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...night stand at the Metropolitan. It is not as good as the best Triangle shows, but there is plenty of undergraduate funny business and a fake horse that turns around once to display a sign: I WILL SHARE. Young Marshall Dana learned during the summer how a ham Shakespearean trouper should act, and that is the way he plays Don Quixote, complete with suit of armor and greying spade beard. J. N. Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet...
...circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story itself, about two sisters, one an old trouper, the other a school girl on vacation, both of them attached to a handsome young barker, seems as moth-eaten as the lion. Winnie Lightner, hitherto blatant and unfunny comedienne, does well by the part of the elder sister. Charles Butterworth is also connected with the circus in some undefined...
Died. Ferris Luce Hartman, 71, old-time trouper in The Wizard of Oz, The Mikado (in the U. S. premiere of which in 1885 he played the title role) and other light operas; of illness brought on by starvation; in San Francisco, a few hours before a performance for his benefit was held...
...announcement of these sad tidings was posted on bulletin board, alongside dozens of other notices, characteristic of the trouper's trade. Samples...
...plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional manner of the reprobate sons whom we have grown to expect in American fiction. How the troupe travels the rocky road to Broadway, only to find the inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly...