Amerique and Neville — CWB article clipping [c380cf4321]

Minnie Gets

“My Princess,” Forceful

Tells the Tuneiul Story of a Girl Who Pre-
tended an Organ Grinder Was a Prince
1 Pleasant Surprise.

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| theater inging tunes,
operetta called “My Princess.” It is a vigorous thing of song and dance
1e & bit of spirited drama about a daughter of rich but distressingly

ignorant parents who hired an Italia
prince and her fiance so that she cou

much beauty in it, beauty of setting and costume, rhythmic music well and

confidently sung, lovely girls and fine
tm fetching popularity.

Surely the fact that not a joke wor

during the evening 1s no handicap
Who cares for humor if the girls
Dave cose knees and the ele

makes listening easy and the acting
8 virile, Nobody who buys for
this sort of operetta, Many an op-
eretta with comedy twice as feeble as
that of which “My Princess” dare
not boast has made millions.

‘Hope Hampton of the waffie-colored
hair is the princess in point, the gir!
who hires the young man with the
‘organ and the monkey to get her in-
Yited to the bert houses. Leonard
Ceeley, a dark young man with curly
Fezen locks, a voic: *hat brought ap-
plause fit to crack the toughest welkin
and an altogether refreshing and live
ly manner, played the organ gentle-
Man. It was decidedly his evening.
Any young man blessed with a wel-
come siich as he got last night ought
to find it easy to live happily ever
after. He was unbearable only when
the lines he had to speak made him

ook silly.

It looked as if he were a predatory
felio'y, {or he insiste’ upon being paid
more than $50 a week for passing
himself off ax Minnie Johnson's fu-
ture husband, Prince di Albania or
something of that sort. The minute
Mrs, Ten Eyck and the other society
ladies in the entertainment heard of
Minme’s prinee, (he girl and her par-
ents became the center of the very

marry her fake
prince, Her prince, however, said,
and said emphatically, that she
would, She did, frantically,

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‘So when the
to drag him off she wept
Furthermore, she followed
the Italian Consul General's
nce, where a big ball was being
She wanted to save him. There
Jearned that he was not the
grinder he had pretended. They
fell at length into eacli other's arms,
terribly in love and this and that.
She had changed her name from
Minnie to Minose, so there is a song

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1 think it is called “Follow
to the South.”
The second act opens with a Tym-

ARTUR POLLOCK.
thubert Theater was filled with color last night and the

y | tle City

a Real One

(eae at the Shubert,

the occasion being the arrival of an
1 organ grinder to pretend he was a
id get into the best society. ‘There is
dancing. It ought to have no trouble

laughing at can be heard anywhere

“My Princess”

pany Dance, very strikingly costumed,
cleverly devised, executed,
And in the last scene of the same act
jue and Neville dance a jagged,
oose-limbed that is like noth-
ing ever seen before. ‘The girl of the
Guo is a remarkable person. At in-
tervals throughout the evenit
Indies from the atelier of Albertina

narily nice, are, the work of P. Dodd
Ackerman; the costumes, often en-
chanting, "were done by Charles
LeMatre,

Though Miss Hampton is not a pol-
ished actress, she goes about her work
vith what is nmi a phe and
seldom makes the
insipid,

What Is an “Artist”?
Berton Churel
ing in “Revel
Masque, and the members of the com~
pany have started a campaign against
the use of the word “artist” when
applied to members of the theatrical

Sculptors and
ets that it has descended to 1

levels reached several years
the word “professor.” era