Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 28

Fourth Section Sunday LEXINGTON March 1 1914 PAGE 1 ORPHEUM "The Golden Cross" THANHOUSER TWO REELS AN ADAPTATION OF THE FAMOUS OPERA BY LLOYD LONERGAN FEATURING MAUDE FEALY HARRY BENHAM AND MIGNON ANDERSON ORCIIESTUA U8in BEYER WOUliv Character Harmony Boys PEG MY HEART Captain Jenny A GOLD SEAL TWO PARTS A MASTERFUL DRAMA OF A YOUNG MAN'S REDEMPTION THROUGH HUMANITY KINDNESS AND SELF SACRIFICE OF A SALVATION ARMY GIRL WITH HAZEL BUCKHAM AND HERBERT RAWLINSON Whrrr the Gofi Cm" It 19:00 A 3 Tp lliOO Bl "RTiT A aa noait March 2 8:15 PM in greatest' features now on the circuit The bill will bo diversified and will consist of singing dancing and comedy sketches with one of the best of the many Japanese acts including the great Sahlba adv SENSATIONAL RUSSIAN VIOLINIST Hear Elman ann Find Youth Joy Enthusiam Restored To You PRICES: SOc to S200 Beit March 14 Matinee and Night LEXINGTON OPERA-HOUSE A MODEUX EVB The Berlin operetta "A Modern Eve" which enjoyed a record-breaking engagement in Chicago last season will be the attraction at' the Opera-house next Saturday matinee and night The management have assembled a' cast oi prominent principals for this tour anu will often an elaborate scenic and costume production Edward Hume who created one of last season's biggest stage hits the chimney sweep in "The Ileartbreakers" lias abundant for his delightful character comedy in the role of Casimer Cascadier the henpecked husband of "A Modern Eve" "A Modern Eve" has proven to be tlie greatest musical success Europe has given us -and it already surpasses in BEN ALI THEATER JOI1X YOGEL'S BIG CITV 31 IX-STOEIS John AV Voxel's Biff City Minstrels will be seen at the Ben All Theater Wednesday March 4th tor two performances matinee and' night The com-I-any is half a hundred strong: and boasts of a roster second to none Manager Tog-el's reputation for being a standard bearer is enough to satisfy its tliat the performance will be In keeping with the heralding The Radium Palace a new and very elaborate first part setting will be presented litre for the first time and It is said to be the most beautiful and costly affair ever used by any theatrical com-puny in this or any other country The advance sale of tickets opens Monday The scenery- and stage settings used In John Vogel's Big City Minstrels which comes to the Ben All Theater "Wednesday for two performances fs aid to be the most elaborate and expensive ever used for a similar purpose tne setting is called the Radium Palace a befitting title because of the appropriate costumes and the numerous and powerful calcium and electrical effects vsed thereon This is the only setting of the kind In use by a minstrel organization as the cost of -same prohibits the average manager from Investing the amount of capital -required Prices: night 25c ty 11-00 matinee 25 and 50c adv the oft-tortured steps of modern dancing may be MIlo Anna does a society dance at every performance It will be included In the divert'sements which will make of the third part of the brilliant programs to be given at the Ben All Theater March 14 for two performances 1 'This new sbc'al dance at present all the rage at' the various kinds of dan-sants in the East Is a combination of tango and hesitation waits It is danced to the music of Llncke's "Glow Worm" by Pavlowa with Berge'as partner It Is done in Dlrcctolre costume and was introduced on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House New York as ins Gavotte Directoire but Manhattan society seised upon It and capped It naturally the Gavotte Pavlowa In regard to the present style of dancing Mile Pavlowa says: "The popularity of social dancing really constitutes the biggest movement for general social betterment America could know Dancing Is healthful exercise it gives poise and grace it puts people In tune with the scheme of the universe for no matter how deeply you can explore you will flid that the ac tlvity of and upon this little world of ours is built upon rythm "I detest the turkey trot for It Is so ugly and there can also be abuses of the one-step and the tango and the hesitation and their variations but danced In waits position and with no movement above the waist line -the last three can be glorious achievements" adv tt THE DANCING REVELATION OF THE AGE" point of popularity any previous musi cal comedy presented in' years The music by Victor Hollaender and Jean Gilbert embraces song hits already es tablished as popular favorites all over the country The now famous "Goodbye Everybody" waits Is being whistled and hummed everywhere Othet popular numbers are "Is Tlie Girl You Married Still The Girl You Love" Lonesome Moon" "Rita My Margar ita" "Every Day Is Crrlstmas When You're Married" and "Won't You COMPANY OF FOUR SCORE WITH NOVIKOFF COMPLETE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THE ODORE STIER CONDUCTOR DIFFERENT STARTLING PROGRAM EACH PERFORMANCE Matinee "Magie Flute" "Invitation to Dance" and Divertissements Night "Orientale" (Bakst production and "Soiree de Danse" and Divertissements "Autumn Bacchanale" and New Social Dance by Gavotte Pavlowa both times Mail orders and advance subscriptions now A Pavlowa engagement means a capacity engagement Use the mails and be sure of choice seats- Enclose stamped envelope for return of tickets or call for them on Saturday before opening of window sale J'AVIOW OX SODERX UAXCIXG "Turkey Trot no Tango one-step hesitation 'waits yes-" Thus says Anna Parlowa greatest dancer of the age To give the death blow to the trot and still to show how beautiful KEITH VAI'DEVIILE With the matinee Thursday Keith Vaudeville will be resumed at the Ben Alt when an entirely new bill will be presented containing some of the Smile?" adv THE ORPHEUM MONDAY "Captain Jenny 'Good Seal MISCH A EUAN VUST TO PLAY AT drama in two-parts dealing with a good-lntentioncd young man who goes wrong and is saved to himself and the woman he loves by a Salvation 1 Prices lower floor $3 and $250 balcony $250 $200 and $150 second balcony $100 Army girl Beautiful refreshing scenes THE BEN ALI THEATRE T0M0RR0V NIGHT by the seashore' and sordid settings of a big city showing all the meanness of the degraded- human It will make every one the better for seeing it AT THE ADA MEADE THIS WEEK The Golden Cross" Thanhouser two- I Ben Ali Theater I set drama Offering her gold cross to the man who will fill her brother's place In the army it falls into the bands of a villain and She Is about to fulfill her pledge when the original appears proves to be an honorable count and claims his bride Beyer Woiley will be heard in "Peg My adv THE PRINCESS Th4 Paul Balney African hunt pic tbres which were run at this yesterday to large crowds will be shown again today for the last time In this city These ure the most marvelous pictures of wild animal life ever taken adv THE COLONIAL A thrilling two-act Vitagraph drama "Iron and Steel" heads the bill at the Colonial today 'The story deals with Herb Ludwig Kronlts His underhanded methods of doing business and 'hin Iron will in his dealings with others bring-upon 'him a Just retribution "Memoirs' Is a Sella- drama and "Miss Millys Valentine" an Essanay adv SATURDAY MARCH 6-March 7 With Daily Matinee B-HMBMawBHaai'illlllSMSBSBaBIBSBHBMBSBMSHSBHaMSBMSB EIGHT HIGH CLASS ACTS And the BEN ALISCOPE Prices Matinee and Night-Lower Floor 50c First Balcony 25c Second Balcony 10c 1 400 GOOD SEATS AT 10c THE STAR A b'g Sunday bill of pictures will be shown at the Star today for 6c "The Kmuggler's Son" is a splendid Klclne-Cines two-act drama in which Marie the youngest daughter of the Marquis of Marsa Is in love with the Baron 01 Nene When the fickle Earon Ma discovered by Marie kissing Marie's aunt she destroys his letters To capture a Hying fragment Mario misses her footing in a garden and Is precipitated through a most mysterious underground chute landing In the very mid-ale of a smuggler's den Brunl a young suitor for Marie's hand searches eo well for her thnt he not only discovers Marie but that his own father was the real leader of the smugglers The Ben Ali STROLLERS CLUB MATINEE AND NIGHT Wednesday ADDRESS BUSINESS MEN ABOUT THE COLLEGE WIDOW PERFORMANCE AT BEN ALI TUES- DAY TUB 1 A "Only One Shirt" Is a rip-roaring riarcn Kalein comedy adv MISCHA ELMAN GOSSIP OF THE STAGE I am youth eternal youth I am joy Joy ioy" vibrates from Jlischa El-luau's violin to his who catches the Joy of living from his "Hagar Pevelly" Is to be produced In play form shortly contracts having JOHN VOGEL'S BIG CITY MINSTRELS THE BEST he was thirteen Since then his artistic growth has fully conformed to the expectations of Beopold Auer the St Petersburg violin instructor and by many conceded to be the most successful developer of violin virtuosi From the nie-ht tYat Rinnan Kurd beeh signed between Joseph 1 Plunk-ett'and Daniel Goodman the author of Kifted young man's irasjical music and feels the weight of years giving way to 1lfnO Jinllinciaini an4 nil the much-discussed book- upon th music rccple of Ameri A bill providing a penalty of Imprisonment for from thirty days 'to six months for' speculation in theater tickets has been introduced in the New BY TEST fuenced by her exhibition In any way beyond the moment It Is for purposes ot entertainment and diversion that this exhibition Is given The speech of Mrs Fay's assistant' like that of any entertainer must not be taken too seriously as it Is his business to entertain and the more convincing his "talk the better he accomplishes his end Questions written on slips of paper by members of the audience are answered with startling rapidity without even being brought upon the stage where the woman sits blindfolded In each case she gives the name of the Inquirer If her answers are not always correct (and she does not claim infallibility) the constant succession "of "Here" "Here" as she gives names and of "Yes'' "Yes" as she repeats questions proves that something marvelous Is being accomplished In addition to Eva Fay there will be Haas Brothers comedy acrobats Conny Windham players in a- very "funny sketch called "Wanted Thirty Cents Maldia and Billy Ghent In bits of musical comedy and Gilmore and Castle the well-known blackface comedians r- w- -v adv Jfca Voa-H The Mlastrel Kiss York legislature Announcement Is made that Willis Occultism and Thaumaturgy will hold forth at the Ada Meade theater all next week Mrs Eva Fay widow of the late John Fay will weave the nystic spell If reports from other cities are to be given 'full credence Mrs Fay wil be the sensation of the day during her engagement here Her work is mo far above that of the ordinary telepalhlst that there is no room for comparison She almost' compels belief that she is gifted with superhuman talents Mrs Fay proves herself a skilled and scientific manipulator of the arts of the East Indian Yogi and famed Ma hat mas being herself a native daughter of India Her wonderful exhibition adroitness and dexterity comprise the most finished performance of occultism and psychic control ever offered to the American people and it is necessarily mysterious Mrs4Fay is not a spiritualistic medium and there Is nothing supernatural about her work In the- answering of questions identifications and descriptions notx all of Mrs Fay's answers -are correct-about eighty per cent it has been found but the proportion is such as to make jit a truly wonderful exhibition Mrs Fay positively gives no private audience to any person she Is not a fortune teller palmist or pretender of nny kind and It is not supposed that any person In the audience will be in- 40 40 SINGERS DANCERS COMEDIANS Sweatman's venture as a star In a play "Tne Strollers" hare addressed letters to the business- men of Lexington la which they say: "The Strollers" is the dramatic organization' of -State University 'Its purpose is primarily to develop the histrionic talent of students each year as well as furnish to the student body and the public interested la the students' welfare a wholesome form of amusement well worth -while On Tuesday March 3 we will put or "The College Widow" at the Ben All This is one of George Ade's most humorous comedies A strong cast has been rehearsing faithfully for several weeks and we feel safe in asking the public to patronize the performance While this play can be technically called an "amateur performance'! the faculty of the University and particularly the members of the "Strollers Club" do not want to bunco the business men and friends of the University with a poor show We therefore feel that if you honor us with your presence and your good Trill next Tuesday night we will give you value received for the price of admission and your co-operation will go made from the Harris Dickson's story called "Old Reliable" has been definite ly- abandoned ca nis triumphs have been In keeping with his genius- From that moment his place on this Ride of the Atlantic was firmly established And with each succeeding visit to there shores the your man has added to the popularity won until he is now the most widely known and well-liked violinist in the world Elman's selections for tomorrow evening's program will appeal to the cultivated music patron and to the one who enjoys violin music but who has no wide knowledge of it' That is one of the characteristics of he never fails to delight all his hearers no matter how much or how little thv Laurence Irving and his wife Mabel SEATS ON SALE MONDAY PRICES: Matinee 25c and 50c Night 25c to $100 things that make childhood and youth worth while To hear EI man is to! undergo a memorable experience It Is 1o breathe in again pure fresh air and sunshine and to have again sympathy and undemanding for life His music is a fountain of eternal youth to the souls cf his audience s- Mischa Elman's reputation extend to every place where music is known His concert at the Ben All Theater tomorrow night promises to be one of the star events "of this season This young Russian' whose career began when he was little mere than ten years old stands teaay as the equal if not the superior of any living vio llnist He is barely of legal age yet his playing is that of a great master Elman according io music critics of Europe was a matured player when Hackney are making a tour of the Ca nadlan cities with "Typhoon" "The Unwritten Law "The Lily" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" On his return to England Mr ttving will pro duce Herman Bahr's comedy "Bona parte" which-depicts the love story of Napoleon and Josephine know about music a long way in encouraging the student body to strive for greater achievements for the University's sake ss well as for their own Tickets are now on sale at the Ben All May we not count on your patroa BOOKLOVERS' PICTUREGAME Irene Fenwlck Joseph Kllgour and several other well-known players are in the cast of the new- comedy "Along Came Ruth" recently produced by Henry Savage A capacity house is predicted for the Elman concert at the Ben All Theater Monday night (adv) CATALOGUES NOW ON SALE AT THE LEADER 40c.