RARE October 11,  1911 NEW YORK DRAMATIC MIRROR with Vera Finlay cover. FEATURES on Editorials on The Difference; Criticism; A Betterment of Business; A Waste of Satire: Henry Kolker: Above the Horizon with photo of Kolker; ½ column on Militant Mary Shaw; The London Theatre column items on “The Spring Maid” at Whitney…Courtice Pounds delighted…Julia James played and sang with spirit; “Diana” at Dobson’s starring Lena Ashwell, a decided improvement; “The Likes o’Me” Phil Perpetua genuine pathos….Thelma Raye decidedly good; Sir John Hare and Marie Lohr triumph at Comedy; 

PHOTOS of 6 photos form “Around the World” at Hippodrome with Art Voegtlin, Carroll Fleming, Manual Klein, Wm Wilson 2 scenes; “Maggie Pepper” with Bev Sitgreaves; Beatrice Prentice, Rose Stahl, Percival More, Grant Stewart; Margaret Mayo on Oriental tour with 8 lines of text; 4 of Elsie Leslie; Mary Nash with 22 lines of text; ½ page of “The Great Name” with Henry Kolker, Louise Woods; small head shot of James O’Neill with 3 lines; small head shot of Helen Ware with 3 lines; Edison’s Robert Brower with 5 lines; Henry Stanley; with 6 lines of text;  Edison’s cowgirl Gert McCoy with 4 lines; Margaret Severance with 4 lines; 2 Selig’s run on the bank scenes in “Mob” plus 8 lines on unique Selig Novelty;

PLAYS OF THE WEEK on “Rebellion” by Joseph Medill Patterson produced by Liebler at Maxine Elliott’s…Gert Elliott at her best…Geo Farren achieved his role…Geo Le Guere less sturdy than desired…Fuller Mellish played with gently sympathy…James Wilson well done small role, as did Harry Price, Chas Dowd, Malcolm Cook; “The Great Name” by James Clarence Harvey produced by Henry Savage at Lyric…continued success for this play…stellar debut for Henry Kolker with consistent and amusing delineation…also with Lizzie Hudson Collier with dignity and ease; Russ Whytal played with great discrimination…ED Langford agreeable stage presence…Dorothy Walters contributed one of the hits of the evening; “The Never Homes” by Glen Macdonough, lyrics by E. Ray Goetz, music by A. Baldwin Sloane produced by Lew Fields at Broadway

…does not fall below Lew Fields standard…good deal of laughable nonsense…Geo Monroe easily leads as chief of comedians…Artie Hall worked hard…Vera Findlay spirited laborer…Maude Gray good…dancer Joseph Santley left the rest behind…Bessie Clifford fortunate being matched with Santley; “The Runaway” by Pierre Veber and Henri De Gorsse, adapted by Michael Morton, produced by Chas Frohman at Lyceum…Billie burke’s return to Broadway…greeted with spontaneous friendliness…Burke entirely charming, vivacious personality and some real acting…C. Aubrey Smith played with taste…Geo Howell and Mort Selton not as effective…Edwin Nicander succeeded…Henry Miller, Jr. aroused real sympathy…Emily Wakeman and Isabelle West did all their parts permitted…Jane Evans a voice never permitted in Comedie Francaise

…Alice Gale, Josephine Morse contributed good impersonations; Rowden Hall and Howard Lang particularly of Cecil Spooner Company strong in “The Lion and the Mouse” at Metropolis; John Mason one of biggest houses at West End in “As A Man Thinks,” 

NEWS ITEMS on Box Office Etiquette; 2 paragraphs on Jose Rubens; 4 paragraphs on Rose Stahl; Blanche Walsh and Robert T. Haines in vaudeville; 6 lines on Vera Finlay; 17 lines on Jeffrey Farnol; 14 lines on Vaughan Glaser; 14 lines on Eva Vincent; Earl Van Dorn Brown death; Henry Miller enthusiastic reception in Salt Lake; Thurston Magician pleased in Newark; Gert Hoffman well received in Spokane; Trixie Friganza, Cathryn Palmer scored in Seattle; Robert Mantell enthusiastically received in Montreal; Marjorie Moreland particularly pleasing in San Antonio; Helen Ware most successful in Providence; Fiske O’Hara pleased in Reading; Irma La Pierre best in cast in Pittsburgh; Lillian Bayer best all-around actress in Scranton; Grace Van Studdiford pleased Minneapolis; praise for Geo Beban in St. Paul; Brandon Evans instant favor in Elmira; Virginia Eames excellent in Fall River; Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth cordially received in Detroit; Max Dill drew well in LA; Grace Hayward played with insight and power in Oak Park; Beulah Poynter favorite in Indianapolis; compliments to Suzanne Sheldon and Hardee Kirkland in Chicago; David Warfield first time in eight years every available seat taken in Baltimore; Baltimore native Catherine Calvert scored quite a success, easily the star feature of entire Baltimore bill; Grace La Rue in “Betsy,” Volinine and Lopoukowa enjoined; Ray Cox opened with Lew Fields in “The Never Homes,” H. B. Warner well received iin San Fran; Chas Cherry well received in St. Louis; Charles Carver popular in Springfield; Violet Seaton pleased Dallas; Maud Fealy lead with Holbrook Blinn in “The Boss” at Eye and Ear Hospital in Pittsburgh; Mrs. Fiske in “The New Marriage,: Mary Garden and protege, Blanche Slocum; Beulah Binford at Garden; German Freie Volks Buehne opens season; Hichens’ “The Garden of Allah” by Liebler; Folies Bergere to be renamed The Fulton; Doug Fairbanks leaves Wm Brady  for Cohan and Harris; 2-5 lines on the following: Anna Laughlin, Lowell Sherman, Nellie Beaumont, Fred Kerr, Mary Leslie Mayo, Wm Boag, Elizabeth Nelson, Amy Leslie, Will Hugh, Helen Hale, May Maudain, Edna Luby, James Bradbury, Art Berthelet, Chas Herbert, H. David Todd, Della Fox, Mrs. Langtry, Louise Closser, Algernon Boyesen, Harriet Worthington, Sam Nixon, Carrie Perkins, Kendall Fellowes, T. W. Rawson, Ed Haas Robbins, Amelia Summerville, Chas Mackey, Harriet Burt, Paul Decker, Ina Goldsmith, Isabel O’Madigan, Dore Davison, Dora De Fillippe, Mabel Love, Jewel Power, Wright Huntington, Mario Ballou, Al Hudson, Gert Swiggett, Stan Drewett, Isabel Jay; 

DATES AHEAD for Maude Adams, Geo Arliss, Kyrle Bellew, Holbrook Blinn, Gilmore Brown, Wm Courtenay, Wm Mong; and hundreds more; Raymond the Great in Cairo and elsewhere; Geraldine Farrar; Harry Lauder; Lillian Nordica; Howard Thurston in Philly; 

MOTION PICTURE FIELD SECTION items on labor controversies and strikes in motion pictures; 14 lines on Éclair’s Hands Across the Sea in ‘76,” 2 paragraphs on Essanay’s World Baseball Series; new Nestor factory; 8 lines on Dorothy Davenport; 4 lines on Eugenie Forde; Kalem’s “the Colleen Bawn,” new Reliance Management with J. C. Graham; A Kinemacolor Theatre;, previously Mendelssohn Hall; 

ADS for ½ page Vitagraph with scene from “The Indian Flute,”  ¼ page for Ty Cobb in “The College Widow,” The Éclair Company; Mrs. Fiske; Alice Butler; Willard Mack and Maud Leone; Adelaide French; Cines of Rome; ½ page Biograph with scenes from “Italian Blood” and “Trailing the Counterfeiter,” Flying A Cowboy Films; Grace La Rue in “Betsy,” Jarvis Joscelyn; full page M. Stein’s Make-Up; ads for productions featuring Julian Eltinge; Geo Beban; Billie Burke; Rose Stahl; Richard Bennett, Ernest Lawford; Frank McIntyre; John Drew; Geo M Cohan; Gaby Deslys; Holbrook Blinn; Henry Kolker; Gert Elliott; Margaret Anglin; illus Donchester Shirts; G&S NeverBreak Trunks; 

CONDITION: COMPLETE 32 pages filled with early stage, theatre and motion picture productions, actors, actresses, producer, authors, industry news. WAS PART OF BOUND VOLUME therefore bare spine, restapled, edge wear, edge tears/chips, some upper water damage; upper left corner taped tear, decent condition for age.