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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1912)
". . THE SUNDAY OHEGOSIAy. rORTLAXD. AfRIL 14, 1912. . ? 3 1 1 ii . .......... .... - i "THE MAN FROM COOKS" IS FIRST SHOW OF SPRING TO BLOSSOM FORTH ON BROADWAY Play at New Amsterdam Is Bright, Clean Musical Comedy of Light Sort and Most Entertaining-Gilbert and Sullivan Will Revive Fritai Scheff in TiUe Role. 'Patience" Soon "With 'J--' - SZaSxAf amt --- JW-1 -iaxJf PT I.LOTD F. LONEIinANV NEW TORK. April 13. (PpeclaL) Th flrit of th Spring how hap arrived. "The Man From Cook's" bavins' opened hi offle at ttao New .Amsterdam Theater with every proa pect of remaining there for the rert of the Summer. A "Spring ihow" in neceewirlly dif ferent from one that bloomi only in the Winter. Thi one baa more of a plot than Spring attractions usually have, and supplies Interesting- entertainment. -The Man From Cook's" 1 based on a French farce by Maurice Ordonneau. the book being by Henry Blossom, which, as all our local humorists point out. Is n appropriste name to be coupled with a Spring show. Madame Leontlne moves her pension. much patronised by Bohemians, into the , former neaaquaners oi iwi, ine iowr 1st. and falls to take down the an nouncements and slrns of the. old ten ants. This naturally confuses the young- American heiress, provisionally rnraged to the English lord, and leads her to believe that the charming young rrlnoe. is really the courier that he pre tends to be. Naturally he arranges a tour for her and all of Madame Leon tines patrons to Italy. Eventually, of course, the young man declares that he Is a prince and he loves her. and she accepts, bringing the play to the neces sarily happy ending required In all good musical comedies. -The Man From Cook's" is light, it l true, but very entertaining. There U nothing in the book that will tend to ,evate the stage, nor is there anything cbjectlonable It Is simply a bright, clean littlo'muslcal comedy, snd that is all one can ask for. or would ask for la the happy Spring time. rut ( Players Ceo. Klaw A Erlanger have provided "The Ian From Cook s" with a more than adequate cast. Fred Walton Is the principal comedian, and has plenty of opportunities to prove it. Walter Fer cevsl and Leslie Kenyon are eperl enced In their line, and Stella Hoban. as the heiress, has the charm of youth and vivacity. The Investiture of the play M lavish and tasteful, the chorus has been well trained by Ben Teal and the music by Raymond Hubbell Is melo dious and entertaining. -The Right to Be Happy.' In wblcn Tnwothy Donnelly and Kdmund Preese are ftatured at t&u Hudson Theater, concerns itself partly with the eternal sex problem and partly with the rub ber markt (crude and artificial). These Utter words, by the way. might be used to describe the play. Breeee is a sort of a Theodore Kra mer villain. He is a captain of Indus try, and a young girl of good New York famllv enters his employ. She seeks him out In the first instance because she wants to protect her erring brother who has lost money gambling. The magnate hires Janet (Mies Donnelly) at a large salary to keep her ears open In socletv and rubber around about rub ber. Then, all of her own accord, and because the magnate .s giving her a large salary, Janet become his mis tress. The next thing of course, is that she meets the other man. John Forrester, the man magnate Morehouse most fears and bates. He has Invented an imita tion rubber which is expected to revo lutionize the business. Janet is put on his trial. Naturally he falls In love with ler, and naturally, that is the atrically naturally, he confides his se cret to Janet. nd gives her the recipe. Janet Is in evening dress, and hd she followed tradition, would have put the recipe In the bosom of her dress. In stesd she places It in bureau drawer. Pearls Are Refused. Morehouse pops In at this moment. Janet, for no reason In the world. UUs him she baa the Important recipe. Then she places It In the bodice of her dress. Morehouse Is about to fish for It. despite Janet's prqtests, when Forrest er walks in. In an effort to be. enter taining. Morehouse Informs the other man that Janet has been his mistress for six months, she placidly denies It, re marks that no gentleman would believe a man who made such a charge, and rings for the butler to show Morehouse out. H goes. In the last act Morehouse drops In to say that he bitterly regrets "them cruel words." She really must forgive him. he goes on to explain because there is awaiting her at Tiffany's a rope of pearls valued at 1300.000. Janet replies that she would not take the pearls, "if they stretched from Tiffany's to Stuyve sant Square." Exit Morehouse, enter Forrester. Janet tells blm that every thing Morehouse said was true. He re plies that he knew It all the time, but that he Intends to marry her Just the tame, for she has "the right to be hap py." Then they pass the rest of the evening designing model tenements which sre to have seven-foot conserva tories on every floor. The author of this dainty trifle' is Kellet Chambers, who Is not unknown to New York as a playwright. He wrote "Abigail" for Grace George, "A Butterfly," for Lillian Russell, and "An American Widow" for Grace Filkins, all of them plays with a certain charm, al though they did not long survive. Dorothy Donnelly was not altogether free from monotony, and Edmund Rreese, aa the wicked rubber magnate, had a strange part, which may explain why he played it strangely. Leslie Fa ber as Forrester, gave the performance Its chief distinction. , Louisa Galloway was excellent as the mother, who Is long on social distinction and short on common sense. It is greatly to be feared that "The Right To He Happy" does not apply, in the present case, to Author Chambers or Producer Henry B. Harris. "Patience" To Be Revived. The annual Spring revrvals of Gilbert & Sullivan operas have been so suc cessful that Messrs. Shubert and Will iam A. Brady, who brought out the oth ers, are now arranging for reheareola of "Patience." It has not yet been de cided at which of the Shuberfs Broad way houses the performances will be given, but the chances are that the Ca sino will be selected. The present In t.ntinn is to run "Patience" for a Snririr and a Summer season. Fritxi Scheff will have the title role, i (ho nth.ru who hava al ready been engaged for leading! roles are DeWolf Hopper. Eva uavenport. Gut in Brass Beds This $32.00 Bed Only Can You Beat It? We bought a solid car of these two patterns exclusively, thereby receiving the largest pos sible discount. 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One Year Ahead of Competitors, George MacFarlane, Kugene Cowles. Arthur .Aldridge, vioieiie oiueiie, George Anderson and Josephine Dun- fee. Tai-nf." warn first nroduced at the Opera Comique, London, April 13, 1881. It had Us first New i ora presentation at the Standard Theater, and was even a greater financial success than "Pina fore." Margaret IUington. who is now - on the road, headed for the Coast," will bring ber season in "Kindling" to a close In Tacoma on July 13. This is the home town of her husband, K. J. Bowes, under whose manag3ment, she' is starring. Mr. and Mrs. Bowes will remain in Tacoma' for a few weeks, during part of which time' they will be camping in the Olympic Mountains with Mr. and Mrs. John Cort, and return to New York about August 1. Then they will begin preparations for the open ing of the new Illington Theater,1 on West Forty-elgnth street which Mr. Cort Is building, and which will be managed by Mr. Bowes. Miss Illington in a new play will be the opening at traction. ' Two New riays Announced. T.ie Authors' Producing Company, of which John Cort is president, an nounces that two new plays by Charles Klein will be presented by It In the Fall. One is a dramatization of Rex Beach's novel, "The Ne'er-Do-WelL" while the other Is a comedy, "The Out siders." which Is now being revised. "The Truth Wagon," the newspaper comedy which won many enthusiastic friends among the rank and file, of Park Row, will start on Its travels In a few months. Oliver Morosco announces that he will send Max Figman to the Pacific T"oast with it next season, the tour beginning at the Cort Theater In Chicago in August. A. L. Krlanger sailed for Europe this week. He will go directly to London, where he will personally superintend the production of "The Pink Lady." which will open at the Globe .Theater In that city this month, and "Ben-Hur," whichais to be presented at the Drury Lane. 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