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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 1922. The Vaudevillians' Christmas The Cat and the Kidney her public and still be with her famllv. you?" Ho said, "Yes, I see that, you do also." "I do," said she, "but probably we don't know the same woman.

There are plenty like her." She had played many of them. "That's why," says she, "I was glad to take this role in 'The Cat. and he Canary' because of that and because, of course, I bad nothing else in view at the time. I'm tired of playing one woman continually." This may be libel on Brooklyn audiences, but it seems to be a fact "Liltom" proved it and so did Ben-Ami's performance in "Samson and Delilah" that audiences here have a habit of laughing jn the wrong place. They often take serious plays as comedies anil get a lot of fun out of them that was never put in them by the authors.

Joseph Schildkraut stopped his performance recently at a Brooklyn theater to call down the audience for misplaeed laughter. Blanche Friderici believes that often laughs in the wrong place can bo attributed to carelessness on tho part of the actors In the cast of the play. "Sometimes." she sa-id," I'm afraid actors grow lax when their play takes to the road. And actors ought never to do that if they are to get the best out of a play. We ran often prevent disconcerting laughter if we watch our step.

It is largely a matter of creating a mood in the audience by our acting This ia Christmas week, during which the publio Joyously looks for additional entertainment whereby to celebrate the seven playdays. But what of the entertainers? How will they manage to celebrate if they are busy serving: their public It can be arranged, however, and is arranged by most of the headllners who help to make Christmas a greater 'Joy In Keith houses all over 'the country. A large number of these prominent vaudevillians plan irt the beginning of the season for their Christmas week, and manage to make It an "old home week" as well. There is DeLyle Alda, for instance, who has been making Keith audiences laugh with her satire on the Cinderella type of musical comedy "Sadie, One of Those Girls." Miss Alda has had, ever since her first season on the stage, an unalterable resolve to be at home for Christmas, to spend the day andthe entire week, if possible, with her parents In Chicago. "I promised mother," Miss Alda said, "that I would come to her every Christmas, no matter where I was.

And so far I have been able to do it. Thla year I'll be with her again. I'm not going 4o work at all during the week. Just be a little girl again back home with the folks." Those vaudevillians who are married and have children of their own find in Christmas an "extra added attraction." Among those lucky ones are Belle Baker, whose little son, Herbert John Abrahams, is almost as well known as his mother; Joe Cook, "the one man vaudeville show," who has three youngsters to entertain over in Rldgefleld Park, New Jersey, and Marion Harris, whose blue "songs soothe not only her audiences daily, but her daughter, Mary Ellen Williams, aged two, every night-that Miss Harris is at home. For.

Miss Baker and her family, Christmas is a triple event. First of all, it is Christmas. In the second place, it is Belle's birthday, and thirdly, it is the second birthday of Herbert John. He will be two years qld. Miss Baker, whose home is in Manhattan, will be able to entertain Blanche Friderici is playing in "The Cat and the Canary." at Teller's Shu-beit Theater, so perhaps it is natural lhat she should have been late for her appointment.

She lilies eats. "I'm sorry." said she, "but just as I was ubout to Have home my main rat ck cided that lie wanted a kidney and I had to go out and buy it for him." She used to live in Brooklyn, but now her home is on a roof up town in Man hattan. where she has we don't know how many cats in addition to the "main cat." When she lived in Brooklyn she had, for a time at least, no intention of going on the stage. She wanted to be a teacher of acting and she became a teacher. Desiring to be anions the best of teachers, she studied wil the best of actors, feeling it her duty to know the art from beginning to end.

But it never entered her head to go upon the stage. Once she gave a reading somewhere on Long Island and at the end she met a doctor, a famous specialist, who said, "You should go on the slage; and if ever you to, let me know. Kelasco will always have a place for you and I'll see that you secure it." But she didn't want it. After a while, however, something happened, She was studying too hanlr Her eyes failed her. She had something: or other the matter with both eyes.

She could not read. So she said to her mother, "It looks as if I'd have e'. to go on the stage. I must get in touch with Dr. So-and-so." She didn't want to, but she did.

What else could she do? The doctor introduced her to David Belasco and she was given two parts in "The Darling of the Gods." George Arliss was in the cast and many others now extremely famous. That was her 'Start. Teaching came to an end. Since then Blanche 1'riderici (she. pronounces her name has played many parts under many More often than not she has been selected for roles of the Now England type, austere, astringent women whose Jives are little more than one inhibition after another.

She plaved such a woman in "The Hero" before she was cast as the black lady in "The Cat and the Canary." Gilbert Kmery wrote "The Hero" and when the cast assembled to read tho play at Hie first rehearsal, she said to Mr. Emery, "You know tiis woman, don't She Had Grand Mary Milburn, pretty little ved Trish eirl. who sang herself into favor In the title role of "Molly Dar-. ling," which begins an engagement at the Majestic Theater tomorrow after- noon, was born in Brooklyn and is Historic Casino Was Twice Afire glad of it, since she believes that the horo is just the finest place on earth to develop stage stars. She is" tho daughter of a policeman, Captain Mc-Kirvey, who used to preside over tho destinies of Far Rockaway and keep that summer resort in an orderly condition.

The family, including Mary's sister, Ann, were all musically inclined and while a baby she learned to play the piano It was her mother, who, pre- vious to the marriage with the caps' tain, was a teacher of music, thus early instructed the future prima donna. She was graduated from I Erasmus Hall High School, but before that event had long been a member of the Flatbush Dramatic Society and -was always cast for the principal feminine roles 'w hen their plays were produced. Miss Milbuin's earliest ambition was to become a prima donna in grand opera and there were visions of triumphal nights at the Metropoli-: tan with a recompense that would win into the thousands for her every appearance. But, alas, the father had different ideas for his daughter's future and desired that she become a school teacher, so Mary made a com-' promise when she obtained a position for herself as a stenographer vith the New Edison Company. as she will, play a return engagement m.ine j-atace mat weeK.

Miss Harris, who lives on Went K4th New York, will be less than a mile away irom nome ana Mary Ellen when she appears at the Colonial i neater on Christmas Dav. Mnrv El len is not yet old enough to write to Santa, but she is rapidly making known her wishes, and Miss Harris nas a strong hunch that they will be granted. as ror Joe Cook, that versatile young man will put on his "one man show" exclusively for the Cook family, consisting of Mrs. Cook, two daughters and a son. "I never work during Christmas week." said Mr.

Cook. "No matter wnere am, i manage to get home ior me Holidays, one year I Jumped clear from New Orleans and theA hack to Savannah Just so I could bo home for Christmas. Last Christmas I got into a Santy suit and came down the chimney to surprise the kids. Thev said I was a careless Santa Clans. because I got my clothes all sooty i.rurn ine cnimney.

A memorable Christmas will be spent this year, as always, bv Jane and Katherine Lee, to whom the day nmi jiuius an us pristine glory. Mrs. Lee, who does not want their faith iri Banta Claus to be damaged bv over hearing any disillusioning remarks oacKsiage, does not permit tho chil dren to appear during Christmas ween, mey will spend the holidays at their home in New York this season, and have already begun to compile a lfst of requests for Saint Nicholas. They havenot forgotten other chll- oren on any previous Christmas, and this year they will follow their usual custom of visiting the children's ward in various city hospitals and distribut ing toys, candv and flowers. Last year thev snent rhrioimn.

in Los Angeles, and puzzled for a while about the sleigh problem. "There's no snow here." Jane anxiously reminded Katherine, "how'll Santa Claus get around?" Katherine, being mure jemn oiaer, nas great wisdom. 'Oh, that'll be all right," she said, he' probably knows how to drive an airplane." And she must have boen rism, ior ne certainly got around. a la Keith wick and another at Seton Hos- Dpuyn-u jjuyvii ana Z31st Bt. ail inp lmnnrtnnt liB.

Christmas vaudeville activities" are. of wiueni scope ana greatest Thei7Sl0Pn A-Keith's phlladelphla WIC pUJl, tne women Symphony Orchestra nf Kft an organization sponsored and perfected by the Keith Philadelphia man- "as oeen reatured. For Christmas night in Philnriel ville managers, of that city have taken over the entire ballroom floor of the Adelphia Hotel where they will entertain every vaudeville actor play- vernier uiiy over 300 with a Christmas supper beginning at 11:30 at night, followed by an hour of clowning by the N. V. A.

and an all- iiignt aance to the music pf a 15-plece In the Keith Theater, Pittsburg, umiiue program commenced last Mondav when all vaudeville artists In that citv emrared in a drive on Christmas seals for the Anti-tuberculosis striving to eradicate all traces of the. wnue piague from Pittsburg. Manager Roval of the new tv-oin. "perfect playhouse" at Cleveland has installed in a laree vacant ntni-o joining nis tneater a repairing and re painting snop ror all the used, broken or partly disfigured toys and dolls wnicn nave been oourinr in an rinnn. uons to tne big Santa Claus bags mak ing renny in tne Cleveland house.

A like procedure is in progress all over ine vaudeville circuits, and in every theater there will be Christmas trees for the children in the davtime and, after the performance on Christmas night, a Santa sraus supper and tree, and cordial exchanges of gifts and greetings, between the visiting ar tists and the managers and their em ployees of vaudeville. National Vaudeville Artists "At, Home." The National Vaudeville Artists, in dividually and as an organization, wlflh to share the Christmas hospitality of tneir palatial New York Club House with all of their brethren of the profession who happen to be in New York City on Christmas Day, but who may have no other nlan or nlao for the congenial celebration or observance of the day. The limit of space e.na courtesy or tne pf. V. A.

cluhhoUFe in 46 St. will be gladlv taxed to add to the happiness of members of other branches of the profession and to this ena eacn member of the N. V. A. who will be in New York durinjr the week will be entitled to entertain a truest at Christmas dinner or luncheon or with other hospitalities of the club on Christmas Day.

It is the unanimous desire of every member of the N. A. that no member of the nrofesslnn sunn spena a gloomy, lonely jT friendless day next Monday. "THE MASKED WOMAN" 'The Masked Woman" Is one of the poorer products of the French ma chine shops. Its story Is one that can be told only by make-believe men and women1 if there were a real human person in the play he'd spoil the au thors proudest moments.

And so the acting of the thing nothing much can be expected save empty lilstrio. nics. It is played at the Kltinge The ater with greater emptiness than Is entirely necessary. The woman is married most haD- pily to an ambitious doctor, who liken to get as much money as he can, legitimately, for a wonderful laboratory that specializes in research In th subject of cancer. A baron has aided him In his career a baron who is at.

once the richest man in France and the wickedest. The baron Is about to die as a result of his excesses and he'd like before doing so. to play the vil lain toward one more woman, prefer ably a pure woman. Naturally, he chooses his friend's wife and tricks her into coming to his rooms, but luckily faints before any irreparable harm is done. The wife went to him with the best of motives, out of pure kindliness; in fact, tempered by a de sire to Influence the old rake to leave his.

money to her husband. The inci dent almost causes the separation of man and wife, but not quite. It Is- trick stuff without, life in it. Lowell Sherman Job is to make the baron appear real. He doesn succeed with his elaborate makeup and though his impersonation is clever tr is superficial like the play, and over done.

Helen Mackellar is the wife and she reveals much primltiva power. John Hallitay does his best with the wooden husband. There is an orgle scene at the baron's home, where two dancers dis tinguish themselves among the fel low's many mistresses. Most of tho mistresses dfport themselves in manner that leads one to suspect thai they wore Drought up in hardware stores. The play is badlv staged.

badly adapted from the French of Charles Mere by Kate Jordan, and in no way satisfying. WFRBA'S PLAY. After a brief lay-off for recasting end revising, "Barnum Was Right," a farce by Philip Bartholomae and John Meehau, which Louis F. Werba is producing, has started rehearsing under the direction of Mr. ileehan and will reopen, out-of-town.

New Year's Eve. The cast Mr. Werba has engaged eludes Marion Coakley, Donald Brian. Will Dcming, F.nld Miirkey, Spencer Charters," Klwood Bostwick, I.ilyan Tashnian, Neil Martin. Susanno Willa.

John Sharkey and Robert Adams. At the Movies Tho 8elvn. An entirely new form of entertainment, made possible by the invention of an electrical instrument, the Teleview, will be offered at the S.elwyn Theater next Wednesday evening. Tho Teleview is an appliance, attached to each seat in the theater. It is synchronized in harmony with special projection machines, so that nil persons and objects viewed through it are revealed in natural, or solid form, instead of appearing as "flat" pictures on a screen.

There are to ho several novel features in the "Teleview" program, among these a fanciful comedy called A. U. with Grant Mitchell and Margaret Irving making their debut on the screen, and a series of innovations made pos sible only through tho means of the "Teleview' invention. Following Wednesday evening's premier there will be performances twice daily, at 2:30 and 8:30. Tin Kialto.

"The Flirt," a production from the novel by Booth Tarkinglon, Is the. feature film of the holiday program at the Rialto. Hileen 1'ercy has the title role and Helen Jerome Eddy, George Nichols, Lydia Knott, Buddy Messenger and Harold Goodwin are in the cast. The story deals with life in an average American -family whero a girl, who knows she is beautiful, attempts to rule the family and nearly wrecks it, sending her lather to prison in her longing for finery she sees other girls wear. The.

Kialto Magazine with special -holiday features and a cartoon comedy will be other screen entertainment on the program. The Kivoli. Thomas Meighan's newest, picture. "Buck Home and Broke," is the center of an elaborate Christmas program of pictures, novelties, music and the fiance at the Kivoli Theater. "Back Home und Broke' was written by George Ade.

In the case supporting Meighan are Liia Lee, Frederick Bur ton, Cyril King, Charles Abbe and Florence Dixon. The central figure of the story is AM I'SEM F.NTK WH ATT AN. She was then 15 years old and the. so soon as the curtain rises. The right mood must be created at.

the beginning of 'The Cat and the Canary' or we lose our audience. If we are careless we deserve to lose their attention. Sin cerity is necessary always and con scientlousness. I'm afraid all actors aren't so conscientious as they ought to be. Some of them are.

lucky enough to succeed without, having to work hard and they don't take their busi ness as seriously as they ought." A great, deal depends on Miss Friderici so far as the effectiveness of the thriller at Teller's Shubert Theater is concerned. She has, in the early moments of the play, much to do in creating in the audience the proper mood for the acceptance of what fol lows. She is a mysterious figure in the drama and if he, neglects to put Into her work the sincerity that is es sential something or other is likely to go wrong for the rest of the evening Hut thiB actress learned her business in days when actors and actresses had to know their business or fail So she is not one of those wjio fail. Opera Ambitions At the end of that time she had acquired a pretty good knowledge in Italian of the prima donna roles "11 Trovatore," "Aida." "Cavallen Rustic-ana," "La Gloeomla," "Samson and Dellla," and could sing each of them in a way that brouyit forth great praise from her immediate circle of friends. Not wishing longer to delay her public appearance, Mary gave up her Job with the Edison Company, dressed all up in her prettiest frock, tied a bright new ribbon on the end of the braid hanging down her back, and called on the stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera House.

On being given a hearing she was told to come back the next morning for a trial. Mary modestly enumerated the prima donna roles which she knew and was willing to -sing any or all of them. The conductor looked at the ribbon on Mary's hair and said: "But we don't engage children." Every one present laughed except the poor little prima donna, who sat right down then and there and cried. After a little while she went home to Brooklyn and had the balance of the cry out on her mother's shoulder. "I know what I'll do," she paid.

"I'll go into musical comedy. With my knowledge of grand opera they will be glad to give me a principal part." A round of the managers' offices met with little success, because In musical comedy they did not seem to want grand opera singers, so one day when she received an offer to join the chorus of "Furs and Frills" instead of the leading part as she expected, she accepted it, even though $35 a week was somewhat of a "come down" from the thousand a night of her dreams. The chorus did not hold her long, because in two weeks John Cort, the manager, took Mary out of it and sent her to another one of his companies playing "Flo Flo" on the road to sing the ingenue role. The following season she was given one of the principal parts in "Listen, Lester." Then George Lederer engaged her for the prima donna role in "Angel Face." this being followed by a similar position with "The Girl in the Spotlight." Last year she was prima donna in the "Zicafeld Follies." and now she is the (irirn.1 donna and the title role in "Molly Darling. Miss Milburn still believes that the management of the Metropolitan opera House made a very serious mistake when they did not hire her, and when she gets to be very old say about 3 5 or 40 she is going back there with her hair properly "done up" and give them another chance.

AM rSEMEXTS MANHATTAN. SKI. II I'renent BEN-AMI JOHANNES KREISLER AT T1IH APOLLO THEATRE WKST J5T. Kvph, lHlltu'e-4 l-'ri, hihI Sill. TIMES SQ.

Th play that Ep ll ME "Gets" you. fl. I'rirp Tli urn. A CAPITOL tDWAHIj BoWKS. Managing Director.

WILL ROGERS as ICHABOD CRANE in rheKeadless Horseman I I'riiiu Ihr tirrnl liomle liv WAMI- I I M. I ll IIIMM. I I il'ITOI, I.IMM1 lllr 1 I'rettrntationH by IltitJinffl ITHEA W.45 5T EVES. 6.30 MAU To M'W WED. SAT.

WORLB GREATEST ftVirBW Ml 'LIBE11TY I ,1. I AMKIIIHV Ml'l( 'iir, tiiiii.r. iiii-. annul CEORCE M. COHAN'S C0M2DIAH3 innT 'iin n-w Ll 1 1 IjVj A Diinif Mum NELLIE KELLY CARL CARROLL I I I I -w A I ir, 1 in: INGHAM GIRLI It- Mi Kalary received just equaled, her age; that is, every Saturday, the pay envelope contained three five dollar bills.

It is suspected that very often when Mary struck the keys of her type-f writer, her mind was on those of the piano at home. The longing for the stage, however, was in no degree diminished, and with the receipt of her first week's wages she sought to find a vocal teacher. An ex-opera singer who had set up a school agreed to coach Jier in the works of the great composers for the weekly sum of $12, and for the next two years entire earnings went for vocal lessons and car fares. Christmas The Christmas season, always the happiest on all holidays in the vaude ville theaters throughout the country, this year will surpass all previous Yulqtides in the extent and importance of observance, In the degrqfi to which the managers and artists of vaudeville will celebrate together and, above all, in the lengths to which the Important factors in this branch of the theatrical- business have gone and aro going to put the real Christmas atmosphere and flavor into the holidays of the public particularly, into the Yuletide affairs of the children, the poor, the invalids and the aged and the unfortunates in every neighborhood in which there is a vaudeville theater, At the B. F.

Keith's Palace Theater on Broadway, "Mother House" and center of inspiration for tho great B. F. Keith Circuit and all its affiliated theaters, the new and unprecedented unnstmas pace was set on Wednesday of this week when, through an arrangement with President B. F. Albee of tho Keith Circuit, and Paulist Father Finn, the entire personnel of 75 members of Father Finn's Paulist Choristers began a series of noonday "Christmas Caroling" without charge to tho public and prompted only by their own and Mr.

Albee's desire to cause some of "the ancient and holy" spirit of Christmas to descend Joyously, picturesquely and significantly upon busy Broadway. Special free matinees for orohan children, and the sendng of volunteer acts and artists for the home entertainment of invalid soldiers, hospital inmates, guests of old people's homes and for the prisoners in Jails and houses of correction, are this season among the most extensive activities of the managers and owners of vaudeville theaters. The Prospect Theater, Brooklyn, for instance, entertained '400 poor children yesterday at a special matinee with suitable special Christmas features. A committee of the Catholic Big Sisters of Brooklyn selected this happy little army. The same Keith also invited another band of 400 crippled children from the In dustrial Welfare League, and for the further delectation of these happy lit tle celebrants there was a gigantic Christmas Tree on the stage throughout the show with a gift for each child present and a funny Santa ClauS to distribute his fat pack in person.

Depending upon local opportunities and needs, each vaudeville theater manager has worked oiSt his own neculiar Christmas ideas plans. Thus Keith's Fordham Theater sent a complete vaudeville show to the Mon-teflore Home for Incurables on Friday morning. On Christmas night two shows for sick and wounded soldiers will be supplied bv the B. F. Keith offices, one at the U.

S. Veterans Hospital at Kingsbridge rd. and Sedge-1 BROOKTjYXITKS WRITK PLAYS. A Manhattan organization, the Dramatists' Guild, which Is devoting itself to the production of plays by promising young playwrights, has selected for its first public production three plays by two young Brooklyn men, Leon Hattab ana Arthur J. Rusrh.

These plays will be produced at th 15th Street Theater, 7 15. 15th Manhattan, on the evenings of 5 and fi. Both Mr. Hattab and Mr. Busch are active In Brooklyn little theater circles.

Mr. Hattab, at one time director and instructor of playwrighting with the Ovlngton Players of Bay RldKe, is now iijead of the playwrights department of the Brooklyn Theater Guild. Mr. Busch Is managing director and founder of the Brooklyn Theater Guild, whose studio is at 92 State st. Several members of the cast of the plays are from this boro.

In the studio the. members or the Guild are building a miniature stage which will be used to experiment on new plays at private performances, something unique in Brooklyn. MOKK LOCAL SHOWS. With rehearsals for "Loew's Metro-pplifan Follies" under way. with plenty of room to spare for further amateur talent, nlans are under way for a similar revue at.

Loew's Palace Theater to be produced In that theater Jan. 8. Loew's Warwick and Fulton Theaters will follow shortly-after with one of these productions to be composed solely of local talent. Victor Hyde will produce Loew's Metropolitan's revue while Walter Windsor, who Is known for his elaborate productions of "Musical Moments." Peacock Alley," und revues at Rplsenwebers, Murray's and Churchills, will stage the revue Tor Loew's Palace. COHAN'S MATIXKKS.

George M. Cohan has conserved the interests of his players by omitting the regular Christmas Day matinees of both "So This Is London!" at the Hudson and "Little Nellie Kelly." at the. Liberty, in order that the members of the two companies may have the holiday to themselves. But he has planned an extra matinee for holiday week on Friday, Dec. for "Little veiiie Kellv." Eivlng that show three afternoon performances Including the n-2-iilar Wednesday and Saturday Saturday nntinees.

while "So This Is London!" will offer special performances on Tlnn-Hilay, Dec. 28, and Friday, Dec. 29. There will be a special New Year's matinee of both productions on Mon- day, Jan. 1.

raV lirp ''Tl Good Spirit? II Sk a A JfrViian art fantasy made by Jean I'ali o-. logue for Prizma; and the Capitol offering in Manhattan the son of a speculator who, on his death, leaves little except deeds to worthless oil lands. Another holiday feature on the Kivoli program will be the premiere showing of Plasticon Pictures, which will reveal the progress which has been made In stereoscopic films. The pictures are in Prizma color. Upon the screen the pictures will seem to be merely images of red and green, but when viewed through small color filters spectacles with a red and green glass the images blend into stereoscopic pictures in black and white The Music Films will introduce the Hastings Twins, two rute four-year-old dancers, in "Toddling Tots." "Felix Turns the Tide," a Pat Sullivan cartoon comedy with Felix the Cat in the hero role, will be a fourth film number on the program.

The Strand. At the Strand Theater the feature is Harold Lloyd's latest 5-recl comedy, "Dr. Jack." The story comes from tho pens of Hal Hoach, Sam Taylor and Jean Havez. Anna Town-send and Mildred Davis are in the cast. The annual Mark Strand frolic, "The Christmas Party," in five scenes and Interpreted by the Strand Male Quartet; a fantastic holiday offering by Walt Kuhn, "Merry Music "Charles Dickens," the first of the Great British Authors series; "The Runaway Dog," a novelty film, and the Mark Strand Topical Review arc also ou the program.

The Capitol. Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" has been picturized under the title of "The Headless Horseman" and will be the picture of the holiday program at the Capitol Theater. Will Rogers appears as the quaint Ichabod Crane, whose sentimental heart was not strong enough to stand up under the bewitching eyes of the fair Katiina Vaa Tassel, the belie ol Sleepy Hollow. The filming of the production was made in the exact locale of the story, in the wooded and hilly section of York which is still known as Sleepy Hollow. Lois Meredith plays opposite Rogers and B-n Hendricks' Jr.

is "Brom" Bones. The short films Include "Saturday Morning," the latest of the Path.Vs series of "Our News. AM I'SKMF'NTS MANHATTAN. A MEDIAEVAL WSTW THE OmfhBNCH POCT PAUL CLAUDEL ooens IXfflAS NIGHT JHf.KI-i FIRST MAI IHUIO rKH-cXL EVS. 8'30 maT THIS U'K FRs.

and UlTII HT Thro. W. of ll'wiiy. JCv. Will Wi'iiimiiluy nvsTKiir WHISPERING WIRES Main, iiiiik Wei-k.

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M'llnlKlit Hid. 1 1 4u fjf li HhiiiliiK mul Korffi-iril I I nhiiw, nmkn luilNes M4 A Irnp." 3e 7ieatre 6ld presents dfeTIDNGS BROUGHT TO MARY The approaching 40th anniversary of the Casino Theater, which the Shu- herts are planning to celebrate at this famous institution Dec. 28, recalls that upon two occasions the existence cf this theater has been threatened by fire. The most serious of the two attempts to burn the Casino occurred on Saturday, Feb. 11, 1005, the year that the management of the Casino was taken over by tho Messrs.

Shubert. Lillian Russell was playing at the Casino at that time in "Lady Teazle." The production was in the last week of its engagement and plana were being made for a revival of the operetta "Florodora," which played its original engagement at the Casino in 1000. The fire partly destroyed the interior of the theater, however, and for the balance of the season the house was undergoing extensive repairs, the cost of which totaled more than $50,000. Rudolph Aronson, in his book "Theatrical and Musical Memoirs" mentions an attempt to set fire to the Casino in 1888, when the operetta "Nadjy" was the attraction. One of tho stage mechanics had been notified that his services would not be required after a certain night.

In an effort to reinstate- himself in Mr. Aronson'a good graces he arranged to start a fire, back stage which could be extinguished by himself in time to save the theater, thereby gaining the. favor of the management. The blaze was discovered, however; before the discharged mechanic intended it should be, and his attempt at heroism was of no avail. Had the fire got under headway there might have been a serious catastrophe, as the performance was only half, over and tho theater was crowded.

The mechanic fled, but Superintendent of Police Byrnes put Detective Sergeant Dusen berry, the star of the force at that time, on the case and in a few days the discharged mechanic was located. He was tried and sentenced to seven years in prison. "The Green St-nrab." John Stapleton's new comedy drama, "The Green Scarab," has been put in 'rehearsal by James Shesgreen. The east includes H. Cooper Cliffe, Alexandra Carlisle, Victor Morley, Henry Mowbray, Lucille Sears.

Kd- v.ard Cqlebrooke and Lillian Walker. The New York premiere is scheduled for about the middle of January at a Broadway theater. A I-SKM KNTS A II ATT A N. StranD MIOAUWAY AT 47TII ST. HAROLD LLOYD in DR.

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