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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1914 News Of The Theaters, Music PAGE FOUR With the exception of the coming production of "Secret Service," by the Elks, on April 14, 15 and 16, the fast dying season holds little of in terest to the theateigoer. "Secret Service," however, looms up as a very bright spot at the end of the calendar. Rehearsals are well under way and the production promises to he exceptionally good. The story of the play, which was perhaps, the most successful ever written and played by William Gillette, is laid at Richmond, ami the action takes place in the space of three hours in one night during the siege of that city by the northern army. The hero, who might also be the villain, is a northern spy who is working in the southern lines. It is a character quite out of the ordinary, and in spite of the fact that a spy is gen erally a much hated thing, he holds the sympathy of the audience from curtain to curtain. The play teems with sensational incidents, and there is a thrill every minute, with marehnig armies, bat tle effects, and tense situations. The comedy is supplied by a pair of juvenile lovers, and the pair of young people who are to take these parts is going to hand Phoenix the most delicious laugh of its existence. The cast has not yet been an nounced, but it contains many of the Phoenix favorites and will also introduce some newcomers to the amateur stage. Kitty Cheatham To all tliise who were privileged to hear Miss Kitty Cheatham, when she was here last season, the news that she has recently received the greatest honors ever bestowed upon a woman by the University of Ber lin, will not be surprising, but none the less gratifying. This wonderful little woman has conquered the German capital, just as she has conquered every other city in which she has appeared. Mar el Prevost, the great French academician, has said of her that "she has the most expressive hands in tile world, the heart of a child, the soul uf an artist, the understanding of a true woman, and the technique to send it all over the footlights." At the invitation of the faculty of the I'niveisity of Berlin, she recently appeared before the student body of 14.(100 at the Royal Academy of Music. The Courier, commenting on her performance, has this to say: "Kitty Cheatham brought us beau tiful, moving old negro songs of slave days. They are tender songs. Miss Nellie Andrews, of the Boston Ideal Opera Co. fuil of melody, and of a simple child like faith in God, and they are born of the Christ love of the redeemed. Their ryhmic subtlety gives them a note of inexpressible appeal. With wonderful artistry, the singer evoked the spirit of the songs, so that the crowded concert hall the evening gown all externals were obliterated, and in their place a vision of faith ful Mack souls. The songs were ac companied by great compelling ges tures. When, however, she sang the tender, little songs of childhood, she was quite another being those fool ish, adorable nursery verses set to meny tunes. Everything was in keeping. She was a child that was why she found the magic fairy key of childhood. There was profound silence while Miss Cheatham recited Wilde's Selfish Giant," which made a strong appeal to us, because we are acquainted with its subtle sym bolism. Cut it (like all else Miss Cheatham does) is an entirely dif ferent thing, when this clear, pure voice gives it to us. The unlovely falls away and there remains only HM'S WIGWAM child-like, joyous feelings and newly i discovered beauties." Miss Cheatham is now in this country again, giving her annual spring recitations in New York, Bos ron and Philadelphia. It is possible that she may be heaid in Phoenix again next autumn. It is certainly to be hoped so, for no finer artist hair ever apepared in this, or any ether, part of the country. I VUrgaret Anglin in "As You Like It" Miss Anglin has just appeared as Rosalind in "As You Like It" at the Hudson theater, and although some what divergent, the critical opinions are for the most part highly favor able. The company, however, were far from enthusiastically received, and apparently the production, which was so loudly hereakled, failed to set Broadway op fire. - Something About Los Angeles' Little Theater" After a brief, if violent, struggle, the "Little Theater" which Los An fttlos expected so much from, passed into the discard, and a letter from one of the actors in the company contains a great many interesting comments, from the poon of view of New Yorker, at least, on the the ater, its m ini gement, and the city of Los Angeles itself. There are some of the things he savs: "We have had just six good audi ences one each week on Monday night, when we presented a new bill. It was not until the fifth and last week but one that it suddenly oc curred to the management that by coming down to $1 prices we might do a really respectable business. Then they tiled it with success for tile last week, bat by that time we l ad all got our notices, and, to tell the truth, no one seemed in the least bit anxious to stay on. "It's a pity, too, in one way, for at reasonable prices there isn't a larger public who are more hungry i for the theater than right here in Los Angeles. "The reason is not far to seek the population, as a whole, is sick to death of the 'movies' in every form, strange as that may sound to ail easterner. "Quite apart from the two thou sand odd and frequently very odd movie' actors who are working out here, the lay population get 'movie pictures' and the jargon of the 'movie' studio for breakfast, dinner and tea. In fact, they hear so much about the 'movies' all day Ions; that it's too much like work to pay to go to see them. "Commercially, of course, Los An geles has gone 'movie' mad; but it has become an industry out here iiot a pleasure, nor yet a dissipation. TODAY AND MONDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT Featuring TOM MIX Selig Dare-Devil of Northern Arizona Fair Produced by William Duncan. And "Hearts Of Women" VITAGRAPH Presenting Clara Kimball Young VITAGRAPH STAR. Also "BOBBIE" FARCE COMEDY SCREAM A Laugh in Every Foot of Film. SAME PRICES 5c, 10c, 15c Hart's Wigwam 1 JliM vf ff h '- v"Tf .fj ftA Claire Simpson, of the Savoy show, with the latest fad, a butterfly painted on her cheek Special engagement of Some Show TODAY At The Regale Theatre A Victor Drama in Two Parts, Featuring Florence Lawrence "THE INFLUENCE OF SYMPATHY" Imp. Drama "THE FLOWER GIRL AND THE COUNTERFEITER" Split Crystal Coined v "A NIGHT IN TOWN" and "AN INNOCENT BRIDEGROOM" Frontier Drama "THE WILD FLOWER OF PINO MOUNTAINS" gjXXlVVVWVMl mmmmm m m m m mmm m mmmmm m Th e mashville Students . 10 PEOPLE 10 in a minstrel first part and Four specialties Two Shows Per Night Special Matinee Sunday Coliseum at Theer 10c and 20c "I had, the pleasure of meeting, the other day, a yn.n; fellow who, oni in this part of the world at least, is known as the Kin of I'.ic .Movies." He j?ets a salary o!' ir,t;.'i a v. e k for fifty-two weeks of the year. He's an exceedingly nice chap, hut when he came over and introduced himself to me the othir day, until he told me who he was, I could not place him at all. Then all of a sudden it flashed on me. The year that Miss Aiaiiowe produc-d 'The Goddess of Reason' at Daly's this younir fellow was one of the extia bo s. He was a Rood -look ins youngster. without any education to speak of, and mur dered the king's English so barbarous that the one line which lie was given to speak he spok.' so abominably that it had to he taken away from hiin. Vet. what's the use! The man. is now the idol of the entire west. The world do movi",' sore enough!" Going on a little further he fails to have of the attractions of the western metropolis for the P.roaihva;." ite, and then closes with this one: "Satuiday, when we were ail pack ing up after the matinee, an old peddler put his head inside the Little theater, and inquired of John Black wood, the managerial head of the concern : " 'Got any junk?' " 'Yes,' exclaimed Blackwood cor dially. 'Come round Monday morn ins, and you can have the whole theater.'." Stella AHams Gets a Medal Possibly this story smacks of the press mil nt, hut even so. it is worth the printing, for it is full of inter est, and as .Miss Stella Adams is one of tlie most popular movie favor ites apeai ing regularly at the Regale theater, it will be especially inter esting to her many mlniirers. It was a proud day for Miss Adams, who is chief of police of I'niversal Citv, California, when, in the p-esenee of the twenty-five mem bers of her female police force, she mis presented with a medal by Miss Lois Weber, mayor of the town. The medal was presented tor wo-k well done. They have kept mere man I Him tWm f ' fkh rv h s ... where he belongs in quiet, peaceful subjection. I'niversal City is an interesting place for two reasons: I-'irst, all its f I ieials are women. Kecondiy, its population is made up almost en tirely of people who are engaged in the production of moving pictures. ' "ne of the largest film companies; has its headquarters there. The town is about five miles from' I os Angeles. It was incorporated soon after the women of California on the franchise. The queens of the movies were not slow to grasp 1 the opportunity and nominated such a strong ticket that the male ticket v.is simply annihilated, and Miss' Weber was elected by a triumphant majority. In the interests of good govern- , ment. and for the purpose of up holding the fair name of Universal City, it was at' once determined to 'pemiit no man to hold office in the, Mown. The men were told to inter- : est themselves in household affairs, j while their wives and daughters maintained civic tranquillity. Visitors find the female police I force the town's most interesting j phenomenon. The lady cops go about j eressed in caps, blouses, short skirts jand black silk stockings with thir J teen gold buttons down the side, i W hile not busy running dow n brawny ! thugs, and returning inebriated hus i bands to their homes and families, these enterprising young women do I a trhiving business selling souvenir I buttons to sight-seers. ! Theater 2400 Years old - Will Be I Use-? Again j The success of the Greek tragedies , given in the antique open-air theater I at Uissole, near Florence, and their repetition in Rome tit the stadium, has ied to the still more ambitious project of giving Greek Hellenic rep i reservations at the Greek theater at Syracuse, more than 24"0 years old. Professor Kttore Ramangoli, who has spent his life translating the 'Greek tragedies into Italian, has been entrusted with a new translation for the occasion of "Agamemnon," the j first part of Aeschylus' trilogy, and the staging of it. r ne costumes are from the figures on the time, and which sent the characters As for tlie scenery ing will have to be done to have the complete illusion of the city of My cenae. The theater of Syracuse was the largest, after those of Miletus and Megalopolis, known to the an cient Greeks and was erected some time in the fifth century B. C. It was hewn out of the solid rock, find is nearly semi-circular in form, forty-six of the original sixty-one tiers of seats still being in existence. Some of the tiers were divided into comp;utments, the Greek inscriptions showing the names of their owners being still legible, and, as many of them were feminine, this is indirect evidence that at Syracuse, at . least, the theater was frequented by wom en, although it Is denied by most historians. N'ature has always combined to rorv er this theater a thing of beauty. li ;br,ut are orai-sre and lemon roves, wit!, then geld and yellow f'uits: above is Moi.rt Temenites. circled b the blue Iionian sea, while to the south opens the Temple of ,7ove. Amid full suToun iings the lov ers of Gi'ek art and i;i.vr'Uiie, will welcome the return of ..-e',y,us t . the city of his adoption this spring. ill to he taken Greek cases of actually repre in the tragedy. little or noth- IVtiSs Nellie Andrews, Prima Donna of the Boston Ideal Opera Co. "L'Amore Medico'' The last, and perhaps the most in teresting,, of tlie novelties of th" sea-son at the Metropolitan opera house war produced there on F.idiy right, when Wolf-Ferrai i's "L'Amore Medico" was sung for the first time i f America. It is too early yet to ha''o. re- Engagement Extraordinary Empress Theater A MUSICAL TREAT FOR PHOENIX Boston deal Opera bonipany OPENING M ONDAY arch 23 M IN TABLOID VERSIONS OF THE MOST POPULAR COMIC AND ROMANTIC OPERAS With a cast of principals who have played in all the largest cities in the United States and. have won fame in their productions OPENING OPERA DIAWKfl IN 3 ACTS 20-PEOPLE-20 CAST Fra Diavolo F. 0. Burgess Beppo. A. C. Burgess His Companions. " Giacomo W. F. Quisenbery Lord Allcash Robert Burgess Mattias Ralph Burgess Lorenzo . Henry Gunson Roberto Kittie Gebler Lady Allcash Arloine Andrews Zerlina Miss Nellie Andrews AND CHORUS OF SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS Augmented Orchestra under personal direction of , Chas. D. Hazelbrigg. 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