Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tickets may be secured at the H. A. A. or at Wright and Ditson's, Boston. The prices are : reserved seats, stage, $1.50; floor, $11, general admission, balconies, 50 cents. Both Pennsylvania and Dartmouth students and alumni have asked for special blocks of seats...
...stage productions after long runs, like most old maids, need rejuvenation. Their bill-boarded success of so many months deserves our attention only when their managers realize that nothing can stand still; a play must go either forward or backward. So "The Blue Paradise" comes to Ye Wilbur Theatre crowing over its Broadway success, which was undoubtedly merited-one could see that from the number of missed opportunities-but evidently no renovating has taken place since the initial performance...
...whom Boston bald-headers have grown very fond, is the one real celestial part of the paradise affair. She not only is young and lovely, but her dancing is of the best. "But why," wailed all connoisseurs of this sort of thing, "is she only allowed on the stage for so few precious minutes?" Admirable query! Mr. Teddy Webb becomes a fat German with success; Miss Cleo Mayfield has a well-practised, tough drawl, and Miss Vivienne Segal is nicely demure...
...laughter and flesh and blood humor. It came as manna in our wilderness of "shows." The play for some moments seems about to trail off into the ordinary ruck of "he be-friends, she loves, they marry" playlets, but the characters meant more to the author than did gentle stage tradition, so she let them work out their salvation. The result was a sincere little play which escaped the obvious by being true...
...Monsieur Le Baron reflect the traditional French ideas of pantomime. Nationality has its effect in this as in all other things, for no one could play these parts as they are played--with the possible exception of another Frenchman. M. Clerget is a really powerful person on the stage, and his abilities are not limited to a single field; he is light, amusing, and whimsical or serious, as the case may require, and in both moods equally fine. In contrast to these figures are Marjorie Patterson as Pierrot and Margot Kelly as Phrynette, who, although well adapted to their chosen...