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Charles Wayne and company. Were
England at peace and Miss Cameron
still in the London music halls, this
little skit would probably be the head-
liner. It's worth it.
A husband has a dinner date with a
friend of his adolescence-a feminine
friend, of course-and plans to keep
it as soon as his wife goes out with a
girl chum for the evening. To throw
the wife off the scent the man insists

from slap-stick comedy, the act is in-
deed refreshing.
The program is opened by the Three
Millards, who present "Zeke in Socie-
ty." Much of the fun centers, of course,
on "Zeke" (Mr. Millard). It is prob-
ably unnecessary to state that "Zeke"
is a young man of rural extraction.
The dialogue is good, the quips funny
and the action enough to carry things
along until, almost without warning,

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Adams (herself) at Whitney T heatre, Friday night, Oct. 30.

3 CAERON TO
Majestic for the first three
next week Manager Butter-
I offer what he considers to
est vaudeville bill of the sea-
ae feature number is Grace
and the management admits
nybody else that sees her will
Miss Cameron is a real en-
--let not that fact $be over-
There is only a flash of Grace
prima donna-a few clear
aigh notes, slipped in almost
cally during the burlesque on
pera and the rest of her act
Cameron, comedienne. Miss
Anakes her first appearance
chid colored satin gown, with
top, and an overskirt drap-
'oblin blue, with bunches of
k and lavender flowers-a
model, as well as the satin
red and pink spangled coat
with it. A black velvet hat,
d on the right and with two
k plumes gives the little star
which she does not really
For a starter, Miss Cameron.
little ditty about herself-h
reminiscent of "Egotistical
:ept that Miss Cameron sings
I of screeching it. She coyly
iat she is through with the

classical, in which she scored so not-
ably, and is doing as little as she can
to earn her salary; that she doesn't
care whether those present enjoy her
style or otherwise-because it's what
the manager likes-and he pays for it.
Then Gracie-if she is to assume
banality, she must expect familiarity
-does an Italian song, dressing the
part well. It's really good, if the
audience could understand the words
-but who could expect an audience
to grasp the drift of one of these
pigeon-dago ballads?
Then-it has to come some time-
the real Grace Cameron appears, and
the audience sees talent in place of
artificiality. In an outlandish juve-
nile costume, recalling "Goose Girl",
days, Miss Cameron brings back the
grimaces and chuckles and contor-
tions of our old friend of the goose
neck, and this time the applause is
for art--not because the bill says Miss
Comeron is the feature and therefore
should be applauded.
When she returns for her final stunt
-in a dainty white gown, with atti-
tude "au natural"-.-Miss Cameron
hurls vocal shafts at Grand Opera and
the drama. The audience is genuinely
enthused by this time-and ashamed
at having 'misjudged the famous en-
tertainer during her exploitations of
egotism. It% is good to find that Miss
Cameron can do something to earn
her salary besides submit her figure
to four successive changes of costume.
There's real class to the sketch,
"Nursing a Husband," perpetrated by

Billie -Burke (herself) at Whitney Theatre, Thursday night, Nov. 5.

MAUDE ADAMS ITo'
COME IN_ NEW PLAY
Maude Adams is to be the bright,
particular attraction at the Whitney
theatre, Friday night, October 30. It
has been said that it matters little to
the great theatre-going public " that
admires this actress what it is she
elects to enact before it. Just the
same it is pertinent to add that the
vehicle in which she is to come for-
but sweet voice, and 'trips a few mod-
est steps-modest, because she wears
tango pantalettes.
The show closes with another inno-
vation-basket ball on bicycles. The
Three 1-arveys do it--and do it enter-
taingly. One represents England and
another wears America's colors, the
two working hard for eight minutes
to cage an over-sized basket ball, in
opposing over-sized baskets, without
dismounting. The Third acts as refe-
ree, in dress clothes-but he is not
above allowing himself to be run over
and bumped and dragged around the
floor, that those who prefer fun to
skill can get their share from the act.
It's hard to tell which is the worst
treated, the ball or the referee.
Vaudeville, as usually presented in
cities of this size, does not merit dis-
section. It is popular priced enter-
tainment, and the audience is sure to
get the worth of its money from one
or two of the several acts. In this
case, however, the bill is so well bal-
anced everyone is sure to get more
than his money's worth at the Majes-,

ward is to be J. M. Barrie's new com-
edy, "The Legend of Leonara." This
is the play in which Miss Adams was
seen during the major portion of last
season in New York. The success of
the work and of Miss Adams in it
could hardly have been more pro-
nounced. As an .author Barrie has
been unusually successful. As a proof
of this look back to "The Little Min-
ister," "Quality Street," "What Every
Woman Knows" and "Peter Pan," in
all of which plays Miss Adams has
been the chief interpreter. In "The
Legend of Leonara" he again brings
out his love of quaintness, whimsy and
fantAsy and'in the drawing of Leo-
nora he has enabled .Miss Adams to
tighten her hold on a following that is
infinitely larger than that which may
be claimed by any other player in this
country. Into her portrait of Leonora
Miss Adams certainly infuses charm;
that is to be expected, but back of it
all there is something more-a most
convincing and delightful artistry.
"The Legend of Leonora" is in three
acts, is effectively staged and has a
strong company. Mail orders with
check enclosed filled in order received.
FISKE O.'1IARA TO APPEAR AT
WHIT- EY IN "JACK'S ROMANCE"
Irish songs, love making, wit ' and
humor pervade the whole of Fiske
O'Hara's new play, "Jack's Romance"
and constitute an entertainment that
has few equals on- the road today.
With a fine acting company and mag-
nificent scenic and costume effects,
the performance leaves little to be de-
sired. Mr. O'Hara will appear at the
Whitney 't'heatre, Saturday, November
21st.

Sig. Giuseppe Agostini, Dramatic tenor, San Carlo icompany at Whitney
Theatre, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 26 and 27.


on retiring at 7:30 "with a severe
cold"-but, to avoid losing time after
the front door shuts, he puts on his
pajamas over his dress suit. Friend
wife, however, answers a bungling
telephone call and learns the real
situation. Then, aided by her friend,
who poses as a new housemaid, she
proceeds to give the recreant husband
some "treatment" for his cold, and
for'"his prevarication. It's a clever
little farce, well written and well act-
ed. Mr. Wayne as the husband is an
excellent farceur, while Winona Wil-
kins, as the wife, is not only clever,
but she is long on pulchritude. One
of her chief charms is a pair of arms
that suggest how the Venus de Milo
might have looked if she hadn't been
crippled. Miss *Wilkins appreciates
these round, plump members of her
upper anatomy, and lets them have
plenty of liberty. The third member
of the company is Marguerite Hons-
dale, an attractive, vivacious and al-
together capable girl who does credi-
table work as the pseudo-maid.
The sketch has an unusual finish-
to reveal it enight spoil somebody's
fun-in which the audience discovers
with surprise that Mr. Wayne and Miss
Wilkins could forsake their sketch and
still retain a place on any vaudeville
bill for.their artistic dancing.
The skit is preceded by a novelty
in acrobaties. Two young and good
looking chaps, in street clothes-Rice
and Morgan, by name-do their stunts
"in one" (which, translated from the
jargon of the stage, means that all the
space allotted them is the three or
four feet between the first drop cur-
tain and the footlights). But it's all
the room they need. With a rug and
a table they extract more fun than the
average' troupe of comedy acrobats
can get out of a full stage and fifty-
seven varieties of grease paint. Free

the audience finds itself face to face
with a musical act. Millard fiddles a
little and sings "Rocked in the Cradle
of the Deep." He is no Bispham, but
his voice has unusual depth. Mrs
Millard does a little vocalizing, too,
and the two of them share the honors
of xylophoning-if there are any hon-
ors to xylophoning. The third Mil-
lard is a pretty, winsome girl, who,

sings a song or two in a rather

light tic for the next three days.


Grace Cameron.
above is a splendid likeness of .Miss Grace Cameron, the comic
ar, as she lives on her ranch in Montana during vacation time. Miss
is an ardent sportswoman; rides, shoots and swims, and is an all-
.thlete, She will be at the Majestic Theatre the first half of next

Ralph Theodore, Ralph Earle, Charles Douglas, and the lovely Leona Slater in a thrilling scene from Harold
Bell Wright's greatest play, "The Winning of Barbara Worth," at the Whitney Theatre, Monday night, Nov, 2.