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At The Play
(Continued from Page 29)
Strange as a mysterious doctor,
Henry Mowbray as a society crook,
Charlotta Monterey as a shrewd
feminine player, Edwin Nicander
in the role of the French head of
an International clique, Kather
ine Hayden as the member of the
Imperial Family, and June Web
ster as a maid, are among the
especially fine players who are to
be found in this new melodrama.
KEITH VAUDEVILLE—At the
- Globe Theatre all week includ
ing next Sunday night with
Waring Pennsylvanians and
other acts.
So varied are the acts at the
Globe Theatre, home of B. F.
Keith vaudeville in Atlantic City,
this week that we are reminded of
the trite expression, “Variety is
the spice of life,” in accounting
for the success the entire bill
makes.
The large audience present for
the Holiday Week Jubilee Bill
brought forth encores galore be
fore the splendid program was at
an end. Especially was this the
case with Waring’s Pennsylva
nians, composed of twelve collegi
ate musical marvels in miracles
of melody. *
The college youths were obliged
to play for some ten minutes or
so longer than their allotted time
by reason of their entrancing
music, which was the acme of har
mony. From classics to plain and
every day jazz did the Pennsyl
vanians hold their audience virtu
ally spellbound. Those who heard
the offerings failed to take long
to show their appreciation—the
deafening applause in many in
stances lasting several moments.
A novelty in music, one instru- 1
ment talking to another in human
fashion, in the stage vernacular
“went over big.” “Whose Izzy
Is He?” concluded the selections in
smashing style.
Emmet Gilfoyle and Elsie Lang
took the highest honors in the
comical line. Gilfoyle had no
trouble in applying a thick slab
of side-splitting humor “out front”
while his dainty partner, attired
in gorgeous gowns, served to make
the offering a typical Keith stand
ard attraction.
The Four Diamonds, with a cast
of father, mother and two sons,
offered their act entitled, “A Per
fect Setting.” This offering was
likewise a stellar attraction. From
acrobatics to singing, the Four
Diamonds successfully accom
plished their tasks.
“Will Yer Jim?” was a spicy
and laughingly good act. J.
Francis (Jim) Dooley and Corinne
Sales, who giggled her way
through the presentation in such
a manner as to enlist hundreds of
other gigglers, were also a “hit”
and a reminder that the listener
was present at a Keith perform
ance.
Ameta, Parisian mirror dancer,
and Miacahua, Brazilian tight
rope wonder, completed the sec
ond week’s offering of Keith
vaudeville splendidly.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS—
Story by Jeanie MacPherson,
production by Cecil B. DeMille.
Photo-Drama at the Garden
Pier indefmately.
So much has been said about the
spectacular scenes of the early
ages in connection with the photo
depiction of “The Ten Command
ments” that it comes somewhat as
a surprise to the uninitiated to
find that those expected views are
the minor portion of the play.
Moses and Aaron and all their
host, as Theodore Roberts and
James Neill and others portray
them, form but the prologue to
this story that grows more and
more dramatic as the events por
tend the usual period of time that
says “the end.”
“The Story of Dan McTavish”
might just as well have been the
title though it would not have so
universally expressed a (known
subject, for it is about the ad
ventures of an McTavish in liv
ing a life apart from the rules of
“the commandments” that the
story deals.
Dan was brought up in the fear
of God instead of love—a very old
Puritan subject that has oft been
retold. His mother, at her death,
says so, so it must be true. He
became rich and unscrupulous and
thereby eventually found his suc
cess crumbling about his head—a
success founded on lack of fore
sight and the broken rules of the
commandments. The dramatic
moments that culminate in a wild
motor boat escape on a windy,
rainy night will be best appre
ciated if not told to’those who do
not know them in advance.
Here is a drama that includes
the unusual, the unexpected, the
vital impulses of life speeding at
a rather rapid rate. We must
admit that an effort to break ten
commandments in one evening’s
story is a large dramatic order
and it calls for all the attributes
that a director can command in
the effort to create “the world's
greatest photo-play.” Mr. De
Mille has intensified his story step
by step from the point where it
leaves the prologue. Whatever
might be said about the shortcom
ings of the tale can not be laid
with the director but with the
mass of material essential to such
a commanding subject and the
deletions that must have been
made necessary to suit our fixed
lour demands.
v/i uie prologue, mere is no aa
nsability in taking issues with
Mr. DeMille or his studies of Bib
ical times, though there seemed
i lack of Jewish types in the
iarts. The scenes are many, the
lumbers of people vast, the spec
tacle of marvelous grandeur and
<he effects achieved exceptionally
:lever.
The events are more in the
mature of a series of period occur
snces. There is Moses before
Pharaoh, the killing of the first
born as depicted in ,'Pharaoh’s
house; the flight of the Children
of Israel with their possessions,
stock and families; the pursuit by
the Egyptian chariots the crossing
of the Red Sea and the engulfing
of the chariots; the receiving of
the Commandments by Moses;
Aaron and his Golden Calf and
the return of Moses. Some of
these scenes are wonderful effects,
particularly that of the part of
the waters of the sea.
Theodore Roberts as Moses,
Richard Dix' and Rod LaRoque as
the sons of the story, Leatrice Joy
as the girl and Nital Naldi as the
Leper are especially excellent
characters as was also Robert
Edson as a building inspector.
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