Otis Sheridan, Frances Golden, Diane Palaeologus, Philip Heege, Freddy Le Due, Marie Petis. Lillian | Shaffner,s Marjorie Davis, Miriam Kurzman, Richard Morgan and oth- CTS. Telephone orders must be called for not later than ?. n.
 Breed Theatre.
 Anna Case, the world-famous American pr.ma donnas will be seen l in her first picture, The Hidden l Truth, at the Breed theatre today The picture was supervised under the personal direction or Julius StegeT and is distributed by Select Pictures
 Corporation. In this picture of the western mining camps and eastern
 society, Anna Case is called upon to 1 portray a wide range of character. As Helen Merrill, the heroine of the
 story, she is first introduced to US
 as a dancing girl in dance hall in
 a mining camp out west. She be- friends Myrtle Cadby. another danc- 1 ing girl, whose husband mistreats
 her. Myrtle becomes iH and on her | deathbed gives Helen a letter which
 she says is to an old friend of her | fathers in the east. She tells Helen l to go there. as she will be treated kindly. When Myrtle dies Helen comes east. She arrives at the home of. Charles Taylor. the man to whom | the letter is addressed. Love soon enters their lives and they become | engaged. Taylor discovers that Helen has been misrepresenting her. self and tells her he no longer loves her. She saves him from being swim l dleds in a mining deal and he finds that. no matter who she is, he. loves her for herself alone.
 House Peters will also be seen in You Never Know Your Luck. a thrilling picture founded on the story by Sir Gilbert Parker and Prizma and two-p part comedy entitled Looking For Trouble, will make up I the remainder of the bill.