The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1917, Page 11

is THE NEW PLAYS e “His Little Widows” Tuneful and Lively — BY CHARLES DARNTON SCASIONALLY musical comedy is worth serious consideration. » By treating lightly the state of marriage associated with the State of Utah, the authors of “His Little Widows,” seen last night at the Astor Theatre, gave the laugh to “Polygamy,” the play that proved as flat 48 & Mormon's hat. Happily, the Mormon business, far | By Stee remote from us, has been turned into| The four H entertaining nonsense by Rida Jot gon Young and William Cary Duncan,!!y amusing tn an old-fashioned rag- assisted by W der, whose|time song that brought roars o} muste has nothing imon wivh a | laughte community weddin reh, The sub- Jeet is, of course, a dangerous one. and even when it is given a humorous | touch it has its drawbacks. But for] FOLLIES AND FROLICS years musical comedy has been no- | MARK BURLESQUE GIRLS \ . toriously polygamous. This is o more WITH FRED BINDER ij or less indelicate point that cannot } be overlooked. Here, in other words, | (s to be found the basis of musical] LaNghter reigned at the Olympic comedy, whether it be French, Eng-| Theatre on Fourteenth Street last Mah or American. Thero is no need| night, where the “Gir!s From the Fol- te include another nation, for it is] lies” made their first bow of the sea- not part of our war-game. It Is enough to say that the new Plece at the Astor fs tuneful and You are sure to find both fun and melody in “His Little Widows.” $$ Midnight Froli lively. verybody In 4t goes West the Hebrew impersonator. | and lives happily, in spite of the diffi, is a comedian of no mean culties that arise thro an accu-|apility, and he has good foils in Al mulation of wives. It remains fof the | Bush, C. F. White, ( ennan youthful hero from the Bast to marry | and Harry Van, the latter possessing ,all the women on the premises when|a good singing voice, whose singing he gets to Salt Lake City, in order|of “Mother Machree” won much com- , mendation, to inherit the millions left him by his | MOIAuOn. ts of the show are uncle, But his marriage is annulled peing carried along by Misses Ben- in time for him to look pleasant when | nitt, Reece and Wolfe, good singers } the curtain takes its last fall Jand dancers. Anna Spears, one of the » De Hav red as the chorus girls, last night scored a big Carter De Haven figured as the boy | Chorus girls, last niger eet singing bridegroom who fell into a fortune] thy and then saved himself from the | —-——_ wives thrust upon him, He danced|“T'HE HONOR SYSTEM” ‘himself out of an awkward situation 1S A FINE FILM PLAY Robert’ Emmett Keane and Harry! AT POPULAR PRICES = j@ighe did a funny bit of work in| + Mourlesquing chorus men. By way of dancing novelty, too, chorus girls played| With its unfailing appeal to the], { themselves, and one of them—Doris | em , the “Honor System,” Will- : Idoyd, I was told—displayed a re-|jam Fox's melodrama, which had a freshing sense of humor. (It is not/tong run at the Lyric Theatre, moved every night that you will find a chorus | a lienco last night at the girl with a sense of humor.) Miss] Academy of Music, where it will be Tdoyd 4s one in a thousand of hor! p; 1 for the remainder of this kind. week. The film hasn't been cut an Fy real charm and grace, however, | inch, and now it is being offered at tt wo Ms Burks who tripped off| popular prices. at the Fourteenth with tic honors of the night. Street Theatre. in Oh ker also sang and danced very ni role of Murilla. Flora I figured preitily in the proceedings. Frank Lale pursued the fat methods that have won him r tion on the musical come (make the picture the spectators. The .) 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ACTRESS WHO PLAYS | PROMINENT ROLE IN ——_OFMONTECARLO 70, ARRIVES HEREBROKE) Stanton, W no We Won $300,000 at One Sitting, Collapses From Hunger. | The original man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo is in New York | to-d. flat bfoke, but cheerful de- | spite his seventy odd years, He has 14 q ¥' hee broke many times since he broke . “a ank at Monte Carlo_fifty years ue nt supreme conndence in back.” 300,000 in one sitting at Monte Carlo in 18 and closed the Casino temporarily, Since that time he has wandered ail over the world, sometimes wealthy, some- ji times “on his uppers.” He has been BE | living recently in Albany and boarded the Hudson River Navigation Com- pany steamboat Berkshire there last Ay Warten in Urn iste ORD IN CHR Re v aa re “la —|New York, A faded slouch hat, a shiny frock | coat and an old-fashioned black stock SHOWN IN ARTISTIC | ore features of his attire that made FILMS ON BROADWAY win conspicuous, He slept all night sitting in a chair in the saloon and 1 nearly every other! when he tried to get up as the boat fleld in romantic and tragic drama,| was approaching the city this morn- the mov’ 5 p.iure men have under- ing he fell to the floor. taken a portrayal of the life of the! wphe chief trouble with me,” he Saviour, and under the title of whispered, when he was picked up “Christus” its first public exhibition on Broadway was given last night at! javen't eaten for three days.” ~ the Criterion. The pictures come to | The boat's doctor directed the New York with lavish praises from} arving of a breakfast for Stanton, Italian and French critics, Accord-|wno then established his {dentity by {ng to the bills, it is now having @|/ producing a great bundle of news- | |!ong run in Paris under the auspices| paper clipings and letters, Passena| |of the Cardinal-Archbishop and other | gery took up a collection for the old | € aries, ecclestastical and civil. | man, He refused to accept « cent, Pictorially it is beautiful and in-| «Know m sround in this! spiving, @ moving, tenderly human | town,” the sald. The last seen of him | acle artfully | py the crew of the Berkshire, he was and intensely tragic spe ged. According to the Ilstorical) making his way across West Strect In the rain. | Having ove Features, Inc., and t pany of Rome, under whoso auspices it is presented, all the pictures were taken “on the very ground in Egypt| Eva Gauthier Sings; and the Holy Land where the inspir- Galli- Curci to Be Heard.' ing events of the Biblical narrative took place.” The incidental muste chestra j# quite in k nes Com- casein By Sylvester Rawling. 4 VA GAUTHIER, accompanted ny] E Carlo Lawards at the piano, gave an interesting song recital Saran Wie tesulonn *}at Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon. have insisted a Passion Play| Her voice holds appeal and, as her woul st rocalved: ther the] programme was unhackneyed, she | everent silence of 4 large part of the | pleased; prec . Ce. udience, the pleadins nor even oe. | Pleased an appreciative audience. fonal hissing uld restrain the| Vaul Seelig’s alay Eple,” a cycle of thand cluppers,| three songs heard for the first time Wee eo SEUUB Tin America, lad @ certain freakish hese applauded some of the tender. |Charm which Mme. Gauthier affects est Incigents of the Passion. “rhey| Besides she presented compositions udec je scene ‘ore the igh | p. sluc! t where Christ appears with his b Gay ‘k, Hayden, Donizetti, Massa-| hands bound. They applauded the] ®@t Ravel and Granville Bantock, sacred wsion to Calvary as if it paragtr togs had been a mob scene in a Bowery here promises to be a large in- | drama ney Kemet up thie applause | vasion of Newark to-morrow n bt) a rom the beginning to the |). x Irae it Wan the artintic | 2% New York musicians aud music and {t did|lovers who want to hear Annelita ed to them |Galli-Curei sing, In Chicago, at th: was out of place in been proclaty Caruso of sop~inos. Every t after her first « nee, she 'w overflowing audiences, Through- out the West, in conce she has been ed as of phenomenal voice, mpanini, who expects her and Muratore, no matter what other sing- | ent, to make his jopera, shi may p IN TWO RIALTO PIC TU RES); January WITH FILM FAVORITES | ab to keep his trump « et of New ork, B A pathetic story heightened by aj pini, Newark f humor that flash: ina way to|the Bronx by interest even t st jaded of audi. | dise ions 10. ue Tes ences ts “Happ! * the ph stopiay | ; © there to apr h pe ¥ | casion is the three-ds ig festiva week, with Enid Bennett, youthful | the unm x Perel | Triangle star, in the stellar Am. | ; of the Keystone, “His " “em »y the Socie the ty Thought,” is seen in the Pty a rs sisaphls of a comedy offering, and together both ic at Carnegie Hall on pictures provide an excellent bill | ht to exploit the works The Triangle story has to do with) o¢ § he Swiss cor © effort of a lo nd wistful girl | | ta Tita caawh. ndicape of conduc riting much atten- iches as aunt compe cloistered ly | te meet hig way throug » laundr In duct t musiclans Mr, Bloch ayn phony have Tv) 1 8 Ket for 3.30 y conducting | one scenes some excellent work is accomplished by Ji le Thelma Salter and Andrew. 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