The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, February 14, 1909, Image 16

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14. ... AT THE GRAND CALENDAR. Th. Orescent Com.dy Company This Week, Four Nights and Three Matin see. / Tomorrow night, "Kentucky 61.” Tuesday matinee, "Red River." Tuesday night, "The Sleeping City.” Wedneaday matinee, "His Sister's Honor." Wednesday night, "Land of the Midnight Sun.” Thursday matinee, "The Voice of the Tempter." Thursday night, "A Royal Prison er," (Beats selling tomorrow for the en tire engagement.) Saturday matinee, "The Honey mooners,” (Seats ready Thursday.) Saturday night, "The Honeymoon ers." (Seats ready Thursday.) Monday matinee, February 22, "The Man of the Hour." (Seats ready Friday.) Monday night, February 22, "The Man of the Hour." (Seas,, ready Friday.) Tuesday night. February 23, Max Flgman, in "The Substitute.” (••ate ready Saturday.) "Th» Woneymoonors,” Y.OO. M. I'ohftU’H Inti'S! Il!!() Imßt mil atoftl yroflwotVm, "Tb« Houaymooti •rs,“ ooniim to th« Or aud on next B«*ur<liiy, mottnou anil night. So groat waa tnc popularity of "Tho Boogyinooiwr*" tho* Tor months tho S»w Aniatimitem ttmWiv was packet! ntglktly and s>«ta gold throughout for $2- .aU sploiulld production Is now ou tho road and tho tour ta iirovlng to uc as great a success as was thi» mminer run In the metropotls. Mr Potian is tho most popular Amcrlciui writer for the stage aud his music tmd Ills smart lines are pari of the •wry clay life of uenrybody. In "The Honey mooners" he has written, com posed and staged a song show that U crowded with mirthful action, lieautlful catxthj music and pretty girls It Is a typically Cohaneaque production and that meaus that It Is exhlleraftng. snappy, smart and tune ful. The plot Is a coherent, exciting sltalr of love and politics and amus ing family complications in the town ot Tlggervllle, Vormont. The author runs the whole gamut of small town characters aud Illustrates the conjunc tlon of city manners and country ways "The Honeyniooners" is known as the "big Cohan show" in New York and the costly production hears out the phrnsc. There are no less than twenty songs and two score of us charming girls as ever left Broadway. Among the lyrics are such hits as: "Ini a Popular Man." "Kid Davs." "In a One Night Sinnd." "I ll He Then* In the Public Square," and "If Pm (Join' to Ole I'm linin' to Have Some Pun. The cast Is classy and large Vmong Ihe Broadway favor ites who preseni the Cohan enter tainniem are such well known play ers as Willie Dunlay. John M Byrnes, Daniel Sullivan Uvula 1 .ondon. Thus! A. Hearn. William Singer. Annie Wheaton. Gertrude UeHramit. Hose Gitdea. aud Minnie Pollard The scenery and costumes are magnltl ceui. The Honeyniooners" Is one laugh from start to finish and the musical numbers are the kind you whistle and sing Seats start selling next Thursdav mornlug for both matinee and night, Th« Crescent Stock Coop ny. The Cruse ewt Coftiß dy Company will appear for their opening Mcml.iy night at the <>r«u.t bill “Kentucky 61. a MO—UonaA melodrama >f the most art! loal period In history of Kentucky. Ladies win admitted free on Mon day a%at. wtwn aocompanled by a paid 30 cent* ticket. kvilned vaudeville will Ik- offered b«tvMn act* MU* Eva Al- Un 1* f>n« of the beet vaudeville aote ever offered, “The Women of Mystery,” win bo present at every performance. The Crticflnt company will present n different play at each performance. Matinee* will be Riven dally, com menelng Tue*«ay. Seat* now selling for the entire engagement. Price*, night, 10. 20 and 30c. Price*, matinee, 10 and 20 rent*. « . ~ , . ; £( * . „ William H. Crane. William H. Cranp, probably the great©*! comedian In the world, 1* still another extraordinary attraction at the Grand neat month. He comes here under the personal direction of Chari©* Frohman, one of the greatu*t producer* in the world, and will offer hi* new pluy by George Ado, “Father and the Boy.” “The Blue Mouse,” a Clyde Fitch play by a Shwbwrt company, was tne attraction at the opera houae last night nn«» will again appear thU afternoon and evening. The play 1* a comedy, one of those fust and furious kind where there 1* n new complication and ii new lough every minute. It 1* in ihe hands of a capable company and pret tily mounted. The piece has a story whtch is funny, though it i* not tho kind of n story which 1* likely to hap pen in every day life. A show girl poses mm the wife of a private secre tary to a railroad president, who Is in clined to 1»* sporty, for the purpose of getting the private secretary a promo tion to be division superintendent. Of course the real wife of the private sec retary. wife of the railroad president, me lover of the show girl and various oth er* get In an awful mix up. Mllllcent ICvnn* Is in the character of the show L. . . -x i .n mmm ——»-—»»» —m—. .«»■■■ —. »■> i I—iMM—»*■—m»n ■*»!.* : .H »■—■»» tsMI *-**-*■<• «i Bingham and Gable, the Instrumental Trio at the i Arcadium. k _ • *>,• 'f . -f, , ; ’W. - / J-Z'J,. yl -■ ■ . jflr *••* • # WM'frjm? >ar# v 4-‘ .f > -■ /‘4‘’ r^L,’^.'rtwS^^S^Sa^sß^M f' y uvJ^vtrta?s ! & •% ? ’ *««£',. / >'.oC' Miss Eva Allen, “the Mystery Girl,” with the Crescent Comedy Company. girl and Is clever. Wilton Taylor is capable as the railroad president. Juda Palmer as the wife of the railroad president does some One work. Qeofray C. Stein is capable as tho private sec retary. and Miss Caroline Pearce makes a good impression as his wife. There are a number of others in the company and all are above the usual standard. Tho audience Inst night was delighted with the play. It wil be repeated this afternoon and evening. It is a new ex periment to run a high olass show for a two days' engagement in Wilmington and the city ought to feel compliment ed. Wilmington (Del.) Morning News. GREAT POLITICAL PLAY IS COMING. Theatregoers, business and profession al men have been talking of tho wonder ful play that treats of the political game and all its meshes of wire pulling and trickery. The story is an Interesting one, the characters are cleverly drawn, particularly those of the two rival po litcal bosses. Tho dialogue is snappy and generously sprinkled with with of the particular kind that it is said Mr. Broadhurst hus ready to hand. In fact, Mr. Broadhurst has wrlttes a play that give* promise of living, which ha* been proven by the long run tht play i* still having at the Savoy theatre, New York. The story tells how Alwyn Bennett is made mayor of the city by Charles Wain right, a financier, and Richard Horrigan, a corrupt “boss,” because these two worthies want him to sign a bill that give* them a street railway franchise in perpetuity. But when Bennett gets in control of the city government he can not awe things unite in the way that Walnwright and Horrigan hoped he would, and lie vetoes the Ml. They trv to force it* passage over his head by a vote in the commit toe, and Wainwrigut lets Bennett know that -the latter s sweetheart, Dallas, will he ruined un less the franchise is granted, because he (Walnwright) being the girl's guardian, THE AUGUSTA HERALf has invested all her capital In the stock. But at length Phelan, a rival of Horrigan, brings to light the fact that Walnwright has wrecked and plundered a friend, Garrison, whose son discovers many evidences of Wainwrlght’s crooked dealings, and the bill is withdrawn. Ben nett and Dallas thus find their path of love strewn with roses. The company is to be seen here Is ex ceptionally good, and the play will oe splendidly mounted at the Grand Wash ington’s birthday for matinee and night. THE JEFFERSON BOYS. Among the many great comedies that Richard BripsleJ' J3&iferidan wrote, the one thru, has pre-eminently survived the ravages of time and lived almost a cen tury and a half i 6 “The Rivals," now as enjoyable as ever before on account of the keen satirical wit, for which the author was a master unsurpassed or even equalled by the more modern ot his numerous imitators. As portrayed by Joseph and William W. Jefferson, the caustic lines have lost none of their original penetration, and the many laughable situations are fully exempli fied by the excellent work for w’hich these artists have won renown. Joseph Jefferson is the “Sir Lucius O'Trigger” and William W. Jefferson is “Bob Acres” or "Fighting Bob,” two wonder fully amusing characterizations which conform with the peculiar personalities of th© actors with a surprising nicety. They are supported by a cast of a maz ing aptitude and a performance of dig nified brilliance Is promised when this combination comesr to the Grand early in March. THE BLUE MOUSE. In plot, “The Blue Mouse" suggests nothing that has gone before. Clyde Fitoh, the author of the new play, has injected more humor, more genuine laughs than has been the good for tune of his predecessors. Moreover, he hus written several original scenes w'hich might aptly be called creaations, all of which make “The Blue Mouse’ an example of the purest art of farce. “The Blue Mouse” is booked for an early presentation here. MAX FIGMAN. It Is seldom that one can sit In a theatre and become so engrossed in the story that they entirely forget their sur roundings and forget that it is all only make believe and the men and women on tho stage are only acting. It is true, however, of Max Figman’s play, “The Substitute,’* which appears here on Tuesday, February 23d, at the Grand. 'lhe characters are dcrfwn so naturally and the development of the story so consistent you almost think you are part and parcel of the story yourself and mingling among people you meet ev ery day. This is real art in dramatlo writing. MADAME NAZIMOVA. What will probably attract more at tention than any engagement this sea son at the Grand will be that of Mad ame Nasimova. wno has left New York after a run of two seasons in the Ibsen plays, a .id yn ill appear in this city in “A Doll s on March 2d. Madame Kasimova's finished art has given her Ibsen performances such vogue in New York that she was kept con tinuously before the metropolitan pub lic. She is a young and beautiful wom an. who speaks English perfectly, and her productions have been so finished that they have made her the theatrical sensation of the day. The Shuberts. by special arrangements, have booked her here for a single performance. It was of Madame Nasimova that the New York World said: “Alla Nazimova's *Nora‘ is truly great. There have been hundreds of 'Noras.' but none like Naz itnova's. She outshone them nil.” GRACE GEORGE. Grace George will soon be ni this city appearing In Thompson Buchanan's sparkling comedy. “A Woman's Way. * Miss George wiU be seen for the first »time as Marion Stanton, a young and commonsense wife, and the part is said to fit her unusually well. She will have m her support a notably strong cast, which will inefude Frank Worthing. Whose work has aiso received very high commendation. LEW DOCKSTADER. One of the features of this season’s presentation of Lew Dockstader and his company of minstrel entertainers is tho music. All this was written especial ly for the production by a staff of writers which Mr. Dockstader Justly claims to be the best obtainable. Only men who have in the past turned out hits in music have been called upon and the result is refreshing. The music is bright, tuneful and oi a higher order than usual. Mr. Prosser has an entire new line Pf songs. He is singing “You Have Changed the Winter In My Heart to Glad Springtime,” “Sweet Moments at Home” and a new ballad. Will Oakland is to b e heard in “Again, Sweetheart, Again.” William H. Thompson sings “Years, Years, Years,” while A 1 Jolson renders the season’s biggest success, “When Matilda Sings,” with rare sweet ness and grace. This number is par ticipated in by Herbert Willison, the highest singing male soprano in the world. The entire company is included in the rendition of the chorus of the song and the number is one of the most, effective of the show. A new departure in songs is one called “A Welsh Rarebit Dream.” This is one of the sweetest numbers ever written. It cannot fail to haunt the memory. It is in line with Mr. Dock stader’s idea uiat the style of music usually seen in the present musical en tertainment will admit of great im provement. Mr. Dockstader himself has several songs that are entirely new. They are “A Little Bit of Trouble Goes a Good Long Way With Me,” “Going Up, “Bull Durham” and “Broke." Neil O'Brien sings "Everybody Turned and Looked at Me." Coming ti the Grand. THE MAN FROM MISSISSIPPI. The newest Brady-Grismer success, “A Gentleman from Mississippi,” is the re sult of collaboration between Harrison Rhodes, the magazine writer, and Thos. A. Wise, the comeuian. The latter evolved the story’ while convalescing from pneumonia in Chicago. Rhodes elaborated it and spent some months in the south absorbing local color. Their joint product is the most successful American comedy of Washington life since “The Senator.” THE ROGER BROS. The coming of the "Roger Bros, in their latest musical comedy offering, “The Roger Bros in Panama,” has already aroused interest all over the city, al tnough their date at the Grand is not until March 5. Nearly 100 people ac company the famous stars. NAT GOODWIN. Nat C. Goodwin, accompanied by his remarkably beautiful wife, Edna Good rich, and an equally remarkable ail itat cast, will present his new play, “Cameo Kirby,” at the Grand early next month. This is only one of the many high class attractions booked at the Grand in March. VAUDEVILLE NOTES Della Fox will soon make a vaude ville appearance under the direction of Werley and Pincus. The Lola Lea Earl Company have just concluded an engagement of eight weeks over the Burgert and Greenwood time. Their offering was a big suc cess. Weston, Young and Company return ed to vaudeville last w*eek at the Amer ican with their act or rather their con glomeration of nonsense. There is little excuse for It. It is announced that Jefferson De- Angelis will end his vaudeville engage ments March 13, but the leading role in the sketch he is now appearing will be taken by Harry McDonough. The tour will be under the dlrectiog of Wm. Lykens. mam. BWWpMWßHgpliMlMPljraHKillli , ' iff? if . Willie Dunlay, in “The Moneymooners.” 1 The famous Dunedin Troupe, who were the big feature of the Hippodrome show two years ago, returned to America for a year's engagement on the United time. The Dunedins play the Palace Theatre, Cork, this week and sail on the Oceanic from Queenstown February 8, opening with Percy Williams the week of March 1. Pat Casey has had so many good of fers for the skating act of Reynolds anu Donegan. from the London man agers. .that he will try and arrange so as to let this great team play six weeks during the summer in London, return ing for thirty-six weeks on the Or pheum circuit and Western time. Eva Tanguay is again proving herself a champion box-office winner. She is crowding them into Keith and Proctor’s 123 th street theatre this week, her sec ond there. The rest of the bill is good, including Margaret Moffatt and Company in Sewell Collin’s sketch, “Awake at the Switch;” Bert Coote and Company, Arthur Rigby, the Mysterious Mermaids, the Empire Comedy Four and Martinetti and Sylvester. The Leighs, formerly presenting the Musical Maid and the Juggling Tramp, have dropped the comedy, and have pre pared an entirely new act. They have added several new musical instruments, new wardrobe and stage settings, and the act is being billed as a Dainty Musi qpl and Juggling Novelty. The ideas throughout the act are said to be en tirely original. The return of Smith and Heagney, who gained their reputation as first class vaudeville artists in Augusta, will be hailed with delight among their friends in Augusta. These young men are justly popular here, and they will be accorded a great reception. They will be the feature at the Superba the coming week. AT THE SUPERBA If the bill for the coming week at the “house-popular” does not please ev ery class of amusement seekers, it will not be the fault of the bill. Certain it is that it has been carefully selected, and that all other towns have “eaten it up, ’ to use the vernacular of the pro fession. Ben Smith and Billy Heagney, the old' time favorites who started their the atrical careers in the Bandy houses, and who made a quick jump to the top round of the vaudeville ladder, will greet their old friends with their now cele brated sketch, “Wr.iing a Hit.” These talented young men are coming fresh from success after playing in all the big vaudeville circuits of the country, hav ing played the past week at the Or- slliii Scene from “The Man of the Hour.” SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14. ! pheum theatre in Atlanta, which is one of the few southern hou&es on the Keith and Proctor or “Orpheum Cir cuit.” Their price is now ordinarily too steep for the smaller vaudeville houses, but in order to show their ap preciation of the esteem in which they are held in Augusta, they made some concessions which enabled the manage ment to secure them, and they be here for one week only, putting on act just as it has been put on in ali the large vaudeville houses of the coun try. That they will be greeted by rec > ord-breaking crowds goes wuthout say ing. But there will be other feature acts on the week's bill besides Smith and Heagney. Ollie Hamilton will be found | to be a singing and dancing comedian ; second to none. He has just finished ' a week at the Criterion, Savannah, asd ! has gilt-edge recommendations. Last, , but not least, will be Wiliam Triplett and Company, who will put on a series of cometly playlets of real merit, legiti mate high class comedy which will ap peal to the best classes of theatrical patrons. These playlets w-ill be changed several times during the week, so that there will be practically three ,or four changes of program during the week— ' another feature in itself. The same high grade moving picture subjects for which the Superba has be come distinguished will be continued with a daily change, and that these pictures are being appreciated is at tested by the constantly increasing at j tendance upon tne picture matinees, j The schedule of performances will be i continued as it is for the present: Pic -1 ture matinees 3 to 5 and 7 to 8; picture* ana vaudeville 5 to 7 and 8 to 11. Mabel's Matinee Column AVhat did I tell you, girls, about Edith Taliaferro? You all fell dead In love with her, didn't you? You can always take my tip about these matters. Girls, Edith also fell dead in love with Augusta. She remrrked to me that she wished her engagement here was two weeks instead of two days. “Polly of the Circus" broke all mati nee records last Tuesday and also broke the record for a two-day engage ment. Girls, Edith Taliaferro s coming back to the Grand next season. Long ime off, but it Is worth waiting for, eh? That gallery at the Grand is certainly the popular thing in Augusta right now, and there is hardly a matinee that the “peanut" Is not taxed to its capacity, Why not? It .s a fad in other cities, and there is no reason why the Augusta Jady patrons should not go up In the gallery, for it is as clean and comfort able up there as it Is on the other two floors, and everybody knows that one of the secrets of the Grand's success is cleanliness and politeness, and there is a large amount of tms distributed m that gallery. t Girls, now that you have “acquired the gallery habit,” keep it up, and a lot pf you that have never been up there would be surprised at the class oT people that go up every matinee “tne best people in town.” Some class to that gallery fad. Girls, what do you think? Paul Gil more's wife is in Sioux Falls, S. D., se curing a divorce. The reason she give* is that Paul is so “terribly handsome.” 0... you Paul! Here is another tip for the members of the matinee club. Don’t miss “The Blue Mouse,” for it is In the same class of “Polly of the Circus.” Girls, it was a peculiar coincidence that “The Blue Mouse” also has a young girl star in the person of Milli cent Evans, and she is also as “cute as she can be.” Don’t miss “The RRie Mouse.” “The Blue Mouse” will also be seen at i.ie Grand for two nights and mati nee on Wednesday and Thursday, March 3u and 4th, with matinee >on Thursday. Girls, here is some good news for you: Edna Goodrich is coming to the Grand next month. She is now Mrs. Nat C. Gooavtfin. Edna Goodrich is considered the most beautiful actress on the American stage, and her gowns which shfe wears in Nat Goodwin's new play are said to cost SIO,OOO. We will have to get .a look at those gowns, girls. Edna Goodrich wears an ostrich feath er in one of her marvelous hats that measures eighty-six inches in length. I didn’t measure it, and I am only taking Nat Goodwin’s word for it. He bought it and paid $275 for it—and he ought to know. * Girls, whatever you dcr, don’t miss William H. Crane in “Father and the Boys” when he comes to the Grand next month. “How about that Washington’s birth day, matinee, girls? “The Man of the Hour,” the best show here last season Is the show for that date. Girls. “The Man of the Hour” is just the kind of show that you can rave about., I have seen it four different times, and liked it better the last time than I did the first. Don’t miss “The Man of the Hour.” Alla Nazimova pronounce the name correctly) comes to the Grand on March 2d in “Hedda Gabler.” Madam© Alla Nazimova was the rage of New.' York for the last two seasons, Girls, Madame Nazimova is considered the greatest living actress on the stag© today, and she is strictly a $2 star. You will get the worth of your money. Have to say something about the Lew Dockstader minstrels in this issue. The genial Lew has kindly consented to give the "matinee club” an “extra mat inee.” Girls. Lew Dockstader has the best show of his successful career this j season—and “dat’s no lie.” MABSLb I