The Billboard 1909-02-20: Vol 21 Iss 8 (1909-02-20)

The Bi * llboard FEBRUARY 20, 1909. e OY: 5 6. inc nkubuensae’ x. & Wel aris tter DOE URE os és cin ccdesde cans M. Raulie ON: «5 vind ecendsbasees hin M. Beranger Te “Re. WOT iiscccvcccccs M. Clairius (Continued from page 12.) Soldat de Welser ....--..----+++ M. Gallodin or six years. ees ie WRC ib ovnkcaescagnbeeee M. Auge ——s to first hand information (the man to whom it was told, told me) the story of the Spanish animal drama runs like thi Ss: s A wolf is in love with a lamb, but the lamb other day. As he + Henry Russell (everybody knows Henry Rusell, the impressario) paid us a flying visit the | only hit in high places I fears him. fortune teller (a toad) foregot to hear only a few thousand words from tells unhappiness for the couple, but despite him. He talks fast. Also he works. While | this, the scandalization of the entire flock to in Paris he heard about twenty-five American which she belonged, and the entreaties and girls sing, each of the lot desiring a place in threats of her parents, she consents to marry ; the gentleman wolf. For a time they are perfectly happy and a child gladdens their lives immeasurably. But a ; fox appears on the scene. Mr. Fox tells Mr. Wolf that a former flame of the latter’s is awaiting him outside and the story, overheard by the toad, is repeated. So the story gets back to the wife, who flees to the mountains, where in Nables, wide open, he new Boston opera. | From France, Mr. Russell went to Italy, Milan and Rome he listened o other singers. Spain, too, is to be honored by a visit from this very busy man, and Swe len and other countries of the north are not to scape. For this director's eyes and ears ace and he’s on a voyage of discovery, | hoping to be eaten by the hideous wild beasts #71 when he sets sail again for America rs ad But she aadar & bear, and, as one often there'll be a dearth of promising voices left in | sees in real life, this bear was better than he Europe uncontracted for. seemed. He counseled the wife, and full of a plan of action as outlined to her by the bear, she returns home. And in the end—wolf-lamband-bear plays must end happily the same as his wife’s devotion and ever-ready kindness. Just how much of a success the play is making I have not heard, but for Mr. Rostand’s play soon to be seen, it is hoped, at the Porte Saint-Martin, I predict at least a corking good start After that, of course, it must stand on its merits. % Say, girls, when you come to France, please keep your eyes glued to the front, and if a Bernstein, the success men-and-women pieces—the husband-is won by America, * Paris theatrical folk are congratulating Henri French playmaker, over the of his latest play to win favor in Baccarat, in which Fraulein Mari etta Olly, the talented Berlin actress appeared. Une Grosse Affaire, a farce in three acts, hy Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber, at the Theatre des of a hit itself. a comic opera or a musical comedy, start to finish there is much laughter over the mix-ups this one little plot has to offer. one of those plays the like of which Paris sees Nouveautes, is making something It has about as much plot as but from It is Johnny should say howdy’do, why just don’t | so meny: made entirely to amuse for a few notice him at all, will you? You man save his | weeks, when it becomes tiresome, and falls life without knowing it. | forever out of sight. But it’s a hummer of “The Latin race always has been, is, and al-/ its kind, all right. ways will be Impulsive. Likewise he is always | in love with the girls. A chap will twist his| Miss Isadora Duncan has started her *on-| head half off any day to get a peep at a wo| quest of Paris at the Gaite, and the critics are and one hour is all the time necessary to fell head over heels in love with But THIS nian, for him bher—and sometimes fall out again. going mad over her classic dance. She has musie such as few dancers in Paris ever were blessed with, for the orchestra of the famous story is about two that DIDN’T fall out again, | Chevillard has been engaged especially for her and so are now dead—suicides! Seunds horrible, doesn’t it? The Variety Girls were playing an engage| ment in Marseilles, and among the number) were three young women, pretty and full of vivacity as most chorus girls are. Also full) of devilment and a desire for fun. Now there also happened to be three young men, all of wealthy and bonored French families, who liked just that sort of girls. So they fell in love with these. There followed dinners, auto rides, suppers for the whole variety shebang (because the girls sald that was the way | to “get in good.’’ The three young men ‘‘got in good,”’ you can bet, spending more money that their allowances warranted, then went into debt. Then came the end. One youth, Monsieur de Valery, aged 24, | asked his girl to marry him. She said no, | flatly, point blank. The boy went home and_ shot his head through with a revolver. Monsieur Contard, aged 17, also asked HIS girl to be his, and when she said no, started to) follow his friend. His father interfered, however, sent him off to boarding school, where, with two ties, he hanged himself. Number three, a boy of twenty, is still alive, but it is Y said that the Marseflles coroner is already preoy paring an identification slip for him. Therefore, girls, as I said in the beginning, | when you come over here, please be careful. The cemeteries are already running over. Sir Gilbert Parker, from whose book The | Right of Way, the beautiful and impressive | play of the same name was fashioned for Guy | Standing and Theodore Roberts, is now inParis. His visit is purely for pleasure, he says, and nothing else. | del, act. The music of the dance, by Gluck, HaenFaure end Saint-Saens, is an inspiration sufficient to turn a stick into a satyr. And Miss Duncan, as everybody knows, is no stick! Les Aventure de Gavroche (The Adventures | of Gavroche), by G. Marot and V. Darlay, a musical piece in four acts and twenty-three scenes, has had its premiere at the Theatre du | Chatelet, taking the place of La Blanche, of which The Billboard spoke some weeks ago. It is based upon the supposed in cidents of a Jules Bernian voyage around the world in twenty-four hours, or thereabouts, as they befall one Gavroche. Critics praise the piece neither loudly nor the reverse. Beriin Letter (Continued from page 12.) THE IMPERIAL ayemee BALLET TO DISAccording to advices from St. Petersburg, Russia, the Imperial court ballet is to be discontinued, since this Imperial luxury cost the state the sung little sum of four million rubels | | per annum, | could be used to better advantage. and this amount, THE DEVIL AT MUNICH. The Devil, a play of three acts, by Franz Molnar, received a warm welcome at the Schauspielhaus in Munich, a few days ago. The interpretation of The Devil, by Mr. Peppler, did not come up to the intentions of the author, | while Miss Schaffer, as Iolantha, discharged her It is said that Victor Hugo refused his) Hernani to Verdi, .who wanted to write an opera around it. Whether this be so or not (and the great philosopber-novelist is dead, and it can neither be denied or affirmed), Hernani, | an opera, the music of which was written by Henri Hirchman, has been produced at the Theatre Lyrique de la Gaite. Success is predicted for it by the critics and Mr. Hirchman, who is a very young man, is coming in for) much praise. Mlle. Dubel and M. Boulogne took the principal — | } Two new plays have been offered to Parisians within the last few days, or perhaps, I should say one new play and one adaptation. The new play is a comedy, entitled Les Grands, the authors being Pierre Veber and Serge Basset. It is a play of provincial stu| dent life, and the keystone of the dramatic | structure in the study hall of a small college, and what takes place therein. The hero and heroine of the play are scarcely more than ehildren—‘‘les grands’’ (the big ones) being somewhere about eighteen years of age. There| fore, the story is a kind of dramatization of the delightful thing known as ‘“‘pnppy love,’ | and having more than usual heart interest bonnd up in the lines, the comedy ought to iast some time. Mlles. Lutzi, Jeanne Lion, Grum| back, and Messrs. Desjardine, Maupre and) d'Ines take the leading parts. This piece had its premiere at the Odeon. La Fille des Rabenstein is the title of the. adapted play, it being made from the Ger-| nran of the late Ernest von Wildenbruch, high| ly esteemed and muchly praised by the pres| ent Kaiser. The translation of the play (The) Daughter of Rabenstein) was made by Maurice | Remon and Mme. N. Valentin—there being. two, of course, for French writers, like blackbirds and misfortunes seldom come singly. Reviewers praise it generally and compliment the players likewise. And as the play was pro duced at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and by the band of home. players which this great woman leaves to keep the nest warm while she | conquers in other climes, I'll give the east in full, as follows. Aa | a Mee eee eee Mme. Ventura Ursule Melber Mme. Desroches Rame Welser -+..-Mme. Zorelll Mita . seh <> Seow dodsekee Mme. Alisson Theodeberte ...... CrCtadic odo + Mme. Marion tarthelemy Welser ~<........... M. Chameroys Seigneur de Rabenstein .. ..... M. Decoeur Barthelemy Wesler ............ M. J. Worms PRCINT APOE mvocivvcsvoscccccces M. Puardl Le. Faiseur de Nonnes ....M. Aurele Sydney Le :Nolr. ....+..%» qe0-igeaecerese MM, Blersmesn Georges de Freyberg ..........+. M. Lanrent fe Ree pe M. Bussieres eee GO Vie sxexvdsses nvie ss eye M. Cintract | planova, 1 fortune, difficult part very nicely. IBSEN-CYCLUS AT THE LESSING THEATRE. The Ibsen-Cyclus, at the Lessing Theatre, continues to draw great crowds. The offering of the second night was Die Stuetzen der Gesellschaft, which was at the same time a jubilee performance, it being the hundredth time. The playing of Albert Bassennaun and Else Leh | mann showed a bit of art, which can hardly be surpassed and the applause of the audience was accordingly. The third show will be Nora, on Friday evening, with the following actors in the chief me Gunther . -Emanuel Reicher Ir. Rank ...Osecar Lauer Helmer ....A. 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