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11 Ncgrom SKit Bin run
i of Surprises
' Two of the iazlost darkles you over saw
wandered In nt Keith's last night and de
layed the wltolo show fully half an hour.
Ono was Hannah Ltvcrllp and the other
laid ho was Jim TrlKEor. They started an
argument which was begun twenty years
1 mj without teaching any conclusion. Then
It dawned upon those watching tho pro
cecdlngs that tho combatants wcro none
tther than Mclntlro and Heath.
"On Ouaril" Is tho spirited tltlo of this
. negroid controversy, and It's a safo net that
neither ono of these veteran darktownors
remember exactly when they played tho
first edition of tho skit.
Hannah I-Ivcrllp calls on Jim Trigger on
tier day off. She's got all her sassiest
clothes on and she makes a bid for tho
nesltatln' " heart of Jim. Ho keeps a dis
tance, for ho knows tho power of Hannah's
charms. Sho gives him tho lazy eyo as
lie reclines listlessly on a- rustic bench and
v Jim begins toihear tho first strains of tho
1 wcddltf match.
Add all tho smiles and frowns nnd du
bious drawls of theso two peers of negro
comedy and you may get a faint Idea of tho
general result. Laughs followed nearly
every line.
Tho light and shado of evcry-day llfo Is
reflected lit "Peacock Alley," a tabloid com
edy by Lewis Allen. Tha sccno Is laid In a
hotel. Familiar characters which vjijio bees
In a high-class hostelry aro Introduced con
sistently. Tho story also serves to'ompha
kIio the good sldo of tho so-called man of
the world. It shows that his heart Is often
bigger than that of tho Individual who leads
the perfect llfo In business and society.
Elwood P. Bostwlck, as a bibulous guest
with good Intentions, and Vivian Blackburn,
' as a widow looking forward to anther ro
mance, carried the honors of tho sketch.
They wero supported by a very capablo
east.
From tho standpoint of real applauso
Ed Morton, ono. of our own natlcs, who
subsequently deserted us for Wlldwood,
landed In first place. Ho sand more than
a half dozen songs. They not only
had a punch, but n. kick as well. In
ipeaklng of Kd, of course, wo must say bo
Is a former sergeant of police from the
Third and Rclanoey streets station. All the
"I-knew-hlm-whcn's" were op hand last
night. Tho remainder of tho show went
along merrily. Lillian Shaw "walloped
em" with her character songs In a "hard
ipot" following Mclntyro and Heath.
Cooper -tnd Hlcardo, In comedy and hongs,
did well In number threo spot before the
audience got propertly &eatcd.
Bcrnle and Baker (formerly Klnss and
Bernle) made a very good Impression, on
their first Alslt with violin and accordion
harmonies. They will no doubt come again.
Jack Wyalt and His Scotch Lads and
Lassies stirred 'cm up to a high pitch of
enthusiasm, and the Four Hurlos offeied one
of the most striking gymnastic acts teen
here this season.
T! ere were lots of striking Incidents In
the Patho N'ewsngraph and many new
i perils In "Patrla." J. (1. C.
"Temple of Music" Broadway
Many of tho very latest Ideas In tho way
of harmonies and musical combinations aro
shown in Wlllard's "Temple of Music," a
noel act, which heads the bhow at tho
Broadway. The originator of this muslc.il
nove'.ty has Invented many other entertain
ing devices along tho same line. "
Tho act tnado a good Impression and tho
selections offered gave a tinge of patriotism
to the perfoimancc.
D.tla and Walker, singers and dancers,
and Three 'Willis Brothers, acrobats, weio
among other acts which appealed to advan
tage. "Her Temptation," with Gladys
Erpckwell as the star, was the photoplay
featuie.
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"Tho Junior Follies of Nineteen Seven
teen" opened last night for n week at tho
Cross Koyj Theatre, making a decided lilt
with music, fun and pretty girls. The of
fering Is a tabloid musical comedy in threo
acts and seven scenes, featuring Mabel
Walzer, supported by a cast of twenty-five.
Other worth-while acts which will continue
the first half of tho week Included Abe
Marks and company. Adrian, D'Ller and
Termini. The acts substituted for them tho
tecond half of the week wih Include Lane,
Brown and Lano and George X, Brown
and company. The moving pictures Inter
spersed among tho acts last night wcro both
timely and amusing and tho hhow as a
whole was agreeable and well received by
the audience.
Minstrel Misses Globe
mat males have no corner or wit or
,V Rumor was amrilv demonstrated nt tba
1$ Globe Theatre by Josle Flynn nnd her
Minstrel Misses. Miss Flynn and her
black-faced young ladies kept up a rapid
tire blast of wtr-from tho beginning to the
end of tho act." There wasn't a slow mo
ment In tho whole bhow. The jokes were
.new nnd tho rcparteo was full of sparkle.
The songs were excellent.
Other good acts wcro "The Cobbler'u
Christmas": .Abe Attell: "Tho Fixer";
Frank La Dent ; Mudge. Morton and com
pany: Hob Cnrlln: "Dalntvlaiid" : Clin-
t i J"" an(J Hooney, nnd tho Four Jacobeys.
r "Flirtation" William Pcnn
"Flirtation." a tabloid musical comedy,
hearted the bill last .night at tho William
Penn Theatre. Attractive girls and excel
lent Ringing pleased tho crowd not a little.
Scarplo and Vnrvara, In a singing and piano
act, also mado a distinct hit with their
offering, while Jim and Annla Francis,
Cnmedy singers, were very whit ns good.
"Tho Witching Hour," n photoplay,
Which closed the bill. Is taken from tho
Way of tho Banio name In which John
Mason made such a success a few years
fgo. The story Is that of tho power of
elf-hypnosis and while wlerd could' hardly
called gruesome.
"Models Abroad" Nixon Grand
James B. Carson, In "Models Abroad," a
tabloid musical corticdy, topped tho bill nt
Nixon's Grand last night. Tho piece Is
Mlmful of good omedy, nnd the large
trowd present gave ample evidence that the
unior struck them. ' v
4 Ruby Itaymond and Charles O'Connor, In
' On the Boardwalk" ; Van Clevo and his
flohkey i'Pote": Lew Wilson, monologlft,
'nq some very comical pictures round out
Vblll and mako It among tho best shown
-t this theatre, during the present season.
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;.MYRKLE-HARDER PLAYERS
1 UUUD PLAY AT OKl'HEUM
rSinners" Presented Hero for tho First
J Time "A Pair of Sixes" Last
H iau oi rrecK
food moral li,mnn Ih unfolded In "Sln-
I," Which wan nresented bv the Myrkle-
trder Plautru nt vhM nmliAiim. It's tho
': ' a girl who leaves homo to succeed
1 Plw York, pays no attention to tempta-
and outwits those who Would endeavor
Mpoll her life.
.Vile various roles are oortrayed by a
capable cast, and the play was wen
The present company naa oeen or
1 for manv years and has appeared In
well-knpwn successes throughout the
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This is one of tho star lariat twirlcrs with the buffalo Hill Wild West
show and circus which came to this city .yesterday. The rope expert I
and other attractions are lodged nt Nineteenth street nnd Hunting
Park avenue. .
Frank Crulckshank. ofllclat dlvulgcr of
publicity for the HurTalo Hill ehow, turned
'a weary eyo toward the ring where flick
ering torches, sputtering forth yellow
light, showed a group of real, live cowboys
repulsing n villainous attack In tho United
States mall coach,
"That thing's flfty-sK -yeais six months
and three days old; tho horses wero
bi ought from tho wilds of Arabia; the man
driving the thing was brought up on the
plains and killed eighty-four redskins bo
foro pence was declared."
The torchci rcolvcd until they phono
straight Into tho o.o of Mister Crulck
shank. That eyo looked honest, though
weary. Still, tho bird with the reins didn't
look couingcnus enough to slay fourscore
nnd four Indians without somo trouble, and
his faco was ns smooth ns though ho'd been
using a grenselos cleansing cream.
Tho Indians tetlred In company nnd con
fusion. The mallcoach rattled back to tho
dark wings nnd l.oictte, tho highest priced
oop clown on sawdust, caused a roar when
ho tried to dlo through tho netting around
tho ling. He'd only dono the samo thing
twenty-two times befoie, but tho laugh
that gieeteri him was os powerful In vol
ume ns it was. cm any other attempt.
The earth quaked and tho paw-dint
spin ted from tho giound ns n flguro ap
proached ttvumgh the darkness It was
Jess Wlllaid himself 300 pounds In tho
flesh and be wants It understood that ho
didn't try to enlist ollk-Ially nt all.
"I Just went around to sco somo of the
boys." i.'Joth .less. "I askd them n few
word ui'out It They said that It wouldn't
do any good for me to try bccausci 1 was
"MISS TOOTSI" BACK
IN SPRINGTIME' GUISE
Wholesome Else Alder Gives
New Grace and Charm to
Forrest's Operetta
Miss Tootsl (which Is tn say Klse
Alder) has returned to us. this time In the
gulso of Itoslka Wenzel. otherwise "Miss
.Springtime " Away back in the dusty days
of .September, 191fi, when our minds wero
keen for fun nnd tinf retted with weekly
changes of bill, the Critics' Fnlon voted
"Miss .Springtime" quite a Jolly sort of
show. Wo hardly know how engaging It
was then, for we had to ; content with a
second-i ate pilma donna, who breathed
more tho tedium of a colorless personality
than the exuberance of the maiden April.
Miss Alder Is so much an lmpiovoment
on her predecessor that It f.eems shameful
to make tho cutting comparison. Miss
Alder's wares of personality and training
had been sampled by Philadelphia before:
In tho late P. I S. MacLcllan's "Around
the Map." There she had to mako num
beiless changes of costume, to display ver
satility Now sho is young and frankly,
fragrantly girlish from 8:15 to 11:30.- She
Is still wholesomo nnd dainty and childish.
She "picks up" the entertainment mnr
e:ously at tho Forrest.
Xot that "Miss Sprlngtlmo" needed the
mental cocktail after her season-long stay
In New York. Except for a few slovenli
nesses. In enunciation (always tho weak
point of a musical comedy), thin operettta,
with attractive tunes by the composer of
"Sari." and adroit lyrics by Mr. Wodebouse,
of "Have a Heait" fame, and a collabor
ator. Is always bright and filled with a
breeze of quiet Individuality, and only oc
casionally, too, too sentimentally sapon
aceous. Mr. MacFarlano still sings well and
exhibits no sense of character. Miss O'Ra
mey still enchains her admirers (lej'lon)
with what to others Is tiresome grandstand
playing. Mr. Hazzard htlll dpllghts us with
his agreeably acrid manner and his putjlng
tenor, of llchest tin. And the Uiban
t.ccnery Is a Joy to tho eyo that likes Its
radiant greens and oranges nnd purples
Interwoven Into a shlmmeilng and always
congruous whole.
"Ono man's peach Is another man's
poison," according to a character la the
play. Vet It Is not dllllcult to bellovo that
tho iitlro male population of the United
States sees peaches rather than poisons In
the agllo and nlcely-tralned chorus of girls.
The suggestion of fiult Is moro than apt.
Is not Miss Alder hereclf in her pink frock
tho embodiment of a btraw berry-Ice-cream,
fairy?
Sho sings well, and sho knows how to
pronounce tho English tongue, bettor, ono
might add, than somo of her American co
workers. Why Is it that performers, spry,
humorous, Intelligent, must still cling to
"Idcar" and tho baritone mumble that is
condoned on the grand opera stage? Jed
Prouty is about tho solo exception In
"Springtime." , D. D.
Watson Is Patriotic
Billy Watson's "I'. S. Beauties" are the
call to arms. In a burlesque way. in local
theatrical circles this week. Tho enter
tainment, which Is new from a number of
angles, Is replete with patriotic specialties,
and embraces u number of dances, songs
nnd specialties In which Uncle Sam Is tho
hero, by Implication, if not actual reference.
THE IDEA WAS GOOD,
BUT THAT WAS ALL
"The Playshop," U. of P. Pro
duction, Doesn't Altogether
Please at First Presentation
That's the trouule with these amateurs.
If ou lap them gently they raise that
plalntlo chorus that we'io nmachurcs, and
besides ns a pinch-hlttlng dramatic critic,
you'ro nothing hut Al Pcmnreo at tho bat
with tho bases loaded ; If you laud them,
they refui-e to hpe.ik to you on tho Campus
tho next day and turn out. In fact, to be
nothing but mlulnturo Frankenstclns that
try to outgiow their creator.
Such being the case, we'll proceed to say
that the first public presentation of "Tho
Playshop," the diminutive theatre started
by students at the University of Pcnsyl
vanla to see what their Ideas looked lll'o
behind the footlights and before u real audi
ence, was haid'y n success when the final
curtain dropped at the Academy of tho Flno
Arts last night.
Tho Idea was still there, and it Is a
might good one, but the construction of tho
plays and the production Itself were not ns
good as might have been expected. The
audience came cither from social connections
or from n. desire to seo something new In
stagecraft, and outbldo of tho first play on
tho bill (there were threo of tho little
sketches) they saw naught but tho usual
sad attempt at epigrams.
Tho first play. "Man," a molality play
by George F Kearney, combined cleverly
the use of clow id to Interrupt tho action
on the stago without taking away the fconso
of continuous action, while tho shndow
giaph was also used In making tho play
somewhat dlffeicnt.
But It was Just the same as getting a
group of children to play Strlndberg or
homethlng of tho sort. Epigrams grew lost
In tho shullle, and several clever points wcro
directed at tho wings Instead of the pollto
audience, who came, who saw and who
didn't understand what It was all about.
"Tho Soul Cure" was Indorsed by John
Laither Long, but Mr, Long, perhaps, never
lead "Suppres.scd Desires," from which np
parcntlx much of tho material on psycho
analysis is obtained by the author. Wo
would advise this gentleman to study
Frcude and not tho patent medicine ads,
for In tho recovery of tho heroine's mother
thero was a marked resemblance to tho
"(lents: I take my pen In hand to tell you
that I was In bed fir- Mx e.us beforo I
took your :ilunhlo pills"
"The Great Ood Bull" had a clotcr cli
max, as obvious as Chaplin, but just as en
joyable. Tho carlcaturo of prof est grs was
also good, that of Dean Qulnn being espe
cially gratifying apparently to students.
, Tho acting was greatly responsible for
tho failure of "The Playshop" to "get
across."
"Hello, New York!" Casino
"Hello, New York I" Is ono of tho very
best burlesques seen In this city In many
months. ll made a decided hit at tho Ca
sino last night for tho reason that it over
flows with btlght lines and Is up. to tho
minute In tho way of Ideas. ,
Low Kelly and Lon Hascall aro tho chlof
funmakers. and they never miss nn oppor
tunity, Tho show Is handsomely staged.
There aro seventeen scenes, Including tho
Interior of a submarine nnd many well
known views around New York.
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sides, I'm mnrrled, anyhow."
And Jess turned to Tom Jones, his man
(Tger. Ho couldn't bo bothered with talk
of enlistment when higher things wcro on
top: "Percentage oughta iiin threo
thousand too much money they sk,
tgi o 'cm two bits npleco
Tho loud cries of tho sellers hawking
tickets for tho concert (they inndo six
"last" trips through tho nudlenco Jammed
under tho canvnsback) brought back tho
weary eyo of Crulckshank,
"What's a circus without n side show?"
ho demanded belligerently. "It's tho same
as a ham sandwich without tho mustard or
a shad opening without tho shad, ain't It?
Lemme show ou tho cigarette llend nnd
our latest greatest novelty the wondcr-rful
Hawaiian village, where maidens nnd
youths from tho beach of Hlcklwnll disport
themselves In dance tn tho tunc of the
ukulele, far away from tho natlvo haunts."
There wero six of 'cm, all waiting lan
guorously for enough men and .women to
come In to warrant them starting to strum
Hawaiian songs such ns "Alabama Jubilee."
And they started ; and ended, And tho
cigarette llend proudly nnnounccd that be
was thlity-four years old, measured only
two and a half Indies nrouud his left upper
arm and weighed but sixty pounds. Ho
was clad In a pair of red trunks nnd strad
dled a board with n gasburner shooting a
blue flame near his well-nigh Invisible legs.
His teeth chattered, but ho kept to It
gamely. "When I was a boy eighty pills
n day shrunk to nothing look at mo now
there's a reason "
Tho crowd poured out. Tho balls fired
nt tho row of wooden figures grew wilder,
nmld exhorting shouts from dusky girls
with gobs of white fur and painfully new
whlto shoes. Tho crowd Jostled, pushed nnd
finally started to Jam tho cars homeward i
tho weary eyo of Mister Ciulcksbaiflt grew
blighter
".Spring?" quoth ho. "Summer's hero,"
Wheeler, the Inventor of tho vgreen eleva
tor," Janet .Ueccher and Ernest Cossart
continue In Icadlnc roles,
Klslo Ferguson Is tho stnr of Hulbert
Footner's "comcd-drnmn," "Shirley Kayc,"
wlilclnhns begun Its sccord nnd Inst week nt
the Urond, As n piece of woikmansh,lp, the
piny U not hnlf bad, but It. Is rather old
fashioned and artificial. In tho cast nro
Mrs. Jacques Martin nnd Leo Uakcr.
Hernnrd ilhaw's "Getting Mnrrled," nn
Indifferent play raised to heights of In
terest through sheer merit of nctlfig, will
depart from tho Adelphl next Saturday
night. In tho company giving tho piece aro
William Fnvcrsham, Hilda Spong, Henrietta
Crossmnn nnd Charles Cherry.
"So Long Letly" maintains her boister
ous way ut tho Lyric. This production of
the muslcnl version of "Thy Neighbor's
Wife," ! ns hnrd-'.iittlng as a sledgo ham
mer, unnrioiio ureenwooil, Walter Cat
lett. May Holey and Sidney Orant aro tho
chief comedians.
Another Shaw bill holds tho boards nt
tho Llttlo Theatre, where the Htago Society
Players nro occupied with "Cnndldn" nnd
"Ovcriulcd." Hnch comedy Is totally un
llko tho other. Tho first is a mnsteiplcce.
Tho latter H not.
"Peg O" My Heart" : still tho Wnlnut's
nttr.tctlon. C.irewc-Cnrvcl Is playing tho
IrMi maiden with tho candid tonguo nnd
wnrm heait this season. This Is tho second
of tho three weeks' run.
MftBsSiJsH
tvnmnn mngrftttj,fT fca. km l
a crook on' the belle (that tw ttm
money and also that It ta an
When ho Is arrested ah' la Inn
Is sent to prison on clrcumitantbU i
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Continuing Plays
"Fnlr nnd Warmer," now In its third
month nt the Carrlck, offered n novelty In
Its cast last night. Lotus Itobb took tho
place of Ildna Hlbbcrd ns young Mrs.
"THE HOUSE OF GLASS"
WINS HEARTY RECEPTION
"Tho Houso of fH'is"," Max Mnrcln's
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a hearty reception upon Its return nt tho
Knickerbocker Theatre last night. Huth
Itoblnson, as leading woman, nppeared in
the part created by Mary Ilynn, Tho role
opposlto Miss Itoblnson was llllcd by How
aid Hall.
Tho story deals with an Innocent young
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