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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those who set fires alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...
There is no shadow of doubt that "Divorcons" added to "Half an Hour" forms a full evening's pleasure--but as to whether or no Sardou and Barrie walking arm-in-arm make for harmony is quite a different story. The first part of Miss George's present bill is frothy, laughable--an in retrospect rather silly. Its pleasure lies almost wholly in the delightful acting of the star and Mr. Lawford. The Barrie portion of the program is concentrated power and emotion of a sadly scarce variety. Here the material with which the actors work is of far finer...
Sunday, February 18, 4 P. M.--Concert by the Footlight Orchestra, Charles F. Manney, conductor, assisted by Miss Edith Bullard, soprano, and Mr. Walter N. Kilburn, organist...
...Miss Annettee Kellermann appears to great advantage throughout the piece, and her diving and other nautical accomplishments are those of a sea-artist--surely such a thing exists. But Miss Kellermann, with all her marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended...
...following program will be presented by Mr. Whiting, assisted by Miss Lucy Gates, soprano...