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PAGE FOUR THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1914 Music, Picture Plays Drama, cLIld. I I , All communications and cuts for use in this department must I lie in the office of The Kcpubli- i can office not Inter than 12:3(1 I noon on Friday. j Dramatic Editor. i I Four weeks from tomorrow the Slate Fair will open. If there is lie thing vitally necessary at an enterprise of this kind it is good band music, and, so far at least, the music at the State Fair would never be awarded a blue ribbon. There lire in Phoenix today enough good musicians to organize a really good band, one which the city would be I roud of, a band of from thirty to forty pieces under a competent leader. If. instead of hiring a number of different bands, the Fair Commission will out all their eggs in one basket and set aside A sum of money suf ficient to make it worth while for competent musicians and a good lender to take an interest in he movement, a band can be formed no-.v and with a month's rehearsing give better music than has ever been of fered at the fair. 1 TOl" I Matinee 2:30 Phoenix is not large enough to support three, or even two, bands; but it can and will support one good one. There is plenty of material light here at home for such an or ganization, as was , evidenced by the work of Alden's band this past sum-, mer. Call it the Municipal band or anything you like ; but start the movement tor a real band now. BSE Admission 10c and 20c America's Best Tabloid Musical Show Both well Browne The Show That Has Captivated Phoenix b i "C J. & J.,,V3 IV'VJfrr'. V J.- fc jM-aV? Mli' 4 ,C"4VJ "The Law of the Land" In his new play, "The Law of the. Land,'' which has just been produced at the Forty-eighth street theater in New York, George Broadhurst lias apparently supplied another "Bought and Paid For." It is a stark and grim story o murder and, like the tense situations in "Bought and Paid For," the strain is relieved by fre quent doses of such comedy as only Mr. Broadhurst seems to be able to mix with his tragedy. The murder takes place in the first act and the man killed is Hubert Hardy, a cruel and malicious bully who has known for five years that his wife loved another man; but through the use of her little boy he has kept her a part of bis house hold. The lover returns from a. long stay abroad and the husband dis covers that the boy is not his son; but the son of the other man. In bis anger and mortification he pro ceeds to torture the wife by beating the boy with a dog whip and his wife shoots him dead. Everyone who knew the husband hated him and all combine to try and save the wife from the conse quences of her act. The doctor and the police take charge of the case and the doctor declares it to be sui cide but the- police claim that it is murder. The other man tries to twist the evidence to cast suspicion i n himself and gives the woman the choice of ruining the life of thu child for whom she has suffered so long or letting her silence ruin him. bine tries to remain silent but when the test comes she cannot refrain from the confession. The boy has told his story and the dog whip is put in evidence anJ then she tells the rest. At this moment fate intervenes in the shape of a kindly police inspector who has just been blessed with the advent of a fine pair of twins. Ra diantly happy ove.r this tremendous event he places the matter before the jury in such a light that a favorable verdict is rendered and the curtain falls as the police inspector calls up his home to ask how those life sav ing twins are getting along. It is a truly Broadhurstian achieve ment, with the main interest center ed in the first act; but the whole j daring in storv is so gripping, so brutally hor- ! place of rible an.l uncomfortably real that it I more daring than holds the attention to the very last dress affairs we c word. There are more tears than j son for retaining laughter in the story but when the pay roll of the pn 9? w JE.V y 5 - .3 "rt 4 Mit-a? l F.-.fity.-1 ilMiiV' 9 if ' volumes in her praise biography could sketch. as no mere Miss Grace Scoit, Dramatic Soprsno at The Lion Theater Tonight What after is the l Killing use i frost .transplanting Jack Clifford at the Xew York P.oof nyway? j very soon, it would seem that roof I gardens would be a good thing for That the costuming of "Dancing Miss Thaw to avoid. ' Around" which was produced at thcl Winter Harden last night is the most the history of that amusement. If it Crane and David Harum The wonder is that it has not been done before; but as long as it is to be done now the neglect does not matter. William H. Crane is to ap pear in the movies as David Harum. Surely a better subject for the movies could hardly be figured than the lov able old man who furnished Mr. Crane with the role which will be the best remembered of all his stage creations. It should be worth a long journey to see the horse trading scene alone. Mr. Crane has frequently been ap proached to appear in camera playsi but always maintained that ne would not take part in one; but the post ponement of his western tour in "The Henrietta'' has changed the comed ian's mind and he will soon be seen throughout the length and breadth of the land in one of 6is most lov ; ble creations. "Pygmalion" The most interesting event of the coming week will be the first pro duction in this country of Bernard .Shaw's "Pygmalion" at the Park theater in New York with Mrs. Pa trick Campbell in the leading role. This is the play which the censor refused to allow to be produced in London andwhich therefore had its first production on any stage in Ber lin, an English play having its first hearing in a foreign language. ! When it finally was produced in London it scored a tremendous suc cess and it is looked lorward to as one of the most important events of the New York season. - A New Singer Miss Grace Scott, a dramatic so prano from Los Angeles, made her bow to Phoenix from the stagelte of the Lion theater last evening. She is a very beautiful woman with a lull, strong and clear voice and it was very evident that Phoenix liked her and the music she gave them. She comes to Phoenix from a sum mer engagement at Redondo, where she has been singing accompanied by the Redondo Band. The Lion stag ttte, by the way, is probably the only one of its kind. It 13 a tiny folding stage that opens in the cen ter of the moking picture curtain. Miss Scott will sing at the Lion again tonight. 0 Browne Co. will present "The Woman in Red" as the fourth of their musical tabloids to tickle Phoenix. ' i The new musical company has scored a real success here by the ' quality of their productions. The i staging and costuming of the little 1 plays they have presented so far have 1 been away above par and the en semble work has been particularly j good. Few travelling companies ot ter more attractive productions and j they compare favorably with many that show nt much higher prices. "The Woman in Red" is quite dif ferent from any of the tabloids of fered so far and is expected to prove even more successful than the offer ings which have preceded it. ' RIVERSIDE PARK draws near to the close of its season with a num ber of special attractions scheduled, the first of which comes off tomor row in the celebration of Columbus Day. This is a state wide holiday and, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus, a high old time is on (Continued on Page Seven) Miss Nellie Trott Instructor PIANO, VOICE, HARMONY Studio 518 N. 6th St. Certificated pupil, Emil Ltebling, student, Chicago Musical College. Teacher's Normal Training, Wm. H. Sherwood, graduate, Kinder garten Methods, Hlnshaw Con servatory, Chicago. Vocal pupil, W. W. Hinshow, Grant Hadley, Kirk Towns, certificated pupil, Frederic W. Root, Chicago. Har mony, Counterpoint, Composition, Felix Barowski, Adolph Kosen becker, Daniel Protheroe. Local representative Effa Ellis School, Chicago. "THE notable in any the previous un irmot see the rea i co.-tumc-r on the ducers. That Rose Stahl is shortly to ap- m a new play bv manning pear I'ollok and Rennoi, Wolf. She will need all her art to overcome that handicap. The Most Lavishly Staged Show in the Browne Repertoire Entire Balcony 10c Family Circle 20c Orchestra 30c Come Early ul EMPRESS THEATER 7 FEATURES 7 Look them over tonight Toki Muratti Marquis f King Baxter ; Noel&Orville f The RaJah's Vow The Days of the Dog A Packed House En joyed it last night A real "'Meller Dram mer' where the villun pursues her." t 44- ft! ' C, is ifrru -til ''A A Woman's Triumph at the Arizona Thursday laughter comes it is of the heartiest ! Thitt hot chocolate is served to the sort, superinduced by extreme ner-i patrons "in front of the house" at vousness and the final curtain falls the Colonial theater in New York on a gale of laughter. I and that "the vaudeville perform- There seems to be no middle waylance seems better for it.'' Why not for the plays In New York this sea- try a little hot tobacco behind the son. All the successes so far are either broad farce or lurid melo drama and in "The Law of the Land" Mr. Broadhurst seems to have happily combined the two. They Say That transplanting "Miss Daisy" from the Shubert theater to the Lyric j was of no avail and now they are shifting the poor girl to scenes here in Phoenix happens? and see what That the Hanlon Brothers of "Han Ion's Superba" fame are about to ap pear in vaudeville in an elaborate extravaganza. Who says they never come back? That Evelyn Thaw is to become a Chicago, cabaret dancer and will appear witn and it is now- proposed to every year at Christmas time. Of Course It Was j Rather a good story came out in Toledo laiely about George Arliss i who is making a tour to the coast in ! "Disraeli.'' It seems 'hat last sum mer in London a party of tourists i was gathered about the statue to Lord I'cHConl'ieid in Westminister 1 Abbe.'.-. ! "Why I didn't know th:it statues ; were put up to living people" said one young American gill as she looked at the Bcaconsfield statue. "What do you mean'.'" she was asked. "Why isn't that a statue of George Arliss in "Disraeli'.'" site insisted. "I am sure it is, because 1 suw him play it in Chicago last season." ! Choral Society Plans ! The Phoenix Choral Society met last Monday evening, elected officers and made plans for the season. Carl . Hull was made president, Mrs. Shir lev Christy and Mrs. II. M. Tafel 1 Vice Presidents, Mrs. Laura Judson tecrelary and Ernest K. Anderson Treasurer. These officers constitute the executive board and the re-en- I taged William Conrad Mills as Musi- I cal Director. Kelicarsals of Handel's oratorio the Messiah will begin tomorrow even ing and everyone in Phoenix who enjoys singing, whether thev have trained voices or not, are cordially invited and will be made welcome as members of the organization. Re hearsals will be held at the Ari zona School of Music Auditorium. Since the- founding of the society by Mrs. Shirley Christy in January 1007, it has sung many of the great est choral works, including Haydn's "Creation," "Rossini's "Stabat Mater," Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise," "The Crucifixion," "The First Christ mas," Gounod's "Mass Solonelle" and "Bethany." The Messiah has been sung during two dilterent seasons sing it UL 1 I - :: A Imim wf 1 1 ; & tl , ;v ff&i$ ire L'Hmi A Woman's Triumph, Arizona About Mae ?!arsh To be eighteen years old, to be a leading movie actress for so very particular a director as ' D. W. Grif fith, wizard of the Mutual pictures, and to be the popular idol of count- ( less hundreds of thousands of motion j picture devotees all over the world that is where Mae Marsh, the Ma I jestic-Mutual star, now is. When she was only sixteen years old, the age when a girl is all arms I and legs, Miss Marsh managed to at I tract Mr. Griffith s attention, and he I immediately put her to work. She j bad run away from school to become an actress, but she did not tell him that, and he never knew it until long afterward. He kept preaching to her the need of improving her mind as well as learning the technique of the drama. Miss Marsh has done both. She is what fairly may be called an omni vorous reader of the time tried clas sics. She and Thackeray have more than a speaking acquaintance. And as a screen celebrity Mae Marsh cer tainly has arrived. To accomplish these things when practically all her life still is before her speaks such WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE THIS WEEK THE COLUMBIA follows up the success of bust Sunday's Matinee by giving another "first performance" this afternoon. when the Bothwell- Li vra THEATRE TODAY MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 86 The European War Illus trated. The French fleet seeks the German enemy in the North Sea; aero plane scouts reconnoiter and give warning of the enemy's approach. With decks cleared and a full head of steam, they go into battle formation: first decisive battle between super- dreadnoughts I s fought in the North Sea. With the English Fleet. Speedy torpedo boats pro tect the slow-going bat tleships. Artillery along the French border. King Victor Emanuel of Italy, who has declared neutrality, inspects his fleet at Genoa. The horrors of War. Bring ing in the wounded for treatment in field hospi tals. Bullets extracted with out pain. The Spoils of War. Captur ed guns and ammunition. The French Army leaving for the front. King Christian of Denmark and King Gustav of Swe den meet at Malmo to dis cuss neutrality agreements. Champion swimmers com pete at Strassburg, Alsace Lorraine, now the scene of hard fighting. Sir Edward Carson arjd his partisans celebrate the an niversary of the battle of Boyne at Belfast. A varnish factory at Cos wig, Germany, makes spec tacular conflagration. All persons going into Mex ico are carefully searched for smuggled ammunition by U. S. soldiers. British cruiser, stripped for action,, awaits German prizes just outside N. Y. Harbor. TONIGHT Miss Grace Scott, fDr matic Soprano. j Monday and Tuesday THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY Wednesday and Thurs day, Eleanor Woodruff in THE S T A I NJj Today A very fine American Drama in five parts "The Pawn of Fortune" at the LamaraTheater This Advertisement Will Only Appear Once More Next Sunday World's Best Piano Contest $17.50 in Cash Prizes FREE SOUVENIRS TO ALL WHO COMPETE Write out answers to the three following questions on plain piece of paper an deliver to us hi person or by mail before t."0 P. M., Tues day, Oct. 20. First cash prize, silver. JlO.hn in gold; second, $5 00 in gold; third, $2.50 In FREE SOUVENIRS TO ALL WHO REPLY. The winners will be decided by three of the leading musical critics of Phoenix; names to appear in this paper one week from today. Winners names will ap pear in this paper two weeks from today. No questions will he answered all information is given here. No member of our firm or employee will be permitted to enter this contest: 1 What is the name of the World's Best Piano? 2 Give a brief history of that make of piano In not over 25 words. 3 Give the name of the greatest living pianist, teacher and mu sical pedagogue who uses this piano in all his American concert tours. Rede will Music Co. Firm That Made Arizona Musical 224 WEST WASHINGTON STREET . 34 YEARS IN PHOENIX THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Another Famous Player Laura Sawyer in :I Sir Walter Scott's Greatest Story r v "A Woman's Triumph" ArizonaTheater