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6 C s Wmi i 8 C ' \ TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ’ATLANTA, GA\, SUNDAY. 'APUTT 20, 1013. Stock Company Begins Season at the Atlanta +•+ »!••+ ^#4* *1**^ Last Week of Vaudeville at Grand; Forsyth to Open LEADING FIGURES IN THEATERS THIS WEEK. Y / 'ISAXKTE- 5 ARPEJO'£E 9^ JEME-- " GRADY Q> r f_A* ODKAANT) LUY" >«<* ATX-ANIX (Ohocjis' 23” ^ George Sidney, in “Busy Izzy,” 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 <3 -R. -A. INTTD CA35K3E- _ W r E>ElEK- M " BUSY J J> YRIC popular prices. Matinees will be big cooling plant of the theater will done for the comfort of patrons. The be in operation and efforts will be “Law Brothers for Quality” When “He” Attends Grand Opera He Logically Turns to This Store to Supply All Correct FULL DRESS ACCESSORIES ■Shirts -Vests -Ties -Hats -Collars CEE the new novelty in a bull Dress Vest- --With tie to match. It’s very snap- py■ 1 See Our Show Windows zpsr 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 +•+ 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. Hastings' Superb Geraniums 10 and 15 Cents Each l"and $ l “Per Dozen Never before in Atlanta have such superb geraniums as these been offered at the abo’ e prices. With the rich shades of our pinks and reds and the snowy whiteness of the white varieties you will be more than pleased. If you are a lover of beautiful flowers and plants, a visit to our store this week will be well worth while. We still have several thousand of these fine plants, and shall specialize on geraniums all this week. Come and get yours. For window or porch boxes, for single pot plants, or for bed ding outside, nothing surpasses-geraniums. These prices include delivery anywhere in Atlanta. Orders from outside points for shipments by express packed free of extra charge where one dozen or more are ordered. Five Packets of Flower Seed Free mail. Our great free flower seed offer is open until May 1, open alike to the visitor at our city retail store or the buyer by With every purchase of seeds, plants or bulbs to the amount of 50 cents or over before May 1 we will give " absolutely free one packet each of Hastings’ Dwarf Mixed Nasturtiums, Phlox Grandiflora and Star Flowered Mixed, Hastings’ Sup erb Mixed Double and Single Poppies, Japanese and Chinese Dianthus or Pinks Mixedand that splendid Japanese floral novelty, the Chrys anthemum Flowered Sunflower, almost as beautiful as the best exhibition varieties of Yellow Chrysanthemums without the least suggestion of coarseness of texture. Double Tuberoses Large blooming size bulbs of the Excel sior Pearl, delightfully fragrant. (By mail, postpaid, 30 cents dozen.) 15 Cents Dozen Double Dahlias Extra large field grown roots for quick results. White, Red, Pink, Yellow, Purplp and Variegated. (By mail, 25 cents.) 15 Cents Each Elephant’s Ears or Caladitim. 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