Evening star., 1932-02-07

arrayed in white shirt-waists, long
sleeved, with natty dark knee-length
skirts and high black shoes, doing
military drill with guns, but looking for
all the world like a group Of modest
matrons Of a season or two ago.
The first half Of November discloses
that music, romance. comedy and farce
we're predominant, and includes James
T. Powers very popular in his day, In
The Messenger Boy" musical
comedy, in which appeared with him
Georgia Caine, May Robson, Jobyna
Rowland and Flora Zabelle, afterWard
Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock; also Charles
Dalton in The Helmet of Navarro"
adapted from Bertha Runkels novel;
Lulu Chaser in the comic opera, Dolly
Warden" with a cast including Richie
Ling, Van Rensselaer, Wheeler, Mark
Smith, Tom Daniels and EStelle Went
worth-nameS that surely are not all
forgotten. StanislauS STANCE wrote the
book of Dolly Warden" and Julian Ed
wards the music. 1t was the story OF
young ward and scheming guardian,
very popular in its time.
Are You a Mason?" a farce comedy
adapted from the German by Leo
Ditrichstein, one of the finely polished
actors of the American stage, with MIR.
Ditrichstein, supported by John A. Rice
and dear, jovial Thomas A. Wise, VINO
just the other day passed from mes
stage, Esther Tittell being the feminine
lead. 1t came in early November. TO
our local Columbia Theater, and Wlthln
day or so, at the Garrick, in New
York, Charles Frohman was presenting
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in "A Message From Mars" which had
been having a run of 500 performances
in London. 1t created almost as much
of stir on this side of the Atlantic.
1t was fantastic, 1t is true, but very pleas
ant and popular entertainment that
never carried an embarrassing moment
to its audience.
The last half of November was signal
lied by the appearance at the Knlcker-
booker Theater in New York of young
miss-her picture in the album shows
her about 20-by the name of Maude
Adams, in play called Quality
Street." by j. M. Barrie. The young
star was seen as a prim young school
teacher who had an unfailing recipe
for making "a perfect female" About
the same time. at the famous old Weber
g. Fields Music Hall in New York,
weber anu lclIlS, VIII dIC" udOAC4lSSo
from all parts of the world, were ex-
plotting "Hoity Toity," and "A Perver-
sion of A Message From Mars" with
an all-star cast including so names,
among them De Wolf Hopper, Fritz Will
liams, Sam Bernard, John T. Kelly (re-
member his tall black hat?). Lee Harri-
son and. star of stars the famous Lii
Ian Russell, "songbird of her day" of
supreme beauty, with voice of oper-
attic range and excellence that brooked
no rival. This almost loses Fay Temple
ton who was also in the stellar aggre-
CATION, glittering gem OF, the American
theater never to be forgotten.
At this time, at the Chestnut Street
Opera House in Philadelphia, Henry
Irving, one of England's greatest actors,
was thrilling capacity audiences with
his Louis XII" and, in New York,
Richard Mansfield was winning new
laurels with "Beaucaire," by Booth
Harrington and EVELYN Greenleaf Suth-
erland, with Lettice Fairfax as his lead
ing lady.
December opened with E. H. soth-
ern, under the management of Daniel
Frohman, splendidly advanced in his
art since his comedy days in Lord
Chumley," thrilling big audiences In the
Justin Huntly Mccarthy play "If ]
Were King" Cecilia LOTUS was the
Katherine de vaucelles and Sydney G.