THE THEATRE.
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rh# World's a tAoatra; the E&rtb a stage.—Hejvrood. Pantomime Onoe Mora. Not even a great war can kill a good pantomime. ' The Babes ill the Wood," which is being steered this way by tne ueo. Willoughby management, has been running continuously since Boxing ■Night,. and there is a large area of ground to cover yet. The present pantomime company appears to be recruited in the main from the BrennanFuller vaudeville ranks. The star is Miss Daisy Jerome, who was here a few months ago. There is also Josephine Gassman and her "pica," also familiar performers; Marcel and Fallon, who ragged and tangoed with last year's Willoughby Pantomime; Dan Thomas, Billy Watson, and a number of other clever performers. The "Babes" is said to have an efficient corps de ballet, and some of the scenes and lighting effects are said to be "gorgeous." Bankruptcy In Art, With pl?.ys, as with persons, the good die young (writes Ohaiining Pollook in t|ie "Green Book"). So it hapr pens that of the most nearly notable accomplishment of the month one must write in the past tense. The Liebler Company (New York) presentement of Edward Sheldon's "The Garden of Paradise," long heralded and expectantly awaited, has joined tho great dramatic majority, leaving its sponsors bankrupt. George Tyler, head of the Liebler Company, once said to me: "To 'go. broke' one has only to go on long enough doing fine things in the American theatre," And, realising that, George Tyler has gone on doing them. No other man connected with our' stage has indulged so daringly a true artistic irstinct, a dauntless desire to foster the best, an heroio predilection for productions of heroic proportions. A discoverer of obscure talent; a' patron of struggling genius, a persistent parader of the t acknowledged great, the playhouse in this-country owes its largest debt to the managing director of the Lieblers.
Notes. Granville Barker's first venture in York was the production of G. B. Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," which was very favourably noticed. The title role was played by Mr. 0. P. Heggie, an Australian actor who, I think, first toured New Zealand with W. F. Hawtrey's comedy company, playing "A Message from Mare" and "Tom, Dick, and Harry." Mr. Heggie is now in the first flight of artistic actors. "Kismet" has been converted into a music-liall sketch entitled "Haii," and is being played at the Palace Theatre, London, by Oscar Asche and Lily Biayton. "The Three Musketeers" has been revived in London with Ethel Warwick as Miladi and Harcourt Williams as D'Artagnan.
Margaret Mayo's laugh-promoting farce, "Baby Mine," has been revived in London by Mr. Weedon Grossmith. , "Divorce While You Wait" is the title of a. new comedy by "George" Paston and Francis Coutts, which is being played in London by. Miss Violet Vanbrugh and Mrfl Arthur Bourchier.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 11
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