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DRAMA " M m e , S a n s - G e n e " Mme. Simone Revende Her Vereatile Self in Sardou'* Comedy at Henry Mdler'* For her third selection, Mm*. Simone has wisely ehoitn s comedy, rsvsslinc a new...

...Raoul-Henry waa an effei'tiv* Marshal Lefebvre, husband of the carefree Catherine...
...But all the vivacity of the play, all the animation and' stir that justify its revival, proceed from the lively, the crude yet genuine Madam* Sans-Qen...
...Andre Baeque was a somewhat noisy Napoleon...
...gArdou | apparently relied on his technical skill to put across th* footlights s drama in which th* most interesting character is not a genuine center of the action...
...The play is a tariomly constructed on...
...she moves in naive ungraceful gestures about the drawing room, as though she were still swinging a laundry basket to her shoulder, or sweeping 1 an iron across an immaculate surface, Indeed, the tripped about the drawingroom more effectively than she ironsd...
...With »n abandon that seems slightly overdone to the more sedate American bourgeois!*, yet which catches th* very shouldsr pois* and hinted swagger of th* vivandi?re (and we have teen it in th* stride of some of our own uniformed ladies, on their recent return from French Marlines...
...Simone has wisely ehoitn s comedy, rsvsslinc a new aiptct of her versatile self as Madame Sans-Gens, in the play of that title by Sardou and Moreeu...
...Simon* hst...
...The plot does not pivot around this frank, buxom, vulgar yet sincere laundress and camp-follower of the French RevoluSton, who becomes a duchess and must conduct herself at court...
...for three handkerchiefs would have been burn*d through, in the tira* sh* let thst iron reit on on...
...PALACE \ Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayrleld, Willi* and Eugene Howard, Herman and Sammy Timberg, Jams* Watts, Ann Gray, Hugh Rkelly and Emma Hait, th* Corelli Sisters, tht Lutter Brothtrt...
...this, and th* duping of Napoleon ntctstitated by the second rascu*—th* officer being in love with the Empress...
...In the part, Mme...
...Gatton Palmer, Takks-Takka and Yog* Taro;' Jivanete and Balines* dancers, Weager Brothers, Willi* Frick, Kathleen Pope and Fred Gerner...
...J. T. S. Vaudeville Theatre* B. S. MOSS* BROADWAY The Broadway Theatr*, beginning Monday, will include a new first ran feature photoplay, Reginald Denny in "The Fait Work*rt," an adaptation of George Barr HcCutchton's adventure siory...
...Frank Furnurn and hii Syneopators...
...HIPPODROME , Sophie Tucker, Charltt Keliogt...
...Texas Four, Picchani Troupe, snd the Hippodrome ballet...
...The vaudeville acts will includ* Albertina Raich Dancers, Thomas F, Swift snd Company, Ray Huling and Company, William Barrett snd Johnny Small, Kelly snd La Tour, snd other acts...
...LILLIAN FOSTER an artist af tkitt ana ability who ploys Madeline, the wittfut child wife of the J, W. W. hunky, in Dm MuUaUy'e com eienee, at the Belmont...
...the others played capably in what it the best presentation Mme...
...given on thii tour...
...Simone displays a lightness and eas* that are refreshing aft*r the heavy emotional roles of h*r two preceding bills...
...Catherin*, known fer her devilmaycar* attitude of enjoyment of what Iff* brings as "Madam* l-ShouldWorry," on two occasions, twtnty years apsrt, sav*s th* live of a Prussian officer, Thia furnishes th* play with its plot...

Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 43


 
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