''s&--?rw$iFr? tt--'r'l , 112 EVENING LEDGER-PHIlTADEEPHIft, SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, i . Uhe Stage s fcf5?0 ?" VWV JLdKi'rror ofthe cWe K 8 Wl Ti4SJl I V MM Vi i "fr Theatrical Baedeker OPE.V1N0. SIUtEST Kaw Vnrle lllnnn,1fnm nt-fbttiMirtn nf "Plnaore." I KEITH'S Houdini and varied bill. LrrrLB theatiib "Th silver not," ty John Galsworthy. WALNUT "The Wlnnln of Barbara -Worth," dramatisation of Harold Bell Wrlghfa popular novel. contiwino, ASEbPHt Today," by Umric Droarlhumt nd Abraham Schemer. A wife, excellently played by Ethel Valentine, eeeks luxury by ."the easiest way" and Is killed by her hue band. BJtOAtV "The Secret," by Henri Tlerneteln, adapted by David Delaeco. A etudy of fern Inlna Jealousy In which Oabrlelle Jannelot, the heroine, aeeka to' destroy people's happl neee. Frances Starr proves nereelf an actress of exceptional talenta In an unpleas ant role. GAnniCK "Potash and rerlmutter," drama tisation of the famous stories by Montague Glass. One of the most capitally amuafnt plays or years, human, appealing- to- an. juxjiiu- "jugn jinKs," musice musical comedv. with book br Otto llauerbach and muslo by Ru dolph JTrlml, starrliur RtellA Msvhew. roiucHinar evenings fun and sons. entertainment, full DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPECTACULAR j ra MODERN DRAMA Witnessed In N. Y, Hip podrome Production of ; "Pinafore" Reinhardt to Produce Shakespeare in America. The Now York Hlppoilromo has Added on adjective describing a phase of tho modern drama. Hlppodromatlc this de scribes many productions of recent years marked by mammoth scenic settings and ornate spectacular effects. Those who witnessed the various revivals of "Pina fore" during tho past decade could well estimate the development of tho stupen dous by tho production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta at the Hippodrome last spring. In this production, Instead of the conventional fake ship built from the stage, thero was a real ship, floating In a lake of real water. ' While the Forrest Theatre In this city Is not nearly so big as the New York playhouse, the real ship will nevertheless float on real water on the stage when "Pinafore1' opens hero next Monday. Tho enormous tank which Is to bo In stalled on the stage of the Forrest will necessitate the practical rebuilding of tho entire stage. Year by year theatrical productions. have become mora and more stupendous and elaborately realistic. Nevertheless, much remains to be dono artistically. No. producer has, perhaps, ever consistently equaled Belasco, nor have we a Rein hardt. One remembers, with marveling admiration, Lleblor'a production of Pierre Lotl's "Daughter of Heaven," which was at once both massive In Its setting, gorg geous and consummately artistic. Singu larly, It failed. On the other hand, "The Garden of Allah," massively staged, was correspondingly great a success. The presentation of "Pinafore" brings to mind the numerous stories which have been printed concerning the origin of that light opera classic. According to the late Francis Celller, for many years musi cal director at the Savoy Theatre, Lon don, where' most of the operas were first produced, the Idea evolved from the rhyme In "The Bab Ballads." the worthy Captain Iteece, Commanding of the Mantelpiece, who was so devoted to his crew that there was no conceivable luxury he did not provide for their comfort. For example: A feather bed had every man, warm slippers and hot-water can, Brown Windsor from the captain's store, A valet, too, to every four. "Gilbert began, then, by renaming the Mantelpiece II. M. S. Pinafore. William Lee. coxswain, was promoted to the rank of boatswain's mate and given the name of Bill Bobstay; the widowed laundress was transformed Into that 'plump and pleasing person' to be known henceforth and famed as Little Buttercup, tho Portsmouth bumboat woman. But the roost important action that Gilbert made to his dramatis personae was the night Hon. 81r Jobeph Porter, K. C. B., First Lord of the Admiralty. To this distin guished personage were bequeathed 'the sisters and cousins and aunts,' who. In the 'Bab Ballads,' belonged to Captain Recce." An amusing mistake was made at the Little Theatre when the troupe M French actors came there last week. They ar rived, with their trunks, JuBt as the Little Theatre Company was preparing to leave for an engagement In Wilmington. They unpacked their trunks as the local com pany were packing theirs. There was much hurry and excitement. In tho confusion' the stage manager happened to get hold of all the wigs belonging to the French actors. These were hurriedly put Into their trunks. When they arrived at Wil mington they found a plethora of pow dered wigs. Meanwhile, among the French actors at the Little Theatre, there was the moat voluble perturbation. They were to go on the stage. The wigs had van ished. French expletives cut the atr. They were not so explosive as "Jack Johnsons," of course, but they seemed ao when, the next day, the stag man ager of the Little Theatre returned and admitted his mistake. That was why the French artists appeared In the(r own hair, whitened with talcum powder. Fearing ihat, being written by an Eng lishman, there might be demonstrations .gainst their production. Max Reinhardt early in the autumn dropped Shakes re's pUys from the repertory of the Deutsche Theater, in Berlin. Thereupon a clamor arose, and the plays were re Dlxced In the schedule of performances, Jlax Jlelnhardt's productions of Shakes peare are noted for their consummate artistry. It Is also true that Germany baa mrpaMed both England and America In adequate presentations of these great dratsos, "With Shakespearo still playing la Bar 's1' Li1.-,1 - . , ,i xa' GRAND fc.d St. and llMIiomsry Ave. raaq m. hixom-nirdunoer. oa- Mr. TUB U1S VJni.iMKI.rmA EDITION jSISwv PBTTICOAT MINSTRELS A PftOUO OV VUN AMD MBLOPT MtiR Sister , Daly & Healy H SL WfeUlt? I AJlda. Pigg & Ptttfy - BiJBKEaMBUBKE . WP bitb oy yopngttwjfrfta saU3l INVH MT9XVm aewcoAJajtaijft. Ttis tiMU Was . at 8:15 iWS5i?s JKH Jfis pfl,.jWBfg-J5 jr Wlf T i :M. TnataAtS-JO iQaaUe saM "TM dnwtaat aiaWtLa; Mi3M,irW4XJsP T ""46 Kt a !., s 'tat glwf " EMPIRE waK P? ItisisiiTBi, w ' "lii - &&, iii I, ijM i m iiMMii naaBl Frances Starr "The Secret" Broad, j, J&jgmk'' '"f$mm$- "-'' ; '" 'Mr j!Kmm&& fW lln, Herr Reinhardt will como to this country to superintend the production of "Tho Midsummer Night's Dream," by the Stage Society of New York. Dr. Karl Vollmoeller, tho author of "The Miracle," which will not be produced hero this sea son, will havo charge of tho company engaged to give the play, and, according to announcements, rehearsals will begin In February. Whether we shall see nn Influx of Ger man nctors. which Is Improbable wo shall, at least, have Shakespeare effi ciently given by two of the greatest and most artistic producers In tho world. Houdini at Keith's Harry Houdini, known as "The Bluslve American," will head tho bill at Keith's next week, and will present for tho first flrriA h.ra lita Intnat Tnnf "Thn fhlntxiA I Water Torture Cell-." For many years Houdini appeared as "Tho King of Hand cuffs," but he has discarded this for a more sensational series of escape tricks. "Tho Chinese Water Torture Cell" con sists of escaping from a compartment fill ed with water, Into which Houdini has been suspended head downward, fastened by his ankles. Houdini has added several more new tricks to his act. Including the East Indian needle trick, which he per fected during his three years' tour of the world. During his engagement at Keith's Houdini is open to accept any rational challenge Issued to him. Others on the bill arc Bessie Wynn, with a repertoire of new song selections; Emmet Devoy, In his new playlet. "His Wife's Mother"; the Primrose Four, heavyweight singers; the Pedersen Brothers, acrobats; a rural comedy sketch, "Hiram," which Fred J. Ardath & Co. will play here for the ttrst time; Lew and Mollis Hunting, singers and dancers; and Luplta Ferea, a Pari sian oerlallst. Trentini in New Comedy Emma Trentini, the little prima donna, will appear In a new production, "The Peasant Girl," at the Lyric Theatre dur ing the holidays. Refusing all offers from American managers for this season, Tren tini sailed to Italy last summer, deter mined to present "Tho Firefly" In London this winter and then return to grand opera. Her plans, however, failed because of the war, and as a result the Shuberts signed her up with a flve-year contract. To supply Mile. Trentini with a suitable score the Shuberts engaged Rudolf Frlml, who wrote the muslo of "The Firefly." Clifton Crawford will sharo the star honors with Trentini, Other notable mem bers of the cast are John C, Thomas, Francis J, J3oyle, Mary Robson, Ethel de Fre Houston, Ernest Hare, Henry (Mack, Charles Tingle, Stanley Henry, Lucille Delberg, Edith Hallor and Karen Krlflch ner, Trentini begins her New York season shortly after the- Christmas holidays, so her Philadelphia engagement Is limited. BROADWAY Advanced Broad and Vaudeville Snyder Ave. 7B8T TIME AT POPOLAB PRIPE8 Gallagher & Carlin In a Nautical Traveaty "BBFOBB THB MABT.'r riHSTPHILADELPHIA APPBAUANCB Boat and Dance Review of 1914 COMPANY OP TBN 9-IRST PHILADELPHIA APPEARANCE) Oakland Sisters DAINTT BITS OF VAUPBVIU.B Charles and Adelaide 'Wilson The Umemif, the Maid and the Violin. Billy Rodeera ECCENTRIC MIMIQ Maboaey & Tretuont THB TRADING STAMP Q1BL THREE SHOWS OAiEi5:lfcrI " Mats. Alt Seat 10c. Bvrs. 10, 30, BOe. WJSieAX. BXTRAYA0AMZA CO WTESS OF TUBS AT WI BW-i Jr: TSiuiiT an Mft Ttaasts aw ACADSMT T MMS0 WiD. AyTSB90W, .WW W. AT 1:4 KREISLER DiRKCTtON C. A. KIXtB TH.tT. t CW TO II Om tW at Utivtf. Hi jCaattau Htwe ' Jf7.-K? Us, .: . ... i - ', . , ,-.? XUbtmts&am&k -.'-A S& , , . -.. , - ,ro, ,s iKKmmhf-M ' ;t 'Jx sit 18 - 'MSt '4-m$ ;' J :"' Ethel Valentine and Margaret Actors Must Be Realistic "An actor today cannot merely make believe he must be consummately real istic. So must tho stage settings. If a robber tinkers with a Bafe, we must have a real snfe. We must transplant life to the stage ns never before." Thus declares Edmund Breese, who plays the leading male rolo In "Today," at the Adelphi Theatre. "Somehow," continues Mr. Breese, "I seemed to sense this demand when I first went on the stage." continued Mr. Breese. "I was tho villain In a play called 'The End of tho World.' In one sceno I was to rush upon the stage hunted by a frenzied mob for a murder I had com i.iltted. I was supposed to run In Dreath InB hard and panting as It from a long chase. I thought the situation over, and concluded that my pants would bo more natural f augmented by physical exer cise. The stage door opened on a long alley. I decided to run up and down this alley until I had secured the natural out-of-breath pants. Unfortunately, we wore playing In an Indiana town where the town marshal reigned supreme. I had made four sprinting trips up and down the nllc;y, when I was nabbed by tho sovereign arm of the law, "'Xaw I've got yet' he chuckled. So you're the crittur as has been cutting up your didoes In these parts for the past week, air yeT "I tried-to explain, but he dragged me off to the station, where the man on guard averred that I might be telling the tr.ith, and suggested that the local Sher lock take me to the theatre and find out I knew It was my time to go on. and I was desperate; but tho police force, the two of them, took tbelr time and marched me between them. Tho curtain had been FORREST Lat Mat and Night niiPPN or MAUIFQ UVSM2AT. T - COAtatDV NalXT W. fKu.a jivrv A REAL SHIP OK A MIMIC LAKK OP JORL WATER of.iBiwoNpaa op tub t. mreomunm PRODUCTION Off PINAFO gyjyPjSxT WEEK I iPThe Walnut I Skv tii and walnut I flu NIGHTS. !5c. 60a,. TSe, $1.00, 1 ""trail TuM- Thurs. Ms.ts..2Js 80a 5 I OS ne5l Saturday Matinee, S9a, BOe, T6o f KlAjSttl Tbe nret local presentation EB2MH of Harold Rati Wricht's most f HP A SPLENDID CAST I ffJL STRIKING EPPKCTa I lS6bW. ROSIANCB ADVBNr ( ' JJaT TONIGHT ' " i T.TTTI.B lost Biarga ij Robinson "Today" Adelphi. held for 10 minutes while tho stage man ager looked for me everywhere. After more or less explanation I Anally got on tho stage. I was careful thereafter to secure my realism whero tho securing was eafer." Broadway Gallagher and Carlin will appear next week at the Broadway Theatre In a mu sical travesty, "Before the Mast." "The Song and Dance Review of 1911" will bo presented by tc company of ten persons. The rest of the bill will Include tho Oak land Bisters, "The Trading Stamp Girl," Mahoney & Tremont, in a skit; and Charles and Adelaide Wilson In an act, "The Messenger," Nixon's Grand Opera The bill for next week at Nixon's Grand Opera House will Include Joule Flynn's r"I n55ou ' Lyrle Adelphi Theatres, Alt HI MH JUatinee Caught With the Goods ! During the past week the Phila delphia play-loving nublio. ever alert for the best jtA in the drama, fU Adelphi and caught ua with the dramatic triumph of the age. By GEORGE BROADHUIIST and ABRAHAM SOTOMER LYRIC MATINEE BEGINNING The Musical Jollity That Hag Won the Whole Town! T. laTsBBBBBpssravMil 1 1 rjtm mm jjfc2Sfy5fvL KfsaW JPPK 2&?'F ' jr JlijBBBBBBBBBBBBB noith st i31BPKw CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S ATTRACTION EMMA TRENTINI ". - IN A MBW OPKHETTA "THE PEASANT GIRL" Witt CLIFTON nmtvpnnn I ithlb Q8PHM KOTT mxotr GRAND "V"' rr Knxgs ; Fare, Kathryn Stevens "The Winning of Barbara Worth" Walnut. Fcttlcoat Minstrels; Burke and Burke In a skit, "Bits of Foolishness"; the Morln Sisters, acrobatic dancers; Daly and Ilealy, comedians: Aiken, Figg and Dully, with a slnglnp specialty, and W. E. Whittle, n ventriloquist. Burton Holmes The two flnal Burton Holmes Trav elogues In the regular, season at the Academy of Music will be devoted to the nations now Involved In war. In the first of these two, to bo presented next Friday night and Saturday afternoon, Mr. Holmes will discuss "Germany and Aus tria," from Berlin to Tyrol. Mr, Holmes .was fortunate In tho possession of rich picture-records of all Germany and Aus tria, and is consequently admirably equipped to present a. striking and com prehensive Burvey of these two countries and of their peoples as they were before the outbreak ofthe hostilities. A week later he will close his Philadelphia sea son with a companion Travelogue on "The Allied Powers." Applr Uox twice or Phone Walnut 6786.a7.flS Today at 2:15; Tonight at 8:15 Beginning Monday, 2d Big Week This is the terrific climax in "To-day" which shows the most powerful dra matic situation ever seen on the Ameri can stage. "MTrn EDMUND BREGSg TODAY. 2:15: TONIOIIT at n.it" MONDAY, LAST WEEK BUT ONE "IRRESISTIBLE" "DELIGHTFUL'' "A ttaile-logUag. 'Z&2?' Inquirer. "Sot to pleaaa ttrjrbody." - Record. BgAT SALX Of&NS BXCBUBBK TK GARRICK 'nita . :ia Ptjiulw fcia Wa. eiaa. Seal M 14 ltJSflff .-, Kf((iJ I 1 m Carolyn Lilja "Potash and Perl mutter" Garrick. Ten-Minute Talks Seriousness In Comedy Miss Ruby Cutter Savage, grand opera singer, who plnya the rolo of Josephine In the New York Hlppodronie production of "Pinafore," nt tho Forrest Theatre, de clares that tho possession of a well-developed sense of humor Is sometimes a drawback instead of an asset In tho ren dition of Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles. "I know that It Is popularly believed,'' said Miss Savage, "that only those pos sessing a highly cultivated sense of hu mor can extract the full value out of Gil bert's Inimitable lyrics, and yet to me the possession of such a sense Is a serious handicap. Of course In the singing of tho lyrics nn absolute seriousness of demeanor Is essential. That Is tho difficulty for me. There are moments In the performance of TlnafoVo" when tho task of kcoplng a straight face and maintaining a serious mien is almost Impossible. The words I am singing appeal to- me so strongly to my seneo of the ridiculous that there are times when I positively suffer in the at tempt to stifle my mirth," CHESTNUT ST. Afternoons, 1 to 5 10c & ISc. 2nd SENSATIONAL MONTH of.be Most Gigantic Eym Produced, with William Factum and Kathljn Williams COMING "M? THE UllKni.xi r 4 vtt III I Mil i Mil iiif llJ ivl : I 1 lJ tmrmr-TTr --- n -, ri i ---T TT" I , th t HHOWH I1AII.Y. MAIM.. X 1 il S5o and SOe. MC.UTtf. 8 I. M.JJe to fj. BACK yHOH THKKKVK.tUa'oj' KpilOPEAN THIL'MVIIS HOUDINI wsasr TUJMKiiTlna TIIH CHINBSB WATER TOIITUUE CEtl." TH Crounlila .Effort ol ILe slaster Mind of aljaterr . t iMS?8'srPUR " miurj. AUuSnTaTco: lOOO-feoUBda of Harmwr Rural Comedy Sketch. "Hiram" "DOIF IVVMIT. Jldmlnlstalnr' lJUyh Tonics EMMET DEVOY &qO, : . In, t,h "PfoaJtaua lAuahlnr Playlal, "H13 ; WIFga MOTHER" . ' lEW tf MOtSlTOSTINa ' P LWITA FElieX ' Bonra. nances and Caaady. Dainty "arillan JurUllrts p HEAItST-SBLia N'KUK All lt.au' liAi-ir kl'brm it . ' ' VABDBVII-T.fc'a'DAINTIKST'luUJY " UJiSSIlS Ntvr Bejta Gotaaeus Qovul 8EAT8 AlWAIBAWKKKIN ADNCE-a,MraiblrtS9sirKfystoM Kic llio. VISITOBS TttTKHW OHH BHOVLtitVAiir'ririiWFi " i gq . " . ' ny BEAimypr, uoiwk in tub woblp PROTECT Uffl-wfiBS4K aHrg StpH tt Tee Ortaw emFti VICTORIA THEATRE silteTM mit-ssasmk MKTleOtfOWTAN OPJtRA KOU85 jarZoLiTN oiwA co.. New to TuaMay Vac , 1 fll Maaiin. 3svaU. J&Mwutwr, Mat I' .-I j. Wi "Little Miss Valentin" This Is tho story of a ellp of a girl. It Is always best to Identify your story so that your reader will know what tft expect Tou see, It might have been a story about something entirely different! but, trulj', It l about this slip of a girl, Just a year ago do you recall how It snowed and the wind howled that nlght bIio was a member of tho Chestnut Street Op'ry IIouso Stock Company. She played "there's n carriage without" roles, and once In n while she was permitted to dust the furniture just as the curtain wns going up. Now, Just to provo how foolish torn girls can bs without half trying, tlile little girl went to New York and saw r, play. Then she stayed In Now York and aw tho tamo play seven times more, Bv that time she decided that sho knew what she wanted, and that was the lead ins role. So sho sat herself down and w'roto to thnt effect to the manager. And n3 will happen In real llfo-but never In novels tho return post brought a. re iiuert that sho call. And thnt Is exactly how Ethel Valen tino advanced from the Chestnut Street Op'ry Touso to tho rolo of Mly Wngner In "Today," at tho Adelphi which 1b constdciablo progress for one year. "My ambition? To go on forward toward tho goal of better things to achieve to conquer," sho said. "I wont to do big things better than anybody else cvor did them. I want to bo some nnp. I realize that It will be a hard fight, but then I am used to battling for suc cess. ' I know that I may fall utterly and miserably, but I haven't the slightest In tention of permitting any such fear to Interfere 'with my best efforts. All day I say to myself, 'I am going to win: I must nnd shall win,' and I bclleva' that somo day I will." "And when you grow up, what do you Intend to be?" I asked sho seemed so tiny, curled up In tho big chair. "Grow up?" sho naked, her eyes wide) with astonishment. "Why, I'm married," nnd sho held up her hand to provo her contention- (Isn't It strange how all the really nlco girls are cither married or aro going to be?) "I was married In Paris, on July 3, nnd four weeks later, my husband was called to the front. Ho Is lying wounded " Little Miss Valentine's eyes filled with tears; sho gulped down a big lump In her throat. Then sho went on: "I can't bo with him I couldn't part with him ngaln It Is Boldsh, I know but he wants mo to work. Ho wants me to do my duty by myself, as he calls It, oven ns ho did his by his country. Oh, Isn't llfo cruel brutal!" Miss Valentine recovered her composure. Sho spoke of her ambition to become an emotional actress of the Duse type; sho discussed Professor James nnd dress; sho debated tho psychology of mind over matter nnd music. But ever and anon, her volco saddened, her eyes filled her thoughts (lew acioss tho seas to the field' hospital In France. Miss Valentino held a letter In her hand, ready for mailing. It bore at the bottom tho word 'Franco." A dreamy look camo Into lifer eyes forgotten was tho stage gone was tho luro of the foot lights, the acclaim of tho public; ths pralso of tho critics. Sho saw only the cot In tho hospital and HIM! Dramatization of Novel The dramatization of "The Winning of Barbara Worth," Harold Bell Wright's popular novel, will open at tho Walnut, for one week, next Monday evening. The dramatization of the novel is by Wil liam Lynch Itoberta and Mark B. Swan "The Winning of Barbara AVorth," as, a book was a "best seller," and Its sales are said to havo reached over the 2,000,000 mark. The story of "Tho AVInnlng of Barbara Worth" Is the story of tho winning of a woman by a young Eastern engineer who reclaims tho desert. All of tho scenes are laid In the West. OPERA HOUSE Uome ol World's Greatest Photo Plays Evenings, 7 to 11- 10c,15c,25c Positively the Best and Longest Picture Show in the World. 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