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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ’ATLANTA, GA\, SUNDAY. 'APUTT 20, 1013.
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Last Week of Vaudeville at Grand; Forsyth to Open
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Comes to Lyric—Good Of
fering at the Bijou.
T HIS week witnesses the opening
of *he stock season at the At
lanta Theater. The company
Is headed by Miss Billy Long and the
Initial offering Is “Wildfire," a com
edy drama made famous by Lillian
Hussell. Miss Long and her associate
players have been rehearsing for a
week or more and everything points
to a letter-perfect performance to
morrow evening.
This Is the first stock company
which has appeared at the Atlanta
and If the enterprise meets popular
favor It is more than likely that It
will be a regular spring feature. The
management announces some very
ambitious plans and It will be up to
Atlanta playgoers.
ThU will be the last week of vaudo-
vtUo In the Grand. Beginning on April
28. next Monday.the Keith vaudeville
bookings will be transferred to the
Forsyth, whence they come at the
beginning of the season.
The Forsyth possesses an air-cool
ing and ventilating system which
makes It a muoh more oomfortable
summer playhouse than the Grand.
The vaudeville season will extend In
definitely through the summer
months.
The offering this week at the Grand
to full of promise. The bill last week
—the largest ever put on at the Grand
—was well received. Several of the
acta' were regular headliners and
the program as a whole was one
wall worth while. There were no walls
between numbers and each act went
with a snap and dash that was ad
mirable. If this week's bill gets away
as nicely the Grand should be a very
popular place all week.
At the Lyric George Sidney will
be the attraction In “Busy Izzy." He
has been here often In the same ve
hicle and never falls to draw crowded
houses. In fact, Sidney has a regular
following In Atlanta and theae friends
are always in evidence when he Is In
town.
Another good family vaudeville and
motion picture bill Is scheduled far
the Bijou. A sensational aerial act
heads the program.
Stock Company Opens
To-morrow in "Wildfire.”
To-morrow nijrht the first perfor
mance by the Miss Billy Lon* Stock
Company will be piven at the Atlanta
Theater. This will mark the Inau
guration of the summer season of
popular price high class plays. The
opening bill 111 be “Wildfire,” a
comedy drama made famous by Lil
lian Russell.
For a week the stock company has
been in ’Atlanta actively preparing
for this initial performance. The
players have rehearsed with energy
and enthusiasm and the prediction
is made that Atlanta will like Miss
Long and the members of her organi
zation. Certainly “Wildfire” sholild
prove a popular attraction and the
opening weel^ should serve to prop
erly Introduce the players to the pub
lic.
Miss Billy Long, star of the or
ganization. will play the role assumed
by Miss Russell during the local en
gagement. This role is that of a
widow who has been left a racing
stable, of which the horse “Wildfire”
is most prominent. Many compli
cations arise through the manage
ment of the stable and a love story
is so interwoven in the action that
a play of real meri* results.
The leading man. Edwin Vail, has
a part that particularly fits him an i
he is sure to create a most f ;voluble
Blon the opening week.
engagement will be at
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Amusement Bills
for All This Week
ATLANTA—The Miss Billy Long
Btock Company all week In “Wild
fire." Matinees Wednesday and
Saturday.
GRAND—Keith vaudeville with
Truly Shattuck as headliner all the
week. Matinees daHy, beginning
Monday.
LYRIC—George Sidney in “Busy
Izzy,” all the week. Matinees
Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day.
BIJOU—Family vaudeville and.
motion pictures. Matinees dally,
beginning Monday.
made to keep the temperature cool
and pleasant at all times.
In the presentation of “Wildfire"
the following members of the com
pany will appear In th<- various roles:
Miss Billy Long, Edwin Vail, Howard
H. Hogan, H. H. Foreman, Bert Gard
ner, Albert Warren, Ralph Marty.
Joseph E. Kirkhnm, Helen Freilwin.
Alen Robinson, H. Brown, Kathryn
Sheldon, .Viable Inslee, Ada St. Claire
and Jesse L. France.
Truly Shattuck Headliner
at the Grand This Week.
Thfc vaudeville bill at the Grand
for this week offers a. list of head
liners not to be overlooked even in
the face of the opera season, and
already there have been heavy reser
vations for those nights when the
opera has open nights. The bill is
headed by Truly Shattuck, formerly
of the George M. Cohan Company,
and there are a half-dozen others
well worth while.
Miss Shattuck Is known from coast
to coast as a comedienne of the first
rank and her change fro*m musical
comedy to vaudeville is only another
example of the successful players
who find the twenty minutes twice
a day more remunerative than their
ojd work.
Little Billy, the boy imitator and
impersonator, is on the bill with a
new bag of tricks.
Jere Grady and Company, with
Frankie Crawford furnishing the girl
end of the act, will offer their new
sketch, “The Butterflies.”
Ed Morton, the man who makes
popular songs popular, will be fea
tured on the bill. Mr. Morton is said
to be responsible for the widespread
hits of more new songs than any
man in vaudeville, and the song writ
ers clamor for him to present their
works. Naturally, he has the pick
of Tin Pan Alley and its numerous
song shops to choose from.
The week will be the last of the
season at the Grand. Beginning
Monday, April 2$, the vaudeville will
be transferred to the Forsyth, which
has its own ventilating and cooling
plant and is an ideal hot weather
playhouse.
“Busy Izzy” Offering
All Week at Lyric.
Miss Carrie Webber, leading wom
an in the 1913 edition of “Busy Izzq,”
which will be the''offering all week
at the Lyric with George Sidney as
the star, is noted for her taste in
dress. She Is al*o interesting on ac
count of her versatility. Miss Web
ber is a character actress, and has
the sense of character well developed.
For example, she is seen in the open
ing act of “Busy Izzy” as an Italian
lingo with all the gusto of the real
street musician.
But in the second act Miss Webber
reveals a totally different aspect. In
this she is seen as a Society Belle.
She wears Parisian creations as to
the manor born. And well she may,
for she has a superb figure, and she
is a woman of great beauty. In the
present production Miss Webber is
seen in some particularly elegant
creations of the dressmaker's art. She
went to Paris this summer, and w hile
there she obtained some of the very
latest patterns and the most recent
creations of the artists in dress. She
wears one gown in this act that costs
$1,000.
Aerial Novelty Act
Heads Bill at Bijou.
In search of real novelties for the
Bijou, the management has booked
for the week the Four Marvelous
Mells, an original aerial novelty com
edy act in which four clever acro
bats will take part. Unlike most
norclty acts, every member of the
quartet has a certain line of work
allotted to him and the lady is re
sponsible for three minutes of as
tonishing demonstrations of strength
and real ability.
Other acts on the bill are Adeline
Denette, a charming singing and
dancing soubrette; Lowe & Sterling,
in a novelty singing act, and Todesca
and Dodesca, clever bicyclists. Dur
ing each performance there will be
motion pictures to open and • close,
.and these will be selected to present
the best of comedies and dramas:
The coupon contest that was in-
auguated a few days ago is proving
decidedly popular with patrons of the
Bijou. Each purchaser of a ticket
is given a coupon and on May 1st the
boy or girl handing in the largest
number of coupons will receive the
handsome auto-truck now on exhibi
tion in the lobby of the theater. Mat
inees as usual on Monday and Sat
urday 2:30 and 4. balance of week 3
p. m. Night shews 7:30 and 9.
She Wears an $8412 Outfit
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Theater Hat Costs $2494
Milliner Designs a Dazzling Cos
tume for Party: Bird of Para
dise Has Diamond Eyes: Gems
on Her Shoe Buckles.
LOS ANGELES, April 19.—Spark-
ling with diamonds from the eyes of
the $1250 bird of paradise, which
adorned her hat, to the buckles on
her satin shoes. Mrs. Mary Stewart
McCrossin, President of the Stewart
McCrossin Millinery Company, wore
a costume which almost reaches the
$10,000 mark at a theater party of
four persons which she gave recently
at the Morosco Theater.
For the first time, at least In Los
Angeles history, the eyes of bird of
paradise have been made of diamonds
which are set first in platinum, then
in onyx. Under the blinking, glitter
ing eyes a regal design In diamonds
and onyx is driven Into the bird’s
beak, and its gorgeous golden and
white plumage spreads in beauty in a
background of sumptuous color for
the glittering, jeweled head of the
bird.
That hat Mrs. McCrossin designed
herself, and it was built on a founda
tion frame costing $25 and covered
with $10 worth of black velvet for a
facing and $9 worth of white French
crepe over the top. To one side in
front, where the bird’s beak clings to
the edge and its brilliant eyes snap
down, the brim is caught up close to
the crown. In beauty, this hat is a
marvel, and in.dollars represents just
$2494, for the diamonds alone cost
$1200—the bird of paradise $1250.
To go withsthis hat Mrs. McCrossin
has a black velvet gown, trimmed
with solid silver threads interwoven
with pearls, roses of solid silver cloth
studded with pearls, and a corsage
bouquet of made orchids and lilies
of the valley. All told the gown cost
$800.
A Woman’s Outfit
in Cold Figures
Her hat is ornamented with:
Diamonds $1200.00
Bird of Paradise 1250.00
Shape 25.00
Velvet 1000
French crepe 9 00
Total $2494.00
Her dress $ ^95*22
Her shoes -15*22
Her shoe buckles 100.00
Diamond La Valliere or-
nament and earrings.. 5000.00
Total for costume $8412.00
Measuring one yard round the bot
tom, it is split on each side at the
fro'ht to enable Mrs. McCrossin to
walk, and the g'kirt drags out in a
smart little fishtail train. The waist
is embroidered in the silver threads
and pearls and the sleeves are orna
mented with cloth of silver roses with
more pearls.
On her $18 black satin slippers Mrs.
McCros'sin wore diamond buckles
costing $50 each. Her gloves w’ere
simple and white, reaching to the
shoulder, for the sleeves in the gown
are very short.
Her only jewels were diamond ear
rings and a diamond La Valliere or
nament which she values at $5000.
Mrs. McCrossin regards dress as
one of her business assets.
“No woman can afford to neglect
her appearance, and 1 regard my
clothes as part of my business,” she
said. “I average about fifty hats a
year. I suppose. This is the hand
somest one I have ever seen, I yiink,
however.”
Torpedo shaped cakes of bath soap
are a novelty from England. They
cost from 15 to 25 cents. They are
delightful to use, as they fit conven
iently into the palm of the hand, and
are not so easily lost track of as
square or oblong cakes.
Footwear Fashions
Rosettea, which were worn a year
or two ago, are discarded now, except
occasionally for the gold slipper,
when they are of gold tissue with tiny
chiffon rosebuds In the center. Bead
ed toes have returned to a consid
erable extent, but are not as much In
demand as plain effects and buckles.
Jeweled heels for evening shoes and
slippers -are having quit*) a vogue.
Polished black ones, set with rhine
stones, are worn with white slip
pers. as well as with black ones.
There are also white ones set with
stones, and other heels entirely In
trusted with brilliants. Casings of
gilt or silver filigree, with rhinestones
in the pattern, come all ready to be
put over satin heels of a contrasting
color. Plain heels are also worn In a
color that contrasts with that of the
slipper Itself. If the slipper Is a dif
ferent color from that of the gown,
the heel Is matched to the costume.
Stockings naturally are receiving
a decided amount of attention, be
cause of their consplcuou mess when
a slashed skirt Is worn. Glittering
green and gold serpents wriggling
from the ankle half way to the knee,
lizards, mice and other similar atroc
ities will scarcely commend them
selves to the woman of good taste.
Other less bizarre novelties are silk
stockings with a lattice-work em
broidery in which a rhinestone Is
sewed at each intersection of the
lines. Stockings of whlto silk ljsh-
net are to be worn (at least, let us
hope so!) over plain silk ones In col
or. Less eccentric are the silk hose
with insets of lace and ot lers In silk
ribbed gauze or embroidered In self
colors.
Both exclusive and popular shops
are featuring the high boo which has \
a patent-leather vamp ar.3 an upper
part of highly polished light gray
leather. The buttons arc fiat pearl
ones, with a little brass center. This
type of button, in its progress to
ward fashionable acceptai ce, has re
versed the usual course which fads
follow, for it was first tc ken up by
the cheaper class of trade. Now, how
ever, it is quite universally shown.
Heels of Dresden chlr a are the
latest eccentricity among the extrem
ists of fashion in Paris. These heels
are worn in the evening with foot
apparel which have silk or satin up
pers.
It is predicted, howeve.’, that pa
triotism' will cause the French women
to adopt heels of Sevres cl ina instead
ot the Dresden article, wh.ch Is made
by the hated Teutons.
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