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•SATURDAY. NOVEMBER »\
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Week's Offerings at Local Playhouses
ROBERT MANTELL,
THEVUIANAi
PAUL GILMORE
Grand Has Three Attractive
Offerings for Atlanta
Playgoers.
AMUSEMENTS.
THE liRAXP-ftitnnlnr mstlneo nml
nlgbt. Thou.. Jeffrmoii In "Ill|i Van Win-
TIIB Ifrac—Saturday matinee and "Ixhf.
"The Cnuotv Chairman."
TIIB OltPHKI’M-Hntiinlay ntntlnee mid
night. fitgh-cln.s vaiidi-vlllc.
fiosTtK'K ARENA—Afternoon and even-
Inf, animal nhmr at Ponce l>el.eon.
So wall does Mr. Paul Gilmore milt
"The Wheel of Lore" ond no well doea
the pretty comedy ault the nice quall-
tlea of the talented young actor that
the combination la securing declalve
triumphs all along the route of the
company. Mr. Gilmore needs no Intro
duction to the theater patrons of Atlan
ta, as the brilliant young exponent uf
•the hlatronle art haa a wide circle of
admirers here, acquired through the
high and uniform excellence of hla ef
forts In a variety of good plays. In
which he has appeared locally as star
In the past several seasons. Mr. Gil
more ranks among the most capable
and consistent actors In the profession,
having ascended to his lofty position by
merit and not by luck or Influence.
As Jack Hartley In "The Wheel of
Love," the Georg* V. Hobart drama,
which will be performed at the drund
Monday and Tuesday next, Mr. Gil
more haa ample opportunity of reveal
ing the phases of his art and loses no
chance of winning his audience. "The
Wheel of Love" Is a breesy narrative
of autolst ond rancher. It brlatles with
bright phrases, genuine Hobart humor
(which Is of the very best brand) per
vading the entire action. There Is not
one dull moment from Initial certain to
llna|e.
Between acts Professor Matth lessen
And'his orchestra will render an at
tractive program of selections, which
will be In the spirit of the play. "The
Wheel of Love" promises to be one of
the best attractions «f the current sea
son. as the star nnd company are all
capable, and the play of enlivening In
terest. replete with entertaining fea
tures and hearty situations. In the
language of the musician, the entire
action IS "con amore,” which means
simply that It la-brisk and bright and
cheerful. Mr. Gilmore has received the
unstinted praise of the dramatic edi
tors wherever the drama haa been pre
sented, and AtlnntH patrons are bound
to enjoy every minute of the perform
ance. There will be a matinee Tues
day.
Ethel Barrymore Coming.
Ethel Barrymore Is coming to the
Grand Wednesday and Thursday even
ing, December 11 and If, In a new pluy
that la said to put her magnetic quali
ties keenly to the test. The play Is a
three-act comedy called “Her Sister,”
written In collaboration expressly for
her by Clyde Pitch and Cosmo Gordon
i ennnx, and the comedienne Is cred
ited with having triumphed brilliantly
In meeting the conditions that were
to confront her genlue by the pens of
such deftness and Intuition that bitch
and Lennqx Jointly wield.
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W. 8. HART, A8 ‘THE VIRGINIAN.
MANTELL AND MANSFIELD
KNEW MANY UPS AND DOWNS
TOGETHER IN THEIR CAREERS
The recent death of Richard Man*-
fleM makes . pertinent. < perhape, the
printed recollection of certain marked
parallels and certain equally striking
divergences as betw een hfs profession
al career nnd that of Robert Mantell.
an impending visitor. They had known
each other In their early days on the
l-sondon stage. With Beerbohm Tree,
they forined a group of three quite
familiar In the more popular "pubs" of
the theater district there. The summer
they met,, that of 1881, found Mansfield
seeking an engagement ns a pianist;
Tree seeking an Introduction to metro
politan managers; Msntell. most fortu
nate of the three, with a contract In
his pocket for an engagement of thirty-
one weeks beginning in August, but
the necessity of making 11 pounds
sterling tide 'him through as many
weeks of waiting for the engagement
to fake life.
Tree was the first to make n big
name for hlmsalf. When Charles Haw-
trey produced “The Private Secretary"
there. Tree, because of his uncommon
nn exhibition of formal obstinacy, In
curred the displeasure of the judge who
was sitting In a civil suit In which the
actor was implicated, was declared In
contempt of court, and. refusing to go
through the simple If apologetic pro
cess of purging himself, was compelled,
to hold his liberty, to remain out of
the common weo .th of New York. This
meant b&nlshnvMii from the center of
things theatrical, the loss of the pro
fessional and commercial prestige that
accrues from an annual engagement In
New York city, the breaking off of rela
tionships with the playwrights of the
first class, and the gradual loss of
vogue elsewhere, through inability to
offer new plays of good quality.
Mr. Mantell went for ten years Into
the theatrical wilderness, and there. In
hard and unending struggle, paid the
price of his attitude toward establish
ed law. Mr. Mansfield knew little save
success thereafter, and when, In 1898,
he produced “Cyrano de Bergerac.” he
established himself beyond question as
the leading actor of the American
stage.
It was not until three years ago that
Mr. Mantell found his way back to New
“fi* Bnd succeeded there Jn re-
.mqjii Him ‘ establishing himself. Curiously enough,
fn m! TmEnlm- " mV 11 was ln the t'laV on whleh Mr. Mnns-
Mnn.AM i ml ^"ihi .Jo,'-' tU!d, yearn before, Imd lavished a for-
Mndsfleld was the second of the trio, I * a ir<n» uiohqrrf lit 11 rivni
his hit was made In January of rlVnl
n* ChevrJal In “A Parisian Romance'
Mr. Mantell was the last of the trio to
ln a "!L P*ri,?aTnom/»r*e" "tars' of repertoire, they clashed only
once {rota that time on. although their |
tours took them Into the same thea
ters In the various cities visited. The
clash was In Philadelphia, In January
of 1906, when. In different play houses,
they both announced "King Richard
III" for the opening of the engagement
on the same night. They had not met
In years; but. when each saw the oth
er’s announcement, eacji sought to
withdraw. It was hardly a time for
small rivalry; for it seemed as If the
very gods of classic repertoire had
played them both a'trick. In a third
theater was Sarah Bernhardt; in a
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No man now living Is entitled to the
audacity to write a criticism of “Rip
Van Winkle.”
Thut there, 1s u theater-goer now llv
ing who 1ms not seen the ploy Is hard
to belleVe, and that anyone who saw
It failed to enjoy it is still harder to
believe. .
There are few of us who.think, >
down in the southwest corner of our
hearts, that much of anything Im
proves with age. And may lie Rip Van
Winkle does not. Anyway it has not
drfte*- irnted and never will, us long ns
chib ren and old men live and us tong
as actors know how to act.
Tnat Tom Jefferson does well in the
part his father made famous has been
said before. And , said truly. Ills
knowledge and love of the part could
hardly be equalled and his portrayal
of the historic role will always be en
joyable.
The performance Is slated for mati
nee and night Saturday. P. H. W.
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In reforoncp to Kfuw & Erlanger und
vaudeville, Wilbur M. Bates. thHr gen
eral representative, has this to say;
“In the cloud of rumors that have
been flying about the country during
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Plenty of Pretty Girls in
New Musical Com
edy.
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A large and well equipped coiiijsiny
will present Mortimer M. Tlielse’s New
York Musical Review success at the
Bijou next week. This Is the success
ful piece that ran for over three hun
dred performances at the Circle Thea
ter lost winter to great throngs
theatergoers that Jammed the theater
ts capacity. There Is a breexlness
about “Wine, Woman and Hong" that
Is ns novel us it Is Infectious. The
success which this company scored In
New York was richly deserved, for the
original features with which the per
formance abounds from end to end
have attracted all classes of pluygoeis.
The entire entertainment Is said to
possess a certain dash and vhn which
forced It Into instant and great popu
larity.
TP liq; Into Vaudeville," the open
ing review, in which all of the most
tnlked of actors and actresses are satir
ized, Is u gem in Itself. The “Broad
way Quartette” and tire "American
Pony Ballet,” together with the chorus
of beauties, go far toward tilling out a
complete and popular entertainment.
Among the well known members of the
company are: Louise .tuber, Meyer
Harris. Ham Hearn, -Mure Hogan, Ed
Lludemnn. Bert Kalmar, Alfred Varsha,
Marjorie Oonboy, Gertrude Fay, Alice
OUtaln and Ernest Htorm.
“make good” In a big way; but hi*
success speedily followed Mansfield's,
inasmuch zz the late Fupny Davenport
engaged him to play Ldris Ipunoff In
“Fedora" for a production made exact
ly elgth weeks after the premiere of
the Mansfield medium.
Because of the fact that both young
men were Englishmen—that is, a
least, as to stage training—and the ad
dltlonal fact that they made their
names well-nigh simultaneously, they
were often confused by the laity—a
confusion to which the similarity of
their Initials, “R. M.,“ as well us the
“Man” In the first part of the surname,
no doubt was contributory. For some
seasons afterward. It was quite usual to
hear Mantell spoken of as the young
man who had made the unexpected hit
in “A Parisian Romance,” or Mansfield
referred to ns the lucky chap to whom
Miss Davenport hud “handed” Loris.
They became stars In the same year,
•ivi—in September of 1886. The re
spective authors of the plays they used
were bosom friends—John W. KeJler.
who wrote "Tangled Lives” tor Mr.
Mantell, and the late Archibald Claver
ing Gunter, who wrote "Prince Karl"
for Mr. Mansfield. And there the par
allels ended.
Mr. Munich was successful not only
throughout his season In "Tangled
Lives/* but In the next three plays In
which he ventured. In successive years
—"Monbars” In 1887: “The Corsican
Brothers," in 1888; “The Face In the
Moonlight," In 1889. He and his tnana-
get*. Augustus Pltou. arc raid to have •
divided $21/0,1)00 in net profits between
theta if* a result of the four years'
venture. ,
Mr. Mansfield was not successful
with “Prince Karl." nor. In a monetary
sense.' with its .successor. “Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde/* utthough he kept both
plays In his repertoire until the end of
his brilliant career. His Immense Lon
don venture with “King Richard III”
set him hack nil of $110,000. It has
been said: and his tour In the play on
his return to the United States was
so for from profitable that, ln the
course of the season, he returned as a
non-star to the employment of the
manager who had given him his chance
us Chevrat. the late A. M. Palmer.
But the tide turned for Richard Mans
field and for Robert Mantell at the
same time. When. In the summer off
1890. Mr. Mansfield produced "Beau
Brutmuell" he “found” himself at
length; and, In the same year, a few
weeks afterward, Mr. Mantell. through
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“The Virginian/’ a dramatic version
of Owen Wlater's novel of thut name,
prepared by the novelist and the late
Klrke La Shells, will come to the
Grand Friday and Saturday next.
The play la the best of Its kind
which has been presented on the stage
for n quarter of a century. It over-
the past two months to the effect that (lows with genuine life, it thrills- the
lvlnw & Krlongfcr arc to rgUre-from 1 8enpies ot th * audience with the light
ml atmosphere of Wyoming, Its In-
“THE WHEEL OF LOVE.”
vaudeville, their icmarkublc success
in this direction has been overlooked
by some anil purposely disregarded by
other*, according to personal inclina
tion.
“But ttie fact remain* that these gen
tlemen have roally achieved a remark-
able success In tnl* field of amusement
enterprise and have set Up a new
record .us a standard of success, as
they have done In everything else they
have attempted In the past ten. years.
"Not one of the old schobl vaude
ville magnate* ever dreamed that a
performance could bo put together that
would dr.nv over 50,000 people a week.
>«*t this is what Klaw & Kr'.unger have
accomplished at the Auditorium in
Chicago. They have made u similar
record of great attendance at the For
rest Theater m Philadelphia, the Tre-
umnt In Boston and the New York The.
ater In New York.
“Their advent Into the vaudeville
field gave this form,of entertainment
a great Impetus and no such bills as
they have presented :tt their vaudeville
houses hud ever been seen before they
iH'oame vaudeville promoters. The
statement* that they have retired, or
are about to retire, from vaudeville
management because they have failed,
are just about tonne enough to be con-
Mdered comic paragraph* ln London
Punch.
“Klaw & Erlnnger have never filled
in anything" they have undertaken to
do, and they certainly can not be *ald
to have failed In vaudeville with the
record they have made In .the post six
month*. dtmnn*tmting Its vant possi
bilities as they had never been devel
oped by the old-line vaudeville mana
ger. And In all this both public and
l-erfortner have benefited.” * . - -
are • the following well-known play-,
CS’D'FPT A T B T TJ 7J P D Q : ere: w * ®* Hart an<1 Prank Campcau.
DX'HiUliUj U X n IS It O Mr. Hart will be the Virginian, und
_____ _____ | Judging from his past record he la sure
SIHRVED AT TS13 NEW 1 to make good. He will be remembered
ts-twr-n ATT twtit for bis excellent conception of Messala
KIMBALL PALM GAB* • *•- *‘B«n Iiur,” and his recent great suc-
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DEN SUNDAY EVEN- 1 »«*»*?• ! r- -- «>• or Tram
j pas. will add great Interest to the pre-
| Auction. Many of the original cast
have been retained.
ventlve variety Is wonderful. Its glam
Ing wit nnd rich humor art* of the sort
that tickle the mind and cling
delicious sweetness to the memory,
the characters ln «lie play without'ex
ception ure definite ami convincing.
“The Virginian" Is a character with a
rough exterior but Is good of heart;
he 1* coarse like his fellows, but there
ore many excellent traits which even
his surroundings could not eradicate.
The development of the man under the
soft Influence of pure affection,
manliness when actuated by u sense of
duty and his physical courage In scenes
of danger, combined with a touch of
romance makes him a strong winning
character und a true ton of the plains.
Molly Wood, a young school teacher
from New England, comes Into his life,
upsetting the hearta and accenting the
rough bearing of the cnwpuncher*. To
the Virginian she devotes herself us a
teacher, eager to smooth out the
creases In his grammar and willing to
respect his modest manliness. He tells
her that he will compel her to love
him; she ridicules the Idea, hut after
many a struggle with her conscience
she finally consents to marry him.
The villain. Tram pas, who la also In
love with Molly, has caused much trou
ble. He puts In an appearance at the
last moment, and attempts t«# shoot the
Virginian on his wedding day This
brings about a most exciting scene.
fourth, Miss Marlowe and E. H. Both
ein; In a fifth, Ben Greet nnd hl« play
ers of Shakespeare. And all were- to
"open” the same night. Mr. Mansfield
announced another play, whereupon
Mr. Mantell, to avoid a clash with Mr.
Kothern’s "Hamlet." . went back to
"King Richard III." Mr. Bothern,
guided by the pussfng announcement of
the Mantell "Hamlet,” "put Up” In
stead “The Merchant of Venice,” with
Miss Marlowe as Portia, whereupon
Greet promptly announced that he. too.
would make "Tho Merchant” his first
piny.
Mr.. Mantell was In Sydney, the
RODtHT MANTELL. MS Nt LUU»\3 IUUMY.
farthermost point of Nova Scotia, when]
he received word of Mr. Mansfield's]
death in the form of a telegraphed re
quest from a news association for nn
expression on the occasion. He re
plied as follows:
“Our singe has lost Its greatest In
tellectual force since Lawrence Bar
rett’s death, nnd a producer fit to rank
with Irving himself. The man who had
the courage to be the first to act Ibsen
and Shaw In this country, as well as
Rostand, and who made unselfish re
vivals of Moliere, Schiller and Shake
speare, lived in an era that will ever
be known ns his own. Richard Mans
field was many years ahead of his time
as he lived; his death occurs many,
many years before he can be spared
by all who love the theater for what Is
best In It."
II FEAST OF
American Vesta Tilly To
Give Her Imita
tions.
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BROADWAY QUARTET IN “WINE. WOMAN AND SONG."
Ornre Vz*oiinrd. “the Benu Brummel
vaudeville/* Is booked for the Orpbeum nest
week, ond will give the Imltatloim an*I
fancy costume change stunts which hart
onrned for her tile title of the “Amerfraa
Vesta Tilly," from the ’ famous London*
music lmll singer of that name. Miss Leon,
nrd Is making her first ippenmnee In Hie
South, itml the tndnnger* sny she I* Umml
to prove n hit.
The Van Brothers, '“the ftutnlesf of nil
comedy musical tcums," Is lmokwl an a
hcud-llne attraction, nnd 11 speclnl fentnrs
Is the European importation, the Znrvukr
troupe of Itumdun dancers nml singers, with
their enrnlvnl costumes nnd songs. Other*
In the hill tire Hnfford nml Mantell, the
hmnornus parody singers.
songs nml local hits; Ben
id Iiiiliitltnn.
Ornhemu; the Misses Clnrk nnd Bnwllpyl
dainty pair of wingers nnd dancers; t'hsrlM
Kenun. In ids “street fnker" net. sal dto b«
n novnl nnd entertaining one.
The nndlenres nre Inerensing weekly at
the Orpheuin nnd the “Htnndlng lloom
Only” sign hung out on Thanksgiving I»«y
prohntdy will he used again nnd nttnln nest
week, for the hill Is one Hint appeals es
pecially to vaudeville lovers, being nil erm-
*' and music. The Orphenm’s plan of uU
. wli»n
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I.overs of the more serious form of
the drutna will hall with delight the
coming appearance of Robert MAntell
Wednesday nnd Thursday at the Grand
In three of his greatest successes,
Wednesday night Mr. Mantell will be
seen In "King Lear;” Thursday mati
nee, “The Merchant of Venice," and on
Thursday night. In "Hamlet." Thl* I*
■urely a repertoire which should meet
with the favor of all theatergoers, as
It give* the gifted actor a. rare cbance
to display hla splendid hlstronlc abil
ity nnd also to portray a wide range of
character. ,
Mr. Robert Mantell was recently In
terviewed at his summer home, Atlan
tic Highlands, N. J., In the matter of
the press agent as a factor in the ca
reer and the success of an actor. The
Interview was based largely on the fact
that tthe press-agents of the country
have banded themselves in a powerful
which end* In the killing of Trampo. 5K* .“"T 1 2£f„. ...!!
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Among th.; m.mb*r» of.th. com^nv ]
INGS FROM 6 TO 3.
that It I* destined to become the most
notable fraternity of the kind in the
w orld.
Mr. Mantel) was asked If he regarded
the press agent as worthy of the kind
of Importance. In business or society,
thus suddenly formulated. Ills replv
was:
•The pres* agent I* at once a bless-
nrconqinnlcd by elder per* < with paM
tickets, will be continued mud t'lirlstnw*.
and tho little folks urc taking advantage
the offer. The Friday night amateur stunts,
put on after the regular performasce. urn
making a hit nnd the Friday uisht nn*
dlcuces nre appreciably larger than on npll*
nary occasion*. That vaudeville In growing
more nml more populnr I* shown l»y a vtolt
to the Orpheuin. where the audience* nw
growing bigger every day. “There * n re**
son.”
That tho Inauguration of an ama
teur night every week has proven »
popular move on the part <>f the man
agement of the Orpheum was shown
conclusively by the large attendance
Friday night, the splendid amateur art*
and the enthusiasm with which they
were received.
The quality of the nets was really
astonishing. There were seven' aw*-
teur acts In addition to tho regular bin
of eight feature acts. First prize wis
won by Miss M. June MaeKnchnw.
daughter of Reginald MacEachran, th#
well-known song writer. Miss Mac*
Eachron rendered a beautiful vocal
solo. ' Her voice has quality, ranf*.
modulation and natural beauty ana
sweetness, and the decision of ,r j a
judges was the decision of the audi
ence. Tim Carter won second pnte
with nomfc amusing barnyard imltt-
would call 'possible/ Borne of them | tlons. -Dave Robert, with the ald^ofa
have given me more trouble than an
entire company of actors; others have
been so self-effacing and modest that,
so far as they were concerned, no com
munity In the United States or Canada
need ever to have know n that I was on
earth.
“I had one press agent who was a
veritable prlma donna in his exactions,
demands and caprices. He was a bril
liant chap, who wrote matter for the
papers that they seemed very- glad to
get. He never. In the two years he
represented me, offered a newspaper
or magazine a faked or untruthful sto
ry. He did not believe that the public
wus Interested in me save as an artist,
and, In consequence, he did not try to
fill columns with my private affair*.
He wrote good English, was a prac
ticed und able newspaper man, and had
a personality that waa lrre*lstible when
But tUnJCd °” ,llS fUl1 b * ttery ot charm.
“That man had spells when he be
lieved that he was the star and that
my duty and mission on earth were to
take care of him and his Interests. I
recall once reaching a city of good size.
In the Western states, to find a note
from him. accompanied by enough
typewritten matter to nil two columns
of solid nonpareil. The note was quite
casual and by-the-way, and was to the
effect that I should uersonally send for
a newspaper man of the town and re
quest him to make Use of the typewrit
ten matter. When I read it I found
that ft ft a* a form of interview with
couple of nimble feet, secured third*
The other amateur performers /}«•
the Gross brothers. Professor R*™*
Professor Blair and the shadowgraph*
“The press agent I* ut once a bless- me. In which I was made to snv thiV J
Ing and a nuKince. I ve done business jowed niv place on the mv rJi
with allI kln.lx of Vm. nnd have found I perlty nnd'a large tart ofm'v Talent to
about-10 per vent what Anthony Hop, the .ervlcea uf my p.els »<eni!"
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Route l. Fort Edward. *V i.. ■">*:
“Dr. Klm’e New Dlecovery Is
earthly friend. It cured me "f osmroj
six yearn ago. It ha, also P* rfo ™J*
a wonderful cure of Incipient l '" ni “™ 1 J-
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ended the terrible cough, and m** rL
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druggists. Me and »1.00. Trial bottls
free.
China and cut glass that acre u*rl
on Washington’s table at .
non have been loaned to the Nat
Museum at Washington by Ml** * . n
nle Randolph Hellt Tor exhibition «
the Hall of History In conn«;
the other Lee-WaBhlngton renc-
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SUNDAY EVENING
FROM 6 TO 8 P. M.