APRIL 15, 1916 THE NEW YORK DRAMATIC MIRROR * 5

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B A R N E S . — T . Roy Barnes, who is appearing in
" Katinka." Ins bought the property consisting of
twelve acres, adjoining his estate at Baldwin, Long
Island, f o r m e ly owned by Mr. Henry of the Carnegie
Steel Company Mr. Barnes lost his houRe by tire not
long ago, and :.eing fond of the location, started to
rebuild. Learning that Mr. Henry's estate was in the
market the property at once changed hands. The
estate comprises a ten-room house, a windmill, a rose
garden, an additional garage, a granary and a lake.
BOYKIN.—William Boykin, late Mirror correspon-
dent in Jacksonville, Fla., and more recently a mem-
ber of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, has
been engaged to appear in the Drama Society's produc-
McClure. N. T.
MARJORIE RAMBEAU,
Who Will Appear Next Pall In a New Play by Her Hus-
band. Willard Mack.
tion of " T h e Tempest." Mr. Boykin was a student
of law at the University of Virginia when he decided
to take up the theater as a profession.
BROCKBANK.—Mr. Harrison Brockbank will shortly
produce for vaudeville a new Scottish operetta en-
titled " Jock o'the H e a t h e r " with original music
composed by Herman Finck, the well-known con-
ductor of the Palace Theater, London. This will be
an elaborate production with a" special scene depicting
the wilds of the mountains in Scotland. The cos-
tumes will be very picturesque, as the action of
the operetta dates back to 1750, the days of the Free-
booters. The cast will include one lady, who must be
a good vocalist and a good actress, and there are
three male characters, of which .Mr. Brockbank will
play the lead, Jock o'the Heather. There are four
musical numbers in the operetta and a very clever in-
troduction. He will have two songs to sing and a
duet with the female character.
C H A M B E R S . — C . Haddon Chambers, the English
playwright, who passed most of the winter in New-
York, sailed last Saturday for England on board the
Nievtc Amsterdam.
COHAN.—Josephine Cohan (Mrs. Fred Niblo), who
has been ill for several weeks at the Hotel Belleclaire,
Broadway and Seventy-seventh Street, is recovering.
COOK-HANSON.—Gladys Hanson, the actress, who
was last seen in New York in " The Ware C a s e "
at the Maxine Elliott Theater, and Charles Emerson
Cook, well known publicity representative, were mar-
ried Wednesday, April 12, in Atlanta. Ga.. at the
home of her father Col. Peyton Harrison Snook. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Stephen H.
Roblin, of the Harvard Church. Brookline. Mass., a
lifelong friend of Mr. Cook. The couple will return
immediately to New York to fulfill important engage-
ments, postponing their honeymoon until the sum-
mer when they will spend several weeks in Colorado
and the Rockies.
EWERS.—Since the outbreak of the war society
circles in New York have been delighted with the
presence of Mr. H a n n s Heinz Ewers, the German poet
and leader of the young romantic school, who has
been marooned here. One of his war poems was cir-
culated among the German soldiers in the trenches by
hundreds of thousands of copies by special order of the
laugh at the eoinedies old and new. the hurly-burly,
won a host of friends here, received word that his
opera. " T h e Dead Eyes," has scored an unqualified
triumph in Dresden. The score was composed h\
Eugene D'Albert. composer of "Tiefland." and is
said to be a most brilliant work. The book deals with
the life of a young blind girl in the days of Christ,
who is married to a man she loves devotedly and
whom she believes to be possessed of all the c h a r m
of person of an Apollo. In reality the hurhand. who
.loves her as ardently, is a deformed being. She is
among those whose sight is restored by Jesus and
without his knowledge, she detects her husband's de-
formity. Rather than let him suspect the truth, she
siares into the blazing sun and is again stricken with
blindness, and settles down by her husband's side,
leaving him in ignorance that she has ever gazed upon
handsomer men. Mr. Ewers is improving his stay
here by delivering a series of lectures at private homes
on literary topics.
MARCELINE.—Marceline, the famous Hippodrome
clown, who was the Pierrot of the spectacle which
oj>ened the big playhouse ten years ago, will return
for a single performance when the tenth anniversary
of the playhouse is celebrated on Sunday, April 16.
Marceline is now the proprietor and manager of a
restaurant in West Thirty-eighth Street.
SCARBOROUGH.—George Scarborough, author of
" The Heart of Wetona," has gone to the Mexican
border as an agent of the Federal Secret Service.
H e expects to gather material for a new play while
engaged in his work. Mr. Scarborough was in the
Government Secret Service for a number of years
before he took up playwriting.
WARD.—Genevieve Ward, the actress, celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of her birth on March 27 in
London. She is playing, at present, a prominent part
with Sir George Alexander in " T h e B a s k e r " at the"
St. James Theater. Miss Ward, who in private life
is the Countess de Guerbel, was born in New York
City. She began her stage career as an opera singer,
making her debut at Bergamo, Italy, in 1855. She
made her first appearance on the stage at Covent
Garden Theater in 1861 as Maid Marian in Maefar-
ren's opera of " Robin Hood." Returning to America
in 1862 she made her first appearance in New York
at the Academy of Music on Nov. 10 of that year as
Violetta in " La T r a v i a t a . " Her debut on the Ameri-
«an dramatic stage did not take place until 1878 when
she played J a n e Shore in the play of that name. She-
has appeared in many p a r t s during her career. She
is' probably best known in this country for her per-
formance of Stephanie in " Forget-Me-Not," a role
which, by the way, she has played over 2.000 times,
in all parts of the world.
WHY I GO TO THE MOTION PICTURE SHOW
B Y ARTHUR J A M E S .
There are a great many reasons why I go to the
motion picture show. To begin with, I can sit at
ease in a comfortable seat and see before my eyes the
whole great world pass in review. I can see the Turk
at his mosque, with his arms stretched toward Mecca,
the explorer battling against the might of ice and
snow, the Arab on the burning sands of the Sahara,
the mighty trees of California, the black-skinned na-
tive of the tropics gathering cocoanuts and fruits, the
beasts of every jungle and forest and plain, the fish
of all the waters of the world, the marvels of nature,
the wonders of savagery and civilization.
I go to the motion picture show because as a com-
mon man. I can learn more of science than from the
reading of countless books, or by months of travel, or
from courses of lectures delivered by whiskered savants
whose technicalities confuse rather than inform.
I go to the motion picture show because it repeats
for me the great events in history. I can live in the
times when the crucial scenes were enacted and escape
centuries of commonplaces. I can see Babylon fotter
to its fall. I can be one with the kings of Egypt,
and watch the building of the pyramids. I can march
with Caesar and his Roman hosts, and be a spectator
with the throng at the Circus Maximus. I can fol-
low the lion-hearted Richard against the Saracens:
I can see Alexander in his greatness. Napoleon in bis
pomp and in his exile, I can be at Bunker Hill and
a t Manila Bay, at Port Arthur, and a t Portsmouth
and with the master fragments of the world's events I
cat construct a living history that will be with me
forever.
I go to the motion picture show because it brings
to me from every land and every people in the world
the things that are tremendously interesting, the vita!
things that make for progress, the picturesque, the
bizarre, the unique, the strange, the beautiful, so that
I can enjoy the ripened fruits of energy, enthusiasm,
ability, wealth, and art.
I go to the motion picture show because I can see
the master dramas of all time done better than their
authors dreamed. I can see the great fictions brought
to life and enacted rather than told, I can experience
the tremendous and appealing griefs, mourning with
the stricken and sorrowing with the bereaved to my
soul betterment.
I go to the motion picture show because I can
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ami the gnuious. the slapstick and the subtle, until
I am refreshed and made anew and better tor it.
I go to the motion picture show because it is a
greet magician whose wand makes dreams into living
facts, and facts into splendid fancies, because while
greater than the spoken drama it is not at war with
it, while mightier than the written story it does not
en. roach upon its dominions.
I go to the motion picture show because it is the
greatest work of man, great as an educator, as an
influence to better things, as an entertainment beyond
comparison, as a wonderland of truth and fiction, of
tragedy and mirth, an all encompassing, international
avenue wherein all peoples of all tongues may walk
side by side and understand.
I go to the motion picture show because it con-
stantly grows better in its art. finer in its grasp of
human things, greater in its appeal to the heart and
mind, mightier in the splender of its themes and loft-
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LENORA NOVASIO,
Playing a Prominent Part in " The Princess P a t " on
Tour.
ier in its ideals: because it comprises the sum total
of human achievement and brings it all where I can
reach out and feel and know it.
I go to the motion picture show because it gives
me science, history, drama, and comedy, because it
brings me dreams and facts, and brings them to me
alive as I sit comfortably in a seat that coat no more
than the tariff on a good cigar.
ARCHIE B E I X , the Globe trotter and dramatic critic
of Cleveland, sails on the Empress of Russia next
week for the summer in China, and writes a note
to his MIRROR friends to say au revoir. H e expects
to come back in the autmnn after what he promises
to be the greatest trip ever, to Korea, Manchuria, the
Philippines, and very likely back over the Trans-
Siberian to St. Petersburg, and around the ball on
which we live.
ROTCE.—Brigbam Royee, who has been ill at his
home in Baltimore all winter, is again in town. Mr.
Royce has been well known to the New York stage
for twenty years. Among the Broadway productions
in which he has figured and has created leading
parts, are James K. Hackett's " Prisoner of Zenda "
(Black M i c h a e l ) : " R u p e r t of H e n t z a u " ; " D o n
Caesar's R e t u r n " (King of S p a i n ) ; " T h e C r i s i s "
(Clarence Colfax) ; and with William Collier in
" On the Q u i e t " and " The D i c t a t o r " which he
played in London 1905. Other engagements include
" The Scarecrow." with Robert B . Mantell as Caa-
sius in " Julius Cae«ar " and as Claudius in " Ham-
l e t " : with Edith Wynne Matthison in " T h e Piper."
in Philadelphia. Mr. Royce put on the first al fresco
performance ever seen in San Francisco at Sutro
Heights in 1897. the play being " A s You Like I t "
with Rose Coghlan as *' Rosalind." His permanent
address is " The Players." 16 Gramerey Park.
S T . ALBANS.—Khyva St. Albans, whose photograph
is represented on the cover of this week's MIRROR.
is a young actress destined to go far in her profession,
provided talent and charm are the theatrical assets
that tradition has pictured them. She made her
debut on the professional stage last November as
Juliet in the David Chanler Company's revival of
" Romeo and Juliet," and commanded widespread ad-
miration for her performance. Miss St. Albans will
shortly appear in a modern play, the premiere of
which, it is expected, will take place in Chicago.

Thomas M. Tryniski
309 South 4th Street
Fulton New York
13069

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