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TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013.
“Merry Countess”
Comes to the Atlan
ta, With Keith Vaude
ville Variety at For
syth and Thrillers at
Lyric and Bijou,
Bv TARLETON COLLIER.
A TLANTA’S new theatrical year
already is well under way, to
A the Infinite delectation of
those souls whose scheme of exist
ence demands frequent, varied and
worthy stage entertainment There
are many such souls In Atlanta Ev
ery evening nowadays they throng
Peachtree, because the olty's show
houses are open, the five of them.
With this second week of the sea
son, the lights will shine In every
theater. Bright gay lights they will
be, too, because every attraction that
1* billed has an easy, entertaining
tone Even the Interesting drama
that the Lyric promises holds no
heavy moral lesson.
The glitter that Is the fitting ac
companiment of every new stage sea
son Is the chief quality of the early
attractions of the year at the Atlanta
"Little Miss Fix-It," here Tuesda^
and Wednesday and Wednesday Mati'-
nee. and “The Merry Countess," here
Friday and Saturday, both after un
believable long and popular runs in
the big places, are dainty, light and
airy.
Entertainment, too, will be the mis
sion of the performers at the Forsyth,
■who, being vaudeville folk, have no
more idea than to make the public
laugh, gasp and be amused
And so with these attractions, with
"The Call of the Heart” at the Lyric,
the Jewell Kelley Company's enter
tainment at the Bijou, and the mov
ing picture bill at the Grand, Atlanta
should be introduced very pleasantly
to the new stage year.
Strauss, the Composer.
It should mean something that the
score of “The Merry Countess," the
week's show at the Atlanta, was
written by Johann Strauss, the genius
of waltz music. It should mean
something, too, that the action of
the musical comedy—rather brisk ac
tion. it Is announced—Is set at a
fashionable watering place In Aus
tria. Promise of a picturesque mlse
en scene and of fascinating costumes
in the latest fashionable designs thus
is held out. Something for the eye
to revel In and the discriminating
feminine soul to delight In Is the pros
pect.
However, the fact that "The Merry
Countess” Is a Strauss operatta gives
something of assurance to the an
nouncement that Its chiefest charm
lies In the music and In the libretto,
rather than in the pretentious scenic
effects. Clever—New York critics and
the New York public have announced
-—all the book and the lyrics, by
Gladys Unger and Arthur Anderson.
It Is promised that the operatta will
have a distinctive local color—It is
pitched in the gayest of Austria, re
member—because of the introduction
of true foreign “types." When the
Comedy came first to America, the
manager, thinking to effect an In
telligent rendition, sent to Europe for
these “types,” and the result was the
proper tincture of atmosphere and an
unusual seasoning. Manager Rork
has brought these foreign "types”
South with him.
Of course, beauty is promised, cap
tivating, dashing stage beauties. At
lanta will see in the cast, in addition
to Miss Mabel Baker, the prime don
na, Miss Dale Winter, Miss May Field,
Arthur Clough, Carl Haydn, Pacio
Ripple, Harry Carter, Charles Udell
and Jack Henderson, all of them en
joying somewhat of a vogue.
More Tangoing on Boards.
Forecast of the week at the Forsyth
holds a fascination as well as does
the other theaters. Because, you see,
the most enthralling subject of turkey
trotting and tango dancing will find
exposition in the performance of
Frank Hale and Inez Patterson, the
headliners, who are tango dancers
and trotters of eminent repute. Ar
tists they are acclaimed, writh suffi
cient smartness about their work to
■ , ^ 0,ne s ^ ars who will shine at Atlanta theaters this week. On the left is Doris Wilson
with Mabel Baker, of “The Merry Countess” at the Atlanta, on the right, and Ann Hamilton, of “
give their act an appeal lo the society
set everywhere.
Doris Wilson and her company
with their comedy playlet occupy a
place high up on this week's bill,
promising an act marked by good
looks, good comedy, good tone. Del-
more and Lee, acrobats, in what is
billed a sensational black and white
study, are reckoned on to furnish the
thrills of the week.
A novelty is promised in the act of
Wentworth, Vesta and Teddy, in
which the performers are two men
and a cute terrier. Russell’s Min
strels, a comedy creation, and Gordon
and Rica, a team whose act is an
ticipated as novel, will help along a
bill that Is bidding fair to be elabo
rate. The management promises also
a surprise act, details of which are
not announced. The Forsyth has
made good on several surprises re
cently.
Drama at tha Lyric.
At the Lyric a drama, “The Call of
the Heart," is billed. The story em
bodied In the play is very old, being
that of a love which impels a gn.
to renounce wealth and station in re
sponding to the call of her heart. But
It Is set In an unusual sphere. It is
the story of the household of a disso
lute English nobleman, whose wife is
the wholesome daughter of an Amer
ican miner.
Their three sons are leading figures
in the play, one a drunken wretch, one
a deformed drug fiend, the other
manly. An American girl comes into
the home, and in the unfolding of the
plot much of the sordidness of social
aspiration is revealed.
John Nicholson will play the lead
ing part, and associated with him will
be Corwin Lushmoor, Clarence Bel-
lair, C. B Waters, Billie Shay, Helen
Aubrey, Wells Playcer and others.
Kinemacolor at Grand.
At the Grand Theater moving pic
tures will be the attraction, with a
kinemacolor program billed. This
feature has made of the Grand a pop
ular resort, and enters now upon the
third week of its run.
The Kinemacolor program will be
changed every’ other day, but there
will be a complete dally change of the
black and white first-run subjects.
The second week of the regular sea
son wil! be the third of the Jewell
Ke’iey Stock Company at the Bijou
Theater. An unusual degree of pop
ularity has been achieved by these
players at the Bijou, as is plain from
the undiminished attendance on their
performances and the eager tribute
which the Bijou audience invariably
pays.
Notes of the Stage
W ILLIAM FAVERSHAM has en
gaged Constance Collier for
the rol$ of Portia in “Julius
Caesar,” which he will produce in
Atlanta this winter. Julie Opp (Mrs.
Faversham), who played the part last
year, is resting in Switzerland, where
she will remain until her husband
makes a new production in Decern
her. Miss Collier played Portia In
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s produc
tion of the tragedy at His Majesty’s
Theater, London.
• • •
“Your company boasts an orches
tra, does it not?" asked a playgoer
of Ian Maclaren w’hen the latter was
touring through the English prov
inces.
“I should say that we had an
orchestra,’’ the actor corrected, “but
we don’t exactly boast of It.”
• • •
Louise Randolph, the dramatic
leading woman, was born at Leaven
worth, Kans., where her father was an
officer In the United States army. She
is an expert swordsworaan, can ride
the most fractious broncho and knows
as much about firearms as a gun
smith. Two of the roles she created
were in plays of similar names, “Her
Son" and “The Only Son.” And she
hasn’t a son!
• • •
There will be but one company pre
senting "The Five Frankfurters” on
tour this season. The original cast
has been retained, and it is very pos
sible that this successful play will
be seen in Atlanta before the winter
is over.
Menus for the Week
Arranged by E. L. Thornton, Steward
of the Atlanta Athletic Club
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Alligator Pear*
Oatmeal
Frizzled Beef and Eggs
Hot Grits
Wheat Cakes
Maple Sirup
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
Okra and Tomatoes
Sliced Onions
wed Brisket of Beef with Carrots
Boiled Potatoes Hot Slaw
Georgia Corn Pone
Beet and Pepper Salad
Fried Peach Puffs
Buttermilk
STEPPER.
Fried Spring Chicken
Baked Yams
Tomato with .Mayonnaise
Toast
Coffee or Tea
RECIPE.
I8KTCT OF BBEF WITH CAR-
OTR—Take about four pounds of
ew beef and one dusen carrots
nd one onion and put into baking
un and sprinkle salt pepper and
ttle dour over and little stock or
ater and brown in oven. (Stir
ften.)
W’hen brown put In pot and cook
ft top of stove Until very tender.
TUESDAY,
BREAKFAST,
Stewed Prunes
Corn Flakes
Broiled Mutton Chops
French Fried Potatoes
Hot Biscuit
Jam
Coffee of Tea
DINNER.
Cream of Cabbage
Cucumber Pickle
Baked Duck, Garlic l>re«slng
Currant Jelly
earned Potatoes. Fried Eggplant
Corn Muffins
Vermicelli ia Cream
Pumpkin Custard Pis
Iced Tea
SUPPER.
Country Fried Lamb Fries
Chip Potatoes
Melon Mangos
Hot Rolls
Coffee or Tea
RECIPE.
BAKED, DUCK, GARLIC DRESSING.
Make the dressing the same as for
baked chicken, only add a few
sprigs of garlic. Before filling the
duck with dressing rub the inside
with garlic. Baste often while
cooking and be sure not to let the
duck get dry.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST
Stewed Apples and Cream
Grape-Nuts
Broiled Breakfast Bacon
Scrambled Eggs
Hot Grits
French Waffles
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
Puree of Tomato with Rioe
Radishes
Fricassee of Veal Supreme
New Potatoes Boiled Onions
Hoecfcke Com Breud
Pineapple Fritters
Raspberry Sherbet
Vanilla Wafers
Iced Tea
SUPPER.
Hamburger Steak
Au Gratln Potatoes
Hot Rolls
Coffee or Tea
RECIPE.
fricassee OF VBAL SUPREME,—
Four pounds of brea* of veal cut
into squares and stew until tender.
Strain half of the stock off and add
half as much milk as you have
stock. Season with salt and pepper,
add « chopped hard-boiled eggs and
spoon butter and sums chopped
parsley.
THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Concord Grapes
Cream of Wheat
Fried Virginia Ham, Red Gravy
Hominy Cakes
Toast
Syrup
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
English Beef Broth
Olives
Baked Chicken Pie
Creamed Potatoes Fried Okra
Egg Bread
Macaroni ltallenne
Green Apple Dumplings
Buttermilk
SUPPER.
Cold Chicken Pie
Potato and Pepper Salad
Wheat Cakes
Coffee
RECIPE.
MAOARONI ITAIJENNE.—Make a
sauce of one pound of beef, one can
tomatoes, spHg of garlic, two on
ions. Cook until very thick and
pour over the macaroni, and sprin
kle grated cheese on top.
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Peachey and Cream
Post Toasties
Fried Channel Catfish
Lye Hominv in Cream
Waffles
Maple Syrup
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
Old-fashioned Clam Chowder
Cucumbers
Boiled Sea Trout, Egg Sauce
New Potatoes Italian Spinach
Corn Muffins
Pepper and Shrimp Salad
Rice Pudding, Raisin Sauce
Coffee or Tea
SUPPER.
Creamed Oysters, Chafing Dish
Buttered Toast
Chip Potatoes
Coffee or Tea
A
Frozen Fggnogg Assorted Cake)
Neufchatel Toasted Cracker.
Coffee
SUPPER
Cold Fried Chicken
Sliced Tomatoes
Biscuit
Coffee or Tea
and company, who present a comedy playlet at the
The Call of the Heart M company, al the Lyric, below.
Forsyth
RECIPE.
PEPPER AND SHRIMP SALAD —
Slice two green peppers and chop
one stalk of celery. Put in bowl
and add one small can shrimp.
Season and mix In half cup mayon-
aise. Serve on lettuce leaf.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Cantaloupe
Shredded Wheat
Fried Calf Liver Brown Gravy
Hashed Brown Potatoes
Griddle Cakes
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
Cream of New Corn
Cucumbers
Roe^t Prime Rib of Beef
Mashed Potatoes Candied Tomato
Com Bread
Watercroes Salad
Peach Cobbler Wine Sauce
Buttermilk
SUPPER
Canned Beef Hash Browned
Fried Grits
Graham Gems
Iced Tea
SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST
Assorted Fruit
Triscuit
Broiled Squab on Toast
Hot Grits Fried Potatoes
Waffles
Preserves
Coffee or Tea
DINNER.
Chicken Consomme
Celery Stuffed Olives Radishes
Fried Spring Chicken Maryland
New Potatoes Pumpkin Yams
Green Peas Spiced Beets
Head Lettuce and Tomato Salad
‘Believe Me, Xantippe,’ Is
Amusing and Ingenious
By ALAN DALE.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—How New
York’s favorite expression of em
phasis and confidences—“Bul-lleve
me," with "Xantippe” added—caused
the downfall of a cocksure young
gentleman who bet that he could
elude Justice for one year was told
rather amusingly at the Thirty-
ninth Street Theater. It was a play
called “Believe Me, Xantippe," by
Frederick Ballard, that enjoyed
quite a measure of success in the
Massachusettsian city of beans and
culture, and it proved to be light
and rather Ingenious.
Exactly why the particularly self-
confident hero had got away with
such an expression as “Believe me,
Xantippe," undamaged for so long,
was a mystery not explained by Mr.
Ballard. The play, however, If It
had a moral, would tend to show
that eccentricities of expression may
be a man's undoing, and that se
date and conventional verbiage is
the better policy.
In the play the vouth who said
“Believe me, Xantippe," was dis
gusted with the New York police,
thereby showing a lack of original
ity that augured ill at first for Mr.
Ballard’s play. It occurred to him
to moke a big bet that he could
commit a crime and elude Justice
for a ypar. On the stage, you see,
crime Is crime and Justice \» .lustlee.
One has to observe the traditions.
In real life, possibly nobody would
have taken the gay youth's bet.
They would have agreed with him.
He goes to Colorado, where there
is a lovely sheriff’s daughter, who is
keenly alive to the fact that a re
ward has been offered for the New
York criminal. (To establish him
self in crime he has forged a check.)
So when the youth appears in the
hunting shack and is on the way to
securing the lovely girl’s sympathy,
he suddenly comes out with “Believe
me, Xantippe,” and the game is up.
There is some humor after this and
some horseplay. The man and the
woman alternately get the upper
hand. He, of course, falls in love
with her, and she—as they say in
the novelettes—Is "visibly attract
ed."
There is on amusing scene in the
county Jail at Delta, Colo., and Mr.
Ballard seems to have strayed from
the usual fold. It Is al 1 a bit far
fetched and lacking In comedy
truth, but the fact that 1t never de
generates into wild farce and does
its best to keep up the semblance
of comedy helps it a lot. In a play
of this sort It Is not necessary to
ask questions or to be too exacting.
The light scenes entertained In a
frolicsome way, and one laughed oc
casionally. The characters are very
few indeed; the man and the wom
an are really the whole show, and
Mr Ballard has his work cut out to
make of “Believe Me, Xantippe,” a
whole evening's entertainment. Of
course, if George MacFarland had
cut out the “Xantippe" and had
merely said "Bul-lleve me," Colo
rado would merely have dubbed
him “Harlem," and—there Is safe
ty In a multitude.
The most interesting member of
the cast was Miss Mary Young,
who played without any frills and
furbelows, but who played. Miss
Young has had a long stock experi
ence, and it has served her in good
stead. A New York "favorite’’
would have played this part in a
pink tea gown and have sighed and
gasped a good deal. Miss Young
did even try to be good-looking.
She went at the strange part with
vigor and gusto, and she was an
exceedingly interesting experiment.
She brought a certain freshness to
this stale stage—the freshness that
actresses who play one part for a
whole season are never able to
bring.
Mr. John Barrymore wag the
emitter of "Believe me, Xantippe,”
an expression that never for one
moment could he have uttered. He
had a "Hullv Jee!" voice, and
Forty-second street was in his very
atmosphere. He played the part
differently to Mr. John Craig, whom
I saw in Boston. Barrymore was
more farcical and more febrile, Mr.
Craig had more repose and more
comedy. Of course, Now York likes
Its favorites; therefore it wan per
haps a wise policy to give the role
to young Barrymore, who was cer
tainly Jolly, good-humored and
lively. Several things he did very
well, but one could not credit him
with such an expression as "Be
lieve me, Xantippe." It didn’t fit.
Theodore Roberts was added to
the cast and played the sheriff ex
ceedingly well. Frank Cnmpeau, as
a desperado, wns vivid enough, and
one or two small parts had fitting
Impersonators. They all tried to
keep ns far away from farce as
possible, with the exception of Bar
rymore. There are some bright
lines in the piece, and It Is neatly
written. It nan been altered since
Its Inception, not always fof the
better, and If I am not mistaken
it hns been shortened, which is for
the better. Always.
Still, one is glad of a little piece
that has an ingenious idea, and this
one has It is also ingenious and
Ingenuous to question the eluding
of Justice for a year, or for many
years. One likes to find a play
wright who can write around so
half a subject and write around it
interestingly. And the detective in
this case was such a lovely stage
detective!
WELCOME
Ey F. S. JACOBS.
(Author of “Small Town Stuff.")
Oh, just see who’s back in town;
See her latest Paris gown;
Batiste sleeves, square decollete
Pink penny silhouette;
What! You don’t know who she is?
Wake up, man, and mind your biz,
Get back in the merry whirl,
Bow to Princess Chorus Girl.
Just blew in from old Broadway,
Where they turn night into day;
Came to paint this old town red,
Start things moving, wake the dead,
Light the lights on Peachtree street,
Make the waiters lift their feet,
Let the Johnnies spend their dough,
And give us Rubes a music show.
Yes, she’s in our midst again,
Ready for her season’s reign.
Same old ribbons, same old fluff,
Same old perfumed powder puff;
Same old naughty twinkling eye,
Same old chatter, gay and high,
Same old rouge and same old curl,
By gosh, the same old Chorus Girl.
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