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ATLANTA. 0A.. firXDAY, SEPTEMB STELLAR ATTRACTIONS ARC MARCHING ON! ATLANTA September to See Signs of Greatest Theatrical Stars Blazing From Fronts of Local Playhouses K Anna Held, Robin Hood, A1 Field and Vaude ville Headliners Promised as Show Diet for City. Anna Hold, who will come to Atlanta in September with her Jubilee Company under the direction of John Cort. Her appear ance promises to be one of the theatrical events of the season. By TARLETON COLLIER. r j HIE local theatrical season, to all ihtents and purposes, is t jockeying about for a start in a manner rather tantalizing to wistful showgoers who are pining for the coming of win ter '.'legit.” Still, there is promise enough of good things ahead ^o reward the patient persons. The Atlanta, for instance, will be dark all this week, but not discouraginglv dark. You will begin to see out front the bills for Anna Held, Little Boy Blue, Robin Hood and the Field Minstrels, all of which Manager George announces will come to the city sometime in September. And so the Atlanta Theater, even with 1 the lights out this week, is not so dreary a spectacle. As for the week’s offering, there will be at the Lyric a straight drama of sufficient strength to please almost any one. With Kstha Williams in ‘‘A Man’s Game,” there should be enough worthy en tertainment. Thjs is not the first season of the play ncr of the wife at a tim** when his for tunes a tv lowest, when he is merely a lab >rer without promi; . He has a little daughter, and for h»r sake he goes West and builds a fortune. Years after he is wealthy. A real love has come to him for the tine woman who has reared his daughter, but while he Is glorying in his love, b.-M k comes his wife of fifteen years before, an abandoned, dissolute, con scienceless woman. She hears that he is wealthy, and herself on him. The “Man’s Game' the happiness of the loves. The man in make this fight, trying “The right” Reaches Limit • Of Audacity on the Stage comes to saddle is the fight to woman a man the play must keep from his carefully reared daughter the knowledge that this old slattern is her mother, and from the woman he Mme. Besson who will be one of (he headliners at the Forsvth week. In the end the dissolute wife show’s t human, womanly heart. The sight of her own daughter purifies her, and she goes away. The play was successful last season, and the same cast will appear this year. ■ A Man’s Game” will lie at the Lyric all the week, with matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. iShe iippeiirs in a stirringly dramatic playlet. this “The Mmi of Mystery" Offered tit the Bijou Melodrama will always have its ap peal with the actual flash of pistols and knives, and the actual sound of love, making and heroic defiance, that will hardly be supplanted by any- tiling. not even the “movies,” in spite of the threat that is heard every where. It is just these thrills that the Bijou hopes to furnish this next week, when the Jewell Kelley Com pany will produce “The Man of Mys tery.” a sensational melodrama, writ ten by Mark Swan. The playwright is author also of | The Silver Dagger,’ “At the Risk of j His Life,” ‘‘The t’nwritten Law” and I others as well of the same blood - I curdling tone. Successful plays of j their kind they are. all of them. It is announced that Manager Kelley has I incurred considerable expense in ob taining permission to produce “The I Man of Mystery.” The story of the play is that of a ■ gang in the underworld of New York, ! whose meeting place is the Devil’s Kitchen. The leader is a man of hyp- 1 notic power, of no scruples nor con science. And so the ground is laid for per formances full of shudders, with lives in danger, murders done, robberies ; rnaefe, thieves brawling in their den I and over theif gambling table. Jewell Kelley will play the part of I Richard Glenwood, the leader of the j gang. Claire Summers will appear ; us Kate Burke, daughter of Old ! Mother Meg, who is mistress of the Devil's Kitchen. Early Rigley will be Ned Keene, a detective, and Eddie ; Black will he in his element in the I pari of Noah, a sleepy servant. Matinees will be given every aft- j emoon at the Bijou at 2:3a o’clock, i with performances each night at 8:30. Starr Notes Nnvikoff panion.. wh f London, m Vast, but, there is enough of vigor in its lines and in Miss Williams interpretation to insure its life for some time. At the Forsyth the usual bill of Keith vaudeville is offered.' with the promise of attractiveness that always goes with it. The Jewell Kelley Stock Company will enter the fourth week of its engagement at the Bijou theater, and promise of a melo drama as full of thrills and laughs as the most desirable melodrama should be, is held out by the Bijou management. Kinemacolor will continue its course at the Grand, with a set j of pictures that are said to be up to the usual standard. One of the gripping scenes from “A Mail’s Game.” which will be seen at the Lyric A/ Field\ Arm a Held, Little Hoy Hi tie And Robin Hood Coining to The Atlanta The m xt offering at the Atlanta is the A1 G. Field minstrels,! coming September 2f>, 26 and 27. With A1 G. Field will come an. old and consistent favorite. Following the Field minstrels, the Atlanta will offer its first real big novelty in the Anna Held Jubilee organization, which John Cort lias booked for a matinee and night, Monday, Septem-1 her 2J. Miss Held has just returned from Europe after a stay of three years, and has returned as piquant as ever, slimmer than j ever, spirituelle and altogether the A^pia Held of earlier days. Her company is said to be the biggest on the road this season. After Miss Held two other notable attractions will come the) same week. Henry W. Savage offers Little Boy Blue, Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2, in which Otis Harlan is being fea tured, following which, October 3 and 4, will come the DeKoven local house is one of the chain of vaudeville theaters known as the Keith circuit, around which travel features that appear in the metropolitan variety houses. All this is announced b; the man agement by way of prefacing the promise of good shows during the season. The Big City Four, young men who can sing, will he one of the features of this week’s bill at the vaudeville house. This quar- tc tie has come before to Atlanta, achieving before this consider able of popularity. Featured equally with the singers is the ae- tress, Mme. Besson, whose company will produce a one art play, ‘‘The Woman Who Knew.” The Besson sketch is dramatic. There will be a comedy sketch as well, offered by Tom Kvle and company. There will also be a dancing act. presented by The Metropolitan Dancers, and a number in which there will be much varied entertainment offered by The Marvellous Grahams. Two other acts have been billed, to be announced later. * whs trained in the Russian iin- ri.il Balia* School anr* at the as** LO was advanced to the grade of emier danseur ciassique of the* >yal Opera in Moscow, the highest nk attainable by a male dancer. is a. handsome chap and his clev- ness as a dancer gains in effect his unusual ability as a panto- irnist. Novikoff will be Pavlowa’s ncing companion when she i*p pears Atlanta this season. e is to be a Erohman n. Her husband, Wil iam A. Brady, and Charles Frohman lave reached an agreement by which j Miss George will appear in J. M. Barrie’s 50-minute play called “Half an Hour.” Blanche Bates was origi nally cast for the part, but owing to Opera Company in their revival of Robin Hood. Big Ciiv Four and Dramatic Playlet To Be Features of Vaudeville Bill at The Forsyth ie Forsyth management, after operating during a straitened summer season when a great army of the vaudeville stars iu< r , promises much entertainment now the regular season has opened. The theater’s announcement are rest- theatrical Drama of Intense Realism Will Be Seen At Lyric in \1 Man's Came' This Week ftilAWM that tit** Realism on the stage is an uneertain quantity. What passes for realism may be a mere brutal representation of something that could have been drawn more beautiful. Or it may not be realism at all so much as trite old melodrama. Or the best that is known as realism may be just something ripped from real life. It is this that is embodied in the play ' A Man’s Game,” that will be presented at the Lyric Theater this week. Kstha Williams depicts the commonest type of the streets with a fidelity that is re markable. It is at such times that the force of “realism” strikes you. • The story is that of a vigorous man deserted by a pleasure- illness she will not be able to play until November, when Mr. Frohman will have another role for her. Miss Alice Brady, daughter of Mr. William A. Brady, whose rise from small dramatic roieg to parts of Im portance has been sudden, will have her first chance at a leading role when Mr. Philip Bartholomae pro flut es a play by Mr. Austin Ada ns called “The Bird Cage.” Miss Brady at pregent is appearing in Mr. Owen Davis’ “The Family Cupboard,” and her performance is vne of the bright spots in that drama. Last season she played in “Little Women” and before that in Gilbert Sullivan revivals. Mr. James Forbes has engaged Miss Olive May for the leading role in “Shadowed,” a new play by Messrs. Di«»n Clayton c&lthrop and Cosmo Gordon Lennox. By ALAN DALE. NEW YORK. Sept, that man!” cried the “madame” of Pearl “house,” pointipg to a gray-haired Senator who stood dismayed in hor ror. “Well, he paid me $500 to find another man’s daughter in that room.’ and — he — has — found his own.” Even a sophisticated New York audience gasped at the raw bru tality of the second act of Bayard Velller's play, “The Fight,” at the Hudson Theater and seemed to wonder what the New York stage was coming to. For. once again there was the red-tinted hor ror of the disorderly house, the garish women, the seared white- slaver and the malodoriflc patrons. But eyen this vivid outfit, that we may find at another theater, gave us halt, as the real signifi cance of the second act’s situation forced itself upon us. The gray- haired father was at that place for purposes that were not allowed to remain unmentioned, only. a.s he opened the door, to discover that the young girl he was buying was his own daughter! So I remark feebly, that if New York can stand for that well, let ’em all come! For frankness of treatment Mr. Veiller’s “play” takes every palm. Each spade is called by its name in n magnifying glass. It is a long time since anything quite so ugly and so consanguine- ously daring has been attempted. Even the “comedy" was not allowed to escape the fate of the white- slavers. It was held in this play. the nicest little girl in the quoth the procuress of one Inmates. “A perfect little Perhaps we were glad of a "The Fight” concerns the effort of a very highfalutinly noble lady to run for “Mayor” and purify a small town in Colorado. What she doesn't do, what she isn’t up against, whom she doesn’t foil and how she doesn't quake are vivid queries in the four acts. The poli ticians fight her, as she stirs up the ugly pool of white slavery. They conspire to cause a run on her bank, and she fights them with their checks, which are forgeries, and with mortgages that she can foreclose. Not Lydia Pinkham in all her greatness ever held a candle Jane Thomas, heroine of “The Fight,” as, alone in the center of the stage, she sees her dooty and does it. Alone she goes to the dis orderly resort to find the satyric Senator discovering his own daugh ter, and to find that the tables are turned on her - that she is accused of luring the girl to the resort— that she is suspected of being there improperly. t’ertalnly “The Fight” lg a scorcher, and there is no denying its excitement, its thrill and its ap peal. It is horrible ugly—it is everything that any purist could call it—but it is a play. It does bite; it does hit; it does sear; it does get there, and, with all its faults— many and patent—it is ingenious, and Mr. Bayard Wilier has made his own “Within the Law” look like a ha’porth of coppers. The scene In the second act, where the screaming girl is pushed by the “madame” into a room, lacks stage management. You hear her yelling quite easily, yet apparently she can not hear the excited con versation that should reach her ears as easily as her screams reach ours. This is n very serious defect—even an unpardonably stupid one—and a stage manager should be called in at once to rectify an error that really robs the excitement of its sting. This ugly scene at least should not awaken criticism. It should he flawless, if—anything! The question as to whether these "resorts” need be staged—whether the youth of U. S. A. (which, ac cording to Mr Veiller, is U. S. A.’s finest investment) need be famil iarized so frequently with the locale of the ‘social evil,” can not be dis cussed in these hasty lines. That this second act, however, was not dragged in just for its own nasty sake must be urged in justice to Veiller. Throughout a horrific M i Play this author does seem to be sincere. D was ;iii done in appar ent zeal, and the question as to the necessity of it all must be left for further notice. Miss Margaret Wycherley played Jane Thomas adorably—with grace, charm, excellent femininity, and even beauty. It was a fine and ar tistic piece of work, and too much can not. be said in praise of it. There was a very long cast of most ly nobodi€»s. Miss Cora Adams and William McVay scored; Edward R. Mawson, as the Senator, was weak and mumblv. He seemed to have plums in his mouth. (’harles Hai- ton, as a reporter, was particularly happy. But “The Fight” is one, with, a vengeance, and the play got Its au dience spontaneously. It is as dras tic a play as New York has ever seen, and the American stage has come to a pretty kettle of fish when it produces this “idyll” of the “so cial evil.’ Still, playgoers are “aft er" excitement, and anything that can evoke it nowadays i.- considered legitimate. When we remember the outcry of a few years ago, we smile a gentle smile. "The Fight” goes to the very limit, and it can best be described as hot stuff.