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Attractive Week Acme Plays—Ladles Free
Every Night—Special Matinee Prices.
Tomorrow, “Across the Pacific”
An attractive array of Acme play
attraction* will be harl at tb»* Grand
this week, opening tomorrow afternoon
and night with • Across the Pacific,"
the famous war melodrama, which
will be presented by Chat*. E. Blancv
In three thrilling acts that span the
ocean from California to the Philip
pine*. "Across the Pacific" was first
produced and presented nti a dramatic
speaking play fifteen years ago, dur
ing the period of the Spanish-Amer
ican war, Mr. Rlaney was the origi
nal producer and when th* play was
first presented It was one of lliij great
est successes at that time Mr, Bluney
has gotten together ns man\ of the
original company as he could secure
to appear In the photo-play version
and he has also given It s magnificent
production
The Acme plav to he offered on Fri
day will he the well known and un
completed story, "The Mystery of Ed
win Drood,'' by Charles Dickens. Many
have read this story and know at the
time of the death of the author this,
his last work, was not finished. One
of the most exciting periods In the
hook is where the story' stops. Writ
ers h*”e endeavored to fill In the con
cluding chapters of this thrilling story.
Mr. Tom Terrlss, who will appear In
the role of Edwin Drood, and who Is
considered to be the greatest Imper
sonator of Dickens' characters, lias
suggested his own view in connection
with a few of the best accepted theo
ries as In Just what manner Dickens
would have unraveled the mystery bad
he lived to complete this, which rom
ised to he his masterpiece
It has been the custom of the Acme
Play company to have on Saturday
nights ladles free when accompanied
by one paid twenty-five cents ticket.
Commencing with tomorrow night In
dies will he admitted free to Acme at
tractions for this week when accom
psnled by one paid twenty-five cent
ticket, with no limit of hour of pur
chase. The entire balcony at all night
performances will be ten rents. This
will make over eight hundred seats to
be had at all Acme Plays night per
formances for ten cents. Matinee
prtce* will be, adults, ten cents, and
children, five cents, any part of the
house.
The coming Acme Plr.v attractions
promise some of the most notable dra
matic aticressrs and feature sttrac
tlon* such as have never been seen
here before In photo play form. Wtl
ton Larkaye will he acen tn his great
stage triumph, "The Pit," supported
by Miss Gall Kane. Miss Kane Is
now scoring one of the ulggest sue
cesses of the dramatic season on
Broadway, appearing In George M
Cohan's latest and first dramatic of
fering. "The Miracle Man " Tills play
has opened a new field for this well
known manager-author-star, who has
heretofore given only mualral and
Oo you know of any other
Improvement you can maka
to your hpme that will add
so much to ita intrinsic value
at having it wirsd for elec
tricity?
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farce oofnediee and nongH of a mort
or less ragtime variety Miss Grace
George is also booked for early ap
pearance in Acme Play attractions un
der the management of Wm. A. Brady,
when she will be seen in the photo
play production, "The Market Worn- I
an " Miss George i« well known to
local theatregoers and appeared here
in many notable successes.
<me of the biggest features of
Acme Play season will be the photo
marvel, ‘Thirty Thousand Leagues
Under the Bea.** This attraction will
prove to be as Interesting as educa
tional. All of the scenes are taken
under the water and show for the first
time the mys'eries and wonders of the
briny deep. There is a thrilling seen*
showing a fight between a man and a
shark Another big feature just re
cently booked by the Acme I*lay Com
pany will be "The Destruction of Car
thage,' produced In Italy and now en
joying tremendous popularity In New
York City. Mil Acme Play attractions
will begin, afternoons at 3:30; nights
at 8:30.
At The Grand
OTIS SKINNER PLEABEB RICHMOND
Otis Hklnntr will appear at the Grand
Wednesday evening in “The Silent
Voice.” Below U given a criticism of
the play by Douglas Gordon of the Rich
mond Times-Dispatch as follows:
When Otl» Skinner ion da the rolling
lines of poetic drama, us, fosr example,
that noble fragment of Browning’s “In
a Balooney,” lie renders its poetry yet
more sonorous, yet more musical; when
he swaggers his debonair way through
such a fantasy of ancient and
days as "Klnmol," he both deepens its
element of mystery and heightens and
brightens Its whimsically. So, to the
lntivpretAlton of such a play as “The
Silent Voice,” in which he now appears
.» play of today, yet a play more than ,
touched with fiinclfulncss, with un
reality lie brings a rare quality of art
that is more than mere acting. It is
called temperament, understanding -
what you will. In his csfee,’ll may he
most nearly described, perhaps, as
Poetic Insight.
Whatever It Is, It prt-mtts him to en
dow the play that Jules Eckert Goodman
built upon n theme suggested by Gou
verneur Morris's short story. "The Man
Who Played God,” with a beauty that
mokes Ita fancy fnct and Its unreality
truth without robbing cither of Its charm
or of Its nppeul.
True, the play Itself Is beautiful, and,
If tlnfra be any criticism to make of Mr.
Skinner’s performance In H, tt Is tliat bs
realizes too fully from the first that
quality, and, In the earlier scenes, na
tlctpates In his- own mind what is to
come, unit plays too sensibly for the poe
try, which, he knows. It contains
Briefly, ami rather badly, he is too es
sentially the poetic uctdr In these first
few scenes.
But only In lhcsc; nfter the theme of
the play has become apparent, the rea
son for his maimer, his Intonation, also
becomes apparent, and thereafter oqe
settles down to the sheer delight of see
ing and hearing the man who has long
been acclaimed ns the greatest romantic
actor and the finest reader on the Am-
CJ' uti stage Interpret hla part.
As has been said, the play Is beauti
ful Mr. ’Goodman has taken the short
story by Mr. Morris a short story, not
only Ip point of brevity, but from tha
Miss Ruth Oppenheim, ot Atlanta, Only Geor
gia Girl in Grand Opera, Who Sings at
Bijou Theatre, Nov. 17th
standpoints of form and construction—
and has made of It a thoroughly coher
ent four-act play. And. move than this,
he has given It an atmosphere of exal
tation, of which the story was quite de
void
Briefly, as the play has It: a great
musician, who happens also to be a rich
man, suddenly becomes hopelessly deaf—
stone deaf. and hardened,
he turns away from the world, shuts
himself up. but he learns to rend ths
language of the Ups. lie marries a
young glvl. who Is only "very fond” of
him, and then he learns that she loves
n man of her own age Then agnosti
cism atheism, beset him. and he Is on
the point of blaspheming and defying
Ood, when he sees and. by means of
glasses understands a conversation be
tween two hits of human driftwood In
the park beneath his window.
Instantly a change comes over film,
and he sots about. In the words of the
story’s title, “playing Ood” to the unfor
tunate. In the end and here the story
Is wisely changed his good works win
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
their reward, and all's well with the
world for him. The manner in which
that Is accomplished it is not necessary
to detail. It Is sufficient to say that
the closing scene is worth waiting for in
silence— not a word, not a movement,
should be missed.
The formal settings are good, of
course, but the scenes, the conversations
between the derelicts in the park- and
they five many -are not only well dis
played by a craftsmanliko adaptation of
on old Idea, hut they are all played in
n manner that makes them very real,
hv men and women well worthy of be
ing In Mr. Skinner's company.
And this Is true of all the members of
the company. It Is Infrequently that
such a cast Is seen In support of a star
as that which surrounds MV.
Maud Durbin (Mrs. Skinned! Is very
lovely in person, and plays with a soft
ness and grace that make the part of
Mildred Hellam peculiarly appealing.
Florence Fisher. despite a somewhat
farlsh make-up. gives a thoroughly ar
tistic performance as the wife, playing
the last scene, In particular, with a
method that makes the audience forget
Mr. Skinner, who, artist that he is, Is
well content that It should be so.
All the other parts are of compara
tive unimportance, but they are played
In such a way as to form polished items
of a complete whole.
“The Silent Voice" is a dramatic
"Choir Invisible.”
"HIGH JINKS.”
A perfume that,sets everybody in a
frenzy of joy is the moving force in
the plot of "High Jinks,” the musical
which Arthur Hammerstlen will
presaist at the Grand Tuesday Nov.
24th “High Jinks," which at the Casino
Theatre, enjoyed the longest run of
any musical piece produced in New
York last season, is the work of Otto
Hauerbach and Rudolf Friml. Hauer
bach, is the author of “Three Twins”
and "Madame Sherry." Frinpl, com
posed "The Firefly” music, and Arthur
Hammersteln, producer of "Naughty
Marietta,” and "The Firefly," staged
the new piece with all the rich art and
correct taste he had displayed in his
former ventures. The c on.pany is
made up of the prettiest and liveliest
chorus girls that could be found on
Broadway, and a large cast of metro
politan favorites.
The plot Is set in motion in Paris in
the flower garden of Dr. Robert
Thorne, an American nerve specialist
whose patients are among the elite of
the French capital. A friend of Dr.
Thorne, Dick Wayne, an explorer, has
discovered a perfume with the magic
property of transforming a pessimist
Into an optimist, a serious recluse into
a jovial man of the world and a prude
into a veritable dare-devil. He com
municates his discovery to Dr, Thorne,
who grasps Its splendid possibilities for
his practice.
The doctor tries the perfume on one
of his pretty female patients, whose
husband is a fire-eating Frenchman.
The young woman becomes so hilar
ious that she throws v her arms around
the physician's neck and kisses him
rapturously. The incident might have
ended there had not the husband been
a witness of the proceedings. He put
In an enraged appearance, and de
manded, by way of satisfaction, either
that the doctor die in a duel or give
Mrs. Thorne to the Frenchman to pay
hug for hug and kiss for kiss. The
doctor chooses the latter alternative,
but sets to work to outwit the enemy.
He engages a young and pretty actress
to act, strictly platonlcally, as his wife.
With her he flees to a fashionable wa
tering place, where the plot takes on
many new and amusing complications.
The feature of Frlml’s score is a
song, "Something Seems Tingle-Ingle
lng," which is said to catch the au
dience instantly, and which is repeated
frequently throughout the piece. It sets
everybody on the stage in a whirl of
motion, and the swiftness is quickly
communicated to the audience. Other
attractive numbers are, "Something
Seems Tingle-Inple-Ing,” "Jim,"
“Dove's Own Kiss,” ‘T’rq Through With
Roaming Romeos." “Chi Chi," "Slot
Now, But Later," “Come Hither Eyes,"
“I Know Your Husband Very Well,”
and “Dlxlana Rise.”
Scene in * ‘Behind the Scenes,’ ’
with Mary Pickford, at The
Strand Thursday, November
19th.
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Otis Skinner in “Ths Silent Voice," at the Grand Wednesday Evening.
Mary Pickford Coming to The Strand
Twice This Week; Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Friday and Saturday—Fine Program
THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM AT
THE STRAND.
Monday—Max Flgman In “What’s
His Name?”
Tuesday—Mary Pickford in “The
Eagles Mate.”
Wednesday—“ Vendetta.”
Thursday—Mary Pickford in "Be
hind the Scenes.”
Friday and Saturday—Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw in "The Threads of Des
tiny.”
The program announced for The
Strand for this week includes some of
the very best from the greatest pro
ducers, such as Jesse L. La sky, Daniel
Frohman, George Kleine, and others.
On Friday of this week, instead of
Saturday as heretofore, the Strand war
pictures, the fourth of the series, will
be shown.
Clifford L. Pangburn in reviewing
‘‘What’s His Name.” tomorrow’s picture,
in the Motion Picture News, says in
part:
"All of the factors which are neces
sary in turning out a good film have
been looked after by the producers of
this feature in a manner which leaves
little to be desired. The result is that,
mechanically speaking, it may be said to
be a nearly perfect piece of work. This,
combined with strength of plot and ex
cellence of acting, provides a picture of
unusual merit.
"There is no bungling in “What’s His
Name.’ The various scenes have been ar
ranged with great care, and this in spite
of the fact that many of them are de
cidedly unusual.
"The scenes which take place in the
theatre, both behind the scenes and in
the auditorium, are also unusually well
done. These and many other fine set
tings give the picture a most remark
able degree of realism. The spectator
is made to feel as if he were one of the
characters, which is the only test of
realism.
"The case contains a number of famil
iar names. The title role is played by
Max Figman, who handles a part call
ing for a wide variety of acting. His
wVok is more than creditable. Lolita
Robertson as his wife is equally effec
tive. Although appearing in only a half
dozen scenes in the last reel the doc
tor’s role is played with realism and
naturalness.
"The story starts in a country town
Scene from “What’s His Name,” at The Strand Tomorrow
(Monday) continuously.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
where the soda clerk of the drug store
marries the baker's daughter against the
wishes of the girl’s bachelor uncle. After
three years of happy but impecunious
married life she meets a chorus girl of
a show which comes to town, and as a
result joins the chorus.
“Her husband and their little daugh
ter Phoebe go to New York and the
husband keeps house while his wife Is
attending to her theatrical work. Nellie,
the wife, becomes a star and establishes
her husband and daughter at Tarrytown.
Learning of the advances of a million
aire towards his wife, the husband quar
rels with her and is turned out of the
house.
“He keeps the little girl with him and
goes home. Her season ended, the ac
tress goes to Reno to get a divorce.
There she learns of the real character
of her rich suitor, and hears of her
daughter’s Illness. She abandons the
Idea of a divorce, rushes home and there
Is a happy reconciliation at the bedside
of the child, who is out of danger.”
BLESSINGS OF ENGLISH LAW.
"Please, muvver’s sent word to say
if you don’t mean to send the frying
pan back as you borrowed a month
ago she'll 'ave to send farver around.”
“And yer can tell your mother that
she can send 20 fathers around—she
ain’t forced to git it back while the
moritoriyum’s on!”—London Opinion.
THE "TRAM POET” AGAIN.
“I sing the battle” w’arbles Harry
Kemp in the New York Call. Harry
is more at home when he sings the
"side door Pullman” and the cala
boose. As a war bard he lacks sin
cerity. No one expects a poet to get
his inspiration on the firing line now
adays, and that may be the reason
why none of the bards, from the
most humble to the most high, have
been able to strike a note that does
full justice to the stout-hearted allies
or the equally brave Germans with
their "Busy Berthas.”
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woolens —best workmanship; fit to
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