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MOST. RESPONSIVE AUDIENCE,
S ‘WILDFLOWER’
OF YEAR GREET
like the most horny-handed claque
+ Bucolic Virtues Triumph
at the Metropolitan opera house. This
objection to superfluous encores is
Over City Slickers With
e first cause we ever
and
;
* Claire Madjette Giving
now we have gone over to the oppo-
sition. Hereafter we will content our-
Fine Performance
selves with straight reporting, and
that Amerique
asset a
we begin by
BY FRANK DANIEL
and Neville are second to no member
of the company.
The bucolic
virtues,
gorgeously
Sudwarth Frasier found in “The
sponsored ‘by Claire Madjette, again
Wildflower”
snother
suitable role,
triumphed signally over the machina-
and he sang and played handsomely,
tions of the gol-derned city slickers
and with the force of his work last
Monday evening, when ‘the Atlanta
week in “Dearest Enemy.”
Then he
Municipal Opera association presented
was a dashing military hero, and this
Arthur Hammerstein's
“The Wild-
week he personifies the fireside vir-
tues.
He does each impersonation
flower” at the Erlanger theater be-
well.
Fireside virtues are
ym
fore the most spontaneous and respon-
picturesque,
but Mr. Frissier made
sive audience any of the seven week-
ly premieres of the summer season
te
those he represented thoroughly en-
has assembled.
Ever since Alice MacKenzie played
“The Wildflower,”
plus the sure
the Lorelei Lee part in “The Blue
and resourceful direction of Fred A.
Paradise” she has been due an ample
I>
Bishop, has provided Miss Madjette
with a more suitable medium than
comedy role, and she got it Monday
her earlier roles afforded, and she
evening. As a philandering wife she
adroitly avoided making this danger-
received every opportunity with her
ous role anything but entirely charm-
t
lively and lovely playing.
She combines the politer comedy
e
And since Amerique and Neville
skill with a sense of burlesque which
very definitely stopped Monday eve-
makes her lighter scenes sparkling
r
ning’s performance, and stopped it de-
and graceful. And Monday evening
spite other distractions which might
she looked like that 20,000,000 lira
-
have silenced a less determined au-
inheritance the heroine of the musical
dience, they will likewise interrupt
comedy received. .
When they appeared
“World’s Worst Women”
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this report.
She and Richard Powell sang “The
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for their brief first act tarantella,
World’s Worse Women”
when the
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they received a greeting which was
chauffeurs were already. arriving out-
e
the most emphatic accorded any én-
side the theater,
and they had to
it
trance of the evening, and this greet~
ie
ing was reiterated when they appeared
son and Delilah, Athanael and Thais,
repeat their interpretations of Sam-
it
for their amazing tango, in the sec-
ond act.
Paris and Helen, and John and Salome
al
After the dance the audience began
until,
they had
summoned all the
standard wicked women of history.
an applause which contained the ac-
Mr. Powell played a fine role splendid-
”
umulation of seven weeks’ admira-
ly, and contributed a dance number
tion for their consistently brilliant
of extraordinary spirit. Roland Wood-
performances.
It was applause de-
ruff, in a comic make-up, played the
-
signed to bring them back for an en-
second comedy role with his thorot
h
e
core, and it was forceful enough to
capability, and showed again his sk:
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bring them back from anywhere short
as a gymnastic dancer.
of the grave.
At just this moment
Madeleine McMahon was a villainess
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Richard Powell, the comedian, entered
who made sin even more attractive
of
in comic attire, but the audience’s
thar. usual, and Louis Templeman was
l-
surprise did not overcome its enthu-
a fortune hunter who,
one woul
sisam.
Then a set fell
perilously
think, didn’t have to hunt far. Charles
near the comedian, but the audience
would have continued, no doubt,
it
‘role with his first rate understand-
Galagher again colored a character
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it had been a piece of the sky in-
jing. A solo by Ed Kane, which pre-
-
stead of a piece of scenery. And be-
ceded the curtain rise in “Cavalleria
cause they. were too sporting to ac-
Rusticana” fashion, was an effective
e
cept applause thus distracted, Amer-
opening. The chorus and ballet showed
is
ique and Neville declined to repeat
conspicuously fine grouping, and con-
their number.
tributed greatly to “The Wildflower's”
al
Applauded Violently
success.
arlier in the season this Pierian
"This production will be offered every
aS
spring sulked about the frequency of
evening this week, and on Wednesday
e
encores, but Monday evennig, heaven
and Saturday afternoons. “Pom Pom,”
of
help us, there we were, applauding
next week, will close the season.
asset a
we begin by … And since Amerique and Neville