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ETEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0\ SUNDAY. DECEMBER II. 1913.
Atlanta Welcomes Good Plays Warmly!
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By TARLETON COLLIER.
B ERNICE M’CABE ill “The Quaker Girl” at. the Atlanta at
the top; the athletes are the Carl Eugene Troop at the
Forsyth; below, left, is Vera Finley 1n “Tlie Girl of My Dreams,
Atlanta; right, Emma Bunting.
T HE music pupils of Mrs. Laura
E. Foote will give a recital at
her home on Cherokee avenue
on the afternoon of December 20.
The following piogTam will be ren
dered:
Sleigh Bells, E. T. Pauli, Misses
Kuth Clay and Josephine Judson;
Mystic Bells, Sutton, Miss LiUie Mae
Wiggins; Orelots Bells, Sreabog, Miss
Margaret Brown; Vesper Bells, Krog-
man. Master G. B. Cochran; Silver
Bells, Weyts, Miss Thelma Cobb;
Song of the Sleigh Bells, Sawyer, Miss
Julia Boone; Marriage Bells, Moel-
ling, Miss Marguerite Rowan; Jingle
Beils, Fearis, Miss Grace Worthern,
Miss Hazel Hill; Twilight Bells,
Soerdeler. Miss Friendly Haushalter;
The Academy Bell Song. Suddis,
Misses Lillie Mae Wiggins, Thelma
Cobb and Hazel Hill ; May Bells Peal,
►Seiwert, Mr. Jack Judson; The Bells,
Poe; recitation, Miss Mary Brown;
piano, Miss Alice Connally; Enchant
ed Bells, Rathbun, Miss Josephine
Judson; Christmas Bells, Wyman,
Miss Mildred Cochran; Bell Tones,
<'. Heines, Miss Ruth Clay; Sabbath
School Bells, Mueller, Miss Mamie
Jacobs; Easter Bells, Sehullze, Miss
Alice Connally; Song and Recitation,
Selected, Little Mary McCloud.
• * •
HE Atlanta Institute of Music
I gave a concert at the Woman’s
Club Thursday evening at 8:30
o’clock. The program was made up
of selections by the faculty of the in
stitute, and was given under the aus
pices of Atlanta Chapter, No. 57. Or
der of the Eastern. Star, the proceeds
to go to the inmates of the Masonic
Orphans’ Home of Macon.
Those taking part were Walter P.
Stanley, George F. Linder, Miss Syl
via Spritz and Miss Adello E-astlack,
of the faculty of the Atlanta Institute
of Music.
• • *
A T the weekly students’ recital last
Wednesday evening a large and
critical audience was present
at the Southern University of Music.
All the young artists appearing that
evening showed well-developed tech
niques and good musical understand
ing.
The following students took part In
the program: Miss Leslie Belliveau,
Miss Rosa Lichtenstein, Mrs. J. X.
Harwell. Miss Lonnie McLendon,
Miss Marguerite Hearne, Mrs. Co-
ririne Turnipseed, Miss Nell Xolan,
Miss Frances Stovall, Miss Robie
Smith, 'Miss Maybeth Johnson, Miss
Alma Garrett. Mrs. Oris Culpepper.
Mr. Alex Copeland.
Notes of the Stage
Cecilia Loftus is to play the leading
role in a moving picture play which
will be made by Daniel Frohinan’s
Famous Players Film Company. The
movies drama will be founded upon
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s play, “A
Lady of Quality.
Mrs. Charles G. Craig has been
engaged by Henry W. Savage to play
an important role in support of Wil
lis Sweatnam when that actor makes
his initial appearance as a star in
“Old Reliable,” the new comedy by
Harris Dickson.
* * *
Joseph Bickerton, Jr., has pla ed
“The Rule of Three,” Guy Bolton’s
new play, in rehearsal. Katherine
drey heads the cast.
* * *
“The Yellow Tickets.” the new play
of modern Russian life, by Michael
Morton, which A. H. Woods will put
on to succeed “Within the Law” at
th«- Eltinge Theater, in Xew York,
late :his month, is in rehearsal un
der the direction of the author.
• • •
Bernard Thornton will act the role
of Boris Brushkovskv in the Ameri
canized version df “Mendel Beilis” at
the Academy of Music in Xew York.
* * *
Bavard Veiller, author of “Within
tin: Law” and ’’The Fight,” which re-
centlv was put on in Xew York, is so
well pleased with the manner m
which the Henry 13. Harris estate has
mounted his plays that he has just
signed a contract with William Har
ris. Sr., and Mrs. Henry B. Harris
giving them the rights to all plays
that come from his typewriter during
the next five years. Veiller differs
from most playwrights in that all his
most vigorous scenes are pounded off
hot from the typewriter keys.
“A pen is too slow,” is the explana
tion he gives. “I tried it once, and
then had to dostr.»\ t !■** .> .”
Atlanta is pretty generally cogni
zant to-day that modern drama is
holding its own against any con
trariwise influences. It required only
last week’s demonstration on the- part
of the play patrons to establish well
that fact.
The modem stage entertainment
was ably exemplified everywhere in
Atlanta last week. “The Argyle Case”
revealed a vocabulary and methods
of maintaining the law that would
have been unintelligiblle to our grand
fathers, "Fine Feathers” exploited a
political economy and a code of mor
als that would have appalled folk of
a generation back. “The Butterfly on
the Wheel” was modern in its expo
sitions also, Even the big act of the
vaudeville entertainment was the re
sult of the day’s demand.
It all pleased.
No other week of the season saw
houses so generally excellent, nor the
local managers so smilingly compla
cent and satisfied. The people who
went to the theaters were truiy
Everybody, and the appeal was gen
eral. This bodes g x>d. The we* k
before, now, there was “Ben-Hur,” the
worthy old show, that drew crowds
through the week. But the appeal of
“Ben-Hur” was to some extent spe
cialized, attracting a clientele that is
only occasional, and to whom theater
attendance is a rarity. The attend
ance on “Ben-Hur” was no gauge tc
anything—except to the popularity of
“Ben-Hur” itself.
But last week there was more cf
significance in the temper and com
position of the theatergoers than be
fore. Then the modern drama, with
its bid to the just and the unjust, the
ragtag and the swell, was on the
boards. And that everybody should
come, and be pleased, and evince a
Very marked desire for more of the
same sort of thing—well, it wou*d
seem that the modernists are not ad
wrong, and that their kind of stage
entertaining is .not altogether an
evanescent thing, and that there is
still hope for future recognition of
the ancient and honorable field in
which “Jonson’s learned sock” once
trod aftd buskined feet as well.
And the movies, it would seem, are
act comic opera, with a little more
claim to substantiahility than the or
dinary comic opera, it is said, because j
it attempts a sort of analysis and
semi-serlous interpretation of a semi- i
serious topic, the heart of a girl. ;
There is a courtship in it, as well as j
enterprise of a material sort.
A bachelor falls in love. He was a |
cynic until that time. He takes his
ingenuous sweetheart to the city, and j
she Is endangered of becoming us i
cynical.
Karl Hoschna. who wrote the mu
sic for “The Three Twins,” “Bright |
Eyes,” “Madame Sherry” and “Doctor |
DeLuxe,” contributed the score.
Among the song numbers are “Girl
of My Dreams,” “I’m Ready to Quit
and Be Good.” “Dear Little Gaines of
Guessing,” “The Letter You Should
Have Sent.” In the cast are Olga
VonHatzfeldt Roy Purviance, Trving
Brooke. Francis Gaiilard, Neil Burns,
Frank McEwen, the original “DeLuxe
Harum-Scarum Pony Ballet” and a
beauty chorus. All of which should
make a good show.
Surely “The Quaker Girl,” with
Victor Morley, coming the next week,
December 22, 23 and 24, will be a good
show. It has been tried. Also “With
in the Law.” which follows it, De
cember 25, 26 and 27.
Emma Bunting at
Lyric for One Week
Emma Bunting is coming back to
Atlanta, where she i9 well liked. This
week she will be at the Lyric Theater
in “The Girl From Out Yonder,” a
MAIER & BERKELE
SKILL TEST
ANNOUNCEMENT
Owing to the large number of
answers received, the judges
found it impossible to arrive at
a decision last week.
Contestants used as many as
seven dictionaries and repeated
words as many as live times.
Many lists contained more than
one thousand words, and a large
number of the words are dis
qualified by the rules.
Experts have been employed
to work with the three judges,
as tlie judges want each word
verified so the decision will be
absolutely fair.
We feel confident we can an
nounce the winner in the papers
Sunday, December 21st.
MAIER & BERKELE, Inc.
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Established I^nT
Atlanta Playgoers'
11 cel'ly Calendar
At the Atlanta—“The Girl of My
Dreams,” comic opera. Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
At the Lyric—“The Girl From
Out Yonder.” all week, matinees
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
At the Forsyth—Keith vaude
ville, all week.
At the Bijou—“The Denver Ex
press,” all week.
Kaufman brothers, singing com
dians; Noll McKinley, a comedian
the new school, and Anita Diaz h |
monks will contribute specialties and j
there will be other features that wLI
be* interesting.
* * *
Drama Notes
Irene Franklin, the original “Red
head,” and Burton Green, who said
farewelj to vaudeville, temporarily at
least, at the close of their Milwaukee
engagement, November 30, have been
selected by George M. Anderson, of
San Francisco t<* be his principal
standard bearers in a campaign to in
troduce $1 musical shows in New
York as well as in San Francisco and
Los Angeles and other large cities of
tlie country. Through his genera)
representative, J. J. Rosenthal, Mr.
Anderson has secured the lease *>f
tlie Strand Theater, in New York,
now in process of erection, at Broad
way and Forty-seventh street, and
the Moroseo Theater. In Los Angeles,
In addition to the Gayety Theater in
San Francisco. These three theaters,
with possibly others to be secured in
other largo cities, will be operated art
a musical corned j circuit, and th«
••atoh line In all tlie billing will bo
$2 worth for $1.” Miss Franklin will
he st irred in “The Girl at the Gate,”
which Anderson will present at ttu»
Gayety Theater. In San Francisco,
about th»- middle of December. Mr.
Green will also have a role In the
play, and he and Miss Franklin will
appear together in a number of their
own songs which have been inter
polated.
The American production of “La
Demoiselle rie Magazin,” which will
be made by Henry W. Savage, will ba
called “Along Came Ruth.” Holman
Day has written the American ver
sion and the locale will be transferred
from Paris to a New England town.
not yet omnipotent.
This week there will be somewhat
of a surcease of the new thought and
modern materialism on the Atlanta
stage. The one attraction at the At
lanta will be “The Girl of My
Lyric Emma Bunting, a good old
Dreams.” a comic opera. At tlie
friend, in a good old play that should
suit her. will be seen. In the other
show-houses there will be entertain
ment of the kind that makes each
distinctive.
Then the next week the new note
will be sounded again, particularly
at the Atlanta, with ‘"Within the
Law,” Bayard Veiller*s play of Amer
ican life, The same week. Christmas
week, ‘ The Quaker Girl” will be at
the Atlanta as well, with Victor Mor
ley as Tony Chute.
‘Girl of Mv Dreams'
Combines Old and New
Of “The Girl of My Dreams,” the
musical offering which comes to the
Atlanta Theater Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, it is claimed that the
authors. Wilbur D. Nesbit and Otto
llauerbach, have combined the mod
ern note with the grace of other days’.
“The Gir! of My Dreams” is a two-
story of the sea. In which she Is
“Flotsam,” a child of the waves, li
is a typical Bunting role. There is
pathos and sobs, and there is vivacity
*nd childishness. Adelaide Thurston
played it once, and scored a hit.
The play is a simple story of New
England longshore life. Flotsam is a
foundling, washed up by the sea, and
lives with the keeper of a lighthouse
who has a dark secret in* his life. A
city “feller” falls in love with tfce
waif. Altogether, it is quite an idyllic
setting that is drawn.
One of the charming scenes of the
play Is when Flotsam appears, clad
In a sou’wester, high rubber boots
and a storm hat.
George Whitaker plays the part of
the urban lover, anti Sam C. Miller is
the old lighthouse keeper. John Ball
and Miss Eva Sargent play the pair of
comedy foils. All these are well
known in Atlanta.
There will be matinees Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
‘Denier Express' Is
Thriller at the Bijou
For the seventeenth week of its
engagement at the Bijou the Jewed
Kelley company announces for the
week, beginning to-morrow afternoon,
the great four-act melodramatic suc
cess, “The Denver Kxpiess.” Much
is expected from this production and
there is every reason to anticipate
the biggest success of the stock en
gagement for next week.
“The Denver Express” is a Western
play, depicting both the bright and
shadowy sides of life in Colorado, as
well as the efforts of Gilson Payne,
afterward Lord of Tynemouth, an
English swindler, to rob the wife and
child of his half-brother of an ex
tremely valuable mlninsr claim.
The dastard’s schemes are foiled
bv tlie heroes, Deadwood Dick and
Hiram Garvey, Sheriff of Cool Coun
ty and owner of Garveys Luck.
The piece abounds in thrilling sit
uations and startling episodes.
Ladies will be admitted free on
Monday nighti when accompanied by
an escort. Matinee* are given daily
at 2:30, and night performances at
8:30.
Edwin Stevens Star
Of Week at Forsyth
Behold another brilliant bill of nov
elty features for the busy theater of
Atlanta! So far as vaudevill* gu -
no city has any thing on Atlanta! Th<
Forsyth presents precisely the .-amt
quality of features that draw capaci
ty attendance in New York and Chi
cago.
For the week that will start on its
record-breaking campaign with a
ihatinee on Monday, Edwin Stevens,
the celebrated actor who has made a
genuine record in creating important
roles, will be the star. Mr. Stevens
is going to have the valuable aid of
M’.ss Tina Marshall, one of the clev
erest little women in the theatrical
profession. Th, y are going to off«*r
an original arrangement by Mr. gi
vens, a blending of music and the
drama which he calls "The Troubles
of R. and J.” Of course, it is a trav
esty on two of Mr. Shakespeare’s best
liked people.
Pretty Florence Tempest, who
scored a great personal hit at the
Forsyth three years ago as the star
of “The Tempest and Sunshine” act,
will appear as an Individual star, as
sisted by some clever people. Miss
Tempest has electrified Xew York.
The Carl Eugene Troupe will dem
onstrate that there is something new
in a gymnastic novelty. There fire
ten wonderfully clever and sens t-
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