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Marie Tempest at the Majestic 
Miss Marie Tempest, the cele- 
brated and popular English comedi- 
enne, now making a special tour of 
the United States en route to the 
Panama Exposition, will visit Boston 
next week, appearing for one week 
only beginning Monday, Jan. 25th, 
at the Majestic Theatre. 
mands of other cities have been so 
numerous for an engagement of 
Miss Tempest, that in order to em- 
brace all other cities in her tour, it 
has been possible for her to visit 
Boston for only one week. This 
will necessitate the presentation dur- 
ing that week of the three plays 
in her. repertoire, in which she re- 
cently delighted New York audi- 
ences for many weeks. 
These three plays will be ‘‘ Mary 
Goes First,’’ by Henry Arthur 
Jones, presented for the first time in 
Boston; ‘‘At the Barn,’’ an English 
comedy also new to Boston, and a 
revival of her greatest and most 
famous success, ‘‘The Marriage of 
Kitty.’’ These plays give the 
eminent artiste splendid opportuni- 
ties for the display of those well 
known talents for serious comedy 
and artistic acting which have made 
the name of Marie Tempest almost 
a household word. 
Miss Tempest is supported by her 
English company. There will be 
matinees Wednesday and Saturday. 
‘‘The Peasant Girl’’ at Shubert 
Full of fun and novelty, ‘‘The 
Peasant Girl’’ has proved a winner 
at the Shubert Theatre, from the 
start of its engagement, and prom- 
ises to have the jolliest run of the 
season. With Emma Trentini and 
Clifton Crawford as the stars it was 
certain to shine musically in the field 
of comedy. But the eritics have 
united in praising the score, the 
costumes, the individuals of the cast, 
and the production as a whole. 
Like most continental operattas, 
‘““The Peasant Girl’’ deals with the 
love adventures of a gay young 
nobleman, and his efforts to escape 
marriage with the girl to whom he 
has been betrothed, for financial 
reasons. How she disguises herself 
as his housekeeper and wins his love 
in that guise is the theme of the 
play. Trentini and Crawford are 
supported by a company of unusual 
merit, including such singers as 
Ethel Houston, Franeis J. Boyle, 
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John Charles Thomas, and Ernest 
Hare. The chorus is one of the 
star features of the performance. 
‘‘A Pair of Sixes’’—Wilbur 
In this world of care and worry 
it is little wonder that a play like 
‘‘A Pair of Sixes’’ should have 
scored the biggest success known in 
Boston in many seasons. For ‘‘A 
Pair of Sixes’’ is just the sort of 
play that dispells the blues, makes 
one forget the troubles of the day. 
end drowns all care in a sea of joy-’ 
ous laughter. When the play came 
to the Wilbur Theatre a few weeks 
ago, heralded as ‘‘The Funniest 
Farce in the World,’’ many play- 
goers had their doubts, notwith- 
standing the record established by 
the piece in an eight months run in 
New York and six months in Chic- 
ago. For the Boston public, like 
the fabled Missourians, must be 
shown. ‘‘A Pair of Sixes’’ showed 
Boston what real fun and laughter 
is, and packed houses have been 
roaring, screaming and_ splitting 
their sides at the Wilbur ever since. 
‘‘What’s Going On’’ at Cort 
‘“What’s Going On’’ a new musi- 
cal farce ‘‘made in America’’ by 
American authors and with an 
American plot will come to the Cort 
Theatre next Monday evening, Jan. 
25th, succeeding ‘‘Peg O’ My Heart,’’ 
which closes after a run of twenty 
weeks. 
John Cort, who owns and controls 
one hundred and twenty theatres 
and is one of the foremost American 
managers, will present the play. 
Among the principals are Walter 
Lawrence, Frances Cameron, Wil- 
liam Burress, Roy Atwell, Dorothy 
Webb, Maude Beatty, Carrie Gra- 
ham Burress, P. O’Malley Jennings, 
and a chorus that can sing and 
dance. 
The efforts of a German pro- 
prietor of a hotel in the Catskill 
mountains to arrange a match be- 
tween an impecunious but titled 
English composer and an itinerant 
modiste he believes to be a wealthy 
society leader, form the theme of 
farce into which has been woven an 
interesting love story. 
Tremont Theatre 
The end of the current week of 
George M. Cohan’s splendid farce 
‘“Seven Keys to Baldpate’’ at the 
Tremont Theatre, will see this at- 
traction on the eve of its fifth week 
in Boston. No farce has ever been 
better liked or has drawn larger 
audiences, and the roars of laughter 
that greet the actors and the play 
show the popularity of the Cohan 
and Harris company in one of the 
best plays ever written by Mr. 
Cohan. . 
‘Seven Keys to Baldpate’’ is a | 
capital play in many ways. It is a 
novelty inasmuch as it is new in 
idea and construction. By many it 
is regarded as the ablest work that 
has so far come from Mr. Cohan’; — 
pen. It fairly sparkles with his 
genius—with his unerring sense of 
humor and with his gift of ingen- 
uity. 
Theatregoers will do well to re- 
member that ‘‘Seven Keys to Bald- | 
pate’? ran one year in New York 
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and one year in Chicago, and that — 
the company now acting the play in — 
Boston is the same that presented it 
in New York. 
Ben-Hur Scores Big in Boston 
The return of the big Boston — 
Theatre to the legitimate amuse- © 
ment fields is one of the pleasant — 
theatrical events of the past week 
in the Hub. And that the public of 
New England as well as Boston ap- — 
proved of the move was shown by © 
the audiences which taxed the seat- 
ing capacity of this historic amuse- 
ment temple to witness Klaw and — 
Erlanger’s new production of Ben- 
Hur.’’ This spectacular drama is 
not the sort of a stage attraction 
which depends upon its brilliant 
past to hold a foremost position 
among the successes of the present. 
In its new and resplendent garb as 
shown at the Boston Theatre, it 
stands today, greater, grander and 
more glorious than ever, a veritable 
miracle of stagecraft and irresisti- 
ble in its sway over lovers of the 
best in theatricals. Not one or two, 
but a succession of unusual episodes, 
holds the spectators enthralled dur- 
ing the performance; the matchless 
chariot race with twenty thorough- 
bred horses and the cheering multi- 
tude, still defying the ingenuity of 
stage mechanics to equal or surpass 
its 
‘‘Ben-Hur’’ will not be presented 
in any other city in New England — 
outside of Boston. At the end of the 
engagement it will be transferred to 
Chicago for a short season and then 
to San Franciso. The attention of 
theatregoers is called to the curtain 
- arrangements at the Boston for this 
production. Night performances 
are started precisely at 7.45; mati- 
nees on Wednesday and Saturday at 
2 p.m. lLate-comers are not seated 
until the Prelude showing The Sta 
of Bethlehem is concluded. 
‘The Breeze $2 a year. postpaid.” 
