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i 12 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. SUNDAY MOKNIXG, JULY 16, 1911. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.

ISfHSR JEROME" PREMIERE AT SUBURBAN COMES TO DELMAR AT THE HEIGHTS THESE STARS WILL BE SEEN ON ST. LOUIS STAGES THIS WEEK FROHMAN STAR WHO COMES TO SUBURBAN DELMAR NGERS Mary Mac Lane Has Written a Problem Play, to Be Produced in Chicago Next Fall, Which, She Confesses, "Will Give Proper and Respectable Folk Something to Talk About" Other Stage News of Special Interest. HAM WILLIAMS DUE AT SUBURBAN NEXT SUNDAY EVE Engagement of Charles Froliman Star Opens With "The Girl From Maxim's." if ment of some months caused by Illness. She will be seen in the leading role of Betty Graham in "The Fortunn Hunter" company headed by her husband, Fred Niblo, in the title role. Helen Lackaye has been engaged to play the role of Light in "The Blue Bird" at the Century Theater, New York, next season.

The role was created by Edith Wynne Matthison and subsequently played by Margaret Wycherly. Blanche Ring1 will be "tarred next season in a new play entitled "A Wall Street Girl." iv- Ml mA IiN-tV VtW1 sf i 11 TW' -7 1 1 "FOREST UVADL 1 III 'VIoHNlON-S PARK .11 NOTABLE ON NEXT WINTER'S STAGE With the opening of the regular theatrical season early next fall, certain Delmar Garden singers will assume prominent positions in winter compa-iie" and one musical comedy which received its premiere production at Delmar will go on tour under Henry W. Savage's management. Leonora Navaslo. a St.

Loul girl, baa scored such triumphs at IX 1-mar this summer that Raymond Hlch-cock will engage her for a leading role In his new comic opera. "The Red Widow," which is to receive its production on any stage in September. Ann Tasker will have the prima donna role in "The Pink Lady." one of the latest big New York hits. Lucille Saunders will be the lending contralto In the Kastern company of "The Chocolate Soldier." "Little Boy Blue" is the play to which Savage is to give a big spectacular production early this fall, its Delmar premiere having satisfied Ills representatives that the play cuntnlns all the elements of success. Madison Corey, Daniel Frawley and Kdward Paulton of the Savage staff passed favorable Judgment on this offering during its Delmar presentation.

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I 0 from others in the same field, a-nd his natural sense of humor enables him effectively to make the most of every funny situation. "The Yankee Tourist," in which he has scored one of the most brilliant triumphs of his entire career, gives him ample opportunity to reveal his talents at their best. Tlie excellent Delmar Opera Cmpany, Including Ann Tasker, Lucille Saunders, Leonora Navnsio. William Naughton, Neil McNeil, J. P.

MacSweeney, liar-land P. Eriggs and Mark Smith, will be advantageously cast. A free gate at Ielmar Garden becomes ii niiM.Kv ii. s.irxnERS. PKKHAI'S the most disquieting news concerning next season's offerings on the American stage Is found In the announcement that Mary Mac I.ane, whose anient soul revels in the fact that she is quite often referred to as "the Marie Bashkirtsef of Hutte," has written an emotional problem play which Is to receive Its premiere production in Chics ko early next fall.

An emotional problem play means, of course, a play de.illng with hf-x relations. and, ominously, "The Story of Mary Mac Kane," which earned a fortune and much notoriety for its author, gives us a perturbing indication of the sort of emotional problem play most likely to he evolved by Miss Mac Lane's perfervid genius. Indeed, this dynamically frank Montana woman doesn't hesitate herself to "sound the wild alarum, so to speak, discussing her first venture as a playwright. "My drama is- going to be as startling to the conventional world as was tho red Mary Mac lysine book," she says, finite unabashed. "I shall not anticipate its story by even giving a hint as to what it is all about.

But. bt-Peve me, that part of the d-ar public that prides itself on being p. roper and respectable will find something to talk about in my play. It will tell a strong, simple story, with very little plot-complication and but few characters. I haye, I believe, achieved some fine, if not-stupendous, dramatic effects." There's no way of dodging this unexpected haplessly.

The cnances are that Mary Mac Lane's "startling" emotional problem play will be shrewdly by Miss Mac I.ane and her managers, and this, with lis own especially morbid appeal to the especially morbid class of playgoers, may result in Its scoring one of th utggosi suiwi successes of the season. "Ti.s true, 'ti pity, and pity "lis, 'tis true. STRANGICT-Y enough, just as Mary Mac Lane sounds the first heralding of her play, a manager from ttie Far Northwest, her own country, arrives in Xew York and reports the Existence of public sentiment so hostile morally objectionable plays as to be dismaying in its disastrous effect upon the business of playhouses that persist in presenting such plays. Kven more strangely. It is in Montana, Mary Mac Lane's own State, that this protest against the immoral drama is most notably In evidence.

Offensive plays offered to the playgoers of Butte, the lionie city of Miss Mac Lane, ami t. lye where in Montat have in effect btibh boycotted, to the calamitous dlmln-isumg of their box-oflice receipts, and the Northwestern manager entreats New York's play-producers to take thoughtful note of these significant truths. "You J-rtlfld be surprised," he tells them, "if you were to come into direct contact with the reform wave that Is spreading all over the West and Northwest. In all cases it is having an extraordinary effect to the detriment of business." BUT, to save my life, even while granting that our humanity maybe a bit more depressing in Russia than elsewhere, I can't see why the London critics find so "drab and discouraging" a play entitled "The Cherry Orchard," adapted from the of Anton Tchehov and now produced by the Stage Society at the Ald-wych Theater In the British capital. The play presents a powerful story Of social conditions in Russia.

Illustrating the manner In which "the old order changeth, giving place to the n-w." The well-born lianevsky family-has run to seed until Its chief representative, the lady of the manor, having In vain leaned on her broken reed of a brother, who knows nothing but billiards as his interest In life, must needs sell her estate and Its famous chcry orchard to pay the family debts. The prospective purchaser is a peasant, now wealthy, whose grandfather had toJlcd as "rf on this Hanevsky estate, and the play is said to become tlresomely "talky" in dwelling upon this phase of the situation. But there's no help for It. The sale takes place. The ancestral home of the Ranevskys becomes the property of the peasant.

The lady of the manor, In company with her blithering Idiot of a brother, moves out. The great old residence is dismantled, the shutters up, the doors locked and the last curtain falls ou this of desolation, a poignant dramatic touch being added by an an-ciijul servitor of the house, stricken wlfi a mortal Illness, sitting down to await the coming of death in Its lonely emptiness. Very sad for the Ranevskys, truly but distinctly full of promise for Rus-tfn, if now a worthy "man of the people." such as Is this peasant, whom ien the London critics acknowledge to lt the only capable soul In the play, is tu enabled to rise In life by the ex-kcise of his own God-given abilities. The play's teaching Is fine, it seems to tne. The old Russian aristocracy must needs make and keep Itself worthy if it hopes to hold Its own in a modern where human rights are more plainly seen and granted than In "the gonft old days" of which so much rot written.

QL'ITIC frequently our Kngllsh cousin, to whom we have always paid great deference In matters tf liclio-ial literature and the drama, Main much amusement from a ftmiy of nluit they are pleased to describe us the American love of the crudely obvious nriil mawkishly sentiment 1 In urls unil plays. big popular melodrama, sue- to miss half of summer's joys if you haven't a Kodak. It is surprising, too, how inexpensive kodaking is. A genuine Eastman for as little as $1. Others higher.

One at any price you care to pay. Hattle Williams, first of the brilliant gralaxy of Charles Froliman stars to shine on the Suburban Theater summer stage, begans her Initial ensacfinent under the management of the Brothers peahelmer neVt Sunday night, "The Girl from Maxim's" briny the of fei ing for her inaugural wCT k. This clever actress and sir.jjer enjoys the unusual distinction of having achieved success alike in musical ami straight comedy. For some years she was the foremost American singing comedienne in the former class of plays. Cherishing an ambition to appear In legitimate comedy, she appealed to Mr.

Froliman to give her an opportunity to prove what she could do, and Charles Frohman was wisely shrewd enough to comply. The result has been eminently satisfactory both to the star and her famous manager. "The Girl from Maxim's" has proved Itself the greatest laugh-producer of Miss "Williams' entire career. It Is a cleverly constructed play, full of bright lines and diverting situations, and its action Is crisp and snappy from start to finish. It offers especially good opportunity for a revelation of the star's keen sense of humor and effective comedy methods, and Miss Williams has never appeared more graceful and attractive than in its title role.

The play also makes possible an un commonly advantageous casting of the Suburban players in the star's support. Four other bright acts and three fl-ne pictures complete the bill. Beginning Sunday afternoon and con tinuing for a week, with four perform ances dally, the Wolgast-Moran fight pictures, giving the entire 13 rounds, will be shown at the Gayety Theater, a well- known sport authority explaining blow for blow as the pictures are seen. The full preliminaries of the fight also will be shown, and another feature will be the introduction of the fight celebrities and the reading of the challenge. Per formances will be fciven at 2:15, 3:15, 8:15 and 9:15.

at popular prices. "See America First" is the title of one of next season's farces. Charles A. Mason, at present a member of the Zleg-feld "Follies" company, is its author and will be its star. William Jerome, the song writer, wrote the following tender lines in loving memory of actor "Scamp" Montgomery, a former Missourian, broth of Have Montgomery of Montgomery and Stone, who died in New York this past week: Never even harmed a fly.

Poor old Scamp. Seems a shame that he should die, Poor old Scamp. Tell the people in St. Joe, Tell those pals of long ago How we loved him, let them know Poor old Scamp. Hadn't anything but friends, Poor old Scamp.

Helped a lot to meet their ends, Poor old Scamp. Couldn't learn the game of save, What he had he freely gave; Just took nothing to the grave. But sweet old Scamp. Harrison Grey Fiske sailed last week for Ixmdon to complete engagements for the American production, in association with Klaw Krlanger, of 'Kismet," the Edward Knoblauch play now so brilliantly running at the Garrick Theater in London. While abroAd he will also confer with Lang-don Mitchell, author of the new comedy in which Mrs.

Fiske will appear. William D. Cave of the Century Theater, who recently returned from New York, received a letter during the past week giving him official assurance that he will be appointed manager either of the Olympic or the Century, both now under Klaw Kr-langer's management. No other announcements are yet made, but it is reasonably certain that the house staff at each theater will be retained. A new picture-screen invented by Max Greenberg, formerly scenic artist at the Cleveland Hippodrome, said to be the first of its kind ever used in St.

Louis, has been installed at the Princess. It brings out facial expressions and the high lights of photographs in a remarkable manner. Fred Stone, of Montgomery and sailed this past week on a whaling steamer bound from Trom-soe. Norway, to the Greenland icefields, where Stone will hunt Polar bears. "P.aron Trenck." the big London comic opera success, will receive a Xew York production in October.

Its scenic effects are said to be uncommonly novel and impressive. Have your old plumes mads Into a benutl. tut willow by fackham's. 610 Washlnrtoa. The late Sir William Gilbert is believed to have written, shortly before his death, the detailed scenario of a comic opera for F.

C. Whitney's production. Search Is now being made for the manuscript among the papers left by the dead librettist. Arnold Daly has been so favorably received in London, where he wan prt, sented in "Arms and the Man." that be will remain until October. 1912.

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Its significant title is "The Price of a Girl's Honor," and it fairly reeks with virtue in rags, vice In silks and satins, platitudinous heroics of the most naive appeal to the uncultured mind, and all the other time-honored attributes of what we In this country are wont to designate as the "ten-twent'-thirt" class of playhouse entertainment. There's a heroine named Maggie Dench, who "sells herself to the highest bidder." as she frankly confesses, yielding to a most viiliainous villain's tempting In order to save Ksther Morrison, who herself had saved Maggie's life once upon a lime. Thus saved, Ksther promptly inherits a great fortune and somehow contrives not to rescue Maggie from the pit Into which she has fallen, and Maggie, being uncommonly pretty, rises to the elegance of living in a Kensington flat, supported by a man who is not her husband. Thereafter she develops a spirit of fierce revolt agal-nst a Providence that "sets squalor and suffering, and soul-and-body destroying poverty, side by side with wealth, luxury, extravagance and waste," and she would have been in a quite dreadful mental and spiritual condition, indeed if, near the play's close, the brave hero hadn't appeared just in the nick of time, snatched her from her sinful environment, and straightway married her in order that, the last curtain might fall on the conventional vice-and-virtue melodrama's happy ending, i Tell me not again that London's playgoers demand something subtle, or, at least, a thought or two under the surface of things, in their playhouse offerings. "The Price of a Girl's Honor" is London's most successful play at the present writing.

SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM and Mary Moore have recently produced at the Criterion Theater In London an eccentric comedy by Keble Howard entitled "The Girl Who Couldn't Lie," telling of how she got Into all sorts of embarrassing positions because of this inflexible hostility to the Ananias cult. Wordsworth's beautiful "Eulogy of Truth" was responsible for this George Wasliingtonian attitude on the part of Pauline, the play's heroine, she being so Impressed thereby that she took a vow never again, under any circumstances, to tell what wasn't so. As a matter of course, she soon alienates all her friends and acquaintances, and the play then devotes itself to solving the problem of Pauline's creating with as much provocation for laughter as possible. AM Must Fight Rats Re Other One Cause Destroys as Much Property Every Year Rats destroy more property in a year than all the fires; they carry disease germs into the houses; they are a serious menace in city and country. Everybody should join in fighting these dangerous pests and exterminate them with Steams' Electric Rat and Roach Paste, the standard destroyer of rats, mice, cockroaches, vvaterbugs and other vermin.

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The drama Is in five acts, its scenes are laid in Ireland, and Its period is about 40 years ago. Gustave Frohman, who has come from New York to assist Stage Director O'Meara in producing "Father Jerome," declares frankly that its story is distinctly melodramatic. Or-rin Johnson, well remembered as the Incorruptible mayor in "The Man of the Hour," and who has since scored a big Fastern success as the priest In "The Confession." will doubtless do a memorable piece of work In tonight's creation of the title role in the new play. The priest of his present playing Is the central figure In the exciting Incidents following the slaying of Sir "Giles Lyndale (Horace Porter), on the night of a birthday party given in honor of the latter's adopted nephew, Gerald, played by Robert Conness. Sir Giles was about to give the hand of his daughter Amy (Julia Morton) to Gerald, but was prevented by the appearance of one Thomas Mayley (Harry Fen wick), who claimed that his own daughter had a prior right to become Gerald's wife.

In an encounter following th birthday feast Marley kills Sir Giles and throws suspicion upon Gerald by leaving the latter's knife on the scene of the murder. But Marley's own knife is found by Father Jerome, who Is seen by (Tie murderer in the act of picking it up. Marley then reaches the depths of depravity by hurrying to the priest and confessing the murder, not for the sake of obtaining absolution, but to seal the lips of the priest with the Inviolable seal of the confessional. Father Jerome, rather than see Gerald hung for a crime of which he knows him to be innocent, aids the young man to escape from prison, himself remaining in his place. Marley discovers the deception and attempts to fix the crime the murder upon the priest.

A halfwitted boy, Donny (Philip Sheffield), frustates the plot in an Intensely dramatic courtroom scene. Beginning this evening, Raymond Hitchcock, one of the cleverest musical comedians on the American stage, opens a two weeks' ergagement at Delmar Garden. "The Yankee Tourist" being his first offering. This star needs no introduction to the St. Louis 'playgoing public, with whom be has always been a great favorite.

0 BftYMOND Hitchcock Tiebor's troupe of educated seals and sea lions, which include the famous "Seal Skin Band," this being the Highlands' first animal act offering of the present season. John World and Miss Mindell Kingston, in danci-ng, travesty-arid song; The Rexos, in a skating exhibition, featuring the tunnel novelty and Al Carleton, "the skinny guy," a monologist. Commencing Monday for the week, the St. Louis branch of the National Letter Carriers, will have their annual outing at the Highlands. Flo Adler, the popular singer of popular songs, assisted by a clever boy soprano, will be the topline feature on the new vaudeville bill opening at Man-nions' this after-noon.

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