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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MARCH 24. 1912.

TKc PLAY CALENDAR BROOKLYN. 2.. mwm BRO.tl)W.lV-Montgomery and Ston In 'The Old Town." UrSIIWICK Houdlni and vaudevtll. fRESCE.VT Stock Co. in "Tus Thief." OE KAI.B Edna May Spooner In abort plan and vaudeville.

Days." GREEXPOr.NT-Xed Wayburn and vaudeville. MAJESTIC "The Kiss Waltz." rtRPHEI'M "The Opening Night" and vaudeville. MOKTAI Emma Trentlnl In ''Naughtr Marietta." "Mrs. Wlffgs the Hl'BERT-Durbar In Kinemacolor. TAR, GAIETY, EMPIRE, CASINO- Burlesque.

MANHATTAN. First Performances. MOXDAY "The Man From Cook'a." New Amsterdam. Tt'ESDAY "The Right to Be Happy," Hud son. Offerings That Continue.

"The Woman." Republic; David Warfleld In The Return of, Peter Grimm," Belaico; "The Garden of Allah," Century; "The Quaker Girl." Park: George Arllaa In "Disraeli." Wallack's; "Bought and Paid Tot." Playhouse; spectacle "Around the World," Hippodrome; World In Wax. Eden Musee; "The Talker." Harris; Scotch Players In "Bunty Pulls the Strlnis," Collier's Comedy; "A Butterfly on the Wheel," Thirty-ninth Street; Eddie Foy la "Over the River," Olobe; "Little Boy Blue," "The Bird of Paradise," Mailne Elliott's; otls Skinner in "Kismet," Knickerbocker; louls Mann In "Elevating a Husband," Criterion- "Officer 68." Gaiety; Weber and Fields In Hokey-Pokey," Broadwav; Durbar In Kinemacolor, New York; "Oliver Twist," Empire; "The Greyhound," Astor; "Night with the Pierrots." Winter Garden; "Forty-live Minutes From Broadway," Cohan's- The Pigeon," by John Galsworthy, and matinee bill, "The Terrible Meek" and 'The Flower ot the Palace of Han." Little Theater; Lewis Waller In "Monsieur Beau-calre," Daly's: Whitney Opera Company in "Baron Trenck," Casino; Walker Whiteside in "The Typhoon," Fulton; Hery Miller In "The Rainbow," Liberty; "Frueli-llng a Erwachen," Irving Place; Barnum Bailey's Circus, Madison Square Garden. PAYTOVS-Stock Co. In Cabbage Patch." rss ojlo gW fg A New Forty -Minute Play To Open at the Orpheum Montgomery and Stone in a George VlH Mlfw SiH8l Vt 11 f'H Ade Farce, With Musical Numbers GFr P' 1 by Luders, Are at thtfBroadway. WBIlif JD 5 Vt? I In "The Old Town," the musical comedy I jj jA-iW I In which Montgomery and Stone will l0fv009l I'sf' Tit'f WM 1 1 come back to the Broadway Theater for 'r' I fe- 1 j3 Kl a week's engagement, beginning Monday "VP I 'iWili night, George Ade, author of "The Col- fAilftk MMWfiSP I I.

1 5 0 Montgomery and Stone in a George Ade Farce, With Musical Numbers by luders, Are at thvSroadway. In "The Old Town," the musical comedy In which Montgomery and Stone will come back to the Broadway Theater for a week's engagement, beginning Monday night, George Ade, author of "The Bronx, tells a story of fun, pathos and realism. It is a complete play, condensed to forty minutes. The story relates tho adventures of a young man who has married against his father's wishes and when the play opens the young couple Is having a hard time. How good fortune comes to them is told in a manner which suggests a story from the "Arabian Nights," modernized and Manhattanized.

A company of twenty-five interprets the play. Biron, a Bohemian. The action starts at the end of the luncheon, when Prince Victor, who is about to pay the bills, is surrounded by his friends; Toto being especially prominent while he makes ardent love to Estelle, Madame Leontine's niece. While everyone is teasing Toto, a pretty American girl, Marjorie Benson, enters the restaurant, believing the establishment still to bo Cook's. Marjorie mistakes the Prince for the Not emighteniug her, he learns that she objects to an arrangement made by her parents for an imnoverished son ot a British "The Right to Be Happy," And New Musical Comedy New Play by H.

Kellett Chambers, With Edmund and Dorothy Donnelly in the Cast, Opens at the Hudson TuesdayThe Man from Cook's" at the New Amsterdam on Monday. in which Oscar Hammerstein presented Mile. Emma Trentini last season, will again be In Brooklyn. She comes to the Montauk for a week's engagement beginning tomorrow night. She is well known here for her work In the grand opera field, and for her recent appearance earlier in the senson at the Broadway, The story cf "Naughty Marietta" concerns the adventures of Comtessa Marietta D'Altena, an Italian maiden of noble lineage, who rather than submit to an objectionablo marriage planned by her parents, flees from a French convent school and disguising herself as a cas-quette maid is sent by the King of France to Orleans to be wed to one, of the colonists.

She disdains all the matrimonial advances made to her by the rough settlers, but falla in love with Captain Richard Warrington, a woman hater. How this mischievous little, runaway overcomes his aversion to women and is wedded to him affords the situations. Vocally Mile. Trentlnl has as many op-Fcrtunities to display her clear, brilliant soprano as she had In grand opera. VIc- tor Herbert scored the music particularly for her voice.

The star's supporting includes Henry Taylor in the tenor role of Captain Richard Warrington, Miss Marian Lee in the contralto role, Harry Turpln in the bass role of Etienne Gran-dot, W. W. Black as the Lieutenant Governor. William Welp und Miss Harriet Marlotte in the comedy part, James S. Murray, Miss Vera De Rosa, Edwin Lyle and Willis Browne.

The chorus and orchestra were recruited from the ranks of the Manhattan Opera New York. William Axt will direct the College Widow," "The Fair Co-Ed" and a dozen other successful comedies and musical comedies, has written a farolcal story, which might as well be played without music as with the Illustrative score furnished by Gustav Luders. "The Old Town" tells the story of two ambitious young men who run off from a village In California to seek' their fortunes in the East. They engaged with and were eventually stranded by a one-horse country circus, and the vicissitudes of their deviously contrived home-coming furnished much of the fun of the entertainment which has been seen In both New York and Brooklyn. Montgomery and Stone laid the foundation of their empire of fun In "The Wizard of Oz," strengthened it in the three seasons of "The Red Mill," and now come in "The Old Town." "The Old Town" ran part of a season at the Globe Theater and played a return engagement on Broadway.

Besides Montgomery and Stone in the cast, is the original "Old Town" Pony Ballet. The Pony Ballet Introduces several dancing specialities. The burden of the fun-making is borne by the two stars, Montgomery and Stone. Mr. Stone has some "stunts" with the lasso, a la cow-boy, and In addition to about every known variety of dancing he introduces a tight-rope specialty and some acrobatics.

Mr. Montgomery has a singing and dancing number with en- (I ntinued on Following Page. Manager Williams Gives First Performance of "The Opening Night," by George V. Hobart, in Brooklyn. Emma Trentini Returns in 'Naughty Marietta" at the Montauk The Durbar in Kinemacolor at the Shu-bert Montgomery and Stone Come Back to the Broadway With "The Old Town" "The i Bernstein's Stirring Drama, at the Crescent "The Kiss Waltz" at the Majestic.

mm Orpheum Theater, which I although a vaudeville house, JlSSfiSf has been edging closer aud ljgOl closer to the "legitimate" with Us serious one-act plays and such stars as Julius Sieger, Maclyn Arbuckle, Thomas A. Wise und Bertha Kalich, has another dramatic novelty in store for the current week. George V. Hobart, that indefatigable producer of lyrieB, librettos and "vehicles" of every kind has written a forty minute play entitled "The Opening Night," which will have its opening night at the Orpheum on Monday. In givlug the patrons of his leading house in this borough the chance to be the first to pass Judgment on new acts of this ehar-iicter, Mr.

Williams shows his confidence in their critical discrimination. The opening scene showing the young couple tnat is having a hard time of it in a little home in the Bronx may recall the first act ot "Paid In Full," but It promises to be much more wildly romantic than the Walters play. In the legitimate houses there is nothing that is new except the colored motion picttrreB of the Durbar which are to be shown at the Shubert this week and at the Majestic the week after. The Montauk has the best of the old friends in "Naughty Marietta," with Emma Trentini, one of the few comic opera leads who haa a real voice to supplement her attractive personality. The offering was well liked at the Broadway a few weeks ago.

Montgomery and Stone, whose success in "The Wizard of Oz," helped them to stardom, return in "The Old Town," one of the less brilliant pen products of the versatile George Ade. Gustav Ludcrs scored the music. The two stars are good comedians and no audience will go to sleep while they are on the stage. The Crescent Theater this week continues its praiseworthy endeavor to offer its patrons the very best which they are willing to acept, putting on Bernstein's "The Thief," a straight dramatic offering that will test the quality of the Crescent players. At the Majestic "The Kiss Waltz," a weak-kneed adaptation of a Vleunese offering, with a cast that has lost several important memb: rs since the production enjoyed its brief run at the Casino last fall, does not promise well.

During the Tatter half of the week the DeKalb will go In for Dickens with a condensed version of "Oliver Twist." A Forty-Minute Play to Have Its First Performance at the Orpheum Tomorrow. Headlining the Orpheum programme are the singing comedienne, Adele Ritchie, in ber repertoire of songs, und Joseph Hart's newest offering, "The Opening Night," a romance ot real life in three scenes, by George V. Hobart, which will be given its initial presentation In Greater New York this occasion. "The Opening Night," pMi action of which takes place in the man. J3y rude strength and ability he has conquered success and this arouses her admiration, as she recognizes bis exceptional business acumen.

In the meantime, a young inventor, who is an idealist, comes into her life, and awakes a real love in her. She is urged by her employer to steal the Inventor's secret, but the latter's absolute trust in her sways her from her purpose. Before meeting the inventor her personal relations with the "captain of industry" are such that leads her to love not wisely but too well. When she refuses to turn over to her employer the secret she has wrested from the inventor, she believes that in makino- hi a including a church choir. Another new offering of Joseph Hart's and also by George V.

Hobart is a character comedy sketch, called "Mein Liebcben," which has to do with a father's love for his only daughter, a department store girl. The story is dramatic, with here and there a dash of humor. Harry Breen, monologist, the "Top th' World" Dancers, with the original collie ballet, in "Kris Kringle's Dream," Ashley and Lee, the Hebrew comedians, In their skit; Jarrow, the jesting magician; the Four Konez, in a acrobatic offering, and the O'Netti Sisters, are also in the bill. Trentini Is Back in Brooklyn and Will Sing at the Montauk. "haughty Marietta," Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young's comic opera I peer to journey with the party to Naples.

The Prince tells her he will arrange ine tour without the presence of the objectionable suitor. When Marjorie departs the Prince astounds Madame Leontlne and her guests by stating that he intends to take them all on a Jaunt to Italy. Madame Leontine consents to close the restaurant for a few days and he sends Leonard off to buy the tickets. Mean time, the British wooer, who has also the restaurant for Cook's Agency, arrives with his valet and baggage. The Prince sends him off on the wrong track.

in Nanles the Prince, whom hpiteves to be a courier. Is over whelmed with congratulations for foiling bandit, an incident about wnicn ne is ignorant. The English nomeman ana tno real Cook agent follow the Prince to Naples. Toto has successfully lmpersonatea ins rn.iuhman on the trip. To carry out the deception he challenges the Prince to a duel for making love to Marjorie.

Marjorie penetrates the disguises and all ends happily. Burial of Maine to Be Shown In Kinemacolor. Tomorrow night, at the New York The-h last chanter in the history of iTnlted States steamship Maine will be told in Kinemacolor pictures. Only a week ago the hulk of that queen of sea fighters, the Maine, was laid to rest under 600 fathoms of water, a few miles outside of Havana Harbor. A tvho had been In Palm Beach for some days, making color records of the doings at that fashionable resort, was rushed to Havana and commissioned to reproduce the burial of the Maine.

The films include tne removal oi iiro win-. from Morro Castle, the funeral iwu tIUD procession through the streets of the old- Spanish city ana me servico presto. ver by Father unaawicn, ine i taine. The bodies were th.i Ol taken aboard the North Carolina, while a. nn shore stood with heads uncov ered and the massed bands of the Cuban Atmy played a fvneral dirge.

In brave aroy of flying colors the shattered bulk vas taken past the three-mile limit, over the spot chosen for her final resting-place. Tie sea was heavy, the sky dark and threatening. The pictures of the sinking of the Maine will supplement those of the Durbar, The important dramatic event of the week In Manhattan is the opening of a new play by H. Kellett Chambers, entitled "The Right to Be Happy." The opening will take place on TueBday at the Hudson Theater which haB been tenanted for some months by Madame Simone, who only finished out a single week in "Frou Frou," the final offering of her repertoire. A good actor, Edmund Breese, and an actress whose work in "Madame will long be remembered, Dorothy Donnelly, are featured In the cast.

The story of the play indicates clash of character rather than elaborateness of plot, and the production may be one of the notworthy events of the season, it has the earmarks ot quality. Klaw and Erlanger are bringing a big new musical comedy production into their largest theater, the New Amsterdam, on Monday evening. It Is entitled "The Man From Cooks," and is adapted from a French farce. The cast is a big one, and there are to be a number of vaudeville features to liven the action. Broadway is not overcrowded with musical productions this season and there ought to be room for another providing is worth while.

The Kinemacolor Com pany is adding a reel of colored motion pictures of the sinking of the Maine to the Durbar pictures which are now being shown at the New York Theater. "The Bight to Be Happy, With Dorothy Donnelly and Edmund Breese, Opens at the Hudson Theater. On Tuesday evening at the Hudson Theater Henry B. Harris will present for the first time In New York. "The Right to Be Happy," a new play by H.

Kellett. Chambers, with Dorothy Donnelly and Edmund Breese in the leading roles. It Is In three acts with scenes laid in New York, and the story deals with Janet Van Roof, the daughter of a broken-down old aristocratic Knickerbocker family. In the face of the Imminent presence of poverty, she takes a contl-. dential position with a large corporation, to whose president Bhe.

haB Introduced herself, in the hope of saving her weak, apectilating brother, who is on the point of arrest. The president 5 u.ide UCIIldUU 1UI the right to happiness, she is giving her lu eniu servitude, and her, family to disirrnno A- nuuufi utuers in tuw east are Leslie Faber, Louise Galloway, uruiso uuere, Grace Morrisey and Arthur Hondon. New Musical Comedy Displaces "Oliver Twist" at the New Amsterdam. "The Man from Cook's," Klaw Erlan-ger's latest musical comedy, after opening in Atlantic City, comes into the New Amsterdam Theater for a run tomorrow. The play Is taken from the French farce by Maurice Ordonneau.

The English book, and lyrics are by Henry Blossom, with the music by Raymond Hubbell. The cast includes Walter Perclval, Frederick Walton, Leslie Kenyon, John Daly Murphy, Eleanor Pendleton, Stella Hoban, Rene Thornton, Flavia Arcaro, Marion Murray and the Bell family. The costumes are said to show latest Parisian styles The story of the play concerns the escapade of a French Prince and his artist companions, and an American girl touring witn ner parents. Madame Leon, tine, a restaurant keeper, has moved from the Latin Quarter to a more pretentious building In the Avenue de l'Opera, formerly ootupled by a Cook'a Tourist Agency. The signs of the former tenants have not yet been removed from the walls.

To celebrate the opening she gives a luncheon, Inviting several of her cus tomers, including Prince Victor de Cham-pagnay and his companions, Toto Soulard, an luipecunlous artist, and hgovfiti.