RARE April 1910 THE THEATRE Magazine with color cover of Adrienne Augarde in “The Dollar Princess.” FEATURES of Take the Post Office Out of Politics Editorial; Louis James Death with photo of James; Richard Strauss: The King of Sound with Strauss family photo; The Oldest Actress on the American Stage on Mrs. Sol Smith with photo of her; At the Opera with photos of Orville Harrold, Mme. Frances Alda, Mme. Louise Homer, John McCormack, Alma Gluck, Michael Mordkine, Elvira De Hidalgo,
Plus text on Mme. Marie Delna roles…Anna Pavlowa and Michael Mordkine famous European dancers…Pavlowa is a dancing dream…\
Mordkine a marvel of manly grace…Schakowsky’s “Pique-Dame” unconving opera…Emmy Destinn, Leo Slezak, Alma Gluck, Forsell, Flo Wickham, Didur all good in their parts…Slezak singing with much temperamental force…Anna Meitschik commendable acting; Verdi’s “Falstaff” revived at Met…Clement sang gracefully…Louise Homer very good…”Elektra” at Manhattan Mary Garden again fascinating; Orville Harrold try out at Manhattan …voice quite promising; Hugo von Hofmannsthal: A Portraitist of the Modern Neurasthenie; Two Plays Which Have Made Hits in Chicago with 3 scenes from on “Miss Patsy” with Frances Ring, Lawrence Wheat, Gert Quinlan and 3 scenes from “Miss Nobody from Starland” with Bessie Wynn, Ralph Herz; Bjornstjerne Bjornson and His Plays with photo of Bjornson; Pavlowa’s Dancing Holds New York Spellbound with photo of Anna Pavlowa, Michael Mordkine dancing; Turning Theatrical Failures into Semi-Successes; The Naming of Theatres with exterior night shot photos of Herald Square with Lew Fields marquee, Bijou, Broadway, Daly’s Hudson, Casino; Isable Irving: The Eternal Ingenue with photo of Irving;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of Mrs.. Fiske by Sarony; Antoinette Walker; Blanche ring in “The Yankee Girl” by Sarony; 2 pages with 9 scenes from Rostand’s “Chantecler” featuring M. Guitry, Mme. Simone, Jean Coquelin; Kathryn Kaelred in “A Son of the People” by Moffett; Charlotte Walker in “Just A Wife” by Sarony; page with 3 Illustrated London Beginnings of the English Stage;
PHOTOS of “Bright Eyes” scene; 2 from Maeterlinck’s “Sister Beatrice” with Pedro De Cordoba, Edith Wynne Matthison; “The witch” with Guy Bates Post, Bertha Kalich; 2 of chorus from “Bright Eyes,” “The Girl He Couldn’t Leave Behind Him” with Vince Serrano, Hattie Williams, Ernest Lawford, Rich Gordon, Anita Rothe; Kitty Cheatham; Wm J. Kelly; Minnette Barrett; Vera Finley; Cecil Lean; David De Vries in “Elektra,” 3 from “A Son of the People” at New Theatre with Geo Fawcett, John Mason, Kathryn Kaelred; “A Lucky Star” with Phyllis Young, Wm Collier, Wallace Worsley, Paula Marr, Katharine Mulkins; “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” with Violet Henning, Marie Day; Chas Ross; Mabel Brownell; Laurette Taylor; Dustin Farnum; Vaughan Glaser; Bruce McRae; 2 from “The Prince of Bohemia” with E. Kelly, Andrew Mack, Georgia Lawrence, Harold Crane; Mme. Johanna Gadski by Moffett;
AT THE THEATRES on “A Son of the People” by Sophus Michaelis at New theatre featuring John Mason, Geo Fawcett, Walt Hale, Wm Randall, Frank McCormick, Carl Anthony, Chas Goodrich, Louis Bresh, Tom McLarnie, Kathryn Kaelred, Ivy Troutman…John Mason in voice , manner and temperament is not the lover…his qualities are more virile and intellectual, he is far above this platy…Geo Fawcett too good an actor to hide his personality…Kathryn Kaelred was more to the purpose…she is most attractive; “The Witch” by H. Wiers-Jennsen adapted by Hermann Hagedorn at New Theatre starring Thais Lawton, Sol Smith, Bertha Kalich, Elsie Kearns, Chas Balsar, Julia Blanc, Gut Bates Post, Ben Johnson, Wilfrid North, Al Bruning, W. J. Locke, Vic Johns, Margaret Fairleigh, Caroline Newcombe, G. F. Hannam-Clark, Cecil Yapp, Wm McVay, Al Cross…the play of witchcraft is hopelessly dead…to Mr. McVay belong the honors…New Theatre consistently excellent in production…Bertha Kalich technical fineness…Ben Johnson sustained reputation of this distinguished company; “The Girl He Couldn’t Leave Behind Him” by Gustav Kadelburg at Garrick with Vince Serrano, Grace Carlyle, Ernest Lawford, Zelda Sears, Ed Nicander, Hattie Williams, Geo Trader, Ed Gorman, Anita Rothe, Rich Gordon, Edgar Franklin, Grace Johnson, Wm Danforth, Georgie Mendum…
presented by Chas Frohman and produced by Wm Collier…Zelda Sears inimitable…Ernest Lawford Hattie Williams sparkling and successful; “Bright Eyes” by Chas Dickson at New York Theatre with Eugene Sallinger, Pauline winters, Manual Alexander, Adelaide Sharp, Flo Holbrook, Cecil Lean, Walt Law, Percy Lyndal, Vera Finlay, Art Conrad…vastly entertaining…Flo Holbrook clever as are Vera Finley and Adelaide Sharp…acting exceptionally good; “Children of Destiny” by Sid Rosenfeld at Savoy featuring Dorothy Dorr, Ida Darling, Virginia Pearson, Laura Nelson Hall, Helen Hilton, Frank Reicher, Theodore Friebus, Fred Truesdell, Orrin Johnson, Harry Davenport, Geo Wright…lasted only a few nights...Laura Nelson Hall Stalwart, handsome and resolute…Orrin Johnson not a convincing performance…Fred Truesdell and Harry Davenport remaining of cast worth mentioning; “Mr. and Mrs. Daventry” by Oscar Wilde at Hackett starring Nina Herbert, Grace Barker, Edwin August, Henry Day, Miss Crawley, Art Maude, Kate McLaurin, Mabel Cameron, Geo Riddell, Eric Jewitt…brief and inglorious…English Constance Crawley an actress of intelligence and some personal distinction handicapped; “The Turning Point” by Preston Gibson at Hackett…Grace Filkins shows capabilities…her performance alone would make the play worth the while…entire company capable with Chas Gotthold, Cuyler Hastings,
Ed See, James Kirkwood, Amelia Mayborn, Grace Filkins, Charlotte Ives, Edna Crawford, Chas Greene;
NEWS ITEMS Bazaar for the French Hospital with M. Jusserand;
FULL PAGE ADS for back cover color Caruso for Victor; inside front cover F. W. Read illus. Onyx Hosiery; F. T. Kelly illus Gage Millinery; Madame Gerville Reache for Haines Bros. Piano; Theatre Magazine illus. with Sir Peter Leley’s Nell Gwynn and Nicholas Lancret’s “The Music Lesson,”
Chickering Piano; Campanari for Columbia Grafonola;
ADS for Marguerita Sylva Recommends Mme. C. Delattre; ship illus. Southern Pacific Steamships; illus. AT&T; Dr. Jeanne Walter Medicated Rubber Garments; Pozzoni’s Complexion Powder;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 66 pages filled with early stage, theatre, motion picture productions, actors, actresses, producers, authors, industry news. Was part of bound volume, therefore bare spine, trimmed cover, filled with great industry material, nice condition inside, lower margin water discoloration, restapled;