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RARE November 29, 1911 New York Dramatic Mirror w/ Madame Naziomva cover Fealy

$ 13.07

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    RARE November 29,  1911 NEW YORK DRAMATIC MIRROR with Madame Nazimova cover. MAude Fealy item inside.  FEATURES on Editorials on A Inefficient Press Agency, The Captious Few; Madame Simone: American Actors, Audiences and Critics with photo of Madame Simon; Unparalleled Disorder at Maxine Elliott over Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World,”
    PHOTOS of Gertrude Bryan as Little Boy Blue; “The Million” scene; “The Wife Hunters,” Geo Cohan at age six and daughter Georgia at same age; Jerry Cohan home at Monroe, Orange Co. NY with 2 paragraphs; Lady Gregory with 26 lines; small head shots of Wm Elliott with 4 lines; small head shot of Rhea Bacon plus 4 lines; Louise Mackintosh and Robert Rogers plus 18 lines of text; Lubin’s “”A Head for Business,” Imp’s “From the Bottom of the Sea,” 2 from Kalem’s “Arrah-Na-Pogue,” Gwen Pates wit long curls; Jane Fearnley;  “The Mystery of the Maine” scene; E. Dolores Cassivelli;
    PLAYS OF THE WEEK on “The Senator Keeps House” by Martha Morton, produced by Joseph Brooks at Garrick…not the best vehicle for Wm Crane…but he does his best and his best is excellent…Mabel Burt sweet dignity…Marion Kerby made her role lifelike…Jack Devereaux tried very hard to be buoyant and youthful…Lorraine Frost not what she thought she was…Mary Leslie Mayo flashed for a brief, erratic moment; “Little Boy Blue” by Rudolph Schanzer and Carl Lindau, Americanized by EA. E. Thomas and Ed Paulton, music by Henri Bereny, produced by Henry Savage at Lyric…full of appeal…Gert Bryan discovery of the evening in title role, she sailed right into audience’s heart…Otis Harlan whole stage of fun…Maude Odell and Harlan song took the house; “Take My Advice” by Wm Collier and James Montgomery, produced by Lew Fields  at Fulton…pretends to be nothing more than a garment to fit the whole Collier family…all the Collier know how to entertain with Wm Collier, Paula Mar, Helena Collier Garrick, Wm Collier, Jr.; “The Lady of Coventry” by Louis Parker, produced by Liebler at Daly’s… Parker does not repeat recent successes…Viola Allen labored sincerely to retrieve points lost  by others…, she never forgot the dignity of her role…Henry Kolker agreeable vlice yet he sinned at every turn…Henry Stanford and Frances Savage charming in word and posture; “The Thunderbolt” by Arthur Wing Pinero, revived by Chicago Drama Players under Shuberts at Lyric…inferiority of new rendering…Herb Kelcey gave a new indication of his versatility…
    Charlotte Granville no less excellently delineated her role…Barbara Hall spoke her few lines brightly…Eugenie Woodward makes her part effective…Helen Converse lacked self-confidence…Sheldon Lewis weak…Don Robertson miscast…Effie Shannon unable to use her accomplishments which won her much merited applause in past…Ed Emery slouched thru his lines…Hedwig Reicher too gloomy…Lionel Belmore lacked distinction; Irish Players at Maxine Elliott’s in “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet” by George Bernard Shaw and “The Well of the Saints: by John Millington Synge…Shaw took a fling at a land he know nothing about…Fred O’Dovan delightful…as was Art Sinclair…Sara Allgood and Maire Shiubhlaigh effectively contrasted…Sara Allgood a starling success in 2nd play…Art Sinclair played with taste and success…Cathleen Nesbit at the beautiful Molly Byrne;
    NEWS ITEMS on Lyon Phelps and Ernest Poole on Russian fiction; 12 lines on Ian MacLaren; 11 lines on Henry Clay Barnabee; 14 lines on Robert Warwick; 16 lines on Nellie McHenry; 10 lines on Rita Olcott;
    5 lines on Harry Lyons; 9 lines on Beatrice Forbes-Robertson; 6 lines on Fola La Follette; Vegal King wed Percy Keane; 4 paragraphs on Boccaccio at Irving Place; Marie Doro marked advance in acting in “The Butterfly on the Wheel” in Chicago; Madame Simone won  favor in first Brooklyn appearance; Mary Young always leasing in Boston; Flossie Hope came into prominence in San Fran; James Gleason and Marjorie Rambeau fine characterizations in Oakland; Sam Bernard pleased large Fresno business; Francis Wilson hearty welcome in Hartford; Eugene Frazier carried off honors in Stamford; Ty Cobb pleased fair Jacksonville business; Grace La Rue charming in Indianapolis; Walker Whiteside fine Des Moines business;
    Robert Mantell drew well in New Orleans; Elsie Ferguson drew wonderfully well in Baltimore; Emma Dunn especially good work in Springfield; warmest Northampton personal demonstration for Minnie Dupree; James Hackett curtain calls in St. Paul; Wm Grew Stock pleased in K.C.; Mabel Estelle enthusiastically greeted in Newark; Ema Dnn highly artistic in new Rachel Crother’s “He and She,” much praise for Francs Starr in Rochester;
    Gert Bryan instant hit in Albany; Maude Fealy deserves special mention for notable work in Toledo; Louise Gunning pleasing beyond doubt in Providence; Myrtle Vane doing good work in Seattle; Madame Ferrabini scored in Puccini’s “La Tosca” in Montreal; large Washington audiences for Ethel Barrymore; many Washington admirers for Elsie Ferguson; James Rennie in “Driftwood,” Juliet Fremont in “Green Stockings,” Florence Fisher pleasing in St. Louis; paragraph on Magician Thurston phenomenal business in Toronto, Akron, Youngstown;
    2-5 lines on the following: Trixie Friganza, Rob Eberle, Maud Burns, Lee Kugel, Jefferson De Angelis, Orrin Johnson,  John Glenndining, Ruth Lloyd, Brandon Hurst, Sam Forrest, Gert Clarke, Wm Townsend, Andreas Dippel, Rosalind Coghlan, Henry Harris, Jane May, Harry Llewellyn, Olive Ulrich, Leon Friedman, T. Hayes Hunter, Nella Bergen, Fanny Addison Pitt, Dallas Tyler, Bonita, Vera Finlay, Adele Kornau, Helen Lindroth, Lillian Russell, Willis Martin, Amelia Stone, James Lackaye, Alice Gale, Evart Jansen Wendell, Beatrice MacKenzie, Irene Palmer, Alice Palmer;
    DATES AHEAD for Elsie Ferguson, Wm Faversham, Paul Gilmore, Louis Mann, Nazimova, and hundreds more;
    MOTION PICTURE FIELD SECTION items on preference for motion pictures vs. vaudeville in New York; the independent movie producer situation; U.S. Supreme Court decision against Kalem in faver of Harper, Kalaw and Erlanger and the Lew Wallace State over rights to Ben-Hur,” “In the Grip of Alcoholism” by Pathe Freres coming; New Powers Studio; Marion Leonard to star for Gem; FILM REVIEWS; FILM RELEASES LISTINGS; Kinemacolor’s New Programme;
    ADS for ½ page Vitagraph with scene from “The Husking Bee; ½ page back cover Raising the Maine Film Company with 2 photos; Arnold Massage Vibrator; ½ page Biograph with scenes from Sunshine Through the Dark” and “A Woman Scorned,” Melies for “A Western Girl,” Powers; Cines of Rome; Selig for “Cinderella,” Imp;
    CONDITION: COMPLETE 36 pages filled with early stage, theatre and motion picture productions, actors, actresses, producer, authors, industry news. WAS PART OF BOUND VOLUME therefore bare spine, restapled, edge wear, edge tears/chips, some upper water damage; decent condition for age.