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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1910.
THEATERS
SEVERAL GOOD PLAYS
(ED FORT!
Mrs. Fiske, Wilton Lackaye,
Maid of Mystery and Other
Attractions.
Whll, the we«k ahead doea not offer
auch an unbroken row of really "big” !
offeringa aa that cloalng, the Atlanta j
theaters hare a program well worth at-1
tention. Foremost perhaps In Impor
tance ta the coming of Mrs. Flake In '
her ftunons "Becky Sharpe." tho WII- j
ton Laokaye'a appearance In "The Bat
tle" ahoula be a close rival, and happi
ly their dates do not conflict. "Girls,"
a Clyde Fitch comedy, promises amuse
ment at the Grand In the latter half of
the week, and the famous "Servant In
the House” opens the Orpheum's bill.
At the Ftomyth a novelty Is promised
In "The Maid of Mystery," with
promising supporting h 111.
offert a play which
of several aeasone and which Is offered
for the flrst time at popular prices In
"The Man of the Hour." In the weeks
to follow the coming of Bessie Abott In
The Lyrto;
' ever-popular “Ben-Hur” for a
week are something to anticipate wltll
Interest.
LACKAYE IN "THE BATTLE"
COMING TO THE GRAND
The Grand Opera house will be the
scene of the presentation by Wilton
Lackaye of "The Battle," one of the
substantial successes of last season.
The story concerns principally the
adventures of John J. Hagglcton, the
richest man In New York, In hts quest
for his long lost son, during which he
Is brought to "Lung Block,” a tenement
district notorious for Its Insanitary
condition, and of which he Is landlord.
Finding here a chance to recover the
osslnn and affections of his son.
MRS. FI8KE.
Famous actress who brings her
“Becky Sharp" to the Orpheum
next week.
possession and affections of his son,
Hagglutnn Is persuaded by a group of
reformers to remain Incognito and pen
niless in this district, their purpose
being to make him realise the crying
need for reform and Improvement by
making him suffer thru actual contact
with conditions as they exist
Haggleton, however, proves a worthy
foe man to conditions as he finds them
and successfully demonstrates that no
small part of the blame for unsatls
factory conditions rests with the ten
anta themselves.
Mr. Lackaye, always forceful and
virile in bis work, la said to have
reached the dominant note of his career
In the portrayal of the character, Hag
gleton.
"GIRLS”—LOT8 OF THEM
Could there be a more delightful and
Inspiring title for a play than that of
"Girls T' The word Is no sooner men
tioned than a mental picture Is made
of youth, beauty, vivacity and clever
ness: and that Is exactly what Clyde
Fitch’s,comedy, "Girls," Is composed of.
The comedy was flrst produced In
S t
ubert In
Ne - ■ “
n>w York. The dramatic authorities
and critics at once acclaimed It the
comedy hit of the season. So enthu
these statements that "Girls"
at the Grand December 1, 1 and
l e (.resented by a metropolitan compa
ny and a production complete. Seats go
an sale Monday.
“THE MAID OF MYSTERY"
IS F0R8YTH'8 FEATURE
“The Maid of Mystery," the New
York sensation, a drawing card
SWI a C iuuuuss, aa us saw su( iniu sat
Hammerstetn’s Victoria for six weeks
and a wonderful magnet In some other
principal vaudeville theaters, will be
the card of Interest at the busy Forsyth
next week.
"The Maid of Mystery" Is a novelty
act. Hho Is a classic Grecian dancer,
executing a dance that Is refined and
Interesting and whoever the young
She goes to
and from the theater In an open car
riage, escorted by two mounted Ara
bian outriders, and wherever she ap
pears these two powerful guards are
always with her. The maid enters the
theater by the main door, goes on the
stage, does her dance and then leaves
the theater by the main door again.
She never goes on the stage except
for her dance.
The Five Armanis, a quintet of vo
calists, will present their "Night In
popular petit comedlennoe In vaude-
I'Opular petit commediennes In vaude
ville, will be another of the star num
bers, and O. A. Duncan, the ventrilo
quist, will be another card.
A great novelty will be the contribu
tion of the famous Ge Jays, and their
manikins. This set Is a real novelty
the ladles and children.
Livingstons, comedy acrobats, and
Clark and Bergman, a splendid comedy
duo, make up the offering.
There will be the usual dally bar
gain matinees and night performances.
MRS. FISKE WILL PRE8ENT
"BECKY SHARP” AT ORPHEUM
Mrs. Fiske, America's foremost dra
matlc artist, will be seen in the great
est role of her career, "Becky Sharp,'
which she Is now presenting for the
flrst time In the South, at the Orpheum
on Friday and Saturday next, Decem
ber 1 and 3, with a matinee on Sat
urday.
"Becky Sharp," In which Mrs. Flske's
realisation of the "Immortal Becky"
stands as one of the most signal con
trlbutlons that the American satge has
known, Is a dramatisation of Thack
Bray's famous novel, "Vanity Fair,”
made by Langdon Mitchell.
differentiated characters and Its mu
pliclty of Incidents, "Vanity Fair” has
always been held to be replete with
dramatic material. It has been said
that there are a dosen plays In the
novel. Many have been made, but none
other than this, by Langdon Mitchell,
ever scored any particular success. No
skillful dramatist should ever attempt
to make a play of the book without
making "Becky" the central figure,
since the Interest centers nnd radiates
with her as the principal object of the
story, Mr. Mitchell In making his
play put every important Incident In
which Becky predominates Into his
work. He displayed remarkable appre
ciation of the dramatic values of the
novel, and an equally pronounced abil
ity In assembling them In dramatic
sequence. Elxperts have continued to
marvel at the symmetry of Mr. Mitch
ell's work, ths march of events and the
completeness of the story as It Is un
folded. In the play as It stands, the
reader of "Vanity Fair" will And that
peculiar satisfaction that flows front
the picturing of a favorite novel on
the stage—the living embodiment of Its
characters and the actuality of Its
scenes—while one unacquainted with
Thackeray's story! If there be such an
one, will enjoy the play aa a perfect
narrative In Itself.
"THE SERVANT IN THE H0U8E"
AT ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK
One of the chief reasons why Charier
Rann Kennedy's famous play, 'Tho
Servant In the House," has proved such
a popular as well as artistic success. Is
that the author has not hesitated to
employ comedy In liberal quantities In
the development of his beautiful story.
Commenting on the fact. Harpers
Weekly says: "The marvel, too. Is that
Mr. Kennedy's play Is not solemn at
all. except In aftermath. Laughter
leaps In It. and the mind kindles to Its
delight. The author aeema to have
, olned hands .with mirth, satire and
rony. and to have caught the flying
eredlth says Is abiding overhead and
looking down upon us with a contem
plation humanely malign. It Is easy to
picture the author of ‘The Servant In
the House' looking upon an audience at
his own play—seeing It smile or week
tend In vanity to understand, In his
own vision meanwhile, what Meredith
calls the ‘sunny malice of a faun.'
'"The (Servant In the House' as
sumes the responsibility for the asser
tion that If you only wish very, very
hard—and help to spin the fairy tale—
everything comes true."
"Tile Servant In the House" comes
to the Orpheum on Wednesday and
Thursday next, for three performances,
the matinee being given on Thursday.
A SCENE FROM “THE MIDNIGHT SONS.”
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SHUBERT THEATRICAL CO.,LESSEES.
(p^J^PLAYHdusF
EUGENE L.PERRY RESIDENT MGR.
Three Nights* Beginning Monday
MATINEE TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 28-29-30
WILTON LACKAYE
Acclaimed by East and West.
Liebler & Co., Managers.
| In Cleveland Mof-
I fett’s Drama of
I l ove ami Dollars |
l a
rHE BATTLE |
The Sensation of 1
the N. York and 1
| Chicago Seasons |
Thursday,
Friday
and
Saturday.
Matinee
Saturday,
DEC.
1-2-3
GIRLS
Clyde Fitch’s
Satirical
Comedy,
Prices: Night, 25c to $1 (a few at
$1.50). Matinee, 25c to $1
at Daly’s
Theater, N.Y.
Friday and Saturday Evenings, Saturday Matinee, DEC. 9 and IQ
Grand Opera in Italian
The Management Announces ths Appearance of ths Distinguished Young Prims Donna, Late of the Met
ropolitan Opera, New York,
Miss Bessie Abott
AND THE
Bessie Abott Grand Opera Company
SIGNOR CE8ARE CLANDESTINE Conductor.
150 Artists-
-Orchestra of SO
LIEBLER & CO., Managers,
By Speolal Arrangement With the Composer, Giacomo Pueolnl, In ths Favorits Operas,
r:jL,g.“LA BOHEME”
MISS ABOTT In Her Famous Role, MIMI.
Saturday
Matinee
MLLE. LUI8A VELLANI A8 CIO-CIO-SAN (Arrangement With ths Metropolitan Opera Houst.)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY”
NIGHT PRICE8, $5, *4, $3, $2 AND $1| MATINEE PRICE8, 7Eo TO $3.
Subscription and Mall Order Sale Thursday, Dsosmbsr 1. Regular sals Monday, December 5.
ADMISSION RIslOI | CHILDREN 5c
TEN CENTS next week AT MATINEES
P °fami L ly R VAUDEVILLE
JOE COME
Illustrated Songs.
MATINEES DAILY AT 8:80 AND 4.
HUTCH LU8BY
1010 Somethings
MRS. PETER MAHER A CO.
NIOHT SHOWS AT 7:30 AND 0.
AUDITORIUM-ARMORY
MADAME GADSKI
Prices SOc, 73c, snd 11.00.
theater. The engagement, which opens
on Monday evening, December 3, will
be limited to one week. Including Wed
nesday and Saturday matinees.
The seat sale will open next Thurs
day, December I.
RICHARD BUHLER.
In title role of "Ben-Hur” at Or-
S heum soon. Mr. Buhler was well
nown here when with the old
Dorado" stock company, which opened
the present Orpheum theater, then the
El Dorado.
"BEN-HUR" FOR A WEEK
AT THE ORPHEUM THEATER
No other play appears to have such
a powerful appeal as “Ben-Hur.” '
.. ' iv.lU.ta 1 . ImmArtat ta 1st ■
General Wallace's Immortal tale grasp
ed the attention of Christendom and
held It unwaveringly for a quarter of a
century, so the dramatisation has
charmed not only regular theater pat-
rods. but uncounted thousands who
visit the playhouse only when some re
ligious work Is being presented.
"Ben-Hur" strikes a lofty key even
before the curtain rises: the music and
the chanting of the prophecies of Isaiah
by a hidden choir of male voices gives
scene which never cesses until
of ths Anal curtain. The wonderful
vision of “The Btar of Bethlehem." the
vest expense of the desert st night
with the sleeping camels In the fore
ground. the adoration of the Three
Wits Men, all cast over the beholder a
spell of wonderment snd awe.
Ben-Hur" Is already very familiar I
to Atlanta playgoers,
record-breaking engs
thru Its previous
engagements In
this
city, which promise to be eclipsed by
Its forthcoming visit to the Orpheum
Three Nlghte, Beginning Than., Nor, 94,
The Meiara. Shobert Announce
MARY MANNERING
“A man’s" WORLD”
Prices—-15c to 03. Matinee, 25c to 01.50.
Carriages and Antoa at 10:50 p. m.
ATLANTA'S BUSY TKEATEB.
FORSYTH ® ; ?6 SOi -
BESSIE WYNNE
THE FOUR MELODY MONARCH8
BABB0W8-LAN CASTER COMPANY
AND OTHERS.
NEXT WEEK: THE MAID OF MYSTERY
OR RH EUM
23*^s!^aturday Pristine,,
CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS
ETHEL BARRYMORE
in MID-CHANNEL
By 8lr A. W. Pinero.
, Price*—Matinee and Nlghta, 60c to 02.
LYRIC
This Week—Matinees Tuea., Thor*., Sat.
VAUOHAN GLASER
Announces Uls Associate Players In a Modem
Four-Act Drama,
•'AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS’ 9
With ELEANOR MONTELL.
A Companion Play to "St. Elmo."
Next weak, “The Man of the Hour.”
chas. frohman
KLAW X ERLANGER
The Pre-eminent Offerings of the American Stage.
WED.
THURS.
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1
THURS.
THE SERVANT CHOUSE
PRESENTED BY
The Henry Miller Associate Players
The most remarkable play In the English language.--Harper’s Magazine
ONLY THREE PERFORMANCES
Prices: Evening 25c to $1.50. Matinee 25c to $1.
FRIDAY,
SATURDAY
SATURDAY
MATINEE
DEC.
2 AND 3
SEAT SALE
Monday
HARRISON GREY FISKE PRESENTS
MRS. I
FISKE
AND THE MANHATTAN COMPANY IN
Founded on
VANITY FAIR
”BECKY
SHARP”
Written by
Langdon Mitchell
PRICES: 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00.
Six Nights. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday
December 5 to 10
During the Ben-Hur season the curtain will rise evenings precisely at I o’cl
Matinee at 3 o’clock. Late comers will not be seated until the prelude si
Ing “The Star of Bethlehem” Is concluded.
KLAW & ERLANGER’S NEW & GREATER
BEN-HUR
8 HORSES
IN THE
THRILLING
CHARIOT
RACE
200—PEOPLE IN PRODUCTION—200
rows balcony, 11.30; remainder balcony, $1.00; gallery, reierved, 7Sc; admit-
Seat Sale Opens Thursday at 9 A. M.
mlttance. filled In the order of receipt after ticket purchasers
on opening day of sale. Address Homer F. Curran, Manager. Orpheum The
ater, Atlanta, Ga.
LYRIC Week_ Beginning Monday,
Nov. 28. Usual Matinees.
THE BEST REPEATER IN AMERICA
WM. A. BRADY'S PRODUCTION OF
THE
MAN
GEORGE BR0ADHURST S
Nationally
Famous Play
OF THE
With FELIX HANEY
Alderman Phelan
HOUR
HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY LAST YEAR
Next Attraction—CECIL SPOONER
EXTRACTED
WlthoutPain
A Specialty
DR. H. JENSEN, 23 1-2 Whitehall St.
HE IS WITH "GIRLS.’
: ATLANTA’S BUSIEST THEATER :
FORSYTH w |p K Nov.28
^MATINEE AND NIGHT DAILY-
THE MAID OF MYSTERY
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FIVE ARMANIS
Novelty
EVA MUDGE
Comedienne
O. A. DUNCAN
Ventriloquist
THREE LIVINGSTONS
Acrobats
GEE JAYS
Manikins
CLARK & BERGMAN
Comedy
NEXT WEEK—DAN BURKE and SIX WONDER GIBLS
Invitations to theater as guests of Ths. Invitations to theater os guests of 1*
Georgian. I Georgian.
There may be one for you among to- I There may be one for you amosf **
day's want ads I day's want ada.