Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 10, 1910, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2c Manitoba ree Pess september id 1910. Theatre and vaudeville Bills at the theatres i Gambler who believes himself to injured by the latter rushes on the Winnipeg theatre. Stage with revolver in hand which he proceeds to a in the other s stomach. Instead of knocking the revolver out of the would be murderer s hand Jack. Brookfield gazes fixedly in and 9this afternoon and denied that it. Can Rire in a word Mes to bring himself to her notice by de tying the edict. He remains on a bal i Cony and pelts her with Flowers a she passes. Here begins the love Story around which the opera is built. A descriptive intermezzo will depict the ride. Signer Mascagni will him self conduct each performance of the new opera. William a most popular actor will present the world and his wife in the City next month. Charles Frederic Nirdlinger s play is an artaur tation of Jose Echegaray a Spanish be i semblance to that authors other fam masterpiece the. Great it Ous Success. The ends with i was Given a single performance by or. Mason in the witching monday tuesday and wednesday with Allen in the White thursday Friday and saturday with goddess of Ferizes him. And the wonder is that glided Over with Mastery Dominion theatre. This afternoon and Blue All next Walker theatre. Vaudeville entertainment. Bijou theatre. Vaudeville entertainment. Dreamland. Moving pictures. Starland. Moving pictures. Manager c. P. Walker who has been in new York for some time past has returned to the City. He has been at tending important theatre owners association and com which compels Heartfelt admiration. John Mason will live two further presentations of his great study and no dra Matic student should miss seeing him. A notable event of the present theatrical Eason is the coming to the Winnipeg theatre next monday for three nights and a wednesday mat Inee of Viola Allen accompanied by James o Neill and one of the Strong est supporting companies Ever Organ ised As it includes Minna Gale and Henry Stancl Ford. Late leading Man of the new theatre company in the White aside from miss Allen s prominence Jund the deserved Fame of her support the Success of the play and company in Minneapolis and St. J Paul has been such that interest in the perform. I Nee Here is equally As great. Viola Allen s latest stirring vehicle the White was the last work of f. Marion Crawford the american writer of fiction and plays who died in Italy not quite two years ago. The Story of the play is based upon fact and the characters of the n in and Soldier in the White sister have their flesh ind blood prototypes in the plating Iii bookings for the season which has ipe Neu so auspiciously. The policy of the open door is proving More successful than even its most enthusiastic sup Porter a Rod Hope for and in consequence local theatre goers confidently expect stars and at traction is which under the old system pursued by Tho Syndicate possibly have come Here. Meetings of the material world. The action is sup 1 posed to take place near the Porta Portese Rone and the four acts re Valeci Are set first in the reception Hall of a Convent Hospital the cloistered Garden of the Convent and Fin ally in the rooms of Captain sevens apartments near the powder Maga Zine incidental music for the play was specially opposed by William furst and in the of its score a. Quartetti of soloists and a Well could not organized chorus is used. Hugh Jorut probably the Best known of our Many .1 apace managers directed the product meritorious production irom White sister and messes. Whatever source in May come can be i and company Are its sponsors. The present production is built along most elaborate lines and the company so powerful As to claim title As the most perfect dramatic organization cure through the association what is technically known us time and on terms equitable to ail the parties concerned. The theatre is now Independent for the first time in 25 years. In addition to looking after his combination House. Or. Walker has Beer Busy getting together the Best possible connection both in new York and Chicago for the vaudeville season the Walker. And the Outlook is remarkably Bright for a succession of or Dalint turns the equal of which has not icon seen in the City. In reply to an expression of Vigret at so Fine a theatre As the Walker be ins Turr cd at least temporarily into a vaudeville House or. Walker replied that it was by no Means an exceptional condition of affairs As it was being adopted in Many of the big cities in the United states. He pointed out that in new York such Beautiful houses As the Hammerstein the Plaza the am the signature of its author the two Faversham in Boston two years ago plays being As opposite As the poles i when starring in the Squaw the regeneration is essentiality a and achieved an astonishing Success problem play. The setting is that of one critic at the time stated that the the lowest and most degrading Type of world and Liis wife is not Only a life to be seen in the slums of a great great play but Good entertainment As City the subterranean resort of a band Well. The title of the play very Well theme the tragedy of heedless gossip of complis is exposed Onque Rable calumny circumstances brought under the in instilling doubt wrecking a Man s peace Way of hearing one of the finest pianists on the continent. F mme. Nellie Melba is meeting with phenomenal Success on her Canadian tour the newspapers of the cities in which she is appearing relieving them selves of their ecstatic enthusiasm in double column scare Heads considerable display of exuberant adjective. For instance the Halifax. Herald commenced a Long and Eulogi Stic article As follows far surpassing All Box office records and filled by an audience of enthusiastic musical people that occupied every seat in the building the Academy of music last night rang with enthusiastic applause of Welcome and Honor to Melba. The great Prima Donna has i had Many a Triumph but none could be More spontaneous or More sincere than that which Halifax accorded to the world famous australian song Bird and the artists who accompany her. The Vicinity of the Academy pre ceding the concert and afterwards Cal ditty that was received with Suph enthusiasm that he resolved from thenceforth to continue jotting Down the tunes that drifted into his head. Since then he has written the songs and scores of the Prince of a stubborn miss no body from the Girting the District the time the place and the Honey Moon the land of the Isle of Bong and others. Of his five Hundred songs those which had the greatest Sale were you look awfully Good to if aj1 the Moons were what s the use of and i wonder who s kiss Fig her James o Oneilll in a passion play biographical of foot Light favourites Viola Allan the eminent actress was practically born on stage As she comes of a theatto family her father being the Veter actor Leslie Allen. She was in the schools of Boston at Hall in Toronto and finally York. She made her debut the athletic girls in the musical comedy the goddess of at the w next week. Winnipeg theatre the second half of Nobling influence of a pure and earn est Young woman who has become interested in settlement work. At the first meeting of these people they Are mutually attracted and the woman pleads the Man to part now touring the country. From his paths of sin and idleness and to begin life anew with herself As his teacher. Won Over by some Power that he Doss not himself realize. Con consents find the series of Les of mind and at last destroying the Good name of his House his wife his Friend. Gos in is the theme and motive of the play and one of the characters says slander does t bother about Faversham be supported by an especially capable company which will include miss Julie Opp Cooper Cliffe Lionel Belmore and Harry Redding. Young lady from the states to recoup the Domestic finances and rehabilitate the historic estate. A marriage is arranged by his Cousin lord Algernon Banbury. With miss Hope butter Worth daughter of a. Wealthy new yorker Horace Butterworth. Who acquires a fondness for athletics and is rearing his family As though they were a Bunch of College athletes. On the arrival of lord Wyngate at the butter Worth s country Home in the Berkshire mountains he is subjected to the Mer cies of a couple of trainers and made the prominent figure of Long distance the the Opportunity Cornes in a Way equally dramatic with s. Mat Donald of Berlin us Urc. -1 ,1 to. Oratorios. Period and of be Knotting n its n St strand Jamos. Has been appointed Secre con Vav resolutely Breaks to whom All communications Cui w. Street. St. Tary in to though that breaking Means his r step backward into the maelstrom trom of vice an it crime whence he came. Then Homes Nemesis in the form of the Law. And As c Otway is led to the prison cell the play ends. It is an unusual play and grips its hearers in no Uncertain manner. There Are half a dozen Well developed characters in the play All of which should find effective impersonation in the staff of the do minion s players. The Walker theatre next week will have one of the most remarkable vaudeville Bills Ever assembled for a illicit i addressed. The current offering at the Domin Ion which closes its work s run to night the Blue was the big Gest farce Success the messes. Shubert had last year. After Tho regeneration next week Tho a nerdy which ran the Fiti a farce a close second for j laughing honors and distanced All i Komors in the Mere Vittor of Speed i going some will to presented by or. Lawrence s company. Arnold Daly who was the original Owen con Way of the John a. Lorenz the leading Man at the Dominion theatre music Hall and in Chicago the Majestic and the american music Hall races Polo games and other sports in which Hope Butterworth her sister and her Cousin. Miss participate. Wyngate Phylis Crane All devoted to vaudeville. Of p when he dimes to think Over mately acquainted with miss Crane becomes inti not be i Tho matter there is no reason patrons vaudeville should housed in As some surroundings the drama. Walker theatre. A5 the Spring musical festival nothing Nef mite can be announce Rel a i tin Pryst it moment. There is a vhf the i while indulging in a wrestling match Tho patrons of at any rate they Are at with miss Crane in which she throws him to the mat several times. A portable Ami hand thereafter a love match Springs up Between miss Crane and Wyngate and he finds himself in the predicament of Loving a poor girl and being bound by a duty to his family to marry her wealthy Cousin. During the wedding rehearsal he arranges to have delivered to him a fictitious cablegram which advisors him that his brother Between the Minneapolis sym who was to Nave perished in p orchestra and its sister Organ Africa has returned Home to claim the zillion of St. Paul As to which body i title which wears. The butter Tio of Innea in be worns Noi want Wyngate without to. N nor of he he prefix and h ire. A Joca audience. Both Are equal i pending match. Jack then a artistic i Ilion goes delightful treat. Int whichever Way the de that his cablegram was a music lovers Are in for a acknowledges his explains ruse and love for watched half fascinated the Phylis Crane who he later discovers to be an heiress. Joseph e. Howard will be seen in the role of lord Jack Wyngate. Sup Easterly acting of John Mason As Jack ported by a Large company numbering Brujok Fileki. The Cool and chivalrous i seventy five. This production will be Ca Nibler in the with maj i at the Winnipeg on sept. 15, 16 was More than Ever impressed with i that which is varying Ray i Winnipeg audience this qualification is the the spic apostle of George bar being easily afforded it by the number of internationally famous headline acts that its list includes. Of Tho seven acts that make up the Bill four Are of the stamp that head any Hill. The a Are the count and countess Chilo Charlie Case Almont and Dumont. And those favourites of Winnipeg and everywhere Genaro and Bailey. The count and countess Chilo Are. A couple of european notables who Are making their first tour of America j and playing their first professional engagement having won distinction heretofore in the capitals of the old world As distinguished amateurs in the Field of modern necromancy. They present a scientific baffling and wonderfully acute study of mind read ing and thought transmission. Employing As aids to their mental development none of the cumbersome paraphernalia and aids so frequently re sorted to by charlatans the count and countess mystify alike the scientific critic As Well As the casual occupant of a parquet seat. Charlie Case is name new on Winnipeg playbills but throughout Amer Ica generally recognized As one of the most potent attractions of vaudeville. Charlie Case has perfected comedy to the Point of a Fine Art and his mannerisms and appearance combined with the keen wit spontaneous originality and effective delivery of his talk about his father make him Ono of the highest priced headliners on the stage. It is Safe to guess that Case next week will draw a salary from the Walker officers in excess of that of any other Star in the theatre who has worn the Black and it is just As sure a bet that he will earn the Money and carry the first position in the memory of every person who witnesses one of the week s performances. Of Genaro and Bailey Little need of said. Their reputation precedes them to the Walker. The Best Delineator of italian character the Best dancers that Ever trod vaudeville s stage and the Best balanced team in the profession the honors that have come to them Are not undeserved. Almont and Dumont Are famous instrumentalists or. Jumont diverting his act by the introduction of a remarkable instrument of his own do i sign Alle d the sept phone in which j every tone is produced by the ring of i a different Bell. I the other acts that make up the Bill Are by no Means inferior to the ones mentioned except in comparative position. Cadieux the wire Walker is a performer who has delighted and held Ray Bailey breathless the thousands of a Genaro and Bailey at the Walker circus and Jones and Grant who also on the Bill Are said to be the two Best coloured comedians that Ever visited a local stage. The Bill theatre next week. Be Complete with Roy Harding billed As not a phenomenal pianist and ragtime Ibsen roles hols As the i i most eccentric actor that Ever cd Stellar dignity. Daly has never been Singer. Therr t Nei Nany Cour n am Vear or Erica this he 7 i Youthful leading Man at the Dominion djs Simitar from. Daly arid a the legend of lady Godiva the oldest known version of which dates Back to the thirteenth Century but which i. Most familiar through Tennyson s j a Coventry during the eleventh Cen Tury. Luigi ill Lea the librettist who was also responsible for the Libretti methods and usual Excelle can be looked Forward to in his Owen Conway next week. I the Brilliant Young pianist Milan silence which has reigned Over the musical world for the past four months. He will give a Pupil s recital his of Tosca and several other Standard i the Bye. In the y. W. C. A. Assembly operas has departed from the original legend in Many instances. It is Yao the daughter of the Earl of Hall on j riday week. The pupils who will take part Are airs. Freeman. Miss Forrester of Emerson and miss Simon i described is tempera i next week s offering at the Durnin to a and Wynot Jim _ a. To Chester no makes the famous ride i son. Has already beep heard Here a which a quondam Friend of the Tion is a student of great Promise. Than j recital the1 to be there j worshipped lady Liobel from afar i Lection being taken up to defray sex is by Owen waster but All re j takes advantage of the Only Chance j lenses which will be an inexpensive had the appearance of now York or Boston on a big theatre night. People began to line up for the Rush scats in the gallery during the afternoon and More than an hour before the perform ance1 began the top gallery was completely filled at two. Dollars a scat. Balcony and lower floor were crowded the space usually devoted to the or Chestra was occupied and chairs on the stage also had a contingent of devotees of music. The great diva will sing in Winnipeg on sept. 28, and an announcement will appear in the daily papers Early next week of the opening of the seat Sale. Her Western itinerary will be As Fol lows fort William sept. L 6 Winni Peg 2s Brandon sept. 30 Sas Katoon oct. 3 Edmonton oct. A Cal Gary oct. 7 and Regina oct. 10. Mrm. Melba is under the management of Frederic whose next big Star will be mme. Nordica. The Elgar musical society is Busy making preparations for the ing season. The first concert will con Sist of some of the finest of sired Ward s choral songs and choruses and will also include examples from Gran Villa Bantock arid other modern Mas ters. The second part will to devoted to Sullivan s Groat festival the Denul one of stir Arthur s most massive and melodious choral works. Owing to air. Warrington s removal from town the society will this year to conducted by the remaining direct ors j. C. Murray and e. E. Vinen who Are looking Forward to a specially interesting season when they Hope to produce Many new and noteworthy works. The first meeting which will of a social evening will be held in Grace Church Parlours on tuesday evening the 27th inst., at 8.30 o clock. Many situations have been resorted to in plays to prevent the Happy culmination. A marriage vow. In the lottery Rida Johnson Young has hit upon an entirely new plan. The Liero is Jack Wright a news paper reporter. He is single and in lord save for the Devotion of his Mother. He plans to make Money for his publication by conducting a lottery with himself As the prize. Coupons printed in the paper Are a Dollar each. Most of them arc bought by old maids. Wright promises to give 1-Imself up to a Loveless marriage to the woman who gets number. Meantime lip Falls in love with a charming Young girl. Imagine his predicament. As he explains the first woman he meets on the Street a right to claim him As her As a matter of fact Fate is so unkind to his the winning number Falls into the hands of an old maid a Mist unattractive person who gloats Over her Victory. H develops How the spinster has stolen the ticket and with the threat of prison be disgorge. The lottery Man was do produced in new York last autumn and has Tho distinction of having remained t Here at one theatre for practically Tho entire season. M he enga gement will occur at the Winnipeg theatre sept. 19, 20 and in the the late Clyde Fitch paved the Way for the return to the sum play of merciless Dis Section without Tho needless foibles of stagecraft the play of thrills of real ism sensationalism the City Marks the Apex of this illustrious writer s because it was his last work but from the fact that it has been acclaimed one of the greatest lever produced on the Ameri can stage. The messes. Shubert gave it production towards the close of 1909, and now after its record making engagement of a year at the Lyric Thea new York it is being sent to the Winnipeg theatre sept. L 2, 23 and 24. To Clairet that the city11 is a Suc cession of thrills is putting it mildly. To borrow York la a. Perfect hot bed of absorb ing second the author has piled Climax upon Climax absolutely ignoring All precedents. When the sort of a hitherto respected father makes the discovery that his sister has been married to an illegitimate his father or. Fitch quickly arrived at the conclusion that there wantonly one of the difficulty and for the first time in his career he has resorted to run rear. The play so takes from the fact that upon the death of the head of the family the children led by the head i Strong son moves to new York As the boy say the Good in you is brought it is the Call of the City versus that Village. Some say that or. Fitch never intended to preach a Sermon. Certainly he has done so. But in a negative sort of Way for the audience is left to draw its own conclusions As to which place the City or the Village draws out the Best and noblest. The play is admirably Oast. Joseph e. Howard the actor author and composer who comes to the Winnipeg the latter part of the week in Mort h. Singer s musical comedy Suc Cess the goddess of enjoys quite a reputation As a eng and dance opera composer. It is Only about years ago that or. Howard then embarking in a vaudeville Ven Ture with Eddie Foj composed a comi the passion play was last year re j Vived out in san Francisco. Before tremendous audiences that thronged a j great amphitheatre Tho Story of the passion of the Saviour has bean enacted on a Public stage under the aus pites of the franciscan fathers. The author of the play is a pries the reverend Josephat a varus. In wilting his play he has depended almost in j tirely upon that used by the of Boeram act Gau. He has Murcia j translated and condensed that version. Nothing could better Ine growing tolerance of thought Aii on the american people than the fact that not the slightest opposition has developed against the performance. Thirty years ago in the same City the Pas Sion play was Given by James o Neill. I at present accompanying Viola Allen j in her production of the late f. Marion Crawford s play the White the result was a vast popular clamor which reached from Ocean to Olean the play was bitterly condemned As a blasphemous sacrilege and a Public outrage. So violent did the Deikun j citation grow that finally the per Brno Ancus were closed by the municipal authorities and the actors arrested and thrown into jail. Or. O Neill was tried and condemned and made to pay a Fine of fifty dollars. Afterwards the late Henry Abbey at tempted to produce the play at the Twenty third Street theatre in new York. The opposition was so bitter i however that his courage i. I de him j and he did hot open the doors of his theatre on the night the play was to be produced. The result was a pitiful tragedy for Salmi Morse who had adapted the Oberammergau version for the american stage. Heart broken at the attacks Wajeh had been made upon him he drowned himself in the Cir la River. I Morse s Story is the More sorrowful when one understands his motive in j writing the play. jew. He was a great traveler. Chance led to witness a performance of the Oberammergau peasants. To impressive was it that under its influence he became converted to the Christian re Ligion. His conservation was so Strong j that he thirsted to show others the., Light that burned for him. It was for this purpose Liat he adapted the past Sion play and arranged for its production. It is the same James o Neill who is. Now appearing Sara. The White who was chosen to appear As the Saviour. Or. O Neill was not an Idle Choice an actor of High and great spirituality possessing a presence in which dignity and High authority Are combined and fitted for reverent acting by a Long training in ecclesiastical roles he i was an Ideal character. He entered i enthusiastically into the Enterprise. I that the Effort was received after the fashion that la was even now after Ai lapse of thirty years is a grief to him. I i believe utterly and absolutely in the says or. O Nill even before it was produced and then every Effort was made to dissuade Mei from appearing i bad no doubt and never wavered. Before the last re-1 hearsay everyone connoted with us i had shown the White Feather. When 1 appeared remember Morse broke Down and opt. He thought 1 too would desert. The play was produced at the grand opera House and to my Dvong Day. I will r. Or forget the first performance. The most intense excite ment had been created by the opposition. Long before the doors were opened tiie Street in front of the Thea tre was thronged with people. They were there not for the purpose of at tending but to prevent others from attending. The consequence was that our first audience was a strange one. In. Was composed largely of social out casts and hoodlums who had to destroy the performance by mocking. Every actor in the cast realized stepping on the stage might mean his death. Facing such difficulties the result was most marvellous. From the rals Viola Allen. Fifteen years old unexpectedly. The lines of Annie Russell who was compelled to leave cast of in which she its playing the name part. Miss Allan took her place making a Euc cwt. John Mcc Ulloth was attracted by Thea performance and engaged her As his leading woman for such Rolcik u Vir "1 Anil other Youthful heroines Theley intimate drama. Next she played with Tommas Ostl Vini in shakespearean plays Tsi later she Apt ared with Lawrence for rett in the blot on the then she played Many parts in tie Boston museum later. She joined the All Star cast of Jefferson and Flor ence a tour in the in iss she appeared in. The special of Bronson Howard s Ami later became leading u4 of the Empire theatre in Mph Kew York City. La Isas be made great hit As glory Quayle ill miss Allen has starred in a series of shakespearean Uio Meji a and tragedies and is regarded u of the few representative Tefft flute actresses on the american in she became the wife of pct for z. C. Duryea of Lexington instance in Monte he appeared in five Dinal Richelieu he to years. Another of his that other soy of Shakespeare Parte the simple old had so much to. Do with t-he7 of taint Nipol Eon s was part with him for More recently lie Baptist in a. Play of that name which was produced for a on Tuci Pacific coast. And. Now ;