The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1916, Page 6

ee Opera Over, Russian Ballet Takes Its Place By Sylvester Rawling. the Metropolitan Opera House subscription has four more weeks to run, there will be no more opera for the season after to-night. The month of April is given up to Serge de Diaghilefts Ballet Russe, with added Wednesday matinee and Saturday night perform- ances, at which the general public May come in on the ground floor, Many of the subscribers are grum- bling. For what reason? They knew last autumn what they were to ex- pect. The four weeks of Russian ballet were duly announced and ex- tensiveiy advertised, That Mr. Dia- ehileff gave a preliminary season of two weeks at the Century Theatre before the opera season opened hardly seoms a pertinent excuse for protest now, The person who might CHILD GETS SICK CROSS, FEVERISH IF CONSTIPATED Look at tongue! Then giv fruit laxative for stom- ach, liver, bowels. “California Syrup of Figs can’t harm children and they love it. Mother! Your child isn’t naturally and peevish, See if tongue is ; this is a sure sign the little e coate stomach, liver and bowels need « cleans- ing at one When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't ent, sleep or act naturally, has stom ache, diarrhoea, rem Tr, & liver and bowel cleansing should always be the first treatment Nothing equals “C: Figs" for children’s ills; give a tea- spoonful, and in a few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fermenting food the bowels passes a well dren which is clogged out of the syster “fruit ni fails to effect a g * cleansing. Directions for bi dren of all ages and grown-ups are plainly on the bottle. Keep it handy in your home. A little iven to-day saves a sick child to-morrow fut get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of “California Sy of Figs,” then see that it i “California Fig Syrup Company. York song recital last evening in Advt Aeolian Hall. Her sympathetic voice ns finite’ fresh and full, and she showed an understanding of her ies RTS AND MUSIC. liyrics in a programme containing METROPOLITAN HK. songs in German, English and Freneh TO-NIGHT, ‘LAST She ts from Milwaukee, at 7.45 (Thc. t HARDMAN Princess Theat! SONG RECITAL Tek ‘omor.(Sun.) » CARSON on nale at Box Office, Ly RECITAL Nekets on sale at Hox Carnegie sfall, Sun, Nicht, Apr, 9, at 8.15 ¢ MCCORMACK TIOKETS NOW AT HOX OFFICE. Gatti. | the he has “kick” with reason Casazza, who has to interrupt most miccedful season that directed in his eight years of service to hie himself and his company to Boston for three w: lanta, Ga., for a weok, dispossessed, But Mr. G ia Mr. “and to At- while he is is the Managing Director, you say. He can blame only himself! Weill, dear reader, your reasoning is justified on the surface, forgetting that Mr. Ga to the advice of a rich and powerful rd of Directors, with an energetic will-hi -way Ch head, H. Kahn. Mr, not permitted to be a dictator | Mr. Gatti's season has not most brilliant he has manag European war interfered seriously last summer with his prospective engagements of new singers. Of the few he was able to oduce, only Marie Barrientos, the Spanish color- atura soprano, has made a distinct | impression, although Edith Mason, an American, has proved more than serviceable, “Then, at the very b ginning, he was deprived of the # vices of Lucrezia Bori, whose care promised to bloom into world-wi fame this year, by a disability th: has kept her out of the casts all son. Then, one after another, his principal artists became indisposed. Margarete Matrenauer was a tower of strength to him at the beginning. Later when Emmy Destinn, for an all too brief period, came back, and Gor- addine Furrar and Askt returned to the fold, end Louise Homer was welcomed, things were different. Illness forced Anto- | nio Scotti, the popular baritone, out of the cast a long time ago. Fortun- ately Mr. Caruso and Mr, Amato and Mr. Martinellt have kept their voices. For a few weeks turned away houses have been almost the rule, Of the new and revived operas of the season, none has been a miccess. The much heralded "Goyesc: with | Enerico Granados, its tl poser, here the premier perform - ance anywh may survive another on, but ig te doubtful, Borodine’s “Prince Igor,” which contains many things to commend, especially the | Tartar ballet, Gut is without love in- terest or dramatic climax, is in for | no long life, ‘“Sonnambula. and “The Barber,” as long as Mme, Bar- tos is in the company, may joked for td stay In repertory, r Widerspaenstigen Zaemung” is resurrectio have rings with thirty-two pert Verdi's ¢ 8 come ne twenty-one perforiné ni's operas a good third with fif performances, Inall thirty-four dl ferent operas have been sung, elghte in Italian, twelve in German, thre: French and one in Spanish. in| There can be no hope for an added repertory on unless: are en- of French operas next sea several new French singers waged, and, at present, little hope of that, But fo ast the next season? pends upon the war iasue, Marie Barrtentos as the in Donizetti's opera plaudits of a orowded Opera House at her farewell appear- ance for the season last night. Her quisite, although small, voice seemed to gain something of power in the there seems whd may It all de- all dts scintillating qualities. Mr. Mar- tinelli as Edgardo, his last appear- too, won new singing a hearty farewell, In the cast Mr. De Luca, Mr. Rothier, Mr. Audisio and Miss Egener, a were Hada, Mr, Mr, Bavagnoli conducting. Ethel Leginska, the English pianist, a monkish looking little imp as she crouched over the piano on the dark- ened stage of Carnegie Hall after the manner of I ewski, delighted a large audience last night by the mas- terfulness and the charm of her play- jing. Exquisite was her interpretation of Beethoven's sonata in A major, opus 2, No, 2, Beside her programme held leven Chopin preludes, and compositions by Bach, Leschetizky (the latter in commemoration of the composer's death) and Liszt, a Kellner, asing qualit The musica) clubs of Columbia Uni- versity and Amherst College gave their annual joint concert in the ball- room of the Plaza Hotel last night, followed by dancing. Amherst started the programme with “Lord Jeffery Amberst” and “Cheer for Old Am- herst,"" and Columbia brought it to a close with “Sans Souct."” Miscellane- ous numbers made up the remainder of the programme ofonte Campanini, the Chicago Opera Company, who is here making arrangements for next season, announced last night that he m pager of SERVER Carnegie Hall, vot N.Y. alin Vane, AYDN “ong uf Fate “The Creation of wonds Suh st. B Ne i Next wh. s! AND RED with A GREAT, BREEZY PICTURE WRITTEN & STAGED BY R. A, ACADEMY OF MUSIC delltitfal | GEORGE WALSH and DORIS PAWN OF THE WESTERN PLAINS. CATTLE IN AN EXCITING ROUND-UP IRVING PLACE, Contin IPE Symp, Oree. Splendid Vocalists, Week Days. Afternoons, 10c. Nights, 15c. Commencing To-Merrew (Sundey)—Four Days Only had engaged Mary Garden for ten weeks, beginning Nov. 13. He said ‘she would arrive in two ks and “movie star” for become a NEXT WEEK'S MUSIC. Margarete Ober, Otto Goritz era Company; Herma Menth, pian- ist; Mary Zentay, violinist; Sousa’s Band and the Tasingtau Symphony Orchestra will take part in the Hip podrome concert to-morrow night for rman-Austrian War Suffe _ PHOTOPLAYS, DRAMA 5,000 WALSH, » 14th ST. and] Albert Reiss of the Metropolitan Op- | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916, News Oiidilies h e Relief Fund. The Sy tra, connected with ¢ and military for was taken prison’ Japanese ond later released request songs at his ¢ recital at Carnegie I to-morrow night Organ recitals at afternoon under th Board of Education ner, tenor, at isted by George Roys’ high, Brook Norton, assisted by bariton 5 High: opera am J. Kraft, Morris High, Bronx At Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre, | Wondrous spectacle of “The Dumb = 2 : oi. | he ae ae "| Girl of Portiol.” The role of Fenella, The New York Philhsrmonic So-|the first half of the week, the SIx| however, has been little changed. lety has Soules Cen plans for next) Kirksmith Sisters, ina musical offer- The spectacle will be presented season's jubilee year, the seventy-|ing, will head the bill, Others will; twice daily at the Globe Theatre after fifth anniversary of its foundation es : Ts will the opening performance on Monday Thero will bea five days’ festival. |be William Morrow and Esther Joy| tient. Matinoen wit hese wena in “On a Country Road," Harry L,| evening performances at 8.30 ydtiseha Biman will end his New! Maxon ina monologue, and “The Four ae York avason with a violin recital at! pare” Proctor’a Fitty Carnegie Hal next Saturday afters |PaNee" | Peoctor's Pitty-elgnth Stevet |««RA MONA” ON SCREEN noon, at which he will play sonata heatre will have 4 oyt's Min- y! y by Handel and Bach and the ) Minor! strels and the White Trio in dances, AT 44TH ST. THEATRE.) Concerto by Brauch In addition to a feature photo play More than ordinary vinterast at Murt Silba will appear in a piano| °¥ery night Proctor’s One Hundred|taches to the coming to the Fort recital at Aeolian Hall this evening, Twenty-fifth Street Theatre willl fourth Street Theatre on Wednesday offering selections from Schubert,| offer a vaudeville bin headed by the " ” Ronunetion Bearintee oho cad fe ! night of “Ramona,” pictured from Peden n 8 " A. B. ¢ Boys a d Girls in a musical) Helen Hunt Jackson's historic and comedy: seh * Twenty-third Street | romantic novel of the gamo namo. Pherae Quadrl: a youne Bwiew so itre will follow its usual custom | 001 y 3 > le ace drt, a young Of a new Movie foatnte every wien | [ts sponsors, W. H. Clune, the Pacific Brno SoH eae heginning Monday with Nanos Owed {Coast manager, and his associate, the bedene: of the crohana of in “The Witch.” | Lloyd Brown, describe “Ramona” as beldiatas ai ibe Plaga: nese Ernest Evans's Soolety Circus and| a cinema-drama, so designating it afternoon m Ballet will be t ef at-| because of the novel and original at Loew's American e Mary Carson, recita und It to-morrow Maurice Lafarge at t of songs in Anita Loew, the Princess Theatre, including selection Schubert and Deltbes, accompanied by Max Heinrich, T Augmented Symphony Orchestra of Forty Pleces John McCormack will sing several}it Barnes, assisted by William H High School; Richard Keys Biers. asmus Hall soprano, i allan at the Prin evening, soprano, sextette and in the mad scene showed |mong recital to-morrow afternoon at Prof, Samuel A, Baldwineannounces PHOTOPLAYS. _ COMING tainers, IN BECAUSE HE SLIPPED tn the Tombs and broke his wooden leg, man has asked $100 damages of tho city, “GOT SIXTEEN HEAD O° CHILLUN, JEDGR,” xplained Baltimore negro charged with non-support. fe said he had to spend too much time in jail-to take are of them. a @ large orchestra. ——— PAVLOWA AT GLOBE ‘DUMB GIRL” FILM. Pavlowa, the greatest of all dancers, will make her debut as a film actress Monday evening at the Globe Theatre. The seven-reel ploture in which she During the New York en- gagement there will be two perform- ances daily, aided and interpreted by Carl Laemmie believes that New York will experience a new delight tn witnessing Paviowa in this extraor- dinary picture because in it she dem- onstrates new abilities and proves mphony Orches-, his regular free organ recital at City fermany'’s naval] fe on to-morrow and Wednes. | What students of pantomime have as- at Kinochow,|day afternoons at 4 o'clock. serted for generations, that a good of war by the —_— “Siegfried” will be sung this even. | k00d actor. ing at popular prices at the Metropol- in Opera House, with Gadski, Ho- ighth New York] mer, Sparkes, U Braun, Reias,| 80 Many-side fall a woek from | Goritz Mr. Bodanziy| does the role }eonduct performance will] #'"l clone the season, 2.20 to-morrow checkered carcer, auspices of the Edward Shippen Herbert Fryer will give a piano re- nl at Aeolian Hall on Monday provided a vi MacNee ™o"| PROCTOR, LOEW AND PALACE BILLS. Edwin O. Swain, | decades neo, High; Wil of the old-fashioned Theatre t pantomimist must of necessity be a Nothing that this won- derful little Russian woman has ever| done has shown her in anything like fon as dumb he The opera “Masaniello” has had a It has been heard in every opera house in the world has also been utilized as a burlesque, It hon- evening, after which he will leave {The famous Worell sisters presented ,, ‘on Irving immediately for England it as an extraveganza for six months Rade iB ha gly es geiand to enlist. | on" Broadway, and the same opera cle for Lydia Thomp- son and her “British Blondes” three But opera-goera will find very little in the manner in which it ts staged and pre- f. There will also be Milton |sented. Scenic, electrical, mechanical 4 nen | ind company in Speaking to/and musical ‘embellishments make i i and Osear Lorraine, Hun-| "Ramona" distinctive, and it is the ‘asmisted by | Satan violinist, | The feature pleture | confident expectation of its promoters eine at Iwew's New York Theatre on|that this ‘photo-play will set a new aida Monday will be Alice Brady in “I'll| standard in the world of drama and Come Back to You." The eleventh | motion pictures, will give a) episode of “The Strange Case of Mary| Breathing the Mfe and spirit of will also be shown on the , her programme from Handel, een, At the Palace Theat » Sam Bernard Han Ping Chien and his Chi- “Ramona” magicians, and the Six Morgan jdentical An Extraordinary Treat For New York’s Millions The Most Spectacular—Most Lavish and Unquestionably Most Sensational Production in the Entire History of Moving Pictures a fa be In com p ¢ he '| “THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICT’ UGE in conception—elaborate in Ly H investiture—marvellous in artis- al tic realism—establishing an en- J tirely new and higher standard for spec- \acular Moving Picture Productions, OMPLETE sections of the City of Naples built at immense cost, with his- torical details actually repro- duced with remarkable realism, Palaces sacked and burned by frenzied mobs—cities destroyed by a huge tion, Over nine hundred scenes that will enthrall inate you with their intensity, », Py lie cast includes such stars as Rupert Julian, Edna \ Maison, Dougla ard, supported by the entire original Ballet Russe; headed by PAVLOWA, the Incomparable, heralded as the greatest living danseuse, and ac- knowledged the most wonderful emotional pantomime actress of all time, RODUCED by the Universal P Film Manufacturing Co.,, under the direction of Lotg Weber and Phillips Smalley. By arrangement with Max Rabinoff. Staged at a cost exceeding a quar- ter of a million dollars, GLOBE THEATRE Broadway at 46th St. VERY After- EE _PHOTOPLAYS. _ California before advanced civiliza- tion encroached upon the settlers and spelled the doom of the I “Ra- Sho will be|in a monologue, Nora Bayes in new| mona” makes animate Ruay etetaetans he Misses Campbell in “At! of Mra, Jackson's charming book. As was photographed on the spots where the authoress Dancers will be among the enter- peng oy her plot, the camera had license to record the most preturesque sections {n all California, such as Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Ga briel, San Diego and other towns rich in mission lore along the Pacific Const. In the making of “Ramona,” which was done under the expert direction of Donald Crisp, as much of the com- mercial element as possible was elimi nated and the sincerity and sentiment TUG BURNED, LIGHTER SUNK AND TWO MEN | HURT IN RIVER BLAZE | | DYNAMITE KILLED SEVENTY-FIVE SNAKDS,| will be presented by the Universal | OF, Mra, Jackson's | fascinating love mostly rattlers, at Greenhorn, Cal,, twenty-five reptiles | Film Company is entitled “The Dumb | the novel comprised the only scenario Fireb Trvj = being blown to treetop and eft aquirming there in a knot,| Gir} of Portici” a story built from|used by Mr. Crap. ireboat Trying to Reach the) ers ope saniello." ‘commencing Thursday, there will Sterling Se a Macot | BAST ORANGH INVENTOR had cannon ready to} the taking of the ploture and the re-|{ Vethie te tke at nie | D. to Bottom | touch off and test theory ble guns are good for cleaning | suits demonstrate the fact that Pav- venta to $1 at the matinees, = — | sewers, but Sewer Department stopped him, lowa 18 not only the greatest of|has been fixed A spectacular fire carly to-day at| F — dancers and pantomimists, but @ con- I gress gpomnng § [the foot of Forty-seventh street,| A TIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE, dropped fifteen | hundred. persons, 728 horace DANCING AND SKATING Brooklyn, destroyed the tugboat Ster- | years ago at the Waldorf, was not found unfil yesterday, | nd @ quarter of a million dollars AT CENTRAL PALACE. | |... . | when desk was moved for a new floor. were utilised in projecting the in- aa Lessa sebshacla Aahtia bel salt sitll J delesidiaas comparable Russian dancer on the} dhe Lenten season has not seemed| Company of No, 17. South Street,| to affect the dancing at the dancing carnival in th: and Central Palace. In fact, the number of patrons last Saturday was larger than on any pre- vious Saturday for a year, Roller skating also is very popular, At! Present it is difficult to accommodate all the skaters on certain evenings, FIVE CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMING DWELLING All Members of One Family, They Are Trapped Asleep—Parents In- jured Atiempting Rescues. SCRANTON, Pa. April 1—Five children were burned to death early to-day in a fire which destroyed the home of Patrick Marion in this city. The children ranged from thirteen months 40 ten years of age. All were trapped by the flames as thoy slept Manhattan, damaged a lighter lying} alongside and caused a second lighter to be sunk by Gaynor, A watchman discovered the fire and sent in an alarm, which brought the} apparatus and several fireboats, In manoeuvring for position the Mayor) ynor struck the lighter Maggie D., | owned by the James ¢ ber Company of No. Manhattan, tom. the fireboat Mayor | urner Lum 23 Broadway, | to the bot- 11 sending her Next to the Sterling was the} Raymond, owned by the Johnson Lightering Company of No.| 17 Battery Place, Manhattan, which caught fire. Two firemen, John Dee- | land, twenty-seven, and Joseph | Roilly, forty-three, of Engine Com- pany No, 228, were jostled from the | Raymond and caught between the! | lighters. Both were sent to the Nor- | lighter The mother was seriously injured in| wegian Hospital, Deeland with a leaping from a window with the | broke 1 Reilly w Pr burned body of the infant in her ci sien gs ya lant arms and her husband and a boa Chess, AG: brOKn. weist were also hurt trying to reseue the children, The fire damage wa The cause of the blaze about $25,000, is unknown. PHOTOPLAYS. | | Twice ST. THEATRE 1 Near B’way, Bryant 7292 eginni Ss “7 OY Romantic Story of Cali Mission Indians. Massive Protection of = Alessandra Sea = Cana ay ay, aay STORY EVER T 8,000,000/8,00 READERS LA. HAVE ENJOYED|DR READEkS HAVE EVERYONE SHOULD BE SEATED AT STARTI SEATS NOW SELLING. ‘iMhitd?, ORDERS KEC on | offe NIGHTS NIGHTS at 8 Sha mits” 2c to $1.50 at 2 Sharp. 25¢ to $1.0 ng Wed. Eve. at 8 Sharp DAILY MATINEES THEREAFTER, INCLUDING SUNDAY Helen Hunt Jackson’s Historical and THE SWEETEST LOVE 0,000) 8,000,000/8, EAMED|L 1VED NOW SEE EVERY EVERY ie 1 \\ RAMONA|RAMONA|RAMONA|RAMONA (4) BECAUSE) (BECAUSE) (BECAUSE) (BECAUSE) : : It Is the Love Story of the Ages fa 1) NOTE Siti % Bicut ano Matinees ar two. [J Kokosinsky Says He's a ‘Terror. The police of Bayonne have a man 0 their hands who says he ts a member Villa's band of raiders, ‘To prove t he calls attention to the fact that o1 of the fingers on his right hand is mi His name, which somehow lad usual In Mexteoy John Kokosinsky, and the last place sided was Bellar, O. He ts locked a charge of disorderly conduct, ing of having brandish t night in a saloon at 195 Avenue E, in the Constable Hi The Bayonne police don't lieve he is a Villa raider at Ing. the Spanish flavor nce con a revolver las section AS Improves your skin while cleansing it clean the Lany. toilet soap enough to do so without cate textures. 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